XWiki Roadmap Archives for the 11.x Release Cycle

Last modified by Vincent Massol on 2019/12/30

XWiki 11.x Cycle

Release dates for the 11.x Cycle:

  • 11.0: January 2019 accept
  • 11.1: February 2019 accept
  • 11.2: March 2019 accept
  • 11.3: April 2019 accept
  • 11.4: May 2019 accept
  • 11.5: June 2019 accept
  • 11.6: July 2019 accept
  • 11.7: August 2019 accept
  • 11.8: September 2019 accept
  • 11.9: October 2019 accept
  • 11.10: November 2019 accept
  • 11.10.1: December 2019 accept
  • 11.10.2: December 2019 accept

XWiki 11.10.2

  • Bugfix release
  • Close small leftovers on features done in the 11.x cycle + focus on bug fixing.

Dates

  • 11.10.2: 30th of December 2019

XWiki 11.10.1

  • Bugfix release
  • Close small leftovers on features done in the 11.x cycle + focus on bug fixing.

Dates

  • 11.10.1: 9th 12th of December 2019 accept

XWiki 11.10

  • Finish "Ability to easily export only content from the XWiki Administration - Marius
  • Video macro as default in XWiki - Marius
    • Need to decide how to do it for the least maintenance
    • Also need to decide if we continue to bundle contrib extensions (Vincent: not my preference)
  • Configurable Class should support page level configurations - Marius
  • Main work: Bug fixes and stabilize the cycle - All
  • Improve the DW extensions step to make easier to upgrade from current LTS - Thomas

Dates

  • 11.10RC1: 18th of November 2019
  • 11.10 Final: 25th of November 2019

XWiki 11.9

  • Finish "Ability to easily export only content from the XWiki Administration - Marius
  • Video macro as default in XWiki - Marius
    • Need to decide how to do it for the least maintenance
    • Also need to decide if we continue to bundle contrib extensions (Vincent: not my preference)
    • To be used on the home page (XWIKI-14858).
  • Configurable Class should support page level configurations - Marius
  • Continue improving performances - Thomas
    • Start testing stuff for the notifications storage refactoring (more as an investigation), in preparation for implementation early in 12.x
    • Performance work around job logs
  • Add API to set the default language in the Document class - Thomas
  • Fix rights when user or group are renamed - Simon
  • Allow admin to specify the password security policy - Simon

Dates

  • 11.9RC1: 21st of October 2019
  • 11.9 final: 28th of October 2019

XWiki 11.8

  • Finish merge conflict: allow choice by chunks and custom fixes - Simon
  • Ability to easily export only content from the XWiki Administration - Marius (basic implementation)
  • Performances improvements - Thomas

Dates

  • 11.8RC1: 23rd of Sep 24th of Sep accept
  • 11.8 final: 30th of Sep

XWiki 11.7

  • Merge conflict: allow choice by chunks and custom fixes - Simon
  • Security: not be allowed to set a right you don't have (min) - https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16266 - Thomas
  • Async rendering improvements - Thomas
  • Better handling of user removal and transfer of rights - Marius (usability)

Dates

  • 11.7RC1: 19th of Aug 20th of Aug
  • 11.7: 26th of Aug 27th of Aug

XWiki 11.6

  • BFD: All
  • Velocity upgrade - Assignee: Thomas
  • Security: Add permissions for xobjects to prevent giving all permissions to users with edit rights on a page. - Assignee: Marius (+ Thomas)?
  • Limit number of login attempts until user gets blocked - Assignee: Simon ?

Dates

  • 11.6RC1: 23 July 2019 (added one more week due to the XWiki SAS seminar)
  • 11.6: 29 July 2019 31 July 2019

XWiki 11.5

  • BFD: All
  • Hibernate upgrade  - Assignee: Thomas
  • "Finish the autocomplete of references which has been dropped since Adel left and we still don't have it in the WYSIWYG + implement autocomplete on attachments.”. - Assignee: Marius
  • Merge on Save - Assignee: Simon

Dates

  • 11.5RC1: 17 June 2019 18 June 2019
  • 11.5: 24 June 2019 25 June 2019

XWiki 11.4

  • BFD: All
  • Finish the autocomplete of references which has been dropped since Adel left and we still don't have it in the WYSIWYG + implement autocomplete on attachments. - Assignee: Marius
    • Note: this will carry over in 11.5 since Marius won’t have many days available during the 11.4 timeframe
  • Inline editing of wiki macros - Assignee: Simon
  • Hibernate upgrade  - Assignee: Thomas
  • Fix the notifications endless loop: https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16363 - Assignee: Thomas (note: already done!)

Dates

  • 11.4RC1: 20th 21st of May 2019
  • 11.4: 27th of May 2019 accept

XWiki 11.3

Topics:

  • STAMP: Vincent(30%)
  • FASTEN: Vincent (10%) + Thomas (30%)
  • All: work on bug fixes exclusively with the goal of drastically reducing the total number of bugs open (it's a BFD release!)
    • As of today (2019-02-16) we have for the past 365 days: Created issues = 772, Resolved issues = 623. Difference of 149.
    • Good objective: reduce by at least 50 the open bug count at the end of the release
  • Specific bugs that will be tackled for sure:
    • Warning when removing an user. This is a sub item of XWIKI-12142. Assignee: Marius
    • AWM Multiselect for List field should select relational storage. Assignee: Marius

XWiki 11.2

Topics:

  • STAMP: Vincent(30%)
  • FASTEN: Vincent (10%) + Thomas (30%)
  • All: work on bug fixes exclusively with the goal of drastically reducing the total number of bugs open (it's a BFD release!)
    • As of today (2019-02-16) we have for the past 365 days: Created issues = 772, Resolved issues = 623. Difference of 149.
    • Good objective: reduce by at least 50 the open bug count at the end of the release
  • Specific bugs that will be tackled for sure:
    • Save warning if the revision has changed. This is a subitem of XWIKI-175. Assignee: Simon
    • Warning when removinga a user. This is a sub item of XWIKI-12142. Assignee: Marius
    • AWM Multiselect for List field should select relational storage. Assignee: Marius
    • Updating links when renaming a document should include content inside object properties + Updating links when renaming a document should include images and attachments. Assignee: Thomas

Dates

  • 11.2RC1: 18th of March 2019 19th of March 2019 accept
  • 11.2: 25th of March 2019 accept

XWiki 11.1

Goals:

  • Focus on finishing items marked important in 2018 and that couldn't be started

Topics:

  • All: BFD (Priority on Notifications for Guillaume)
  • STAMP: Vincent (30%)
  • FASTEN: Vincent (10%) + Thomas (30%)
  • Simon: Finish "Browsers usually cache JS/CSS resources even if they have changed”
  • Simon: Display Reference of documents to copy paste
  • Marius: Finish autocomplete of references in WYSIWYG Macro parameters (include/display macros, etc)
  • Marius: ConfigurableClass doesn't support page level configuration case
  • Marius: Improve the XClass picker when in object edit mode (make it like the Add Macro dialog for WYSIWYG editor)
  • Thomas: Upgrade to Hibernate 5.x
  • Thomas: Performances
  • Thomas: Move to Velocity 2.x

Dates

  • 11.1RC1: 18th of Feb 2019 19th of Feb 2019 accept
  • 11.1: 25th of Feb 2019 accept

XWiki 11.0

Leftovers from 10.x:

  • Marius/Adel: Auto complete of references in WYSIWYG Macro Dialog (+ grouping feature so that users don't get both "page" and "reference" at the same time + "deprecated"/"priority" to show "page" more proeminently than "reference")
  • Simon: Import: make it work with new versions of Libre Office (idea: use a more recent fork of jodconverter, we identified one and check if we need to merge changes we did in our fork)
  • Thomas: Fix filesystem storage
  • All: Fix all WCAG failing tests and more generally move to WCAG 2.1 (https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/) - Rationale: usability through accessibility, current failing test reducing trust in CI

New topics:

  • All: BFD (Priority on Notifications for Guillaume)
  • All: Fix all WCAG failing tests and more generally move to WCAG 2.1 (https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/) - Rationale: usability through accessibility, current failing test reducing trust in CI
  • STAMP research project: Vincent(30%)
  • FASTEN research project: Vincent (20%) + Thomas (30%)
  • Marius: Ability to rename an AWM app
  • Thomas: Move to Velocity 2.x
  • Simon: Fix caching of JS resources forcing reload when upgrading XWiki. Especially for the Navigation Panel.
  • Adel: Upgrade to Hibernate 5.x

Dates

  • 11.0RC1: 21st of Jan 2019 error skipped
  • 11.0: 28th of Jan 2019 29th of Jan 2019 accept

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