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 fixes important bugs and is the first intermediate LTS release. The 17.4.x intermediate LTS branch will be supported in parallel to the LTS branch until the end of the year, for more details see our versioning and release practices. This release contains security fixes, with the highest severity being 9.3/10.

New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 17.4.1)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 17.4.2.

Translations

The following translations have been updated: 

• German
• French
• Simplified Chinese

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	Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes
	Google Chrome 138	Tests run and results
	Microsoft Edge 138
	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
	MySQL 9.3	Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes
	PostgreSQL 17	Not Tested
	MariaDB 11.8	Tests run and results
	Oracle 19c

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

	Servlet Container	Tested on:
	Tomcat 11.0.8	Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes Tests run and results
	Jetty 12.0.20 (XWiki Standalone packaging)
	Jetty 12.0.20	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.

API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since XWiki 17.4.1:

No breakage!

Credits

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

• Cédric LAMBLIN 
• LucasC 
• Manuel Leduc 
• Marius Dumitru Florea 
• Michael Hamann 
• Simon Urli 
• Simpel 
• Thomas Mortagne 
• Xiaofei Cui 
• xrichard