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 mostly a bugfix release that includes important security bug fixes. It also contains some improvements for users and developers.

New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 15.3)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 15.4.

For Users

Available macros sorted by id

 
The available macros list is now sorted by ascending macro ids.

Miscellaneous

• Added keyboard support for the like button.

• Added keyboard support for the quick search suggestions.

• TOC macro numbered property : The numbered property of the Table of Content macro is now marked as advanced and is only proposed in the "more" section of the macro configuration dialog. This is because we're now offering a Numbered Content Application covering the numbering use case in a better way.

For Admins

No changes!

For Developers

• Component role type priority: It's now possible to indicate the priority of a component among its role type siblings when it's retrieved through APIs like ComponentManager#getInstanceList and ComponentManager#getInstanceMap. In a Java component declaration, this is done through the standard javax.annotation.Priority annotation.

  Note that component priority can also be used to sort event listeners.

• Anchor in EntityResourceReference: The anchor metadata has been added to EntityResourceReference, to align it with other entity reference-related APIs. The general goal is to be able to support anchors (a.k.a URL fragments) in references to resources.

Moved Modules

• The Figure Macro has been moved to a contrib project as it's not considered a core macro anymore. The main reason being that there's a xwiki/2.1 syntax to represent an image caption that doesn't require any macro, and being able to add a caption to an image is considered the main use case. For other use cases, users are encouraged to install the Figure macro extension.

Upgrades

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

• CKEditor 4.21.0
• jsoup 1.16.1
• Woodstox 6.5.1
• Protobuf Java 3.23.0
• Plexus Archiver 4.7.1
• Netty 4.1.92.Final
• Maven Shared Utils 3.4.1
• Maven Project Info Reports Plugin 3.4.3
• MariaDB connector 3.1.4
• Logback 1.3.7
• Liquibase 4.22.0
• Jackson 2.15.0
• JGroups 5.2.14
• Infinispan 14.0.9
• ICU4J 73.1
• Error Prone annotations 2.19.1
• Closure Compiler v20230502
• Checker Qual 3.34.0
• Bouncy Castle 1.73
• Apache PDFBox 2.0.28
• Maven Resolver to 1.9.10
• Maven to 3.9.2

Translations

The following translations have been updated: 

• German
• Romanian
• Ukrainian

Tested Browsers & Databases

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

	Browser	Tested on:
	Mozilla Firefox 114	Not Tested
	Google Chrome 114	Not Tested
	Microsoft Edge 114	Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes
	Safari 16	Not Tested

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

	Database	Tested on:
	HyperSQL 2.7.1	Not Tested
	MariaDB 10.11	Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes
	MySQL 8	Not Tested
	PostgreSQL 15	Not Tested
	Oracle 19c	Not Tested

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

	Servlet Container	Tested on:
	Tomcat 9.0.75	Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes
	Jetty 10.0.12 (XWiki Standalone packaging)	Not Tested
	Jetty 10.0.12	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 15.4

Mail Configuration

When overriding mail configuration in a subwiki, the credential values (username and password) don't fall back to the main wiki or to the xwiki.properties file if the SMTP host has been overriden for that subwiki. This allows to have different SMTP credentials in subwikis than in the main wiki. Thus, if you were overriding the SMTP host in a subwiki and that it was using the same credentials than the ones defined in the main wiki (for example), you'll need to also override them now. 

API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since XWiki 15.3:

No breakage!

Credits

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

•  Andreea Chirica
•  Manuel Leduc
•  Marius Dumitru Florea
•  Michael Hamann
•  Nikita Petrenko
•  Oana-Lavinia Florean
•  Raphaël Jakse
•  Sereza7
•  Simon Urli
•  Simpel
•  Thomas Mortagne
•  Teodor Caras
•  Vincent Massol