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This Thursday we had our Bug Fixing Day #151. We've managed to close 11 bugs (6 real fixes) with 3 participants. We are still at -47 bugs behind the 500 days period. …

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 9.8.1. This is a bug fix release that bring corrections for important issues we have discovered since 9.8 has been released. …

This release introduces a new feature for the Notifications: Watched Entities. It is an experimental feature that will soon replace the Watchlist Application. Users get Notifications, Livetable and CKEditor improvements, while developers get Query Module and Extension Manager improvements and better control over skin customization. …

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. …

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. …

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. …

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. …

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.

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. …

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. …