XWiki 16.5.0 - June 2024

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
    • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-222149
• UI/UX improvements - Thiago + Adina
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Thiago:
    • Adina:
  • New:
    • Thiago:
• Realtime - Marius + Dorian
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Security Vulnerabilities - Pierre
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Javax -> Jakarta migration - Thomas
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • - finish upgrading to jakarta Jetty 12
• Notifications Improvements - Simon
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
  • New:
    • 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
  • New:
• Deprecate Recommended and add Supported By concept in EM - Thomas
  • New:
    • Optional, only if enough time

Contrib & Others

• Cristal contrib extension - Manuel + Thiago
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Manuel:
      • A PoC exists to load Cristal in a Nextcloud extension since version 0.8, but the CSS resources are currently not loading correctly. Some additional work is required to build, and publish static resources (i.e., CSS) correctly
    • Thiago:
  • New:
    • Manuel:
    • Pierre:
    • Thiago:
• WAISE project, Contrib extension - Michael + Paul
  • New:
    • Michael:
    • Paul:
    • Optional:
• Change Request - Simon
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Check outstanding issues
• Words Based notifications - Simon
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Check if the work done is enough
• Replication - Thomas
  • 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:

• 16.5.0RC1: 17th of June 2024
• 16.5.0   : --24th-- 25th of June 2024