First milestone of the XWiki Enterprise 1.9 version

Note that general goals for XWiki Enterprise 1.9 are:

• Finish/stabilize/document new rendering
• Finish/stabilize/document new wysiwyg editor
• Finish/stabilize/document office importer + doc splitter/management
• Finish/stabilize/document webdav
• Finish/stabilize/document REST support
• Usability improvements

For more details about this 1.9 Milestone 1 release, check the release notes.

The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Enterprise 1.8.1 and XWiki Enterprise Manager 1.6.1.

This release contains 118 big bugfixes and enhancements. Most of the modifications are targeting the general replacement of old 1.0 code and content by 2.0 syntax and architecture and the stabilization of XWiki.

Summary of changes since XWiki Enterprise 1.8 :

• Many WYSIWYG bugs fixed and improvements, including a new dialog box wizard for inserting links.
• Many 2.0 syntax bugs fixed.
• Many 1.0 to 2.0 conversion bugs fixed.
• Several XMLRPC and REST, LDAP, Office importer and Wiki Explorer bugs fixed and improvements.
• Many bug fixes in many other places.

See the XWiki Enterprise and XWiki Enterprise Manager for full details.

This is the second release of XOffice. XOffice 1.0 M2 provides an Word Add-in that integrates XWiki with Microsoft Office. Main changes from version 1.0 M1:

• Improved html filters
• Basic macro suport
• Small UI improvements
• Better XWiki 2.0 syntax support
• XWiki 2.0 syntax and non-filtered local html are now set as default.

For details about XOffice check: http://xoffice.xwiki.org For more info about this release see the release notes

The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Enterprise 1.8 and XWiki Enterprise Manager 1.6.

Changes from 1.7:

• First usable version of new rendering and new WYSIWYG editor
• New Wiki Dashboard
• New way of displaying tags
• Page loading time reduced by 30%
• Improved information section in document footer
• By default the authentication system now calls the authenticator only once by session
• Updated french translation
• Updated german translation
• Updated spanish translation

Important bug fixes:

• Scaled images in exported PDF and RTF have wrong dimensions
• When a wiki is removed, it's not removed form the cache
• Including a document with first or second heading level breaks the including document section edit link
• PDF export does not take into account the encoding specified in xwiki.cfg

For more information see the Release notes.

The XWiki project has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2009 organization. This is the fifth time in a row we're accepted (we've been participating since the beginning) and we're proud of it.

We've started gathering project ideas on the XWiki GSOC page. If you have project ideas or are interested to participate feel free to send us an email on the XWiki Mailing list. …