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Sep 22 2017
Bug Fixing Day 150
This Thursday we had our Bug Fixing Day #150. We've managed to close 2 bugs (1 real fix) with 2 participants. We are still at -67 bugs behind the 500 days period. ...
Sep 19 2017
XWiki 9.8 Release Candidate 1 Released
The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 9.8 Release Candidate 1! This release introduces a new feature for the Notifications: the Watched Entities. It is disabled by default but you should try it to experiment it because it will replace the Watchlist Application soon. ...
Sep 01 2017
Programming Rights Fixing Day #1
Yesterday we have our first XWiki Day related to trying to remove the need for pages to have Programming Rights(PR). The reason we wanted to fix this is because when users who don't have Programming Rights modifies a page that requires Programming Right to work, then the page becomes non-functional (it's a security protection). Of course, users then don't understand why their wiki broke and this becomes a pain point. ...
Aug 28 2017
XWiki 9.7 Released
This release brings small improvements to currently established features. The code viewer now provides a blame view by default and the notification center now allows the user to enable or disable notifications globally on an application, as well as toggling default notification filters provided by the platform. ...
Aug 23 2017
XWiki 9.7 Release Candidate 1 Released
The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 9.7 Release Candidate 1 !
This release brings small improvements to currently established features. The code viewer now provides a blame view by default and the notification center now allows the user to enable or disable notifications globally on an application, as well as toggling default notification filters provided by the platform.
Full release notes available here.
Aug 10 2017
Using XWiki to build a documentation website
Example of what a website done with XWiki can look like, using the Apache Maven website as an use case. If you find this use case interesting let us know. In the future we might want to create a Documentation Flavor, with the above features, so the feedback is appreciated. ...
Aug 01 2017
Highlights of the XWiki 8.x Cycle
Some highlights of what done during the XWiki 8.x Cycle: 1461 issues closed, counting 745 bugs closed, 423 improvements, 66 new features and more (CKEditor by default, new homepage, tour for homepage, default templates, etc.)! XWiki 8.4.5 is our current LTS (Long Term Support) version and you can download it. ...
Jul 24 2017
XWiki 9.6 Released
This release brings improvements to Notifications, like live email notifications, the ability to get notifications through RSS feed or to override their default display. It is now possible also to generate table of content for another page, or to define recommended extensions versions and optional extension dependencies so they can be uninstalled by the Extension Manager. ...
Jul 12 2017
XWiki 9.6 Release Candidate 1 Released
This release brings improvements to Notifications, like live email notifications, the ability to get notifications through RSS feed or to override their default display. It is now possible also to generate Table of content for another page, or to define optional extension dependencies so they can be uninstalled by the Extension Manager. ...
Jun 29 2017
XWiki Enterprise is dead, long live XWiki!
With the release of 9.5.1 we have dropped the XWiki Enterprise distribution and instead we exposed the Flavor mechanism. Now when you install or create a new wiki you will be able to choose the Flavor you want to use. We expect in the future that the community members will provide additional Flavors built on top of XWiki and you could select between them when customizing your wiki. ...