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, the capability for users with edit rights to pin pages, and security fixes, with the highest severity being 8.7.

New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 16.10.4)

For Users

Users with edit rights can pin pages in spaces

 
It was already possible for global administrators and administrators of spaces to pin pages for organizing the navigation panel. Now the feature is also available for people having edit rights on a space: a new tab is available in the page children view, available from the more action menu. From this new tab, it is possible for a user to entirely reorganize the pages of the space by using drag & drop or by using the action button to pin / unpin pages, pretty much like it was already possible in the navigation panel administration.

For Admins

No changes!

For Developers

No changes!

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 16.10.5.

Translations

The following translations have been updated:

• Traditional Chinese

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 16.10.4:

No breakage!

Credits

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

• LEE CHENG WEI
• LucasC
• Manuel Leduc
• Marius Dumitru Florea
• Michael Hamann
• Simon Urli
• Thomas Mortagne