Release Notes - XWiki Platform - Version 2.6 RC1 - HTML format

Bug

  • [XWIKI-4869] - PDF export does not support classes in pdf.css
  • [XWIKI-5509] - PDF Export fails for field style with textarea type
  • [XWIKI-5578] - Attachments' temp files persist past shutdown of tomcat.
  • [XWIKI-5584] - Extra nbsps after livetables
  • [XWIKI-5588] - Wysiwyg removes image when image is left align and has a link around it
  • [XWIKI-5591] - HTML to Wiki Syntax 2 looses color in certain cases
  • [XWIKI-5594] - "Error: Could not parse xhtml office content." on importing Office Document
  • [XWIKI-5597] - File upload plugin doesn't strip the file path in IE
  • [XWIKI-5598] - When importing a XAR, ignoring translated documents does not work
  • [XWIKI-5599] - In the XAR importer UI, the initial space document count is wrong whenever that space has translated documents
  • [XWIKI-5609] - Wrong version summary displayed when adding tags
  • [XWIKI-5617] - Images break when being imported from a doc
  • [XWIKI-5623] - Deleted attachments don't appear in observation events
  • [XWIKI-5625] - PDF styling doesn't work anymore
  • [XWIKI-5631] - Don't stop page rendering when one transformation fails to execute
  • [XWIKI-5632] - False annotation update events are being launched every time the content of the page is being changed
  • [XWIKI-5635] - Clearing a previously not empty text filter will not update livetable permalink properly
  • [XWIKI-5637] - In the object editor, classes inaccessible to the current user due to access rights are displayed as $escapetool.xml entries
  • [XWIKI-5638] - Rendering errors message tooltip is not translated
  • [XWIKI-5639] - PDF export doesn't contain images if the document name contains non-ASCII characters
  • [XWIKI-5644] - The WYSIWYG editor is not fully loaded with minimal configuration on WebKit browsers
  • [XWIKI-5646] - Wiki macro content shouldn't be mandatory by default

New Feature

  • [XWIKI-5600] - Add support for inserting an icon in XWiki Syntax 2.1
  • [XWIKI-5616] - Add support for mapping icons to any suite of characters

Task

  • [XWIKI-5361] - Upgrade to Apache FOP 1.0
  • [XWIKI-5579] - Separate extensions handlers from extension manager api
  • [XWIKI-5580] - Upgrade extension manager maven dependency to 3.0
  • [XWIKI-5581] - Upgrade extension aether dependency to 1.7
  • [XWIKI-5592] - Deprecate functions in XWikiAttachment and XWikiAttachmentArchive which are bound to JRCS based implementation.
  • [XWIKI-5605] - Ensure we cannot release xwiki modules with a JDK other than 1.5
  • [XWIKI-5608] - Upgrade to commons-io 2.0
  • [XWIKI-5611] - Remove laszlo plugin and macro from references since it is no longer used
  • [XWIKI-5613] - Use correct naming scheme in CSRF protection configuration
  • [XWIKI-5615] - Upgrade to GWT 2.0.4
  • [XWIKI-5633] - Improve documentation on how PDF and RTF exports currently work
  • [XWIKI-5634] - Make the macro feature optional in the Rendering engine

Improvement

  • [XWIKI-2957] - Implement WikiWord Transformation
  • [XWIKI-5104] - Submission throttling when filtering the livetable in order to increase the livetable performance
  • [XWIKI-5152] - By default, feed plugin should use the fetching date as entries creation date
  • [XWIKI-5596] - Improve support for portlet integration in velocity templates
  • [XWIKI-5603] - Make Box macro's image parameter support all types of image references
  • [XWIKI-5610] - Replace Velocity DateTool by ComparisonDateTool since it offers more APIs
  • [XWIKI-5622] - New event types: add/update/delete comment/annotation/attachment
  • [XWIKI-5624] - Send observation events for adding/editing/deleting comments, annotations, and attachments
  • [XWIKI-5628] - Add ability for users to define which transformations to execute when rendering page content
  • [XWIKI-5629] - Enable the Icon transformation by default

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