XWiki Roadmap Archives for the 13.x Release Cycle

XWiki 13.5

Leftovers from 13.4:

• FASTEN: Thomas
  • Start using the FASTEN Maven plugin in the XWiki build (but currently blocked by a released of the fasten-core which is still only SNAPSHOT)
  • Start working on a FASTEN extension to analyze installed dependencies and report FASTEN risks
• LD polishing (fixing bugs, improving speed, UI glitches) - Manuel + ClementD (code review)
• Livetable to Live Data migration - Manuel

New work:

• Security Issues: Guillaume C.
  • XWIKI-16544
  • XWIKI-6729
  • XWIKI-10229
• Work on realtime content editing - Marius
  • Taking ownership of the RT contrib extensions (understanding them, reviewing the code, etc)
  • Test the extensions and review open jiras for them
  • Decide if we move them inside platform
  • Start bundling RT in XS for 13.5 (probably with an admin config and having it off by default)
  • TODO: list issues here
• PR feature - Simon
  • Design document + meetings with stakeholders
    
• Instance Synchronization - Thomas
  • Design document + meetings with stakeholders
    

Other:

• All: BFD
• All: Fix flickers

Dates

• 13.5RC1: 23rd of June 2021 (4 weeks)
• 13.5Final: 28th of June 2021 (1 week)

XWiki 13.4

Leftovers from 13.3:

• Document reference size limit workarounds - Thomas
  • manage discussions and proposals around more advanced ideas to go beyond the 768 characters limit
• Continue LD work - Marius + Manuel + Clement - Note that the work was done but after the RC so will only be committed for 13.4RC1
• FASTEN: Thomas
  • add even more analyzers in the FASTEN Maven plugin and hopefully start using it in the XWiki build (but currently blocked by a released of the fasten-core which is still only SNAPSHOT)
  • start working on a FASTEN extension to analyze installed dependencies and report FASTEN risks
• Security issue https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16544 - Guillaume C.
• Finish reviewing and classifying security issues - Guillaume C.

New work:

• Thomas: BFD issues to close
• Simon: Refactoring jobs don't take into account wiki syntax in Macros
• More LD work - Marius + Manuel:
• Guillaume: BFD issues to close

Other:

• All: BFD
• All: Fix flickers

Dates

• 13.4RC1: 17th of May 2021
• 13.4Final: 24th of May 2021

XWiki 13.3

Leftovers from 13.2:

• Document reference size limit workarounds - Thomas
  • manage discussions and proposals around more advanced ideas to go beyond the 768 characters limit
• Continue LD work - Marius + Manuel + Clement
• Add the possibility to add global notifications filters from Administration - Simon

New work:

• Security issues (to be backported in 12.10.x too) (Simon + GuillaumeC)
  • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-10309
  • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-18368
• Test and classify security issues + fix some easy security issues - Guillaume
  • Also check and discuss solutions (+ possibly fix) for https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16544
  • Review SonarQube's raised security issues
• XDOM diff - Marius + Vincent
• FASTEN research project: Thomas
  • add macros/components metadata to the extension index and introduce extension points to fill it (extension point to be used in a future FASTEN extension when this kind of information will be available on FASTEN Central)
  • work on design to implement various ways to find components in extensions without going through FASTEN Central
  • add more analyzers in the FASTEN Maven plugin and hopefully start using it in the XWiki build (but currently blocked by a released of the fasten-core which is still only SNAPSHOT)
  • start working on a FASTEN extension to analyze installed dependencies and report FASTEN risks

Other:

• All: BFD
• All: Fix flickers

Dates

• 13.3RC1: 19th of April 2021
• 13.3Final: 26th of April 2021

XWiki 13.2

• Analysis of how to remove the 255 character limitation which is hitting more and more users migrating from confluence which doesn’t have any such limit. - Thomas + Ilie for testing all cases to find places where we have the issue and regroup/link existing jira issues
• Finish inplace editor leftover - Marius (carried over from 12.9)
• LD - Marius + ClementD + Manuel
• Add the possibility for Admin user to control user’s notifications - Simon
  Add the possibility to add global notifications filters from Administration - Simon
• All: BFD
• All: Fix flickers

Dates

• 13.2RC1: 22nd of March 2021
• 13.2Final: 29th 30th of March 2021

XWiki 13.1

• Finish inplace editor leftover - Marius (carried over from 12.9)
• Glossary app work + LaTeX export support for glossaries - Vincent
• Investigate xobject scalability fix - Simon
• Progress on LD - Marius + ClementD
  • Checks the integration of LD in XWiki (using ?useLiveData=true on pages with live tables) to see what’s missing, what doesn’t look good compared to the live table, what doesn’t work.
  • Issues
• Finish Reset password refactoring - Simon
  All: BFD
  All: Fix flickers
  All: With the time left, fix some critical/major open bugs.

Dates

• 13.1RC1: 15th of Feb 2021
• 13.1Final: 22nd of Feb 2021 23rd of Feb 2021

XWiki 13.0

Theme:

• Finish leftovers from 12.x that we failed to finish last year
• Stabilize with bug fixes

Content:

• Remove Struts (already done) - Thomas
• Finish inplace editor leftover - Marius (carried over from 12.9)
• NGI #2 (https://cryptpad.fr/code/#/2/code/view/AKqbnUY4AkBaa0Np3KVcVLm474kANhe1rT944cflK24/) - Manuel + Simon
• LD - Continue work - Marius + ClementD
  • TBD
• All: BFD
• All: Fix flickers
• All: With the time left, fix some critical/major open bugs. Take them from the critical list of open bugs

Dates

• 13.0RC1: 18th Jan 2021 Skipped due to build stabilization delays
• 13.0Final: 25th Jan 2021 25nd Jan 2021