Release Notes for XWiki 16.10.9
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 release is a bug fix release. This release contains security fixes, with the highest severity being 9.3.
New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 16.10.8)
Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 16.10.9.
Upgrades
The following runtime dependencies have been upgraded (they have a different release cycle than XWiki Commons, XWiki Rendering and XWiki Platform):
Translations
The following translations have been updated:
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 140 | Not Tested | |
| Microsoft Edge 138 | Not Tested | |
| Google Chrome 138 | Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes | |
| 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 | Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes | |
| PostgreSQL 17 | Not Tested | |
| 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 9.0.107 | Not Tested | |
| Jetty 12.0.15 (XWiki Standalone packaging) | Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes | |
| 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
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 16.10.9
XWiki now overwrite the standard application server request URL resolution
We had too many erratic/buggy behaviors with various application servers not properly following proxy headers, so we decider to not trust them anymore: XWiki now overwrite in a Servlet filter the behavior of ServletRequest#getScheme(), ServletRequest#getServerName(), ServletRequest#getServerPort() and HttpServletRequest#getRequestURL() so those should now have the same behavior no matter the application server used and its setup.
API Breakages
The following APIs were modified since XWiki 16.10.8:
No breakage!
Credits
The following people have contributed code and translations to this release (sorted alphabetically):
- Leif Erik Andersen
- LucasC
- Manuel Leduc
- Marius Dumitru Florea
- Michael Hamann
- Simon Urli
- Simpel
- Thomas Mortagne
- Vincent Massol
- Xiaofei Cui
- jasongwq
- xrichard