Release Notes for XWiki Enterprise 2.0 Milestone 2

New and Noteworthy (since XWiki Enterprise 2.0 Milestone 1)

• Lots of improvements and new features in the new WYSIWYG editor
• Lots of improvements and bugfixes in the rendering engine and the syntax converter
• Improvements for the blog application
• It's now possible to choose the content renderer to use when viewing a page
• New Footnote macro
• New xwiki-properties module
• New Latvian translation
• New Swedish translation

New Wiki rendering 2.0 macros

Ouput syntax parameter

WYSIWYG improvements

• Add the ability to configure the colors displayed by the color picker
• Allow the page to link to to be searched for or selected from the most recently edited pages
• Component Manager should generate event when the component is registered instead of initialized

Rendering improvements

• New Section editing
• Allow default document syntax to be specified in User profile configuration

1.0 -> 2.0 syntax converter

• Converter should make sure code macro are forced standalone
• Converter should make sure to put get calls in {{html}} macros
• Converter should trim code macro content

Component Manager api improvements

• Add way to directly provide the component instance when register it
• Add way to unregister component

New Footnote macro

New xwiki-properties module

• Java bean populating support
• Java type conversion support
• Java bean validation support

See TODO

Miscellaneous UI improvements

• Improved document footer section
• Improved tag display and editing

Important bugs fixed

• XWIKI-4033 - When saving after section edit entire page is overwritten
• XWIKI-4043 - Main.AllDocs not showing any documents in a farm

Known issues

• Bugs we know about

Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes

General Notes

You may also want to import the default wiki XAR in order to benefit from improvements listed above.

API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since XWiki Enterprise 2.0M1:

• Rendering Module