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Thomas Mortagne 1.1 1 {{velocity}}
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16 This is the release notes for [[XWiki Commons>>http://commons.xwiki.org]], [[XWiki Rendering>>http://rendering.xwiki.org]] and [[XWiki Platform>>http://platform.xwiki.org]]. They share the same release notes as they are released together and have the same version.
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Thomas Mortagne 2.1 18 This release contains a few improvments like better display of icons in object and class editors, or the capability to request the effective author for developpers, but has been mostly focused on bug fixing, including security fixes.
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21 Uncomment when there's at least one issue listed in the table!
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23 The following regressions were introduced in this release (and found after it was released). Please check them out and if they impact you we recommend waiting to upgrade to a version where they are fixed.
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33 {{jira id="xwikiorg" source="jql"}}
34 category = 10000 and affectedVersion in ($affectedVersions)${fixVersionJQL}and priority = Blocker and resolution in (Fixed, Unresolved) and component != "Development Issues only"
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Thomas Mortagne 2.1 40 = New and Noteworthy (since {{velocity}}$product{{/velocity}} 16.5.0) =
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Thomas Mortagne 2.1 42 [[Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for XWiki 16.6.0>>https://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=15795]].
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46 === Upgrades ===
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48 The following runtime dependencies have been upgraded (they have a different release cycle than [[XWiki Commons>>http://commons.xwiki.org]], [[XWiki Rendering>>http://rendering.xwiki.org]] and [[XWiki Platform>>http://platform.xwiki.org]]):
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Thomas Mortagne 2.1 50 * [[dompurify 3.1.5>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22273]]
51 * [[Elastic search client 8.14.3>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22331]]
52 * [[jsoup 1.18.1>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22330]]
53 * [[Docker Java 3.4.0>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22329]]
54 * [[MySQL connector 9.0.0>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22307]]
55 * [[PrettyTime 5.0.9>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22305]]
56 * [[XML-DTD 4.3>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22299]]
57 * [[Commons Codec 1.17.1>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-3093]]
58 * [[Jackson 2.17.2>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-3092]]
59 * [[Maven Resolver to 1.9.21>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-3091]]
60 * [[bytebuddy 1.14.18>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-3090]]
61 * [[JGroups 5.3.9>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-3089]]
62 * [[Plexus Archiver 4.10.0>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-3086]]
63 * [[httpcore 5.2.5>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-3085]]
64 * [[Checker Qual 3.45.0>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-3081]]
65 * [[Groovy 4.0.22>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-3078]]
66 * [[Woodstox 7.0.0>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-3070]]
67 * [[Maven to 3.9.8>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-3062]]
68 * [[Syntax Highlighting 4.8>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22338]]
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Thomas Mortagne 2.1 70 * [[Moved back to JSON-Java (instead of Open JSON) and upgrade to 20240303>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-3087]]
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Thomas Mortagne 1.1 72 = Translations =
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74 The following translations have been updated:
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Thomas Mortagne 3.1 76 {{language codes="de, zh"/}}
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78 = Tested Browsers & Databases =
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Ilie Andriuta 8.1 80 {{include reference="TestReports.ManualTestReportSummaryXWiki1660.WebHome"/}}
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83 TODO: uncomment and update with proper links when the report is ready.
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85 = Performances tests compared to <last super stable version> =
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87 {{display reference="test:Performances.Jetty HSQLDB single wiki xxx to yyy" section="HSummary"/}}
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89 More details on [[performance comparison on single wiki between x.x and y.y>>test:Performances.Jetty HSQLDB single wiki xxx to yyy]].
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92 = Security Issues =
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94 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>>dev:Community.SecurityPolicy.WebHome]] for more details.
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Lucas Charpentier (Sereza7) 7.1 96 = Accessibility =
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98 We are working towards [[WCAG 2.1>>https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/Understanding_WCAG]] level AA compliance.
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100 Current status:
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102 * A total of **354878** automated tests are run.
103 * **99.50%** of our automated WCAG tests are passing. There are **347** warnings left in the tests to fix (0.10%) and **1414** incomplete tests (0.40%), i.e. they need manual validation.
104 ** Note that the automated WCAG tests have 2 limitations: WCAG tests are executed only for UIs for which we have automated functional tests available, and the underlying library we use for testing (Axe Core) estimates that it catches only about 50% of WCAG issues. In the future we plan to also run manual WCAG tests once we've fixed all the issues we can catch automatically.
Lucas Charpentier (Sereza7) 7.2 105 ** Out of the *61* rules automatically tested on XWiki, only *4* of them return warnings. All the other tests will fail the build if violated in the future.
Lucas Charpentier (Sereza7) 7.1 106 * Remaining accessibility violations can be seen on this [[filter result table>>https://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=15396#Filter-Results/20051]].
107 * The progress of fixing accessibility issues vs raising them can be seen on this [[status chart>>https://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=15396#Created-vs-Resolved-Chart/20019]].
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Thomas Mortagne 1.1 109 = Known issues =
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111 * [[Bugs we know about>>https://jira.xwiki.org/issues/?jql=category%20%3D%2010000%20AND%20issuetype%20%3D%20Bug%20AND%20resolution%20%3D%20Unresolved%20ORDER%20BY%20updated%20DESC]]
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113 = Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes =
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115 == General Notes ==
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117 * When upgrading make sure you compare and merge the following XWiki configuration files since some parameters may have been modified, removed or added:
118 ** ##xwiki.cfg##
119 ** ##xwiki.properties##
120 ** ##web.xml##
121 ** ##hibernate.cfg.xml##
122 * 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.
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124 == API Breakages ==
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Thomas Mortagne 5.1 126 The following APIs were modified since {{velocity}}$product{{/velocity}} 16.5.0:
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132 = Credits =
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134 The following people have contributed code and translations to this release (sorted alphabetically):
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Thomas Mortagne 4.1 136 * Alex Cotiugă
137 * Antoine Mottier
138 * Dorian OUAKLI
139 * LucasC
140 * Manuel Leduc
141 * Mariana Batista
142 * Marius Dumitru Florea
143 * Michael Hamann
144 * Oana-Lavinia Florean
145 * Pierre Jeanjean
146 * Simon Urli
147 * Simpel
148 * Thomas Mortagne
149 * Vincent Massol
150 * xingya1822
151 * Ümit Solmaz

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