Release Notes for XWiki 17.10.5

Last modified by Ilie Andriuta on 2026/04/08 13:40

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 bug fix release. It contains security fixes, with the highest severity being 8.8/10.

New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 17.10.4)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 17.10.5.

Upgrades

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

Translations

No translations have been updated.

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:

 BrowserTested on:
Firefox30.pngMozilla Firefox 149Not Tested
Chrome30.pngGoogle Chrome 146Not Tested
Edge30.pngMicrosoft Edge 146Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes
Safari30.pngSafari 18Not Tested

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

 DatabaseTested on:
hypersql.pngHyperSQL 2.7.4Not Tested
mysql.pngMySQL 9.3Not Tested
postgresql.pngPostgreSQL 17Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes
mariadb.pngMariaDB 11.8Not Tested
oracle.pngOracle 19cNot Tested

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

 Servlet ContainerTested on:
tomcat-icon.pngTomcat 11.0.20
jetty-icon.pngJetty 12.1.7 (XWiki Standalone packaging)
jetty-icon.pngJetty 12.1.7Not 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

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 17.10.5

Allowed REST API query types

For security reasons, the allowed query types of the wiki query REST API were changed to be only solr. Other query types can be enabled again by changing the rest.allowedQueryTypes property in the xwiki.properties configuration. We're not aware of any code that uses this REST API, so this should only affect custom code that uses this specific endpoint of the REST API.

API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since XWiki 17.10.4:

No breakage!

Credits

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

  • Issa GORISSEN
  • LucasC
  • Manuel Leduc
  • Marius Dumitru Florea
  • MatsG23
  • Michael Hamann 
  • Nikita Petrenko 
  • Simon Urli 
  • Thomas Mortagne 
  • Vincent Massol

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