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

December Roadmap

General goals:

• Stabilization!
• Finish features started in the XWiki 16.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.

XWiki Standard

For 16.10.1 & 16.10.2

• WCAG - Lucas + Michael reviewing the PRs/merge them
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
  • New:
• Security issues - Pierre & Michael
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21926 (Pierre)
    • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22476 (Michael)
    • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22470 (Michael)
    • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22469 (Michael)
    • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22471 (Michael)
• UI/UX improvements - Thiago + Adina
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Thiago:
      • Keep some time of availability to discuss/work on UI design for Required Rights (https://forum.xwiki.org/t/ux-for-changing-document-rights/14003/4)
    • Adina:
  • New:
    • Thiago:
    • Adina:
• Realtime - Marius
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Consistency of message boxes - Lucas
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Required Rights - Michael
  • New:
• Various important issues:
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
  • New:
• PDF Export - Marius:
  • New:

For 17.0.0

• Javax -> Jakarta migration - Thomas
  • New:
    • Stabilize the jakarta branches and merge
• Speed up page save - Thomas
  • New:

Contrib & Others

• Cristal contrib extension 0.13 - Manuel + Pierre + Marius + Thiago
  • Redefining of the MVP which becomes "Minimal personal Note-taking app". Deadline: end of Jan 2025, for FOSDEM. Goal: polish what we have.
  • New:
    • Use the app to find areas of UI/UX improvements - All
    • Help polish all UIs + review existing UIs vs mockups - Thiago
• Replication - Thomas
  • New:

Other:

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

Dates

• 16.10.1: 910th of December 2024
• 16.10.2: Between 23rd and 30th of December 2024 (complex period, need to find an available RM) 26th of December 2024

November Roadmap

XWiki Standard 16.10.0

• WCAG - Lucas + Michael reviewing the PRs/merge them
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Security issues
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • XWIKI-21926 - Pierre
  • New:
    • XWIKI-22476 - Michael
    • XWIKI-22470 - Michael
• UI/UX improvements - Thiago + Adina
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Thiago:
      • Work with Michael on the Required Rights UI (task for https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20907 & https://forum.xwiki.org/t/ux-for-changing-document-rights/14003/4)
    • Adina:
      • https://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/AppWithinMinutesRevamp - Start discussing improved documentation for AWM and some UX improvements
  • New:
    • Thiago:
    • Adina:
• Realtime - Marius
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Javax -> Jakarta migration - Thomas
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Improvements to the registration flow - Lucas
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Consistency of message boxes - Lucas
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Required Rights - Michael
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• PDF Improvements - Marius
  • New:
• Specific Bugs:
  • New:
    • Note: XWIKI-22611 is a BFD-only (i.e. if time allows)

Contrib & Others

• Cristal contrib extension 0.12
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Pierre:
    • Marius:
  • New:
    • Pierre:
    • Manuel:
    • Thiago:
      • Proposal only for Dark Mode (optional, it enough time)
• LLM Extension - Michael
  • 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

XWiki Standard:

• 16.10.0RC1: 18th of November 2024 19th of November 2024
• 16.10.0   : 25th 28th of November 2024

October Roadmap

XWiki Standard 16.9.0

• WCAG - Lucas + Michael reviewing the PRs/merge them
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Security issues - Pierre
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • XWIKI-21926
• UI/UX improvements - Thiago + Adina
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Thiago:
    • Adina:
      • https://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/AppWithinMinutesRevamp - Start discussing improved documentation for AWM and some UX improvements
  • New:
    • Thiago:
• Realtime - Marius + Dorian
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Security Vulnerabilities - Pierre
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Javax -> Jakarta migration - Thomas
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Improvements to the registration flow - Lucas
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Consistency of message boxes - Lucas
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Required Rights - Michael
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Specific bugs & improvements:

Contrib & Others

• Cristal contrib extension 0.11 - Manuel + Thiago
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Pierre:
    • Manuel:
  • New:
    • Manuel:
    • Marius:
    • Thiago:
• Change Request - Simon
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:

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

XWiki Standard:

•  16.9.0RC1: 21st 23rd of October 2024
•  16.9.0   : 28th of September 2024

September Roadmap

XWiki Standard 16.8.0

• WCAG - Lucas + Michael reviewing the PRs/merge them
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Security issues - Pierre
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • XWIKI-21926
• UI/UX improvements - Thiago + Adina
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Thiago:
    • Adina:
  • New:
    • Thiago:
    • Adina:
      • https://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/AppWithinMinutesRevamp - Start discussing improved documentation for AWM and some UX improvements
• Realtime - Marius + Dorian
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Security Vulnerabilities - Pierre
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Javax -> Jakarta migration - Thomas
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Message stream - Simon
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • See also https://forum.xwiki.org/t/future-of-message-stream-feature/14511
• Page naming strategy is blocking creation of pages not respecting it - Simon
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Improvements to the registration flow - Lucas
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Consistency of message boxes - Lucas
  • New:
• Required Rights - Michael
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
  • New:
• Authentication improvements for REST APIs - Thomas
  • New:
• Specific bugs & improvements:

Contrib & Others

• Cristal contrib extension 0.11 - Manuel + Thiago
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Thiago:
    • Pierre:
    • Marius:
• Change Request - Simon
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Requires

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

XWiki Standard:

• 16.8.0RC1: 16th of September 2024
• 16.8.0   : 30th of September 2024

August Roadmap

XWiki Standard 16.7.0

• WCAG - Lucas + Michael reviewing the PRs/merge them
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
  • New:
• PDF export - Marius
  • New:
• Security issues - Pierre
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21926
• UI/UX improvements - Thiago + Adina
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Thiago:
    • Adina:
  • New:
    • Thiago:
    • Adina:
      • Open discussion about AWM revamp on forum https://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/AppWithinMinutesRevamp
• Realtime - Marius + Dorian
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
  • New:
• Security Vulnerabilities - Pierre
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • If there are no other issues needed for it, apart from https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21932
• Javax -> Jakarta migration - Thomas
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • • Note: includes moving to Jetty 12 (to have Servlet 5 support)
    • Also need to bridge Javax Mail API since that's what everything which sends a mail in XWiki directly uses
• Message stream - Simon
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Take and apply decision about Message Stream : https://forum.xwiki.org/t/future-of-message-stream-feature/14511
• Page naming strategy is blocking creation of pages not respecting it - Simon
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Do not autosave unless there have been actual changes to the text - Simon
  • New:
• Improvements to the registration flow - Lucas
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Required Rights - Michael
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Deprecate Recommended and add Supported By concept in EM and Repo App - Thomas
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Update our CI build image - Michael
  • New:
• Research and fix the issue with google indexing of xwiki.org which is not working anymore and doing us a big disservice for finding XWiki and XWiki docs - ?

Contrib & Others

• Cristal contrib extension 0.11 - Marius + Pierre + Thiago
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Thiago:
    • Pierre:
    • Marius:
  • New:
    • Thiago:
    • Pierre:
      • Issue CRISTAL-142 is only if time permits
• WAISE project, Contrib extension - Michael + Paul
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Paul:
  • New:
    • Paul:
    • Michael:
• Change Request - Simon
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
  • New:
• Numbered Content - Michael:
  • 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

XWiki Standard:

• --16.7.0RC1: 19th of August 2024--: skipped because of the bad state of the CI.
• 16.7.0   : 26th of August 2024

July Roadmap

XWiki Standard

• WCAG - Lucas + Michael reviewing the PRs/merge them
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
  • New:
• PDF export - Marius
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Security issues - Pierre
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22030
  • New:
    • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21926
• UI/UX improvements - Thiago + Adina
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Thiago:
    • Adina:
  • New:
    • Thiago:
      • Provide HTML/CSS templates for https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-3051
• Realtime - Marius + Dorian
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
  • New:
    • Debug and fix the Merge Conflict modal that appears for no reason sometimes (hard to reproduce consistently but very annoying for the end user)
• Security Vulnerabilities - Pierre
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Javax -> Jakarta migration - Thomas
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Includes moving to Jetty 12 (to have Servlet 5 support)
    • Also need to bridge Javax Mail API since that's what everything which sends a mail in XWiki directly uses
• Message stream - Simon
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Take and apply decision about Message Stream : https://forum.xwiki.org/t/future-of-message-stream-feature/14511
• Improvements to the registration flow - Lucas
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Required Rights - Michael
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Deprecate Recommended and add Supported By concept in EM and Repo App - Thomas
  • New:
• The page naming strategy blocks creation of pages via a wanted link - Simon
  • New:
    • Needed on 15.10.x

Contrib & Others

• Cristal contrib extension - Manuel + Thiago
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Manuel:
    • Thiago:
    • Pierre:
  • New:
    • Thiago:
    • Pierre:
    • Marius:
      • POC for the realtime issue
• WAISE project, Contrib extension - Michael + Paul
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Michael:
    • Paul:
  • New:
    • Paul:
    • Michael:
• Change Request - Simon
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Enable Object Editor for users with CR-edit right
    • Requires

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

XWiki Standard:

• 16.6.0RC1: 22nd of July 2024
• 16.6.0   : 29th of July 2024