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. It contains security fixes, with the highest severity being 9.3 / 10.

New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 15.10.15)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 15.10.16.

Translations

The following translations have been updated:

• German
• French
• Ukrainian

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.

Issues specific to XWiki 15.10.16

New query validation in the REST Query HQL endpoint and for the short form queries in the script API

The validation of HQL queries given to the REST Query HQL endpoint and to the Query script API has been modified to be more consistent. This validation is a lot stricter than it used to be for those use cases, which may cause some perfectly valid (but complex enough to not be understood by the validator) queries to be forbidden if the current user (or the author of the script depencing on the user case) does not have programming right.

Don't hesitate to report an issue on https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI if this happens. A workaround in the form of a configuration to explicitly indicate allowed query statements has also been introduced to workaround potential false positives. See Query Module for more details about this new configuration.

API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since XWiki 15.10.15:

No breakage!

Credits

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

• Manuel Leduc
• Marius Dumitru Florea
• Michael Hamann
• Nikita Petrenko
• Oana-Lavinia Florean
• Simon Urli
• Simpel
• Thomas Mortagne
• Vincent Massol
• xrichard