This is the release notes for XWiki Commons, XWiki Rendering and XWiki Platform. They share the same release notes as they are released together and have the same version.

This is a bug fix release mainly improving the recently introduced link protection mechanism to make it less intrusive for users, and fixing a few bugs in the editor.

New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 16.10.13)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 16.10.14.

Tested Browsers & Databases

Automated testing

XWiki executes a lot of automated tests during its build, testing all supported configurations. In addition, some manual QA is also executed to try to discover additional problems (see below):

Manual testing

Here is the list of browsers we support and how they have been manually tested for this release:

	Browser	Tested on:
	Mozilla Firefox 145	Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes
	Microsoft Edge 142	Not Tested
	Google Chrome 142	Not Tested
	Safari 18	Not Tested

Here is the list of databases we support and how they have been manually tested for this release:

	Database	Tested on:
	HyperSQL 2.7.4	Not Tested
	MariaDB 11.8	Not Tested
	PostgreSQL 17	Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes
	MySQL 9.3.0	Not Tested
	Oracle 19c	Not Tested

Here is the list of Servlet Containers we support and how they have been manually tested for this release:

	Servlet Container	Tested on:
	Tomcat 9.0.111	Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes
	Jetty 12.0.15 (XWiki Standalone packaging)	Not Tested
	Jetty 12.0.15	Not Tested

Security Issues

Security issues are not listed in issue lists or dashboards to avoid disclosing ways to use them, but they will appear automatically in them once they're disclosed. See the XWiki Security Policy for more details.

Known issues

• Bugs we know about

Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes

General Notes

• When upgrading make sure you compare and merge the following XWiki configuration files since some parameters may have been modified, removed or added:
  • xwiki.cfg
  • xwiki.properties
  • web.xml
  • hibernate.cfg.xml
• Add xwiki.store.migration=1 in xwiki.cfg so that XWiki will attempt to automatically migrate your current database to any new schema. Make sure you backup your Database before doing anything.

Issues specific to XWiki 16.10.14

Change in link protection mechanism

The link protection mechanism introduced in XWiki 16.10.13 has been mitigated to be less intrusive. You can find below the documentation of the new mechanism: 

A new security mechanism related to URLs has been put in place in XWiki to inform users when they click on a link leading to an external URL that does not belong to the list of trusted domains. This mechanism is enabled by default only on links put on comments, but can be enabled for the whole wiki too. It reuses the list of trusted domains that can be configured in xwiki.properties, and a new configuration has also been provided to allow specifying specific URLs that can be accessed without any warning from the frontend. Finally it's possible to also disable the new security mechanism thanks to a dedicated configuration. 

#-# [Since 17.9.0]
#-# [Since 17.4.7]
#-# [Since 16.10.14]
#-# Define the policy to use for URL checks performed in the UI, whether the user should be asked for confirmation
#-# when going to an untrusted domain.
#-# Accepted values for this property are: enabled, disabled, or comments.
#-# Enabled means that the check will be enforced in all the wiki UI, disabled that the check will never be
#-# performed, and comments (default value) means that the check will only be performed on links provided in the
#-# comments of the wiki.
#-#
#-# By default this property is set to comments:
# url.frontendUrlCheckPolicy=comments

#-# [Since 17.9.0RC1]
#-# [Since 17.4.6]
#-# [Since 16.10.13]
#-# Allow to allow specific URLs to be accessible from the frontend without asking confirmation, and without
#-# needing to allow and entire domain. The expected format is absolute URLs separated by commas, e.g.:
#-# https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform,https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome
#-#
#-# By default this property is empty:
# url.allowedFrontendUrls=

API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since XWiki 16.10.13:

Unstable APIs

Not real backward compatibility breakages since they were done on APIs marked @Unstable (a.k.a Young APIs). Thus it's part of the contract that they can be broken until they become stable. They're listed purely for reference in case you decided to still use them (and thus agreed to be broken).

• Very recent unstable API introduced in 16.10.13 and replaced by getFrontendUrlCheckPolicy.
  • Violation type:

    java.method.removed

  • Code:

    ## Old:
    method boolean org.xwiki.url.URLConfiguration::isFrontendUrlCheckEnabled()

• Very recent unstable API introduced in 16.10.13 and replaced by getFrontendUrlCheckPolicy.
  • Violation type:

    java.method.removed

  • Code:

    ## Old:
    method boolean org.xwiki.url.script.URLSecurityScriptService::isFrontendUrlCheckEnabled()

Credits

The following people have contributed code and translations to this release (sorted alphabetically):

• Marius Dumitru Florea 
• Michael Hamann 
• Simon Urli 
• Thomas Mortagne