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 mostly a bugfix release: it contains a few improvments related to performances e.g. for notifications or for export of office documents. It also includes various dependency upgrades and important bug fixes including security fixes, with the highest severity being 8.7/10.

New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 17.6.0)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 17.7.0.

For Users

• Faster notification dispatching: Notifications in large wikis with lots of changes arrive faster.

For Admins

No changes!

For Developers

No changes!

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: 

• 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 143	Not Tested
	Google Chrome 140	Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes
	Microsoft Edge 140	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
	MySQL 9.3	Not Tested
	PostgreSQL 17	Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes
	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 11.0.11	Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes
	Jetty 12.0.25 (XWiki Standalone packaging)	Not Tested
	Jetty 12.0.25	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 17.7.0-rc-1

For security reasons, we're enforcing a limit of at maximum 1000 results per database and Solr search query. This affects the REST API, but also other sources of search results like LiveTable and Live Data data sources. In particular in the REST API, there are some endpoints that previously didn't use pagination by default that now only return the first 1000 results. If you're relying on results being complete by default, you might need to adjust your use of the REST API to use pagination. The query limit can be configured and disabled in case you want to restore the previous behavior.

API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since XWiki 17.6.0:

No breakage!

Credits

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

• Cédric LAMBLIN 
• Farcasut 
• Jiadong Feng 
• LucasC 
• Manuel Leduc 
• Marius Dumitru Florea 
• Mend Renovate 
• Michael Hamann 
• Nikita Petrenko 
• Simon Urli 
• Simpel 
• Thomas Mortagne 
• Vincent Massol 
• Xiaofei Cui 
• xrichard