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The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 7.3 release. This is a stabilisation release focusing on the Nested Pages feature which was introduced in XWiki 7.2. Lots of polishing has been done for the Nested Pages feature integration, targeting the consequences on the UI redesign and the changes at applications level. The release includes a couple of bug fixes, a few dependency upgrades and new UI extension points available for extension developers. …

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 7.3 Release Candidate 1. This release candidate includes a couple of bug fixes and a few dependency upgrades, as well as some improvements related to Nested Pages. The extension developers should check the new UI extension points available for the top menu. …

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki Enterprise 6.4.6. This is mainly a stabilization release that fixes important bugs discovered in the 6.4.5 and earlier version. …

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki Enterprise 7.3 Milestone 2. This is the first of the 2 stabilization releases that happen at the end of each yearly Cycles. Lots of polishing has been done, especially for the recently introduced Nested Pages feature and its consequences on the UI redesign (modified menus for example). Some extensions started exploit nested spaces to bring some improvements. …

Since we started development for XWiki 6.0 (back in the beginning of 2014) we also focused on XWiki Contrib applications. Since then 1246 issues have been created and from these 963 issues have been closed. …

Yesterday we had our Bug Fixing Day #90. We've managed to close 8 bugs (7 real fixes). We are still at -40 bugs behind the 1 year period. …

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki Enterprise 7.3 Milestone 1. This is the first of the 2 stabilization releases that happen at the end of each yearly Cycles. Lots of polishing has been done, especially for the recently introduced Nested Pages feature and its consequences on the UI redesign (modified menus for example). …

Yesterday we had our Bug Fixing Day #89. We've managed to close 8 bugs (6 real fixes). We are still at -36 bugs behind the 1 year period. …

Yesterday we had our Bug Fixing Day #88. We've managed to close 14 bugs (5 real fixes). We are still at -44 bugs behind the 1 year period. …

On the 26th of September, I’ve attended CSSconf EU 2015. It was really nice to see a conference focused mostly on CSS, and not combining very much other development or design topics. Doing front-end and being a front-end developer is considered very hip these days. We are living in an era where Photoshop or big heavy frameworks are fast getting deprecated. Unfortunately this era doesn’t care much about backwards-compatibility or support. People are trying to make everything faster and easier and don’t look too much in the past. If we want to stay relevant we should try to move a bit faster on the front-end development front, but I guess this is a problem any platform faces in these rapidly changing times. …