XWiki 16.7.0 - July 2024

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