Loosing the previous version usually means that at some point the status.xml file was deleted.
On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net> wrote: > >> On 18 Jun 2017, at 09:20, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.morta...@xwiki.com> wrote: >> >> Yes we already have this information and there is an internal API to >> get it. See DistributionInternalScriptService. > > ok cool. Ay idea about why we get previous version = current version on > xwiki.org (see below)? > > Thanks > -Vincent > >> >> On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 11:37 AM, Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net> wrote: >>> Hi devs, >>> >>> I’d like to propose that we also save the previous version of XWiki when we >>> upgrade. I can think of 2 use cases for that: >>> >>> * After the user upgrades we display a What’s New (could be something in >>> the notification area, in the Admin UI home page, as a popup on the first >>> connexion after the upgrade, etc) and we take the data from the Release >>> Notes app on xwiki.org using the previous version information to list >>> what’s new. >>> >>> * When a user reports a problem of upgrade, we can ask him to tell us the >>> previous version that is stored. >>> >>> WDYT? >>> >>> Note that the info should probably be stored somewhere in the permanent >>> directory. It could even be stored in the existing status.xml file. >>> >>> EDIT: Actually it could already exist maybe. I’ve just checked >>> distribution/status.xml on xwiki.org and I can see: >>> >>> <previousDistributionExtension> >>> <id>org.xwiki.enterprise:xwiki-enterprise-web</id> >>> <version class="org.xwiki.extension.version.internal.DefaultVersion" >>> serialization="custom"> >>> <org.xwiki.extension.version.internal.DefaultVersion> >>> <string>8.4.4</string> >>> </org.xwiki.extension.version.internal.DefaultVersion> >>> </version> >>> <hashCode>-1</hashCode> >>> </previousDistributionExtension> >>> <previousDistributionExtensionUi> >>> <id>org.xwiki.enterprise:xwiki-enterprise-ui-mainwiki</id> >>> <version class="org.xwiki.extension.version.internal.DefaultVersion" >>> reference="../../previousDistributionExtension/version"/> >>> <hashCode>-1</hashCode> >>> </previousDistributionExtensionUi> >>> <distributionExtension> >>> <id>org.xwiki.enterprise:xwiki-enterprise-web</id> >>> <version class="org.xwiki.extension.version.internal.DefaultVersion" >>> serialization="custom"> >>> <org.xwiki.extension.version.internal.DefaultVersion> >>> <string>8.4.4</string> >>> </org.xwiki.extension.version.internal.DefaultVersion> >>> </version> >>> <hashCode>-1</hashCode> >>> </distributionExtension> >>> >>> @Thomas: Any idea with previous version = new version = 8.4.4? >>> @Thomas: Do we have an API to get that info from a velocity script for >>> example (or from Java)? >>> >>> Thanks >>> -Vincent >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Thomas Mortagne > -- Thomas Mortagne
