Release Notes for XWiki 17.4.2
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 fixes important bugs and is the first intermediate LTS release. The 17.4.x intermediate LTS branch will be supported in parallel to the LTS branch until the end of the year, for more details see our versioning and release practices. This release contains security fixes, with the highest severity being 9.3/10.
New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 17.4.1)
Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 17.4.2.
Translations
The following translations have been updated:
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 17.4.1:
No breakage!
Credits
The following people have contributed code and translations to this release (sorted alphabetically):
- Cédric LAMBLIN
- LucasC
- Manuel Leduc
- Marius Dumitru Florea
- Michael Hamann
- Simon Urli
- Simpel
- Thomas Mortagne
- Xiaofei Cui
- xrichard
