Release Notes for XWiki 5.2.3

Last modified by Thomas Mortagne on 2017/03/24

This is the release notes for XWiki Commons, XWiki Rendering, XWiki Platform and XWiki Enterprise. They share the same release notes as they are released together and have the same version.

This is a bugfix release.

New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 5.2.2)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 5.2.3.

Full Issue List

+ a security issue allowing unregistered users some access under some circumstances has been fixed.

Translations

No translations update.

Tested Browsers & Databases

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

BrowserStatus
Chrome30.pngGoogle Chrome 32Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes
Firefox30.pngMozilla Firefox 26Not Tested
IE30.pngInternet Explorer 8Not Tested
IE30.pngInternet Explorer 9Not Tested

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

DatabaseStatus
hypersql.pngHyperSQL 2.3.1Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes
mysql.pngMySQL 5.6.10Not Tested
oracle.pngOracle 11.2Not Tested
postgresql.pngPostgreSQL 9.3.2Migration from 5.1

For the full list of tests see this page.

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.

To fully upgrade your farm (if you have different wikis), please do not forget to upgrade the "workspacetemplate" wiki. You can achieve this by manually going to the "workspacetemplate" wiki, or by using the Distribution Wizard at the first launch of xwiki.

Note: if you upgrade from an XWiki version older than 4.3M1, you need to go back to WorkspaceManager.Install to enable the multi-wiki features. You can acheive this by going to the main wiki administration > wikis > create a wiki template.

API Breakages

No API breakage since XWiki 5.2.2.

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