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, including security fixes.

New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 14.10.15)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 14.10.16.

Translations

The following translations have been updated: 

• German
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Simplified Chinese

Tested Browsers & Databases

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

	Browser	Tested on:
	Mozilla Firefox 117	Tests run and results
	Google Chrome 116	Not Tested
	Microsoft Edge 116	Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes
	Safari 16	Not Tested

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

	Database	Tested on:
	HyperSQL 2.7.1	Not Tested
	PostgreSQL 15	Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes
	MariaDB 11.0	Not Tested
	MySQL 8	Not Tested
	Oracle 19c	Tests run and results

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

	Servlet Container	Tested on:
	Tomcat 9.0.80	Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes Tests run and results
	Jetty 10.0.7 (XWiki Standalone packaging)	Not Tested
	Jetty 10.0.7	Not Tested

Security Issues

Security issues are not listed in issue lists or dashboards to avoid disclosing ways to use them, but they will appear automatically in them once they're disclosed. See the XWiki Security Policy for more details.

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.

API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since XWiki 14.10.15:

Real breakages

Real backward compatibility breakages that we have unwillingly accepted to do for the reasons mentioned in each violation below.

• Moved to internal where this class should have been from the beginning.
  • Violation type:
    java.class.removed
  • Code:
    ## Old:
    class org.xwiki.index.migration.R140300000XWIKI19614DataMigration

Credits

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

• Clément Aubin
• Dorian OUAKLI
• Gankov Andrey
• Manuel Leduc
• Marius Dumitru Florea
• Michael Hamann
• Nikita Petrenko
• Simon Urli
• Simpel
• Thomas Mortagne
• Vincent Massol