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 contains a few UI improvments, including a better design of the error / warning / info boxes, and important bug fixes. It also brings support to Jetty 12 for the provided standalone jetty distribution.

New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 16.6.0)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for XWiki 16.7.0.

For Users

Differentiation of message types

 
Message boxes now include icons in their design. It makes it easier to differentiate one type of message from the other without having to rely on color (especially helpful for colorblind users!). In addition, their design has been slightly reworked to fit better in the current skin.

Improved contrast on default table borders

 
The previous style could get difficult to see for low vision users. The new color follows the color theme used on the page and it will meet standard contrast requirements given you use a color theme that respects those requirements, such as Iceberg.

For Admins

No changes!

For Developers

• Reproducible XAR and XIP builds: When the Maven build is configured to be reproducible, building XAR and XIP extensions gives reproducible results now, too.

Upgrades

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

The following dependencies were upgraded for the XWiki Standalone distribution:

• Jetty 12.0.12

Translations

The following translations have been updated: 

• German
• Russian

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 129	Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes
	Google Chrome 128	Tests run and results
	Microsoft Edge 128
	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	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	Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes Tests run and results
	Jetty 12.0.12 (XWiki Standalone packaging)
	Jetty 12.0.12	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

• 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

No API breakage since XWiki 16.6.0.

Credits

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

• Antoine Mottier 
• Dorian OUAKLI 
• Gankov Andrey 
• LucasC 
• Manuel Leduc 
• Marius Dumitru Florea 
• Michael Hamann 
• Simon Urli 
• Simpel 
• Thiago Krieck 
• Thomas Mortagne 
• Vincent Massol 
• xingya1822