Changes Report

JMX Monitor of Apache DBCP and Hibernate

JMX Monitoring of Apache DBCP and Hibernate are now enabled by default.

Comment form not displayed by default

The comment form is now hidden by default. This allows improving the loading performance of XWiki pages and makes the UI less cluttered.

A button allows you to display the comment form when you need to add a new comment.

Add a Solr store for ratings

It is now possible to store Ratings information in a Solr core: this should improve the scalability of the extension. Please note that the migration of data from one store to another is not yet supported.

Non-minified Javascript

Non-minified versions of JavaScript files are now also bundled by default in XWiki. This makes it much simpler to debug JavaScript issues in production. Just look for the non-minified (source) code using the developer tools provided by the browser. Since the minified code indicates the source map and the source map indicates the source file, the browser ends up loading all 3 (when the developer tools are open). If you can't find the source code then you can force the browser to load it by reloading the current page with ?minify=false in the URL.

New Comment button

The comments section at the bottom of pages used to have the comment editor visible. There's now a Comment button to click when wanting to add a comment. This was done for 3 reasons:

• For consistency with other actions where you have to click a button to do them (annotate, edit, create, etc).
• It makes the UI a bit less cluttered and avoids focusing the attention on comments which was very visible, especially since we moved to using the WYSIWYG editor by default in comments.
• It also improves the loading performance of XWiki pages since the editor doesn't need to be loaded when viewing pages

Mentions explained on the tips

The use of the mentions in WYSIWYG editor autocompletion is now explained on the tips.

Simplified Unliking

A modal was previously asking for confirmation for removing a like on a page. This has been removed to make it simpler and more consistent: liking and unliking are now both immediate actions.

Social category in Administration

A new Social category has been added in Administration to gather all configurations related to social features. Those items were previously all in the Other category.

New UIXP for the viewers menu section

A new UI Extension Point has been created to be able to extend the Viewers sub-menu of "other options" menu.

View Likes in viewers menu section

The menu item for viewing Likes information has been moved to Viewers sub-section of the other options menu, for consistency.

View source in viewers menu section

The View source link has been moved to the Viewers menu sub-section of Other actions menu, to be consistent.

Enable Strict Mode for JSX

XWiki can now be configured to parse and minify wiki-based JavaScript skin extensions (JSX) using strict mode. This is disabled by default but you can enable it from xwiki.properties using:

skinx.jsStrictModeEnabled = true

Check the skin extension documentation for more information.

Mail Resender

XWiki can be configured to not resend failed emails at restart (it does by default).

Changing Page Syntax from Wiki Editor

Changing the page syntax from the Wiki Editor has suffered some updates:

• the style of the syntax conversion confirmation modal has been improved to be consistent with the other modals we use in XWiki
• the syntax conversion is not saved right away anymore but when you save the Wiki Editor; canceling the Wiki Editor will also cancel any unsaved syntax change
• XWiki will warn you when the syntax conversion is not supported

Checkout the Page Editing documentation for additional information.

Changing Page Syntax from WYSIWYG Editor

Changing the page syntax from the WYSIWYG Editor has suffered some updates:

• we don't reload the entire page anymore but only the WYSIWYG editor instance (in order to take into account the new syntax); the WYSIWYG editor has to be reloaded because the page syntax affects core editor configuration that cannot be changed on the fly (see the CKEditor Integration documentation for more information);
• the WYSIWYG editor is always reloaded when changing the syntax, no matter whether you choose to convert the content or not (for the reason mentioned above)
• the editing mode (Source vs. WYSIWYG) is preserved on reload
• if the new syntax doesn't support WYSIWYG editing (e.g. because it doesn't have a renderer) then the WYSIWYG editor will force the Source mode after the reload and disable the WYSIWYG mode, warning the user about the current limitation.

Checkout the Page Editing documentation for additional information.

Changing Page Syntax from View

Changing the page syntax from the Information tab, while viewing the page, has suffered some updates:

• XWiki will now propose to convert the page content and meta data to the new syntax, if the conversion is supported, but note that the changes will be saved only after saving the syntax
• if the syntax conversion is not supported then XWiki will warn the user about the limitation
• the page title and content are reloaded in order to allow the user to preview the effect of the syntax change before saving the new syntax
• canceling the syntax change will also reload the page title and content

The Delete section of the Content category of the global administration is now hidden when the recycle bin is not activated.

Finer configuration of the "can skip the recycle bin" feature

Allowing Advanced user to skip the recycle bin can now be configured on three locations:

• In the global administration of the current wiki
• In the global administration of the main wiki
• In xwiki.properties (see the property details below)

If the default value is found on one location, the next one is tried. If no value is found, the recycle bin skipping is not activated.

Details of the configuration on xwiki.properties:

#-# [Since 12.9RC1]
#-# Indicates whether skipping the recycle bin when deleting pages is allowed for Advanced users.
#-# It is disabled by default.
#-# This setting is only used if the wiki has a recycle bin activated (xwiki.recyclebin=1 in xwiki.cfg).
#-# This setting can be overloaded:
#-# * By the main wiki in the Refactoring.Code.RefactoringConfigurationClass class of the
#-#   Refactoring.Code.RefactoringConfiguration document of the main wiki.
#-# * By sub-wikis in the Refactoring.Code.RefactoringConfigurationClass class of the
#-#   Refactoring.Code.RefactoringConfiguration document of the sub-wikis (itself overloading the main wiki's
#-#   configuration).
#-#
#-# The default value is:
# refactoring.isRecycleBinSkippingActivated = false

URLTool improvement

A new toURL(String) has been added to the Velocity $urltool to convert a String to an URL object.

Logging Administration uses Live Data Macro

The Logging Administration section is now using the new Live Data macro to list the available loggers, instead of the old live table.