Release Notes - XWiki Platform - Version 8.0-milestone-1 - HTML format

Bug

  • [XWIKI-4906] - Includes are not taken into account when renaming a page
  • [XWIKI-9728] - UI issue on Panel Wizard Page about Wiki Information Panel
  • [XWIKI-9960] - Wrong first version for documents having attachments
  • [XWIKI-10145] - PDF export crash with a openOffice table with style included
  • [XWIKI-12165] - Mailing list and newsletter use case no more covered by the Mail API
  • [XWIKI-12877] - PDF export module load all system fonts
  • [XWIKI-12913] - %20 displayed in revision comment when hiding / making visible a Blog post
  • [XWIKI-12929] - Sorting should be disabled on the Title columns (Document Index + Children/Siblings livetables)
  • [XWIKI-12930] - Annotate menu entry has no effect when a viewer is used, or in edit mode
  • [XWIKI-12932] - Wrong placement of Backlinks in Information tab
  • [XWIKI-12938] - Impossible to sort by location in children/sibling viewers
  • [XWIKI-12944] - User Avatar Macro is broken when the user has no custom avatar
  • [XWIKI-12946] - User avatar fails to display properly when using #displayUser under some conditions
  • [XWIKI-12949] - Bad description for "watch space" in a terminal page
  • [XWIKI-12950] - Platform UI tests are using HSQLDB 2.2.9 instead of 2.3.3
  • [XWIKI-12953] - HTML violation in XWiki.AdminTemplatesSheet
  • [XWIKI-12957] - Remove calls to deprecated getSpaces() APIs + some others
  • [XWIKI-12958] - Missing ModelScriptService#getEntityReference(EntityType type)
  • [XWIKI-12967] - VFS Macro is displayed empty
  • [XWIKI-12968] - Accessing the objects resource of a page in another wiki via REST fails
  • [XWIKI-12971] - XWiki Syntax Guide should not propose to use rel="_blank" since it's invalid in HTML5
  • [XWIKI-12972] - RSS in the database search page is broken if "view" mode is used
  • [XWIKI-12974] - Fix translations in Blog Application
  • [XWIKI-12985] - "Checkboxes" parameter is not taken into account in the Tree Macro
  • [XWIKI-12989] - openTo doesn't work if the page name contains an ampersand
  • [XWIKI-12992] - Request level sheets are not applied to document translations
  • [XWIKI-12995] - After renaming a page, mark as hidden the old page
  • [XWIKI-12996] - Move xwiki/1.0 chart macro to contrib
  • [XWIKI-12997] - Bad error reporting in the Attach driver when permission is denied
  • [XWIKI-13007] - Error in Filter RouterFilter when open Home page without / in linux
  • [XWIKI-13025] - The document tree doesn't load on Postgres
  • [XWIKI-13028] - It's hard to catch the 'xwiki:actions:save' event before the save request is sent
  • [XWIKI-13029] - Error about page-position='all' when exporting a page to PDF
  • [XWIKI-13031] - java.lang.ClassCastException in Solr indexer when having a white space in the list of supported languages
  • [XWIKI-13049] - There is a 'Colibri themes' optgroup in the color theme field displayer even when there is no colibri theme in the wiki
  • [XWIKI-13050] - The color theme custom displayer is not used in the administration by default
  • [XWIKI-13053] - NPE when failing to delete some document
  • [XWIKI-13055] - Save button not working anymore for ConfigurableClass on Chrome
  • [XWIKI-13073] - All versions of an extension have the same features in Repository Application

New Feature

  • [XWIKI-12947] - New component for rasterizing a SVG file
  • [XWIKI-13005] - Add scripting API to render a document as a full HTML page

Task

Improvement

  • [XWIKI-9054] - Make document Events Cancelable + Implement ability to cancel when saving a document
  • [XWIKI-12610] - It should be possible to disable header and footer in the PDF export
  • [XWIKI-12757] - Display a more user-friendly success message for Rename
  • [XWIKI-12761] - Hide the advanced create/rename/move/delete option for simple users
  • [XWIKI-12838] - Perform the page copy and rename asynchronously
  • [XWIKI-12846] - Adapt Watch Space Livetable now that it handles Nested Spaces
  • [XWIKI-12920] - Hiding WebHome in wiki link syntax
  • [XWIKI-12939] - Use Servlet 3.0 annotations to register WebDAV Servlets and Filters
  • [XWIKI-12943] - Remove remaining ambiguity from Locale/language related api.* script APIs
  • [XWIKI-12981] - Add the document version of skin extensions in the generated URLs
  • [XWIKI-12991] - Ensure that the VFS API extension is only installable at the farm level
  • [XWIKI-13016] - Add a jQuery plugin to handle the XWiki Select Widget
  • [XWIKI-13023] - Allow string entity reference resolvers to control the type setup
  • [XWIKI-13051] - The color theme custom displayer should show when an invalid color theme is configured
  • [XWIKI-13060] - Ability to reference Nested Pages as siblings in wiki links when they have the same parent

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