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5	5	The highlights of this release are:
6	6
	7	+* support for [[viewing attached office documents>>code:Macros.OfficeMacro]] in the wiki
	8	+* a new User Directory
	9	+* an experimental Extension Manager
7	7	* improvements to action menus
	11	+* further improvements to the edit UI
	12	+* support for activating a special accessibility stylesheet
	13	+* more consistent [[use of user avatars>>http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/Improvements/Avatars]]
	14	+* an experimental ##xwiki/2.1## wiki syntax
8	8	* a mechanism for inserting custom links in the header
9	9	* the introduction of cancelable events
10	10	* better external search engine indexing support
11		-* support for [[viewing attached office documents>>http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Macros/OfficeMacro]] in the wiki
12		-* an experimental Extension Manager
13	13	* experimental [[CSRF>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSRF]] protection
14		-* a new User Directory
15		-* further improvements to the edit UI
16		-* more consistency [[use of user avatars>>http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/Avatars]]
17		-* support for activating a special accessibility stylesheet
18		-* an experimental ##xwiki/2.1## wiki syntax
19		-* display user avatars in annotations
	19	+* experimental [[Cryptographic Module>>code:Modules.CryptographicModule]]
20	20
21	21	= New and Noteworthy (since XWiki Enterprise 2.4.4) =
22	22
	23	+== Support for viewing attached office documents in the wiki ==
	24	+
	25	+XWiki now supports viewing attached office documents without saving them on the client side. Click on the eye icon near the edit and delete buttons corresponding to the attachment you want to preview.
	26	+
	27	+image:OfficePreview.png
	28	+
	29	+We also included a new Macro for the WYSIWYG Editor. It allows to embed a office file into a page.
	30	+
	31	+[[image:MacroOfficeViewer||style="border: 1px solid black;"]]
	32	+
	33	+== New User Directory ==
	34	+
	35	+Added User Directory section on the Quick Links tab on the left of the page. This will show you the users that the XWiki instance has, along with their avatar image. This page also allows to filter users by username.
	36	+
	37	+image:group-avatar.png
	38	+
	39	+== Experimental Extension Manager ==
	40	+
	41	+The new [[Extension Manager>>code:Modules.ExtensionModule]] will allow you to install new extensions to XWiki Enterprise. Please note that this is an experimental feature, with limited features and a raw user interface. Use it at your own risk.
	42	+
	43	+[[image:ExtensionManager.png]]
	44	+
23	23	== Improvements to Action Menus ==
24	24
25	25	* New Add menu: Use the "Add" menu to create new spaces, pages, add attachments and comments.(((
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33	33	)))
34	34	* The Edit, Export, More actions and Profile menus also benefited from a refresh.
35	35
36		-== Mechanism for inserting custom links in the header ==
	58	+=== Visible content menu when scrolling down ===
37	37
38		-As a new part of the [[UI extensions>>dev:Design.InterfaceExtensions]] mechanism, similar to [[skin extensions>>code:Plugins.SkinExtensionsPlugin]], applications can now insert custom ##<link>## elements in the HTML header of the page, which allows to insert, for example:
	60	+When scrolling down on a document, the content menu will follow, so the user will not have to scroll up on top of the page in order to access it.
39	39
40		-* custom navigational links (universal edit, paged navigation, index, author...)
41		-* custom RSS feed links
42		-* custom metadata links (DOAP, FOAF, generic RDF...)
	62	+[[image:ActionMenu.png||style="border: 1px solid black;"]]
43	43
44		-Usage example:
45		-
46		-{{code}}
47		-$xwiki.linkx.use($xwiki.getURL('Blog.BlogRss', 'view', "xpage=plain&blog=${blogDoc.fullName}"),
48		- {'rel' : 'alternate', 'type' : 'application/rss+xml', 'title' : $title})
49		-{{/code}}
50		-
51	51	== Further improvements to the edit UI ==
52	52
53	53	After the improvements to the object and class editors introduced in 1.8 and 2.4, the wiki and WYSIWYG editors also see some enhancements in this release, bringing in some of the proposed changes from [[an older proposal>>http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/Improvements/ImprovedEdit]], with some additional improvements. Specifically:
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61	61	image:edit-footer.png
62	62	)))
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	77	+== Preliminary optional accessibility stylesheet ==
	78	+
	79	+Moving further on the quest for better accessibility in the XWiki platform, we introduced a preliminary stylesheet which makes the skin slightly more accessible to people with visual disabilities: bigger fonts by default, and underlined links to make them more easily distinguished by colorblind people. This stylesheet can either be activated globally in a wiki, or individually from each user's preferences.
	80	+
	81	+Enabling the special stylesheet:
	82	+
	83	+image:a11y-enable.png
	84	+
	85	+Bigger fonts and underlined links:
	86	+
	87	+image:a11y.png
	88	+
64	64	== More consistent use of user avatars ==
65	65
66	66	As proposed on [[the design page>>http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/Improvements/Avatars]], avatars come in three default sizes:
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80	80	* ###largeUserAvatar('XWiki.username')##
81	81	* ###resizedUserAvatar('XWiki.username', 100)## which allows resizing an avatar to a custom size
82	82
83		-== Display user avatars in annotations ==
	108	+User avatars are also displayed in annotations.
84	84
85	85	image:annotation-avatars.png
86	86
87		-\\
88	88	== More image manipulation settings ==
89	89
90	90	For a long time it was possible to scale attached images on the server, thus reducing the download time and ensuring consistent scaling of images across browsers. This is achieved by appending ##width## and/or ##height## query string parameters to the URL of the image. This feature has been further enhanced:
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115	115
116	116	image:img.png
117	117
118		-== Better handling of attachment versions when rolling back documents ==
	142	+== Mechanism for inserting custom links in the header ==
119	119
120		-Rolling back a document will also roll back the correct attachment version, including restoring a deleted attachment from the trash (if not manually deleted from there). Even if an attachment was deleted and re-uploaded several times, the platform will try to find the right version for the attachment, if it still exists in the attachment trash. As an improvement, if the attachment did not change, then a new version is not created.
	144	+As a new part of the [[UI extensions>>dev:Design.InterfaceExtensions]] mechanism, similar to [[skin extensions>>code:Plugins.SkinExtensionsPlugin]], applications can now insert custom ##<link>## elements in the HTML header of the page, which allows to insert, for example:
121	121
122		-== Preliminary optional accessibility stylesheet ==
	146	+* custom navigational links (universal edit, paged navigation, index, author...)
	147	+* custom RSS feed links
	148	+* custom metadata links (DOAP, FOAF, generic RDF...)
123	123
124		-Moving further on the quest for better accessibility in the XWiki platform, we introduced a preliminary stylesheet which makes the skin slightly more accessible to people with visual disabilities: bigger fonts by default, and underlined links to make them more easily distinguished by colorblind people. This stylesheet can either be activated globally in a wiki, or individually from each user's preferences.
	150	+Usage example:
125	125
126		-Enabling the special stylesheet:
	152	+{{code}}
	153	+$xwiki.linkx.use($xwiki.getURL('Blog.BlogRss', 'view', "xpage=plain&blog=${blogDoc.fullName}"),
	154	+ {'rel' : 'alternate', 'type' : 'application/rss+xml', 'title' : $title})
	155	+{{/code}}
127	127
128		-image:a11y-enable.png
129		-
130		-Bigger fonts and underlined links:
131		-
132		-image:a11y.png
133		-
134		-== Support for viewing attached office documents in the wiki ==
135		-
136		-XWiki now supports viewing attached office documents without saving them on the client side. Click on the eye icon near the edit and delete buttons corresponding to the attachment you want to preview.
137		-
138		-image:OfficePreview.png
139		-
140		-We also included a new Macro for the WYSIWYG Editor. It allows to embed a office file into a page.
141		-
142		-[[image:MacroOfficeViewer||style="border: 1px solid black;"]]
143		-
144		-== Introduced cancelable events ==
145		-
146		-This allows to cancel document saving, better security with script execution and canceling an event that has errors on initialization.
147		-
148		-== Better external search engine indexing support ==
149		-
150		-Google search results now always point to canonical view of pages.
151		-
152		-== Visible content menu when scrolling down ==
153		-
154		-[[image:ActionMenu.png||style="border: 1px solid black;"]]
155		-
156		-When scrolling down on a document, the content menu will follow, so the user will not have to scroll up on top of the page in order to access it.
157		-
158		-== New macros for the Space List and Tag Cloud ==
159		-
160		-* [[Space List>>http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/inline/Macros/SpacesMacro]] Macro. This macro creates a box with links to all the spaces existing in the wiki.
161		-* [[TagCloud>>http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Macros/TagCloudMacro]] Macro. Generates a TagCloud from all the tags within the wiki.
162		-
163		-
164		-== New User Directory ==
165		-
166		-Added User Directory section on the Quick Links tab on the left of the page. This will show you the users that the XWiki instance has, along with their avatar image. This page also allows to filter users by username.
167		-
168		-image:group-avatar.png
169		-
170		-== Introduced [[XWiki Cryptographic Module>>code:Modules.CryptographicModule]] ==
171		-
172		-This module exposes high level api, allowing developers to bolster their security using cryptography for both integrity and confidentiality.
173		-You can find more information about the cryptographic module including examples at the code zone page for the [[XWiki Cryptographic Module>>code:Modules.CryptographicModule]].
174		-
175	175	== Experimental xwiki/2.1 wiki syntax ==
176	176
177	177	The xwiki wiki syntax sees further improvements as xwiki/2.1 is still in an experimental stage. A new feature is an enhanced syntax for links, which is more generic and allows easier extensions with new link types, demonstrated in this release with support for path and [[interwiki links>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_links]].
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196	196	{{velocity}}[[reset the history>>path:$doc.getURL('reset')||queryString="confirm=1"]]{{/velocity}}
197	197	{{/code}}
198	198
199		-== Experimental Extension Manager ==
200		-
201		-The new [[Extension Manager>>http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Modules/ExtensionModule]] will allow you to install new extensions to XWiki Enterprise. Please note that this is an experimental feature. Use it at your own risk.
202		-
203		-
204		-[[image:ExtensionManager.png]]
205		-
206	206	=== [[Interwiki links>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_links]] ===
207	207
208	208	Basic syntax:
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219	219	rendering.interWikiDefinitions = udic = http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=
220	220	{{/code}}
221	221
222		-== Various Security improvements ==
	197	+== Introduced [[XWiki Cryptographic Module>>code:Modules.CryptographicModule]] ==
223	223
224		-Continuing a push for better security started this summer, 2.5 fixes some of the few remaining cross-site scripting and SQL injections holes, and tightens the scope of programming rights. Of particular concern:
	199	+This module exposes high level api, allowing developers to bolster their security using cryptography for both integrity and confidentiality.
	200	+You can find more information about the cryptographic module including examples at the code zone page for the [[XWiki Cryptographic Module>>code:Modules.CryptographicModule]].
225	225
226		-* With a default skin, programming rights are no longer available after the main content of the page; this means that the panels and the bottom tabs can't use restricted APIs anymore.
227		-* To explicitly drop programming rights, a new API method was introduced: ##$xcontext.dropPermissions()##
228		-* An experimental Cross-Site Request Forgery prevention mechanism is included, though not enabled by default. To enable it and test/upgrade your custom applications for compatibility, edit ##xwiki.properties## and flip on the ##core.csrf.enabled## setting.
	202	+== Better handling of attachment versions when rolling back documents ==
229	229
	204	+Rolling back a document will also roll back the correct attachment version, including restoring a deleted attachment from the trash (if not manually deleted from there). Even if an attachment was deleted and re-uploaded several times, the platform will try to find the right version for the attachment, if it still exists in the attachment trash. As an improvement, if the attachment did not change, then a new version is not created.
230	230
	206	+== Introduced cancelable events ==
	207	+
	208	+This allows to cancel document saving, better security with script execution and canceling an event that has errors on initialization.
	209	+
	210	+== Better external search engine indexing support ==
	211	+
	212	+Google search results now always point to canonical view of pages.
	213	+
	214	+== New macros for the Space List and Tag Cloud ==
	215	+
	216	+* [[Space List>>http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/inline/Macros/SpacesMacro]] Macro. This macro creates a box with links to all the spaces existing in the wiki.
	217	+* [[TagCloud>>http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Macros/TagCloudMacro]] Macro. Generates a TagCloud from all the tags within the wiki.
	218	+
231	231	== WYSIWYG and Rendering improvements ==
232	232
233	233	Display macro parameter names instead of IDs, generalized the syntax for links, added support for query string for image links, fixed a random error when loading several WYSIWYG instances in parallel.
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238	238
239	239	== Security improvements ==
240	240
241		-Fixed a few XSS bugs, fixed a broken check on rights from the Rest system, fixed a missing author update when editing classes.
	229	+Continuing a push for better security started this summer, 2.5 fixes some of the few remaining cross-site scripting and SQL injections holes, and tightens the scope of programming rights. Of particular concern:
242	242
	231	+* With a default skin, the panels and the bottom tabs can no longer use restricted APIs.
	232	+* To explicitly drop programming rights, a new API method was introduced: ##$xcontext.dropPermissions()##
	233	+* An experimental Cross-Site Request Forgery prevention mechanism is included, though not enabled by default. To enable it and test/upgrade your custom applications for compatibility, edit ##xwiki.properties## and flip on the ##core.csrf.enabled## setting.
	234	+* Fixed a broken check on rights from the Rest system
	235	+* Fixed a missing author update when editing classes.
	236	+
243	243	== Translations ==
244	244
245	245	* All the translations have been updated
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294	294
295	295	== API Breakages ==
296	296
297		-The following APIs were modified since XWiki Enterprise 2.4:
	291	+The following APIs were modified since XWiki Enterprise 2.4.4:
298	298
299	299	{{code language="none"}}
300	300	[ERROR] org.xwiki.rendering.transformation.MacroTransformationContext: Method 'public org.xwiki.rendering.internal.transformation.MacroTransformation getMacroTransformation()' has been removed
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302	302	[ERROR] org.xwiki.rendering.transformation.Transformation: Method 'public void transform(org.xwiki.rendering.block.Block, org.xwiki.rendering.transformation.TransformationContext)' has been added to an interface
303	303	[ERROR] org.xwiki.rendering.transformation.TransformationManager: Method 'public void performTransformations(org.xwiki.rendering.block.Block, org.xwiki.rendering.transformation.TransformationContext)' has been added to an interface
304	304	{{/code}}
305		-
306		-