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 a bug fix release. It's especially fixing an important performance regression on any UNIX system on which /dev/random is slow.

New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 16.7.0)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 16.7.1.

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.

API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since XWiki 16.7.0:

No breakage!

Credits

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

• Marius Dumitru Florea 
• Simon Urli 
• Thomas Mortagne