Release Notes for XWiki 6.4 RC 1

Version 5.1 by Vincent Massol on 2015/01/08

This is the release notes for XWiki Commons, XWiki Rendering, XWiki Platform and XWiki Enterprise. 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 <version - 1>)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for <version>.

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Mail Sender API Improvements

  • You can now specify the delay to wait between each mail being sent, in milliseconds. This is done to support mail throttling and not be considered a spammer by mail servers. For example if you wish to wait 10 seconds (if not specified the default is 8 seconds, which is 450 mails per hour), set the following in your xwiki.properties:
    mail.sender.sendWaitTime = 10000
  • We now save both an error summary and a full error description when a mail fails to be sent when using the Database Mail Listener. This allows to see the full stack trace of the problem to more easily debug it.
  • The MailResult.isSent() API has been renamed to MailResult.isProcessed() to avoid thinking that it'll return true if all mails have been sent successfully. What it does is simply return true when all mails have been processed, whether they've been sent successfully or not.

Miscellaneous

  • A click to the Document Index does not leads to an other space anymore.

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

For Developers

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Deprecated and Retired projects

<description of deprecated and retired projects>

Upgrades

The following dependencies have been upgraded:

  • <list libraries that have been upgraded>

Miscellaneous

  • You can now control in which order the sections added via the ConfigurableClass are displayed in the administration.

<other dev stuff to add and link to JIRA for all issues fixed>

Translations

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Tested Browsers & Databases

Performances tests compared to <last super stable version>

<a summary of the comparison with latest super stable version>

More details on <link to the test report>.

Known issues

Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes

General Notes

When upgrading make sure you compare your xwiki.cfg, xwiki.properties and web.xml files with the newest version since some configuration parameters may have been modified or 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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