Roadmap for XS 14.4

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Hi devs,

XWiki Standard

  • Outstanding from past roadmaps:
    • Rewrite Active Installs to use ES 7.x - Vincent
      • To use the latest version of ES but also to make the build work with java 11
      • Loading...
    • Close some issues that were blocked by the move to Java 11 - Vincent (and whoever wants)
    • Attachments pagination - Lavinia
      • Loading... Add pagination for Attachments
      • Note: Work almost done (requires final PR review)
    • Client-side PDF export continued - Marius
      • XWIKI-19270: Add support for performing the PDF export using a browser running in a Docker container
      • XWIKI-13658: Allow PDF multipage export
    • Security issues
    • Page Rendering
      • Loading... - Relative links to self typed as “doc” are not updated correctly on rename - Thomas (during BFDs)
      • (if enough time) Loading... - Vincent
  • New work:
    • Redirect on delete - Lavinia
      • Loading... - Ability to redirect deleted page link to a new page
    • New CKEditor image dialog - Manuel
      • Loading... Introduce an UIXP for the image dialog search tabs
      • Loading... Introduce the grid image picker macro
      • Loading... Use the grid image picker for the image search dialog search tabs (new UIX)
    • Add ability to convert LaTeX to PDF without docker - Vincent
  • Dropped from Roadmap for now:
    • Finish Realtime for 13.x - Marius
      • Loading... - Bundle the real-time Wiki and WYSIWYG editors in XWiki Standard
      • Loading... - Scroll position changes when the content of the Realtime Wiki Editor is updated as a result of a remote change
      • Loading... - Editing the same page with different realtime editors (Wiki and WYSIWYG) doesn’t work properly
      • Loading... - In case of merge conflict choosing “Reload editors” won’t refresh the content
      • Loading... - The autosave doesn’t behave nicely when a merge conflict occurs
    • Continue working on LiveTable to Live Data migrations - Michael
      • Loading... - Support generating Live Data instead of LiveTable in App Within Minutes
      • Loading... - Support tag clouds on Live Data
      • Loading... - Replace the livetable in App Within Minutes home with a Live Data (if there is time)
      • Loading... - Replace the livetable from the restore deleted page form with a Live Data (if there is time)
    • Loading... - Replace the Livetable from the Attachments page with a Live Data (if there is time)
    • New CKEditor image dialog for consistent styling and more - Manuel
      • Loading... Move to SOLR-search based search instead of DB-search based for the attachment picker (including OCR-extracted ones)
    • Word-based notifications - ???

Contrib & Others

  • Outstanding from previous roadmaps:
    • Infra: Try to understand the doc cache issue on xwiki.org - Thomas
    • FASTEN-related work - Thomas
      • Loading... - Propose macros located in not yet installed extensions in the WYSIWYG
  • New work
    • CR Extension - Simon

Other:

  • All: BFDs on Thursdays
  • All: Fix flickers

Dates

  • 14.4 RC1: 16th of May 2022 (3 weeks)
  • 14.4 Final: 23rd of May 2022 (1 week)
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The roadmap page has now been updated: https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Roadmaps/#HXWiki14.4