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The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki Enterprise 4.2 Release Candidate 1. This is the first and hopefully final release candidate of the 4.2 release cycle.

Being a release candidate, this release contains bugfixes and polishing, most of them focused on the new distribution wizard.

See the release notes for more details

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki Enterprise 4.2 Milestone 3. This is the third and final milestone of the XWiki Enterprise 4.2 version. 

This release brings:

• new and improved UIs for file upload,
• logging configuration,
• an applications panel and the experimental install/upgrade wizard.

For developers this release introduces many features: 

• a new file upload widget, minor improvements of the attachment picker and documents macros, 
• the ability to add skin extensions located in JAR files,
• a new field (mime-type) to index attachments by,
• an extension of the xar format and an experimental UI extension mechanism.

See: the release notes for more information.

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki Enterprise 4.1.4. This one is probably the last bugfix release for the 4.1 series. It provides 30 bug fixes, mainly in the Extension Manager, including important fixes for extensions that provide components or script services (see XCOMMONS-231 and XCOMMONS-232). It also improves the large data migration introduced in 4.0, in particular to support MS-SQL, and fixes an important issue that cause the migration of annotations to be unintentionally skipped.

See: the release notes for more information.

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki Enterprise 4.2 Milestone 2. This release adds:

• support for storing an email address and a list of wiki page names in XWiki objects using dedicated xclass property types. 
• ability to have an object property whose value is computed from the other properties. 

For developers this release introduces default custom displayers for easier customization of the way XWiki object properties are displayed.

See: the release notes for more information.

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki Enterprise 4.2 Milestone 1. This release brings a couple of bug fixes and improvements to the Extension Manager as well as two new extensions integrated into the platform but not bundled by default: an improved JIRA macro and a Git module that lets you perform Git operations from within wiki pages.

See: the release notes for more information.

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki Enterprise 4.1.3. This is a bugfix release fixing a serious issue preventing the migration from version 3.5.1 and earlier (especially when the wiki had statistics data in the database). It also provides a new migration procedure that is almost 200 times faster, fixing the problematic downtime for large wikis and wiki farm.

See: the release notes for more information.

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki Enterprise 4.1.2. This is the second bug fix release of the 4.1 cycle. This release fixes a serious issue preventing the display of differences between versions in both history and Extension Manager.

See: the release notes for more information.

This is a bufix release for the 4.0 cycle.

For more information, check out the release notes.

This release fixes a serious issue preventing certain extensions from being installed as well as a few other bug fixes. See the release notes for more information.

This is the second release of the 4.x cycle. This release brings Extension Manager improvements such as merging of configuration documents during extension upgrade, a more gentle learning curve by hiding internal documents from non-technical users, and lots of goodies for the developers such as easy sharing of variables between scripts in different languages.

For more information, check out the release notes.