XWiki 16.6.0 - July 2024

XWiki Standard

• WCAG - Lucas + Michael reviewing the PRs/merge them
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
  • New:
• PDF export - Marius
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Security issues - Pierre
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22030
  • New:
    • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21926
• UI/UX improvements - Thiago + Adina
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Thiago:
    • Adina:
  • New:
    • Thiago:
      • Provide HTML/CSS templates for https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-3051
• Realtime - Marius + Dorian
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
  • New:
    • Debug and fix the Merge Conflict modal that appears for no reason sometimes (hard to reproduce consistently but very annoying for the end user)
• Security Vulnerabilities - Pierre
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Javax -> Jakarta migration - Thomas
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Includes moving to Jetty 12 (to have Servlet 5 support)
    • Also need to bridge Javax Mail API since that's what everything which sends a mail in XWiki directly uses
• Message stream - Simon
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Take and apply decision about Message Stream : https://forum.xwiki.org/t/future-of-message-stream-feature/14511
• Improvements to the registration flow - Lucas
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Required Rights - Michael
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
• Deprecate Recommended and add Supported By concept in EM and Repo App - Thomas
  • New:
• The page naming strategy blocks creation of pages via a wanted link - Simon
  • New:
    • Needed on 15.10.x

Contrib & Others

• Cristal contrib extension - Manuel + Thiago
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Manuel:
    • Thiago:
    • Pierre:
  • New:
    • Thiago:
    • Pierre:
    • Marius:
      • POC for the realtime issue
• WAISE project, Contrib extension - Michael + Paul
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Michael:
    • Paul:
  • New:
    • Paul:
    • Michael:
• Change Request - Simon
  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Enable Object Editor for users with CR-edit right
    • Requires

Other:

• All: BFDs on Thursdays
• All: Fix flickers
• All: With the time left, fix some critical/major open bugs. Take them from the critical list of open bugs

Dates

XWiki Standard:

• 16.6.0RC1: 22nd of July 2024
• 16.6.0   : 29th of July 2024