XWiki 16.x Cycle

Release dates for the 16.x Cycle:

• 16.0.0: January 2024
• 16.1.0: February 2024
• 16.2.0: March 2024
• 16.3.0: April 2024
• 16.4.0: May 2024
• 16.5.0: June 2024
• 16.6.0: July 2024
• 16.7.0: August 2024
• 16.8.0: September 2024
• 16.9.0: October 2024
• 16.10.0: November 2024
• 16.10.1: December 2024
• 16.10.2: December 2024

XWiki 16.0.0

General goals:

• Introduce new important changes in 16.0.0 (ie early in the cycle to have the time to stabilize)
• Finish work for 15.10.x
  • Stabilization
  • Finish features started in the XWiki 15.x cycle so that they are considered finished by the stakeholders. It's important to plan quickly a meeting with your stakeholders to discuss that.
    • We didn't finish migrating from LT to LD, we need to progress and finish it ideally in 15.10.x  
    • We need to finish realtime so that it's business ready in 15.10.x
    • Re WCAG, we need to ideally finish fixing all issues for 15.10.x too. If not possible we need to define a target.
    • New PDF export: needs to not have known important bugs open
    • All these should be merged on the 15.10.x branch

XWiki Standard

• WCAG - Lucas + Michael reviewing the PRs/merge them
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• PDF export - Marius
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• What's New: Improved UI - Vincent
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Using https://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/Design%20of%20What's%20new%20feature/#HUpdated28afterforumdiscussion29
    • Update: new drawer POC was done and is working.
    • Vincent: I'm not sure we need to merge it in 15.10.x, the move to the drawer can be considered an impprovement for 16.x
• Compiled XDOM - Thomas
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • https://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/CompiledXDOM
• LiveTable to Live Data migrations - Manuel
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Was previously assigned to Michael. Re-assigning to Manuel, if time permits
    • Ideally for 15.10.x unless too dangerous (would be good to have consistency in 15.10.x on LT/LD as much as possible)
  • New:
• Security issues - Michael & Pierre
  • To be taken from https://jira.xwiki.org/issues/?jql=level%20%3D%20Confidential%20and%20resolution%20%3D%20Unresolved%20and%20priority%20in%20(Blocker%2C%20Critical)%20and%20category%20%3D%2010000
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Michael
      • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21553
  • New:
    • Pierre:
      • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21611
      • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21626
      • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-19611
      • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21207
      • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21663
• Required rights improvements - Michael
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Upgrade to Solr9 and migration from previous versions - Thomas
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• UI/UX improvements - Thiago + Adina
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Adina:
      • wrap up the xDocFooter revamp discussion
      • gather ideas for Tags page revamp
  • New:
    • Adina:
      • start exploring more ideas for the search dropdown revamp
    • Thiago:
• Realtime (some items are outstanding from past roadmaps)
  • New:
    • Marius:
    • Dorian:
• Security Vulnerabilities - Manuel
  • New:
    • Requirements meeting with Stakeholder to discuss what we need to do to bundle the extension again in XS
• Fix usemainstore/uselocalstore properties for notifications - Simon
  • New:
• Javax -> Jakarta migration - Thomas
  • New:
    • if enough time besides Solr9 migration to finish + the XDOM compilation start working on Servelt API bridging (see if we would reduce the brakage related to APIs which currently expose the javax.servlet.* classes by bridging as much as possible)

Contrib & Others

• Cristal contrib extension:
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Thiago:
      • Continue mockups of the main UI elements
    • Manuel
      • Continuous delivery of artifacts (web/electron + documentation)
  • New:
    • Manuel:
    • Thiago:
• WAISE project - Paul, Michael
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Michael:
    • Paul:
  • New:
    • Michael:
    • Paul:
• Security issues - Pierre
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Change Request - Simon
  • New:
• Replication - Thomas
  • New:
• Word-based notifications - Simon
  • New:
• Upgrade of Weblate - Simon
  • New:

Other:

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

Dates

• 16.0.0RC1: 22nd 23rd of January 2024
• 16.0.0: 29th of January 2024