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Almost two years ago, in the XWiki open source community, we needed to learn how many XWiki users we actually had and understand a bit better our user base. For this we decided to implement a big data system allowing to get information about the XWiki open source installs, all anonymously of course. ...

Vincent Massol has held an internal training at XWiki SAS about the Development Practices used by the XWiki SAS product team in charge of developing the XWiki open source project (among other projects). Most of the practices detailed are those from the XWiki open source project, defined on the dev subwiki. However the slides also provide a glimpse of other development practices that are used to complement the open source practices, such as Roadmap preparation and Stakeholder meetings. ...

XWiki took part in the first edition of Open Source Camp, hosted at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, in Iasi, Romania. ...

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 8.1 RC 1. This release candidate brings a couple of improvements and bugfixes to Extension Manager and other bundled components. ...

This Thursday we had our Bug Fixing Day #102. We've managed to close 6 bugs (5 real fixes) with 2 participants. We are still at -135 bugs behind the 1 year period. ...

When you want to create a structured application in XWiki, sometimes AppWithinMinutes is not enough and you have to customize the generated pages. It is now possible to do that with the XWebIDE application, which integrates the basic features of the most famous Integrated Development Environments (IDE) like Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA, and add some tools dedicated to XWiki. ...

Vincent Massol has published an article explaining how the XWiki project has switched from using CLIRR to using Revapi for automatically ensuring API backward compatibility. ...

This Thursday we had our Bug Fixing Day #101. We've managed to close 16 bugs (9 real fixes) with 2 participants. We are still at -126 bugs behind the 1 year period. ...

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 7.4.3. This is a bugfix release that fixes important bugs discovered in the 7.4.2 version. ...

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 8.1 Milestone 2 release. This milestone release brings a new parameter to the Document Macro, the synchronization of the avatars coming from LDAP and the support of feeds delivered over HTTPS in the RSS Macro. ...