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May 12 2009

XWiki Enterprise 1.9 Milestone 2 Released

Second and last milestone of the XWiki Enterprise 1.9 version.

  • UI improvements
  • Switched to UTF-8 as the default encoding
  • Mailsender improvements
  • PDF export improvements
  • JavaScript improvements

For more details about this 1.9 Milestone 2 release, check the release notes

May 11 2009

XWiki Enterprise 1.8.3 and XWiki Enterprise Manager 1.6.3 Released

This release contains 59 bugfixes and enhancements. Most of the modifications are targeting the general replacement of old 1.0 code and content by 2.0 syntax and architecture and the stabilization of XWiki.

Summary of changes since XWiki Enterprise 1.8.2 :

  • Many WYSIWYG bugs fixed and improvements
  • Many 2.0 syntax bugs fixed
  • Many 1.0 to 2.0 conversion bugs fixed
  • Several PDF export bugs fixed and improvements
  • Improvements for the Office Importer
  • A few bug fixes in many other places

For more information see the Release notes at: ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise183 and ReleaseNotesXEM163

Apr 24 2009

XWiki Enterprise 1.8.2 and XWiki Enterprise Manager 1.6.2 Released

This release contains 76 bugfixes and enhancements. Most of the modifications are targeting the general replacement of old 1.0 code and content by 2.0 syntax and architecture and the stabilization of XWiki.

Summary of changes since XWiki Enterprise 1.8.1 :

  • Many WYSIWYG bugs fixed and improvements
  • Many 2.0 syntax bugs fixed
  • Many 1.0 to 2.0 conversion bugs fixed
  • Several XMLRPC and REST, LDAP, Blog, PDF export bugs fixed and improvements
  • Many bug fixes in many other places

For more information see the Release notes at: ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise182 and ReleaseNotesXEM162

Apr 15 2009

XWiki Enterprise 1.9 Milestone 1 Released

First milestone of the XWiki Enterprise 1.9 version

Note that general goals for XWiki Enterprise 1.9 are:

  • Finish/stabilize/document new rendering
  • Finish/stabilize/document new wysiwyg editor
  • Finish/stabilize/document office importer + doc splitter/management
  • Finish/stabilize/document webdav
  • Finish/stabilize/document REST support
  • Usability improvements

For more details about this 1.9 Milestone 1 release, check the release notes.

Apr 12 2009

XWiki Enterprise 1.8.1 and XWiki Enterprise Manager 1.6.1 Released

The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Enterprise 1.8.1 and XWiki Enterprise Manager 1.6.1.

This release contains 118 big bugfixes and enhancements. Most of the modifications are targeting the general replacement of old 1.0 code and content by 2.0 syntax and architecture and the stabilization of XWiki.

Summary of changes since XWiki Enterprise 1.8 :

  • Many WYSIWYG bugs fixed and improvements, including a new dialog box wizard for inserting links.
  • Many 2.0 syntax bugs fixed.
  • Many 1.0 to 2.0 conversion bugs fixed.
  • Several XMLRPC and REST, LDAP, Office importer and Wiki Explorer bugs fixed and improvements.
  • Many bug fixes in many other places.

See the XWiki Enterprise and XWiki Enterprise Manager for full details.

Apr 02 2009

XWiki Office 1.0 Milestone 2 Released

This is the second release of XOffice. XOffice 1.0 M2 provides an Word Add-in that integrates XWiki with Microsoft Office. Main changes from version 1.0 M1:

  • Improved html filters
  • Basic macro suport
  • Small UI improvements
  • Better XWiki 2.0 syntax support
  • XWiki 2.0 syntax and non-filtered local html are now set as default.

For details about XOffice check: http://xoffice.xwiki.org For more info about this release see the release notes

Mar 20 2009

XWiki Enterprise 1.8 and XWiki Enterprise Manager 1.6 Released

The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Enterprise 1.8 and XWiki Enterprise Manager 1.6.

Changes from 1.7:

  • First usable version of new rendering and new WYSIWYG editor
  • New Wiki Dashboard
  • New way of displaying tags
  • Page loading time reduced by 30%
  • Improved information section in document footer
  • By default the authentication system now calls the authenticator only once by session
  • Updated french translation
  • Updated german translation
  • Updated spanish translation

Important bug fixes:

  • Scaled images in exported PDF and RTF have wrong dimensions
  • When a wiki is removed, it's not removed form the cache
  • Including a document with first or second heading level breaks the including document section edit link
  • PDF export does not take into account the encoding specified in xwiki.cfg

For more information see the Release notes.

Mar 19 2009

Google Summer of Code 2009

The XWiki project has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2009 organization. This is the fifth time in a row we're accepted (we've been participating since the beginning) and we're proud of it.

We've started gathering project ideas on the XWiki GSOC page. If you have project ideas or are interested to participate feel free to send us an email on the XWiki Mailing list.

Mar 05 2009

XWiki Enterprise 1.8 Release Candidate 2 Released

Second Release Candidate of the XWiki Enterprise 1.8 version.

Main changes:

  • new "useravatar" macro for 2.0 syntax
  • Improvements on 1.0->2.0 syntaxes convertion
  • Add ability to configure xwiki to use the XWiki Syntax 2.0 as default when creating new pages
  • Bugs fixed in XWiki 2.0 syntax rendering.
  • Upgrade to groovy 1.6 final.
  • Update french translations
  • Update german translations
  • Update spanish translation

Important bug fixes:

  • XWIKI-3228 - Error while saving xwiki 2.0 documents containing anchor links
  • XWIKI-3242 - Entering an empty link makes the rendering blow up
  • XWIKI-3252 - Cannot view documents in other languages than the default when in multilingual mode and when using XWiki Syntax 2.0

For more details about this 1.8 Release Candidate 2 release, check the release notes.

Mar 02 2009

XWiki Office 1.0 Milestone 1 Released

This is the first release of XOffice. XOffice 1.0 M1 provides an Word Add-in that integrates XWiki with Microsoft Office. Main features:

  • Create new pages using Word
  • Edit existing pages inside Word
  • Export a Word document as a wiki page
  • Attach documents to the wiki
  • Download attachments
  • Browse the wiki using the Wiki Explorer.

For details about XOffice check: http://xoffice.xwiki.org For more info about this release see the release notes

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