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The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Enterprise 1.7 RC 1. This is the first release candidate for the 1.7 version.

Changes from 1.7M3:

• Link feature implemented in the new WYSIWYG editor (link to wiki page, web page, email).
• Work in progress on the new experimental WYSIWYG editor. 
• Work in progress on the new XWiki Syntax v2.0 
• Reorganized, documented and enhanced xwiki.cfg configuration file

Note that general goals for XWiki Enterprise 1.7 are:

• Working and usable (i.e. users can use them for their day to day work instead of the old Syntax and old WYSIWYG editor) versions of new rendering and new WYSIWYG editor. 
• Working JCR (can be used for day to day work instead of Hibernate). 
• Blog revamping 
• Webdav integration 

For more information see the Release notes.

The XWiki development team will be present at Devoxx 2008. We have a booth there, shared with OW2. Come and say hello to us!

We'll be demonstrating the new rendering, the new WYSIWYG, the new WebDAV support and more. 

See also the XWiki SAS blog post about Devoxx 2008.
Feel free to add in comments to this blog post the things you'd like to discuss or see there.

Last milestone of the XWiki Enterprise 1.7 version.

Main changes:

• Webdav support
• Groovy upgrade
• New script macro

For more details about this 1.7 Milestone 3 release, check the release notes. …

Second milestone of the XWiki Enterprise 1.7 version. 

Main changes:

• Work in progress on the new XWiki Syntax v2.0.
• Work in progress on the new WYSIWYG editor. 
• Added a ROOT webapp to the standalone distribution. 

For more details about this 1.7 Milestone 2 release, check the release notes. …

This release is based on XWiki Enterprise 1.6.1 and contains some improvements on information panels.

See ReleaseNotesXEM14 for more details.

First milestone of the XWiki Enterprise 1.7 version.

Note that general goals for XWiki Enterprise 1.7 are:

• Working and usable (i.e. users can use them for their day to day work instead of the old Syntax and old WYSIWYG editor) versions of new rendering and new WYSIWYG editor.
• Working JCR (can be used for day to day work instead of Hibernate).
• French XE
• Blog revamping
• Webdav integration

For more details about this 1.7 Milestone 1 release, check the release notes.

This is a bug fix release. It fix an important regression of LDAP authenticator.

Bugs fixed

• XWIKI-2747 - LDAP search is sometime done without the base dn
• XWIKI-2753 - Display bug in konqueror for class editor
• XWIKI-2757 - Empty .jar produced after build

Improvements

• XAPANELS-59 - Inconsistent redirects in the Panel Wizard

Task

• XWIKI-2752 - Remove the "code" formatting style from the old WYSIWYG editor

See the release notes for full details.

This release spanned a bit more than 2 months starting on the 23rd of July 2008 and ending on the 3rd of October 2008. During that period we have implemented issues, fixed bugs and added new features such as:

• New experimental support for other syntaxes (Confluence, JSPWiki, Creole, MediaWiki, TWiki and XHTML), including a new XWiki Syntax v2.0.
• New experimental WYSIWYG editor (Work In Progress).
• Improved page footer displaying : comments, attachments, history, various information
• New "Password Renewal and Forgot Username" feature
• Default account validation & confirmation emails provided in the wiki preferences
• Rights Management interface now support adding groups into groups 
• Improvement of Query Manager which was introduced in 1.6M1.
• New experimental XWiki Query Language called XWQL.
• Added .xml extensions to all exported wiki pages (XAR)
• The name of the main database in virtual wiki mode is not hardcoded to 'xwiki' anymore, and in virtual mode all database names can be prefixed with a configurable value

New or improved translations: 

• german
• french
• czech
• norwegian
• ukrainian

Important bugs fixed:

• Various fixes in the watchlist:
  • Watchlist now works with platform 1.5 and 1.6
  • Fixed rights checks in multiwiki mode
  • Fixed RSS feed generation in multiwiki
• In some context URLFactory generate URL with wrong server/domain 
• Use of "." in LDAP logins fixed 

See the release notes for full details.

The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Watch 1.1 Milestone 1.

Go grab it at http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download !

This is the first milestone of the 1.1 version of XWiki Watch which focuses on the user experience by improving the user interface and performance of the Watch Reader. …

Last milestone of the XWiki Enterprise 1.6 version.

Note that general goals for XWiki Enterprise 1.6 are:

• Beta versions of new rendering + new WYSIWYG editor
• Revamped Blog UI + features
• Security issues already in JIRA (marked as high priority)
• Bug fixes

For more details about this 1.6 Milestone 2 release, check the release notes.