Release Notes - XWiki Platform - Version 6.2-milestone-1 - HTML format

Bug

  • [XWIKI-9066] - Combining authors and wikis parameter doesn't seem to work in the Activity Stream macro
  • [XWIKI-9787] - Jump to a page using Ctrl-G doesn't work
  • [XWIKI-9991] - Top Active Contributors has empty values when the current user is local
  • [XWIKI-10149] - The User Directory does not display html for TextArea properties
  • [XWIKI-10192] - The "Username" and "Password" input fields don't have the same size
  • [XWIKI-10582] - The Cancel button on the Rename & Delete Tag pages is hardcoded in English
  • [XWIKI-10600] - Executing a JSR223 script macro directly or indirectly from another JSR223 script macro might break the root script context
  • [XWIKI-10601] - Wysiwyg rendering executed in a PR environment
  • [XWIKI-10617] - StackOverflow exception on startup with possibly corrupted extensions
  • [XWIKI-10618] - When importing a XAR it should be registered as extension only if it does not conflict with another extension
  • [XWIKI-10622] - Failure to get mail sending errors
  • [XWIKI-10627] - Failing to compute email subject from a template
  • [XWIKI-10629] - Cannot set "from" email address from Velocity when sending an email
  • [XWIKI-10630] - Mail Sender's waitTillSent() API should wait till the message is actually sent before returning
  • [XWIKI-10631] - All standard XWiki script bindings should be used when evaluating mail templates
  • [XWIKI-10633] - Improve the display of the Tree View on Flamingo
  • [XWIKI-10635] - XWikiDocument does not merge levels property of Rights objects properly
  • [XWIKI-10650] - Having a XWIKI_OPTS environment variable defined breaks the start_xwiki_debug.sh script
  • [XWIKI-10652] - DefaultSecurityCacheRulesInvalidator register itself as an EventListener with role hint "default"
  • [XWIKI-10656] - Wrong rendering in space document panel
  • [XWIKI-10657] - Space Docs Panel doesn't support pages with dots
  • [XWIKI-10659] - Navigation Panel displays duplicate entries and doesn't support dots in page names
  • [XWIKI-10663] - Glyphicons does not work with IE8
  • [XWIKI-10665] - ## characters displayed in info box when resetting a lost password
  • [XWIKI-10666] - Custom displayer for emails should generate HTML
  • [XWIKI-10674] - Cannot load CSS files from webjars
  • [XWIKI-10675] - XWiki Syntax Help page is broken with Flamingo
  • [XWIKI-10677] - Cannot delete tags on hidden pages from the Main.Tags page
  • [XWIKI-10688] - When XWiki is configured for ultra short URLs, links to the homepage become links to the current document

New Feature

  • [XWIKI-10626] - Provide a current wiki based resolver for users and groups reference
  • [XWIKI-10676] - Create an Icon Theme Application
  • [XWIKI-10693] - Integrate Font Awesome in Platform as an Icon Theme

Task

Improvement

  • [XWIKI-5934] - Add support for creating "secondary" buttons in confirmation dialogs
  • [XWIKI-7821] - Add a message for the Livetable's empty state
  • [XWIKI-8757] - Support 2 roles for users for app within minutes: application creator and data creator
  • [XWIKI-10495] - Improve the App Bar to fit well in low resolutions
  • [XWIKI-10545] - Use the snapshots extension repository by default for snapshot builds
  • [XWIKI-10570] - Increase font size when Extra Accessibility is enabled
  • [XWIKI-10577] - Move wiki.css selectors to colibri.css
  • [XWIKI-10585] - Each call to DefaultWikiDescriptorManager#getAll() generates a database query
  • [XWIKI-10616] - Fix some HTML5 violations in Flamingo
  • [XWIKI-10621] - Improve the User Profile on phone
  • [XWIKI-10623] - Mail sending should use the "admin_email" xproperty instead of "smtp_from"
  • [XWIKI-10625] - Provide easy access to the Mail Sender API configuration from scripts
  • [XWIKI-10637] - Delegate to PropertyClass the merging of an object property
  • [XWIKI-10639] - Add support for displaying a Cancel button in the ConfirmationBox JS widget
  • [XWIKI-10641] - Simplify mail sender API to send synchronously by default
  • [XWIKI-10642] - Display notification messages when shutting down the standalone Jetty server
  • [XWIKI-10643] - Allow the start and stop ports, and additional Java options for the standalone Jetty package to be specified using environment variables
  • [XWIKI-10644] - Configure the standalone package not to send the Jetty version in the HTTP response headers
  • [XWIKI-10645] - Don't print Jetty's internal informative messages in the logs
  • [XWIKI-10646] - Make the standalone debug script start in Windows even if JAVA_HOME is not defined and Java is not on the PATH
  • [XWIKI-10647] - Make the Jetty configuration modular
  • [XWIKI-10648] - Remove the log warning about JSP support not being available when starting the standalone Jetty server
  • [XWIKI-10649] - Capture the logs from the standalone Jetty package in a file
  • [XWIKI-10655] - Display XWiki initialization job log if anything goes wrong
  • [XWIKI-10660] - Automatically add a template body part when creating a template message and add support for passing from/to/cc/bcc as parameters
  • [XWIKI-10705] - Have bigger icons in AppBar
  • [XWIKI-10741] - The AppBar should use the new Icon Theme Application

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