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. It also contains security fixes, with the highest severity being 8.7/10.

New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 18.4.2)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 18.4.3.

Upgrades

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

Translations

The following translations have been updated:

• French

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 18.4.3

Simple Math text captcha implementation removed

The Simple Math text captcha implementation has been entirely removed: it was never meant to be used in production and it proves to not be reliable as a CAPTCHA implementation.

Limits in charts width and height

The chart macro now has limits on the width and height parameters, set by default at 2048px, but that can be defined in xwiki.properties.

API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since XWiki 18.4.2:

Unstable APIs

Not real backward compatibility breakages since they were done on APIs marked @Unstable (a.k.a Young APIs). Thus it's part of the contract that they can be broken until they become stable. They're listed purely for reference in case you decided to still use them (and thus agreed to be broken).

• XWikiTransformationContext is still unstable, generalized the content document reference to an entity reference so that the content of object properties can be transformed, too.
  • Violation type:

    java.method.removed

  • Code:

    ## Old:
    method org.xwiki.model.reference.DocumentReference org.xwiki.rendering.transformation.XWikiTransformationContext::getContentDocumentReference()

• XWikiTransformationContext is still unstable, generalized the content document reference to an entity reference so that the content of object properties can be transformed, too.
  • Violation type:

    java.method.removed

  • Code:

    ## Old:
    method void org.xwiki.rendering.transformation.XWikiTransformationContext::setContentDocumentReference(org.xwiki.model.reference.DocumentReference)

Credits

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

• Andi Chandler
• LucasC 
• Manuel Leduc 
• Marius Dumitru Florea 
• Michael Hamann 
• Nikita Petrenko 
• Simon Urli 
• Simpel 
• Thomas Mortagne 
• Vincent Massol 
• klimadavid 
• xrichard