XWiki Roadmap Archives for the 14.x Release Cycle

XWiki 14.5

XWiki Standard

• Outstanding from past roadmaps:
  • Replace ActiveIntalls with ActiveInstall2 - Vincent
  • Close some issues that were blocked by the move to Java 11 - Vincent (and whoever wants)
    • See "blocking" issues inside https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-2095
  • Attachments pagination - Lavinia
  • Client-side PDF export continued - Marius
  • Security issues
    • XWIKI-9151 - Michael
    • XWIKI-9118 - Michael
    • XCOMMONS-1680 - Michael
  • Page Rendering - Thomas + Vincent
    • During BFDs and if enough time
  • Redirect on delete - Lavinia
• New work:
  • Notification filter preferences are not cleaned when a wiki is deleted - Manuel
  • Differentiate Figures from Tables in captions - Manuel
  • Multiwiki link refactoring - Thomas
  • Control wiki macro visibility - Manuel
  • Security issues
    • XWIKI-19748 - Simon

Contrib & Others

• Outstanding from previous roadmaps:
  • Infra: Try to understand the doc cache issue on xwiki.org - Thomas
  • FASTEN work - Thomas
• New work
  • CR Extension - Simon

Other:

• All: BFDs on Thursdays
• All: Fix flickers
• All: With the time left, fix some critical/major open bugs

Dates

• 14.5 RC1: 20th of June 2022 (4 weeks) Skipped
• 14.5 Final: 27th of June 2022 (1 week)

XWiki 14.4

XWiki Standard

• Outstanding from past roadmaps:
  • Rewrite Active Installs to use ES 7.x - Vincent
    • To use the latest version of ES but also to make the build work with java 11
  • Close some issues that were blocked by the move to Java 11 - Vincent (and whoever wants)
    • See "blocking" issues inside https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-2095
  • Attachments pagination - Lavinia
  • Client-side PDF export continued - Marius
  • Security issues
    • XWIKI-9151 - Michael
  • Page Rendering - Thomas + Vincent
    • During BFDs and if enough time
• New work:
  • Redirect on delete - Lavinia
  • New CKEditor image dialog - Manuel
  • Add ability to convert LaTeX to PDF without docker - Vincent

Contrib & Others

• Outstanding from previous roadmaps:
  • Infra: Try to understand the doc cache issue on xwiki.org - Thomas
  • FASTEN-related work - Thomas
• New work
  • CR Extension - Simon

Other:

• All: BFDs on Thursdays
• All: Fix flickers

Dates

• 14.4 RC1: 16th of May 2022 (3 weeks) 17th of May 2022
• 14.4 Final: 23rd of May 2022 (1 week)

XWiki 14.3

XWiki Standard

• Outstanding from past roadmaps:
  • Rewrite Active Installs to use ES 7.x - Vincent
    • To use the latest version of ES but also to make the build work with java 11
  • Close some issues that were blocked by the move to Java 11 - Vincent (and whoever wants)
    • See "blocking" issues inside https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-2095
  • Continue working on LiveTable to Live Data migrations - Michael
  • Attachments pagination - Lavinia
  • Image anchors - Lavinia
  • New CKEditor image dialog for consistent styling and more - Manuel
• New work:
  • WYSIWYG Image Dialog Rewrite - Manuel
  • Client-side PDF export continued - Marius
  • Security issues
    • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-9151 - Michael (tentative)
  • Rendering
    • Thomas:
    • During BFDs - Thomas
    • If enough time - ???
  • Upload of attachment without save - Simon

Contrib & Others

• Outstanding from previous roadmaps:
  • Add support for the new Image Caption syntax in the LaTeX Renderer - Michael
  • Infra: Try to understand the doc cache issue on xwiki.org - Thomas
• New work:
  • Numbered Content Application - Michael
  • FASTEN work - Thomas
  • Replication - Thomas
  • Change Request - Simon

Other:

• All: BFDs on Thursdays
• All: Fix flickers

Dates

• 14.3 RC1: 18th 19th of April 2022 (3 weeks)
• 14.3 Final: 25th 26th of April 2022 (1 week)

XWiki 14.2

XWiki Standard

• Outstanding from 13.x:
  • Finish Realtime for 13.x - Marius
• Outstanding from 14.0 and 14.1:
  • New PDF Export with HTML coming from the client side - Marius
  • Image display in view mode using a lightbox - Lavinia
  • Rewrite Active Installs to use ES 7.x - Vincent
    • To use the latest version of ES but also to make the build work with java 11
  • Close some issues that were blocked by the move to Java 11 - Vincent (and whoever wants)
    • See "blocking" issues inside https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-2095
  • Continue working on LiveTable to Live Data migrations - Michael
  • More WebJar upgrades - Marius
  • Attachments pagination - Lavinia
  • New CKEditor image dialog for consistent styling and more - Manuel
    • Design page + forum post
• New work:
  • Image anchors - Lavinia (with potential help from Michael on the rendering part)
  • New CKEditor image dialog for consistent styling and more - Manuel

Contrib & Infra

• Outstanding from 14.0 timeframe:
  • Add support for the new Image Caption syntax in the LaTeX Renderer - Michael
  • Infra:
    • Upgrade of XWiki.org to next LTS (13.10.3+) - Simon
  • Replication 0.9 - Thomas
• New work:
  • FASTEN work - Thomas
    • FASTEN Extension with reporting of security vulnerabilities in installed extensions
  • Replication 1.0 - Thomas
  • Change Request - Simon
  • Infra: Try to understand the doc cache issue on xwiki.org - Thomas

Others

• All: BFDs on Thursdays
• All: Fix flickers
• All: With the time left, fix some critical/major open bugs.

Dates

• 14.2 RC1: 22nd of March 2022
• 14.2 Final: 28th of March 2022

XWiki 14.1

XWiki Standard

• Outstanding from 14.0:
  • New PDF Export with HTML coming from the client side - Marius
  • Image display in view mode using a lightbox - Lavinia  
    • Will be finished before 14.0 final normally. Keeping here as a reminder in case it isn't.
  • Rewrite Active Installs to use ES 7.x - Vincent
    • To use the latest version of ES but also to make the build work with java 11
  • Close some issues that were blocked by the move to Java 11 - Vincent (and whoever wants)  
    • See "blocking" issues inside https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-2095
  • Image caption support in XWiki Syntax - Michael
  • Finish Realtime for 13.x - Marius
  • Continue working on LiveTable to Live Data migrations - Michael
• New work:
  • Attachment renaming - Manuel
  • More WebJar upgrades - Marius
  • Attachments pagination - Lavinia
  • New CKEditor image dialog for consistent styling and more - Manuel
    • Design page + forum post
  • Cleanup work from moving to HTML 5 - Michael
    • Switch HTMLCleaner to HTML 5 by default or change code using HTMLCleaner to use the HTML 5 configuration, depending on the result of the discussion in the forum: https://forum.xwiki.org/t/switching-to-html5/9646

Contrib

• Outstanding from 14.0 timeframe:
  • Add support for the new Image Caption syntax in the Content Numbering Extension - Michael
  • Add support for the new Image Caption syntax in the LaTeX Renderer - Michael
  • Content Numbering UI Activation - Michael
    • All work done, waiting to depend on XS 14.0.
• New work:
  • Change Request - Simon
    
  • Replication 0.9 - Thomas
  • FASTEN work - Thomas
    • FASTEN Extension with reporting of security vulnerabilities in installed extensions
  • Infra:
    • Upgrade of XWiki.org to next LTS (13.10.2 or 13.10.3) - Simon

Dates

• 14.1 RC1: 21st of February 2022 22nd of February 2022
• 14.1 Final: 28th of February 2022

XWiki 14.0

XWiki Standard

• New PDF Export with HTML coming from the client side - Marius
• Attachment rename UI - Manuel
• Image display in view mode using a lightbox - Lavinia
• Make the build work fully on Java 11 - Vincent
  • Start using Java 11 language constructs in the source code - proposal to be sent
  • + some blocked issues (like https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-18549)
• Upgrade Active Installs to work on a recent ElasticSearch version - Vincent
• Image caption support in XWiki Syntax - Michael
• Content Numbering UI Activation - Michael
• Finish Realtime for 13.x - Marius
• Continue working on LiveTable to Live Data migrations - Michael

Contrib & Others

• Change Request - Simon
• Replication 0.8 - Thomas
• Add support for Content Numbering Extension in LaTeX Export - Manuel
• Add support for the new Image Caption syntax in the Content Numbering Extension - Michael
• Add support for the new Image Caption syntax in the LaTeX Renderer - Michael
• FASTEN work - Thomas
  • First version of the FASTEN Extension producing notifications for vulnerabilities found in installed extensions
• IMPORTANT
  • Everyone goes back to BFDs on Thursdays (proposal sent on the forum- see  https://forum.xwiki.org/t/go-back-to-doing-bfds-for-14-x/9604/5)
  • Fix flickers

Dates

• 14.0 RC1: 24th 25th of January 2022
• 14.0 Final: 31st of January 2022