Release Notes for XWiki 16.4.3
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 bugfix release. This release contains security fixes, with the highest severity being 9.1/10.
New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 16.4.2)
Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 16.4.3.
Translations
The following translations have been updated:
Tested Browsers & Databases
Automated testing
XWiki executes a lot of automated tests during its build, testing all supported configurations. In addition, some manual QA is also executed to try to discover additional problems (see below):
Manual testing
Here is the list of browsers we support and how they have been manually tested for this release:
Browser | Tested on: | |
---|---|---|
Mozilla Firefox 130 | Tests run and results | |
Microsoft Edge 128 | ||
Google Chrome 128 | Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes | |
Safari 17 | Not Tested |
Here is the list of databases we support and how they have been manually tested for this release:
Database | Tested on: | |
---|---|---|
HyperSQL 2.7.3 | Not Tested | |
MariaDB 11.4 | Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes | |
MySQL 9.0.1 | Tests run and results | |
PostgreSQL 16 | ||
Oracle 19c | Not Tested |
Here is the list of Servlet Containers we support and how they have been manually tested for this release:
Servlet Container | Tested on: | |
---|---|---|
Tomcat 9.0.93 | ||
Jetty 10.0.21 (XWiki Standalone packaging) | ||
Jetty 10.0.21 | 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.
API Breakages
The following APIs were modified since XWiki 16.4.2:
No breakage!
Credits
The following people have contributed code and translations to this release (sorted alphabetically):
- Dorian OUAKLI
- Gankov Andrey
- LucasC
- Marius Dumitru Florea
- Michael Hamann
- Oana-Lavinia Florean
- Simon Urli
- Simpel
- Thiago Krieck
- Thomas Mortagne
- slauriere