Release Notes for XWiki 16.0.0
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 the first stable release of the 16.x cycle. The most notable changes are the move to Java 17, a few Live Data improvements and some Live Table to Live Data migrations. Besides these there are many dependency upgrades, some of which require special attention when upgrading XWiki, and a couple of bug and security fixes.
New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 15.10.5)
Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 16.0.0.
For Users
Likers migrated to Live Data
The list of likers of a page is now displayed using a Live Data.
Affected children during page delete is now displayed with a Live Data
The list of affected children during page delete is now displayed with a Live Data.
Miscellaneous
Updated drag and drop feature of the Live Data Macro: The appearance of drag and drop controls for Live Data columns has been updated to be more straightforward to use. In addition, keyboard control is now fully supported for those controls. See Live Data documentation for more details on these new controls.
For Admins
Addition of "panel-header-color": Added a new parameter to the color theme, to control panel header text color. See the Flamingo Color Theme documentation.
The "Supported Languages" setting is now hidden when the wiki is not multilingual.
For Developers
Support for Live Data in Velocity
It is now possible to insert a Live Data using scripting instead of using the usual liveData macro.
Example using Velocity:
'id': 'users',
'properties': '_avatar,doc.name,first_name,last_name',
'source': 'liveTable',
'sourceParameters': 'className=XWiki.XWikiUsers&translationPrefix=xe.userdirectory.'
})
Support for Live Data description
The Live Data macro has a description parameter, allowing to define a textual description of the content of the Live Data.
Example:
id="users"
properties="_avatar,doc.name,first_name,last_name"
source="liveTable"
sourceParameters="className=XWiki.XWikiUsers&translationPrefix=xe.userdirectory."
description="The list of all users:"
/}}
Upgrades
The following runtime dependencies have been upgraded (they have a different release cycle than XWiki Commons, XWiki Rendering and XWiki Platform):
- Jetty 10.0.19 (Used in the Standalone packaging)
- dompurify 3.0.7
- vue 2.7.16
- dompurity 3.0.8
- plexus-interactivity 1.2
- org.eclipse.sisu.plexus 0.9.0.M2
- log4j API 2.22.1
- jsoup 1.17.2
- jodconverter 4.4.7
- httpcore 5.2.4
- commons-lang3 3.14.0
- common-compress 1.25.0
- Woodstox 6.6.0
- SLF4J 2.0.11
- Protobuf Java 3.25.2
- PostgresSQL connector 42.7.1
- Plexus XML 4.0.3
- Plexus Interpolation 1.27
- Plexus Containers 2.2.0
- Plexus Classworlds 2.8.0
- Plexus Archiver 4.9.1
- Netty 4.1.105.Final
- Liquibase 4.25.1
- Joda-Time 2.12.6
- Javassist 3.30.2-GA
- Jackson 2.16.1
- JNA 5.14.0
- JGroups 5.3.1
- ICU4J 74.2
- Guava 33.0.0-jre
- Groovy 4.0.17
- Error Prone annotations 2.24.1
- Commons IO 2.15.1
- Commons Exec 1.4.0
- Checkstyle 10.12.7
- Checker Qual 3.42.0
- Byte Buddy 1.14.11
- Avatica 1.24.0
- AspectJ 1.9.21
- Maven Resolver 1.9.18
- Maven to 3.9.6
Translations
The following translations have been updated:
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 123 | Not Tested |
 | Google Chrome 122 | Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes |
 | Microsoft Edge 122 | Not Tested |
 | Safari 17 | Not Tested |
Here is the list of databases we support and how they have been tested for this release:
| Database | Tested on: | |
|---|---|---|
 | HyperSQL 2.7.2 | Not Tested |
 | MariaDB 11.3 | Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes |
 | MySQL 8.3 | Not Tested |
 | PostgreSQL 16 | Not Tested |
 | Oracle 19c | Not Tested |
Here is the list of Servlet Containers we support and how they have been tested for this release:
| Servlet Container | Tested on: | |
|---|---|---|
 | Tomcat 9.0.86 | Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes |
 | Jetty 10.0.19 (XWiki Standalone packaging) | Not Tested |
| Jetty 10.0.19 | 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
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 16.0.0
Support for Java 11 has been dropped
XWiki now requires Java 17 to run.
Breaking changes in Groovy 4
The move to Groovy 4 comes with some deleted deprecated classes:
See http://groovy-lang.org/releasenotes/groovy-4.0.html#Groovy4.0-naming-changes for more details.
API Breakages
The following APIs were modified since XWiki 15.10.5:
No breakage!
Credits
The following people have contributed code and translations to this release (sorted alphabetically):
- Dorian OUAKLI
- Gankov Andrey
- Gašper Kojek
- Guillaume Delhumeau
- Gunter Ohrner
- Lucas C
- Manuel Leduc
- Marius Dumitru Florea
- Mend Renovate
- Michael Hamann
- Nikita Petrenko
- Oana-Lavinia Florean
- Pierre Jeanjean
- Raphaël Jakse
- Simon Urli
- Simpel
- Thomas Mortagne
- Vincent Massol
- hongsikum
- xeon
