XWiki Enterprise 2.1 Milestone 1

Last modified by Thomas Mortagne on 2023/10/13

First and last milestone of the XWiki Enterprise 2.1 version (Roadmap). 

This release is mostly a bugfix and stabilization release with one important new feature: re-design of the Action menus (see below).

New and Noteworthy (since XWiki Enterprise 2.0.3)

  • Re-design of the actions menus:
    • Split the top menu into 2: one for wiki and space level actions and one for page level actions

      menu1.png

    • Reorganized the wiki and space level actions: Some Watch actions, the Wiki and Space administration actions have been moved there.

      menu2.png menu3.png

    • The user action menu now allows to manager the user's watchlist.

      menu4.png

    • Reorganized the page level actions (there's now a "More Actions" menu) and the action to watch the current page is moved on the right.

      menu5.png menu6.png menu7.png

    • Added back the ability to view the source of a page
    • Note that the new top level menu (Wiki and Space actions) is a good entry point in the future for providing navigation between wikis in a wiki farm.
  • New renderer for mathematical formulae based on the Google Chart APIs (see the Formula Macro Documentation).
  • Added PHP support through the new PHP Macro (note that this Macro is not bundled by default, you'll need to install it).
  • Lots of improvements and bugfixes in order to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
  • Macro parameter pretty names are now displayed in the WYSIWYG
  • WYSIWYG editor performance improvement (Minimize and aggregate WYSIWYG editor stylesheets at build time to reduce the number of HTTP requests)
  • Upgraded to JbossCache 3.2.1GA version
  • Upgraded to Groovy 1.7 Beta 2
  • Lots of bugs fixes

Known issues

Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes

General Notes

If you're running in a multiwiki setup you'll also need to define the property xwiki.store.migration.databases=all to your xwiki.cfg file or explicitly name all databases to be migrated as in <tt>xwiki.store.migration.databases=db1,db2,....

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

Always make sure you compare your xwiki.cfg file with the newest version since some configuration parameters were added. Of note, 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.

Migration Notes

  • The CSS for the Search Panel has been modified to apply to the CLASS attributes globalsearch and globalsearchinput (See XSCOLIBRI-85 for more details). As a result you'll need to reimport the Panels.Search panel (from the XE XAR for example) in your wiki or the search panel will not be displayed correctly.

API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since XWiki Enterprise 2.0.3:

Rendering api

  • properties (rendering macros api and xwiki-properties module) "name" field has been changed for "id" and "name" now mean display/pretty name
ERROR] org.xwiki.rendering.macro.descriptor.ParameterDescriptor: Method 'public java.lang.String getId()' has been added to an interface
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