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5 This is the release notes for [[XWiki Commons>>http://commons.xwiki.org]], [[XWiki Rendering>>http://rendering.xwiki.org]] and [[XWiki Platform>>http://platform.xwiki.org]]. They share the same release notes as they are released together and have the same version.
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Alex Cotiugă 15.1 7 This release brings in the ability to set password policies in order to define the complexity of the passwords chosen for users authentication. This version provide a lot of bugs fixes and also represents a stabilization phase after many dependencies upgrades.
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Vincent Massol 17.2 9 {{error}}
10 Some important bugs have been found since XWiki 11.9 has been released:
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12 {{jira url="http://jira.xwiki.org"}}
13 XWIKI-16834
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Alex Cotiugă 14.1 17 = New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 11.8.1) =
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Alex Cotiugă 14.1 19 [[Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 11.9>>https://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=14453]].
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21 {{releasenotechanges/}}
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Alex Cotiugă 14.1 23 {{comment}}
Vincent Massol 1.1 24 === Moved Modules ===
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26 <description deprecated, retired and moved projects>
Alex Cotiugă 14.1 27 {{/comment}}
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29 === Upgrades ===
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31 The following runtime dependencies have been upgraded (they have a different release cycle than [[XWiki Commons>>http://commons.xwiki.org]], [[XWiki Rendering>>http://rendering.xwiki.org]] and [[XWiki Platform>>http://platform.xwiki.org]]):
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Vincent Massol 4.1 33 * [[CSS4J 1.0.1>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16768]]
Vincent Massol 3.2 34 * [[Jetty 9.4.21.v20190926>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-15155]]] (for the XWiki Standard Standalone packaging)
Thomas Mortagne 5.1 35 * [[Woodstox 6.0.2>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-1766]]
36 * [[TrueVFS 0.12.1>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16774]]
37 * [[Tika 1.22>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16650]]
38 * [[Protobuf Java 3.9.2>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16745]]
39 * [[Protobuf Java 3.10.0>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16730]]
40 * [[Plexus Utils 3.3.0>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-1767]]
41 * [[MChange Commons 0.2.18>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16780]]
42 * [[Joda-Time 2.10.4>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16736]]
43 * [[Javassist 3.26.0-GA>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-1756]]
Thomas Mortagne 17.1 44 * [[Jackson 2.9.10>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-1749]]
Thomas Mortagne 5.1 45 * [[JFFI 1.2.21>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16787]]
46 * [[Hibernate 5.4.6>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16756]]
47 * [[Gson 2.8.6>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-1762]]
48 * [[Checker Qual 2.11.1>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-1752]]
49 * [[CKEditor Integration 1.38>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16773]]
50 * [[Bouncy Castle 1.64>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-1765]]
51 * [[Apache PDFBox 2.0.17>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16735]]
52 * [[ASM 7.2>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-1718]]
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54 = Translations =
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56 The following translations have been updated:
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Alex Cotiugă 8.2 58 {{language codes="es, fr, hr, lv, mr, ru, sk, ug, uk, zh"/}}
Vincent Massol 1.1 59
60 = Tested Browsers & Databases =
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Ilie Andriuta 18.1 62 {{include reference="TestReports.ManualTestReportSummaryXWiki119.WebHome"/}}
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64 {{comment}}
65 TODO: uncomment and update with proper links when the report is ready.
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67 = Performances tests compared to <last super stable version> =
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69 <a summary of the comparison with latest super stable version>
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71 More details on <link to the test report>.
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74 = Known issues =
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76 * [[Bugs we know about>>https://jira.xwiki.org/issues/?jql=category%20%3D%2010000%20AND%20issuetype%20%3D%20Bug%20AND%20resolution%20%3D%20Unresolved%20ORDER%20BY%20updated%20DESC]]
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78 = Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes =
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80 == General Notes ==
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82 * When upgrading make sure you compare and merge the following XWiki configuration files since some parameters may have been modified, removed or added:
83 ** ##xwiki.cfg##
84 ** ##xwiki.properties##
85 ** ##web.xml##
86 ** ##hibernate.cfg.xml##
87 * 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.
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Alex Cotiugă 16.2 89 == Issues specific to XWiki 11.9 ==
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Thomas Mortagne 6.1 91 * the main wiki descriptor is now also used to find out the the protocol, the domain and the port to use when generating an URL in path based mode in a background thread (typically the mails). You might want to make sure what's in it is accurate to avoid bad suprises.
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93 == API Breakages ==
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Alex Cotiugă 12.1 95 The following APIs were modified since XWiki 11.8.1:
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Alex Cotiugă 12.1 97 {{backwardCompatiblityReport version="11.9"/}}
Vincent Massol 1.1 98
99 = Credits =
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101 The following people have contributed code and translations to this release (sorted alphabetically):
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Alex Cotiugă 11.1 103 Alex Cotiugă
104 Clemens Robbenhaar
105 DenisF
106 Eduard Moraru
107 Fawad Ali
108 Gabriel Răileanu
109 Joan
110 Kadeer
111 Marius Dumitru Florea
112 Oana-Lavinia Florean
113 rnveach
114 Santiago W. Fernández Lorenzo
115 Sebastian Ferguson
116 Simon Urli
117 sugov5
118 Thomas Mortagne
119 Vincent Massol
120 xrichard

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