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Aug 27 2014
XWiki 6.2 Milestone 2 Released
The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki Enterprise 6.2 Milestone 2. This release mostly focuses on the Flaming skin and sets it as the new default skin for XWiki. A new themes application for the new skin is introduces, along with the AppBar set by default and other various UI polishes and improvements. …
Aug 18 2014
Bug Fixing Day 61
Last Thursday we had our Bug Fixing Day #61. Even though some of the committers were still on holidays, we managed to close 11 bugs (10 real fixes). We are now at +13 bugs over the 1600 days period, so we will have to raise our target yet again! …
Aug 08 2014
Improvement Fixing Day 2
As part of our XWiki Days we had our second Improvement Fixing Day on the 7th of August 2014. Its goal was to close the maximum of JIRA issues of type "Improvement" by taking low-hanging fruit and taking the occasion to clean up our improvement list (duplicates, won't fix, etc).
We had 3 participants and we managed to close 14 improvements (12 real fixes). …
Aug 07 2014
XWiki 6.2 Milestone 1 Released
The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki Enterprise 6.2 Milestone 1. This milestone adds various responsive UI improvements for the new Flamingo skin, a new structure for applications created with Application Within Minutes and the possibility to have alternative Icon Themes. Developers also get a new Mail Sender API and other API improvements. Finally, a considerable amount of bug fixes (31) and improvements (31) are provided so make sure to try it out. …
Jul 10 2014
Deprecation Fixing Day 3
As part of our XWiki Days we had a Deprecation Fixing Day on the 10th of HJuly 2014. Its goal was to have the maximum number of XWiki committers and contributors work together to fix the maximum number of deprecation calls and moving deprecated APIs not used anymore to our Legacy modules.
We had 1 committer participating with the following results... …
Jul 09 2014
XWiki 6.1 Released
The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki Enterprise 6.1.
A lot of work has been done for the new Flamingo skin and we hope to make it the default in 6.2.
This version also comes with many improvements but also introduce many new APIs and tools for developers like the integration of LESS preprocessor, a new authorization API taking care of the context and its associated script service, a new experimental Mail API, the support of grouped and asynchronous jobs in default job module executor, the possibility to log from any script, a new converter to make easier to manipulate XDOM in Velocity, and many others.
The memory used in wikis with lots of documents like http://myxwiki.org has also been reduced a lot (around 40% in http://myxwiki.org for example). Finally a new loading screen with progress displayed during XWiki initialization has been introduced and the initialization speed itself has also been improved. …
Jun 27 2014
Bug Fixing Day 60
Yesterday we had our Bug Fixing Day #60. We managed to close 8 bugs (7 real fixes). We're now at -6 bugs only for the 1600 days period! …
Jun 26 2014
Bug Fixing Day 59
Last week we had our Bug Fixing Day #58. We managed to close 6 bugs (5 real fixes). …
Jun 24 2014
XWiki 6.1 Release Candidate 1 Released
The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki Enterprise 6.1 Release Candidate 1. This introduce new script APIs related to logging, security, rendering and continue the work on new Flamingo skin. …
Jun 13 2014
XWiki is 10 years old!
On the 15th of December 2003 Ludovic Dubost did the first commit of the XWiki software.
Thus, XWiki was 10 years old last December! What a journey it's been so far ![]()
On this page we've collected some stories of XWiki users who've been using XWiki either for a very long time or who joined the XWiki community recently. …