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The XWiki project was honored to be present at the OCTO IT University Conference, next to famous speakers such as Michel Serres (French Philosopher), Bjarnes Stroustrup (Inventor of C++), Elihayu Goldratt (Father of the Theory Of Constraints) and Neil Armstrong (First man on the Moon). …

code_swarm is "An experiment in organic software visualization" that shows the history of commits in a software repository. …

Last milestone of the XWiki Enterprise 1.5 version (Roadmap). 

Main changes:

• [Experimental] New ability to set the wiki syntax used in a page (Confluence,MediaWiki,TWiki,JSPWiki,Creole), thanks to the new Rendering Engine
• Brand new Administration Application (see http://tinyurl.com/4qym7w)
• Universal Edit button support (see http://universaleditbutton.org/)
• Reduced execution time of Selenium tests (from 12-15 minutes to 7 minutes)
• An administrator can modify a user profile or password when visiting a user profile page
• The copy page feature is now available from the top menu (Actions > Copy)
• XWiki properties names are now translatable
• new renamePage method in the XML-RPC API
• Slightly modified header
• New Croatian translation

For more details about this 1.5 Milestone 2 release, check the release notes.

The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Watch 1.0 RC 1.

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

This is the first release candidate for the 1.0 version, the final release being planned for end June.

Changes from 1.0M4:

• fixed interface and usability bugs (XWATCH-10, XWATCH-104, XWATCH-109, XWATCH-110, XWATCH-145, XWATCH-156, XWATCH-157, XWATCH-159, XWATCH-164, XWATCH-126)
• improved usage coherence (XWATCH-77, XWATCH-124, XWATCH-133, XWATCH-84, XWATCH-128, XWATCH-123)
• added installers to XWiki Watch (XWATCH-85)

For more information, see the Release notes at: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ReleaseNotesWatch10RC1 .

The XWiki Development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Workspaces 1.1 Milestone 2. This is the last milestone for the 1.1 cycle, introducing a couple of new features: Public registration with optional captcha can now be enabled from the XWS interface, Responsibilities delegation with Administrators and Power Users groups management, Email invitations to join workspaces, and more. …

This is the first release based on stable XE 1.4 branch.

It include all XE 1.4 and 1.4.1 modifications and add new wiki creation/management features and improvements.

See ReleaseNotesXEM12

This is an important bugfixes release (including one regression introduced in 1.4) mainly around multiwiki mode and encoding:

• Global groups are not taken into account in a virtual wiki
• Feed plugin's startUpdateFeedsInSpace does not allow to update two or more wiki with same space name in virtual mode
• Macro Mapping does not initialize properly macro definition in multi wiki mode
• The inline edit loses the doc's parent and title attributes
• Wysiwyg editor breaks accents in links
• Curly Quote coming from a Copy Paste is transformed into ? after cache is reset

See ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise141

First milestone of the XWiki Enterprise 1.5 version.

Note that general goals for XWiki Enterprise 1.5 are:

• More bug fixes
• Better performance
• More automated tests
• Overhaul of the Administration

For more details about this 1.5 Milestone 1 release, check the release notes.

This release spanned a bit more than 2 months starting on the 8th of March 2008 and ending on the 15th of May 2008. During that period we implemented 116 issues, fixing 67 bugs and adding new features such as:

• Attachment Rollback, when rollbacking a wiki page, attachments versions are now rollbacked as well.
• 2 new colors were added for the toucan skin : Black & Dark Blue.
• Keyboard shortcuts were made a generic feature using a standard keyboard shortcuts set, see http://tinyurl.com/3hnvge
• Various performance improvements.
• New Admin page to monitor Requests in your XWiki instance
• The Index page was improved to add realtime page filtering.
• The Watchlist feature now adds a diff in the email it sends when watched documents or spaces are modified. The diff is between "first revision since last notification" and "last revision".
• Added better Active Directory support by supporting case insensitive username.
• Added Galician translation

See the release notes for full details.