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 version, fixing important issues - including security issues - discovered since XWiki 14.4.7 has been released.
Note that this is also the last release of this branch.

New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 14.4.7)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 14.4.8.

Upgrades

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

• CKeditor Integration 1.64.9

Translations

The following translations have been updated: 

• German
• French
• Hindi
• Japanese
• Marathi
• Dutch
• Romanian
• Russian
• Swedish
• Ukrainian

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.

Credits

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

• Alex Cotiugă
• Andreea Chirica
• ClemDee
• Clemens Robbenhaar
• DenisF
• Gankov Andrey
• Jens Mittelbach
• Jesse Veentjer
• Manuel Leduc
• Marius Dumitru Florea
• Michael Hamann
• Nikita Petrenko
• Oana-Lavinia Florean
• Raphaël Jakse
• Sachin Shukla
• Sereza7
• Simon Urli
• Simpel
• Suguru Hirahara
• Thomas Mortagne
• Vincent Massol
• vivek0719