Release Notes for XWiki 16.7.1

Last modified by Ilie Andriuta on 2024/10/02

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. It's especially fixing an important performance regression on any UNIX system on which /dev/random is slow.

New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 16.7.0)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 16.7.1.

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:

 BrowserTested on:
Firefox30.pngMozilla Firefox 130Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes
Chrome30.pngGoogle Chrome 129Not Tested
Edge30.pngMicrosoft Edge 129Not Tested
Safari30.pngSafari 17Not Tested

Here is the list of databases we support and how they have been manually tested for this release:

 DatabaseTested on:
hypersql.pngHyperSQL 2.7.3Not Tested
mariadb.pngMariaDB 11.4Not Tested
mysql.pngMySQL 9.0Not Tested
postgresql.pngPostgreSQL 16Not Tested
oracle.pngOracle 19cJira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes

Here is the list of Servlet Containers we support and how they have been manually tested for this release:

 Servlet ContainerTested on:
tomcat-icon.pngTomcat 9.0.95
jetty-icon.pngJetty 12.0.12 (XWiki Standalone packaging)Not Tested
jetty-icon.pngJetty 12.0.12Not 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 16.7.0:

No breakage!

Credits

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

  • Marius Dumitru Florea 
  • Simon Urli 
  • Thomas Mortagne 

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