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