XWiki 14.1 Roadmap

[vmassol]

Hi devs,

Here’s the XS 14.1 roadmap proposal.

Content for 14.1

XWiki Standard

• Outstanding from 14.0:

  • New PDF Export with HTML coming from the client side - Marius
    • [XWIKI-19268] Add support for client-side PDF export - XWiki.org JIRA
    • [XWIKI-19266] Add support for detecting when the XWiki UI and content are fully loaded - XWiki.org JIRA
  • Image display in view mode using a lightbox - Lavinia
    • Will be finished before 14.0 final normally. Keeping here as a reminder in case it isn’t.
  • 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
    • [XWIKI-13576] Support version 7.x of Elastic Search in Active Installs - XWiki.org JIRA
  • Close some issues that were blocked by the move to Java 11 - Vincent (and whoever wants)
    • [XWIKI-18549] Upgrade to HSQLDB 2.6+ - XWiki.org JIRA
    • See “blocking” issues inside [XCOMMONS-2095] Move to Java 11 as minimum version - XWiki.org JIRA
  • Image caption support in XWiki Syntax - Michael
    • [XRENDERING-628] Treat images that are alone in a paragraph and have a label as captioned figure - XWiki.org JIRA
    • [CKEDITOR-206] Add ability to add caption to images from the WYSIWYG editor - XWiki.org JIRA
    • [CKEDITOR-207] Move to HTML5 - XWiki.org JIRA
    • [XWIKI-19271] Change HTMLConverter to parse and render HTML5 - XWiki.org JIRA
    • [XRENDERING-627] Create a HTML5 parser - XWiki.org JIRA / [XRENDERING-375] Add a parser for HTML 5/XHTML 5 - XWiki.org JIRA (Status: pull request is open but might need refinement depending on feedback)
    • [XRENDERING-629] The figure and figure caption should not be part of the editable content - XWiki.org JIRA (issue relevant because of switching CKEditor to HTML5, status: pull request is open but might need refinement depending on feedback)
  • Finish Realtime for 13.x - Marius
    • [XWIKI-19156] Bundle the real-time Wiki and WYSIWYG editors in XWiki Standard - XWiki.org JIRA
    • [XWIKI-19178] Scroll position changes when the content of the Realtime Wiki Editor is updated as a result of a remote change - XWiki.org JIRA
    • [XWIKI-19174] Editing the same page with different realtime editors (Wiki and WYSIWYG) doesn't work properly - XWiki.org JIRA
    • [XWIKI-19180] In case of merge conflict choosing "Reload editors" won't refresh the content - XWiki.org JIRA
    • [XWIKI-19181] The autosave doesn't behave nicely when a merge conflict occurs - XWiki.org JIRA
  • Continue working on LiveTable to Live Data migrations - Michael
    • [XWIKI-18759] Replace the Livetable from the Attachments page with a Live Data - XWiki.org JIRA
    • [XWIKI-18752] Replace the livetable from the restore deleted page form with a Live Data - XWiki.org JIRA

• New work:

  • Attachment renaming - Manuel
    • [XWIKI-19352] Indexing of the attachments usage on the wiki - XWiki.org JIRA
    • [XWIKI-19347] Allow refactoring of references to moved attachments - XWiki.org JIRA
  • More WebJar upgrades - Marius
    • jquery ([XWIKI-14928] Upgrade to jQuery 3.6.0 - XWiki.org JIRA)
    • less.js ([XWIKI-15111] Upgrade to lessjs 4.1.2 - XWiki.org JIRA)
    • fontawesome ([XWIKI-15026] Upgrade Font Awesome to 5.x - XWiki.org JIRA)
  • Attachments pagination - Lavinia
    • [XWIKI-13454] Add pagination for Attachments - XWiki.org JIRA
  • New CKEditor image dialog for consistent styling and more - Manuel
    • Design page + forum post
  • Cleanup work from moving to HTML 5 - Michael
    • [XRENDERING-509] Add support for HTML5 in the {{html}} Macro - XWiki.org JIRA
    • [BLOG-128] Cannot use HTML5 in Blog Posts - XWiki.org JIRA (most likely fixed by fixing the previous issue)
    • Switch HTMLCleaner to HTML 5 by default or change code using HTMLCleaner to use the HTML 5 configuration, depending on the result of the discussion in the forum: Switching to HTML5

Contrib & Others

• Outstanding from 14.0 timeframe:

  • Add support for the new Image Caption syntax in the Content Numbering Extension - Michael
    • [NCAPP-28] Add support for figures and captions created using the new figure syntax - XWiki.org JIRA
  • Add support for the new Image Caption syntax in the LaTeX Renderer - Michael
    • [LATEX-118] Add support for figures and captions created using the new figure syntax - XWiki.org JIRA
  • Content Numbering UI Activation - Michael
    • All work done, waiting to depend on XS 14.0.

• New work:

  • Change Request - Simon
    • Scheduler for closing inactive CR
    • Better integration of approvers
  • Replication 0.9 - Thomas
    • [REPLICAT-7] Store origin of a page - XWiki.org JIRA
    • [REPLICAT-56] Conflict resolution logic is not very optimized for multi modifications - XWiki.org JIRA
    • [REPLICAT-39] Automatically take into account replication configuration to disable EDIT/DELETE on read only documents - XWiki.org JIRA
  • FASTEN work - Thomas
    • FASTEN Extension with reporting of security vulnerabilities in installed extensions
  • Infra:
    • Upgrade of XWiki.org to next LTS (13.10.2 or 13.10.3) - Simon

Other:

• All: BFDs on Thursdays
• All: Fix flickers
• All: With the time left, fix some critical/major open bugs. Take them from the critical list of open bugs

Dates

• 14.1 RC1: 21st of February 2022
• 14.1 Final: 28th of February 2022

Let me know if there’s any problem or error, or suggestion to improve.

Thanks

[vmassol]

Now published at https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Roadmaps/#HXWiki14.1

Please review.