The XWiki development process uses JIRA for listing all tasks to be implemented and all bugs to be fixed.

You'll find there the dates and version planned for issues to be fixed and hence the XWiki roadmaps. There's also a release calendar listing all known dates for future releases. Please understand that these dates are often tentative since XWiki's development is open source and lots of committers/contributors are working in their free time on XWiki.

If you're interested to help out check the contributing page.

General goals for all releases:

• More tests
• Better javadoc
• More documentation on xwiki.org
• Code cleanup/refactoring

Already implemented roadmaps can be found in the archives.

Note that all planned release dates are also entered in the Calendar on JIRA.

XWiki Enterprise 5.x Cycle

• Theme: Speed and Simplicity

Mission: Improve XWiki's usage for new and regular users by improving Usability and Usage Speed in order to make XWiki simpler and faster both from a pure performance point of view and from are user interface point of view.

Technical details:

• Individual Feature Improvement from a Usability perspective including speed of access (real time updates, commenting in activity stream)
• General Usability Improvements on XE for simplicity
• Technical Rewrite of certain features (activity stream) for performance or architecture reasons
• General Performance Improvement of XWiki (page loading, rendering time)
• Bug Fixing in general

Release dates for the 5.x Cycle:

• 5.0: April May 2013
• 5.1: June July 2013
• 5.2: September 2013
• 5.3: November 2013
• 5.4: December 2014
• 5.5: January 2014

XWiki Enterprise 5.3

• SOLR Search improvements - Owner: Marius:
  Error

  TODO

  Add more jiras

• Continue working on the workspaces integration by default in XWiki Enterprise - Owner: GuillaumeD:
• Finish scalable import/export (and make it the default) - Owner: ThomasM:
  Error

  TODO

  Add jiras

• Implement Confluence import using wikistream - Owner: ThomasM:
  Error

  TODO

  Add jiras

• Improvements on EM/DW - Owner: ThomasM + Marius:
  Error

  TODO

  Add jiras

• Signed script implementation - Owner: Denis:
  Error

  TODO

  Add jiras

• If time permits: AWM improvements (export and publish of applications + others) - Owner: Marius:
  Error

  TODO

  Add jiras

Here are also some JIRA issues that were raised as important (in this order of importance):

+ XWIKI-9156 which is confidential (security issue)

Proposed dates

• 5.3M1: 21st of October
• 5.3M2: 4th of November
• 5.3RC1: 18th of November
• 5.3Final: 25th of December

XWiki Enterprise 5.2

• SOLR Search improvements/tuning + search suggest in SOLR - Thomas + Marius
• Have Workspace by default in XE + improved home page - Caty + Guillaume Delhumeau
• Scalable import/export based on wiki stream - Thomas
• Improvements on EM (introduce "always" switch in the EM conflict UI, When uninstalling a XAR extension a question should be asked for various conflict use cases, various bugs, etc) - Thomas + Marius
• Security issues - Thomas Delafosse
  • XWIKI-9156
  • ErrorTODO

    Add more jiras

• Add UI extension point in key places - Need someone!
  Error

  TODO

  Add jiras

Here are also some JIRA issues that were raised as important (in this order of importance):

Last, here's a list of interesting investigations to do (for future implementation):

• Activity Stream UI + Notifications Investigations - Caty + GuillaumeD
• Easier automatic field validation (including UI for advanced user). Ajax or Not - Marius (if enough time)

Proposed dates

• 5.2M1: 12 Aug 13 Aug
• 5.2M2: 9 Sep 13 Sep
• 5.2RC1: 23 Sep 27 Sep
• 5.2Final: 30 Sep