Release Notes for XWiki 11.10.5

Version 5.2 by Simon Urli on 2020/05/15

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 11.10.4 has been released.

New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 10.11.4)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 11.10.5.

Upgrades

The following runtime dependencies have been upgraded (they have a different release cycle than XWiki Commons, XWiki Rendering and XWiki Platform):

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 <version>

<issues specific to the project>

API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since XWiki 11.10.4:

  • Was never meant to be protected and the class did not made any sense, probably a bad copy/paste
    • Violation type:
      java.field.visibilityReduced
    • Code:
      ## Old:
      field com.xpn.xwiki.objects.BaseElement<R extends org.xwiki.model.reference.EntityReference>.LOGGER

      ## New:
      field com.xpn.xwiki.objects.BaseElement<R extends org.xwiki.model.reference.EntityReference>.LOGGER
  • Was never meant to be protected and the class did not made any sense, probably a bad copy/paste
    • Violation type:
      java.field.visibilityReduced
    • Code:
      ## Old:
      field com.xpn.xwiki.objects.BaseElement<R extends org.xwiki.model.reference.EntityReference>.LOGGER @ com.xpn.xwiki.objects.classes.BaseClass

      ## New:
      field com.xpn.xwiki.objects.classes.BaseClass.LOGGER
  • Was never meant to be protected and the class did not made any sense, probably a bad copy/paste
    • Violation type:
      java.field.removed
    • Code:
      ## Old:
      field com.xpn.xwiki.objects.BaseElement<R extends org.xwiki.model.reference.EntityReference>.LOGGER @ com.xpn.xwiki.objects.BaseObject
  • Was never meant to be protected and the class did not made any sense, probably a bad copy/paste
    • Violation type:
      java.field.removed
    • Code:
      ## Old:
      field com.xpn.xwiki.objects.BaseElement<R extends org.xwiki.model.reference.EntityReference>.LOGGER @ com.xpn.xwiki.objects.BaseProperty<R extends org.xwiki.model.reference.EntityReference>

Credits

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

Cami Andrei
Eduard Moraru
Guillaume Delhumeau
Manuel Leduc
Marius Dumitru Florea
oanalavinia
Oana-Lavinia Florean
Simon Urli
Thomas Mortagne
Vincent Massol

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