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 bug fix release.

All changes

• Issue Dashboard for 11.8.1.
• Check the Release notes for 11.8.

Translations

The following translations have been updated: 

• Uyghur

Tested Browsers & Databases

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

	Browser	Tests performed and results
	Google Chrome 77	Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes + Smoke tests
	Mozilla Firefox 69	Not Tested
	Microsoft Edge 18	Smoke tests
	Internet Explorer 11	Smoke tests
	Safari 13	Not Tested

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

	Database	Tests performed and results
	HyperSQL 2.5.0	Not Tested
	MySQL 5.7	Smoke tests
	Oracle 12c	Not Tested
	PostgreSQL 11	Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes + Smoke tests

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

	Servlet Container	Tests performed and results
	Tomcat	Not Tested
	Jetty (XWiki Standalone packaging)	Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes + Smoke tests
	Jetty	Not Tested

Known issues

• Bugs we know about

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.

Issues specific to XWiki 11.8.1

API Breakages

No changes since XWiki 11.8. 

Credits

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

Clemens Robbenhaar
Marius Dumitru Florea
Simon Urli
Thomas Mortagne
Vincent Massol