Release Notes for XWiki 10.11.4

Last modified by Eduard Moraru on 2019/04/08

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 bugfix release that covers important issues that we have discovered since 10.11.3 has been released.

Some important bugs have been discovered since XWiki 10.11.4 has been released:

If one or several of these bugs impact you, then you should wait for the next version of XWiki (10.11.5) that will be released soon!
Note that we still recommend upgrading to this new version if you have 10.11.3 installed as we have been fixing several major issues since then.

New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 10.11.3)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 10.11.4.

All Changes

Translations

The following translations have been updated: 

Tested Browsers & Databases

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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.

API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since XWiki 10.11.3:

  • Not a breackage in this context
    • Violation type:
      java.annotation.removed
    • Code:
      ## Old:
      method void org.xwiki.rendering.macro.display.DisplayMacroParameters::setReference(java.lang.String)

      ## New:
      method void org.xwiki.rendering.macro.display.DisplayMacroParameters::setReference(java.lang.String)
  • Add URL parameters. Not a breakage in this context.
    • Violation type:
      java.method.numberOfParametersChanged
    • Code:
      ## Old:
      method javax.ws.rs.core.Response org.xwiki.notifications.rest.NotificationsResource::getNotifications(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String) throws java.lang.Exception

      ## New:
      method javax.ws.rs.core.Response org.xwiki.notifications.rest.NotificationsResource::getNotifications(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String) throws java.lang.Exception
  • Add new API to get the number of notifications. Not a breakage in this context.
    • Violation type:
      java.method.addedToInterface
    • Code:
      ## Old:
      null

      ## New:
      method javax.ws.rs.core.Response org.xwiki.notifications.rest.NotificationsResource::getNotificationsCount(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String) throws java.lang.Exception

Credits

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

Alex Cotiugă
Clemens Klein-Robbenhaar
Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)
Guillaume Delhumeau
Niels P. Mayer
Simon Urli
Thomas Mortagne
Vincent Massol

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