Release Notes for XWiki 5.0 Release Candidate 1

Version 8.1 by Thomas Mortagne on 2013/04/15

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 5.0 M2)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 5.0.

Full Issue List

New wiki mode in distribution wizard

By default you can now get the same distribution wizard you used to have for main wiki only on subwikis too. When enabled it means that each wiki administrator is able to take care of his own wiki upgrade and farm administrator will only deal with main wiki.

There is two modes:

  • ALL IN ONE: the former Distribution Wizard behavior where everything is done at main wiki level
  • WIKI: on main wiki only the main wiki is upgraded and each wiki gets its own Distribution Wizard and its own status

A new step to setup the upgrade mode has been added.

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Miscellaneous

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See the full list of JIRA issues fixed in this release.

For Developers

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Deprecated and Retired projects

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Upgrades

The following dependencies have been upgraded:

  • Groovy 2.1.3

Miscellaneous

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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 5.0 Release Candidate 1

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API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since XWiki 4.5.3:

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