Release Notes for XWiki 9.11.6

Last modified by Guillaume Delhumeau on 2018/08/13

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 that covers important issues that we have discovered since 9.11.5 has been released.

This release contains an important regressions:

  • Menu entries created for left and right panels are not displaying anymore. This will be fixed in XWiki 9.11.7.
  • When create a wiki from a template you get a misleading error report, the workaround is to ignore it and just go directly to the (properly created) new wiki. This will be fixed in 9.11.7.

This release contains a bug that can affect the scalability of the service. Until the proper fix, it is highly recommended to make sure that the "autowatch" feature of the notifications is turned off. Note that starting with XWiki 10.7 (10.7RC1 to be precise), "autowatch" is turned off by default.
 
You can do that by adding in the xwiki.properties file the following lines:

# Disable autowatch until the following issue is fixed:
# https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-15445
xwiki.plugin.watchlist.automaticwatch=none

New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 9.11.5)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 9.11.6.

All Changes

Tested Browsers & Databases

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

BrowserTests performed and results
Chrome30.pngGoogle Chrome 67Not Tested
Firefox30.pngMozilla Firefox 60Not Tested
Edge30.pngMicrosoft Edge 17Not Tested
IE30.pngInternet Explorer 11Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes
Safari30.pngSafari 11.1Not Tested

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

DatabaseTests performed and results
hypersql.pngHyperSQL 2.4.0Not Tested
mysql.pngMySQL 5.7Not Tested
postgresql.pngPostgreSQL 10Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes
oracle.pngOracle 11.2Not Tested

Known issues

Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes

General Notes

When upgrading make sure you compare your xwiki.cfg, xwiki.properties and web.xml files with the newest version since some configuration parameters may have been modified or added. Note that you should add xwiki.store.migration=1 so that XWiki will attempt to automatically migrate your current database to the new schema. Make sure you backup your Database before doing anything.

API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since XWiki 9.11.5:

Failed to execute the [groovy] macro. Cause: [startup failed: Script1314.groovy: 9: unable to resolve class XmlSlurper  @ line 9, column 12.      result = new XmlSlurper().parseText(xml)                ^  1 error ]. Click on this message for details.

Credits

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

  • Adel Atallah
  • Alex Cotiugă
  • Anca Luca
  • Guillaume Delhumeau
  • Marius Dumitru Florea
  • Thomas Mortagne
  • Vincent Massol

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