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 release is a bug fix release containing important fixes, performance improvments, and security fixes, with the highest severity being 8.5.

New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 16.10.3)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for XWiki 16.10.4.

Upgrades

The following runtime dependencies have been upgraded (they have a different release cycle than XWiki Commons, XWiki Rendering and XWiki Platform):

Translations

The following translations have been updated: 

• German

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 16.10.3:

No breakage!

Credits

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

• Dorian OUAKLI 
• LucasC 
• Manuel Leduc 
• Marius Dumitru Florea 
• Mend Renovate 
• Michael Hamann 
• Simon Urli 
• Simpel 
• Thomas Mortagne 
• Vincent Massol 
• github-actions[bot]