XWiki Enterprise 2.4 Release Notes

New and Noteworthy

Search

Changed default search engine

Lucene Search is promoted as default search.

To read about the benefits of using Lucene search over Database search go to the search application page.

Starting with the 2.4 release you can select the wikis where to search in using the LuceneSearch page.

New search configuration UI

The Search Application now has a dedicated section in the wiki administration section from which you can:

• Choose the default engine (Lucene or Database).
• See the status for the Lucene Search: the number of indexed elements and the number of elements waiting in the queue.
• Control the Lucene index by indexing the whole farm, indexing the wiki or customizing the index to your specific preferences.

For more information check out the documentation page.

Known issues

• Bugs we know about

Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes

Important non-compatible changes

General Notes

Migration Notes

• Standalone/inline Macro parsing has been fixed.
  Error

  There has been a bug that appeared when we released the new XWiki Syntax 2.0 several releases back and which we've finally fixed in this release. Basically if you had a macro followed by a new line and then another macro, both macros were considered as being standalone. This is now fixed and they are correctly considered by the parser as inline. More specifically if you were previously using a standalone macro (such as the TOC macro or the HTML macro) and your macro wasn't separated from a previous macro by at least 2 new lines, it'll now fail to render.

  In addition, several pages that are part of the XWiki Enterprise default XAR were not written correctly and didn't have these 2 new lines as mentioned above. We've fixed these pages too but you'll need to make sure you import them in your existing wiki (if you're upgrading) since otherwise these pages will fail to display correctly. These pages are:

  • XWiki.ClassSheet
  • XWiki.WebSearch
  • XWiki.LuceneSearch