Release Notes for XWiki 10.8.3

Last modified by Adel Atallah on 2019/01/15

This is the release notes for XWiki Commons, XWiki Rendering and XWiki Platform. They share the same release notes as they are released together and have the same version.

This is a bugfix release that covers important issues that we have discovered since 10.8.2 has been released.

New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 10.8.2)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 10.8.3.

All Changes

Tested Browsers & Databases

Here is the list of browsers we support and how they have been tested for this release:

 BrowserTests performed and results
Chrome30.pngGoogle Chrome 71Smoke tests
Firefox30.pngMozilla Firefox 64Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes
Edge30.pngMicrosoft Edge 17Smoke tests
IE30.pngInternet Explorer 11Not Tested
Safari30.pngSafari 12Not Tested

Here is the list of databases we support and how they have been tested for this release:

 DatabaseTests performed and results
hypersql.pngHyperSQL 2.4.1Not Tested
mysql.pngMySQL 5.7Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes + Smoke tests
oracle.pngOracle 11.2Not Tested
postgresql.pngPostgreSQL 10Smoke tests

Here is the list of Servlet Containers we support and how they have been tested for this release:

 Servlet ContainerTests performed and results
tomcat-icon.pngTomcatNot Tested
jetty-icon.pngJetty (XWiki Standalone packaging)Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes + Smoke tests
jetty-icon.pngJettyNot Tested

Known issues

Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes

General Notes

  • When upgrading make sure you compare and merge the following XWiki configuration files since some parameters may have been modified, removed or added:
    • xwiki.cfg
    • xwiki.properties
    • web.xml
    • hibernate.cfg.xml
  • Add xwiki.store.migration=1 in xwiki.cfg so that XWiki will attempt to automatically migrate your current database to any new schema. Make sure you backup your Database before doing anything.

API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since XWiki 10.8.2:

Failed to execute the [groovy] macro. Cause: [startup failed: Script1300.groovy: 9: unable to resolve class XmlSlurper  @ line 9, column 12.      result = new XmlSlurper().parseText(xml)                ^  1 error ]. Click on this message for details.

Credits

The following people have contributed code and translations to this release (sorted alphabetically):

Adel Atallah
Clément Aubin
Guillaume Delhumeau
Marius Dumitru Florea
m-lw
Simon Urli
Thomas Mortagne

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