Release Notes for XWiki 5.1 Release Candidate 1

Version 7.1 by Marius Dumitru Florea on 2013/06/20

This is the release notes for XWiki Platform, XWiki Enterprise and XWiki Enterprise Manager. They share the same release notes as they are released together and have the same version.

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New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 5.1 Milestone 2)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 5.1.

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Miscellaneous

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Full Issue List

For Developers

Merging WARs with Packager plugin

We added a contextPathMapping configuration parameter to the Packager Maven plugin to allow us to bind WAR artifact IDs to the context path where they should be extracted. Here's an example:

<plugin>
 <groupId>org.xwiki.platform</groupId>
 <artifactId>xwiki-platform-tool-packager-plugin</artifactId>
  ...
 <configuration>
   <contextPathMapping>
     <!-- Merge the WYSIWYG editor WAR with the platform web WAR. -->
     <xwiki-platform-wysiwyg-war>xwiki</xwiki-platform-wysiwyg-war>
   </contextPathMapping>
 </configuration>
</plugin>

The Packager plugin looks for WAR artifacts in the list of dependencies. If no WAR-type dependencies are found then the following WARs are used, with the corresponding default context path binding:

xwiki-platform-web: xwiki
xwiki-platform-tool-rootwebapp: root

If more WARs share the same context path then they are merged. Of course, in this case the order in the list of dependencies is important because the last WAR can overwrite files from the previous ones. When no mapping is defined for a WAR, its artifact id is used instead as context path.

Deprecated and Retired projects

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Upgrades

The following dependencies have been upgraded:

Miscellaneous

  • Jobs don't share the same ExecutionContext anymore.
  • The WYSIWYG editor administration section has been moved from the Administration Application to its own module under xwiki-platform-wysiwyg.

Translations

The following translations have been updated: 

Tested Browsers & Databases

Known issues

Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes

General Notes

You may also want to import the default wiki XAR in order to benefit from all the improvements listed above.

Always make sure you compare your xwiki.cfg and xwiki.properties files with the newest version since some configuration parameters were added. Note that you should add xwiki.store.migration=1 so that XWiki will attempt to automatically migrate your current database to the new schema. Make sure you backup your Database before doing anything.

Issues specific to XWiki <version>

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API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since <project> <version - 1>:

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