XWiki - The Advanced Open Source Enterprise and Application Wiki

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The Advanced Open-Source Enterprise Wiki

Learn about XWiki's concept and why it's an alternative to Confluence and MediaWiki

Features

Why use XWiki?

Developed for more than 20 years, XWiki is being used by many high profile companies as:

  • Knowledge base
  • Collaborative intranet
  • Public website
  • Business applications
    … or other use cases.

XWiki Projects

XWiki offers a generic platform for developing projects and collaborative applications using the wiki paradigm.

  • Platform 
  • Flavors 
  • Extensions 

All XWiki software is developed in Java and under the LGPL open source license. In order to see all our projects please visit the forge.

XWiki Extensions

Over 900 extensions: applications, macros, skins, plugins, themes, etc.

XWiki Cristal

A new XWiki.org experimental project to provide a modern knowledge base front-end

A modern front-end designed to plug into XWiki, GitHub, or local environments.

Use it online, locally, or as an embedded component. Full support for offline editing with smart synchronization.

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Latest Blog Posts

Documentation Extension 1.14 Released

The Documentation extension 1.14 has been released. This release fixes the deprecated macro (inline usage and colors), corrects the display of Documentation Class fields on pages that also have a UIXP object, removes a duplicate type-dropdown entry, adds refactoring of the image macro reference parameter, and raises the minimal supported XWiki version to 17.10.

Cristal Integration 1.8.0 Released

The Cristal Integration extension 1.8.0 has been released. This version updates Cristal to version 1.5.0. You can refer to Cristal's release notes for a more exhaustive list of changes. Note that this version is not compatible with version 2.21 of OpenID Connect Provider.

XWiki 18.4.2 Released

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 18.4.2. The 18.4.x intermediate LTS branch will be supported in parallel to the LTS branch until the end of the year, for more details see our versioning and release practices. This is a bug fix release containing important fixes. This release contains security fixes, with the highest severity being 8.7/10. See the release notes for more information.

Cristal 1.5.0 Released

Cristal 1.5.0 is now released. This release contains mainly dependency upgrades, including improvements coming from XWiki 18.5.0. See the release notes for more details.

Change Request Application 1.22.4 Released

The Change Request Application 1.22.4 has been released. This version fixes an error that occurred when displaying diffs for pages with an attached DocumentationClass object inside a Change Request.

XWiki 18.5.0 Released

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 18.5.0. This release brings an improved look & feel for Live Data, as well as accessibility improvements of the navigation panel. This release also fixes a number of security issues, with the highest severity being 9.3/10. See the release notes for more information.

JIRA Extension 11.1.5 Released

The JIRA 11.1.5 has been released. This version fixes an error in the JIRA count macro when the server URL ends with a slash, and ensures the configuration page is no longer hidden due to deprecated property usage.

XWiki 18.5.0 Release Candidate 1 Released

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 18.5.0RC1.

This release brings an improved look & feel for Live Data, as well as accessibility improvements of the navigation panel. This release also fixes a number of security issues, with the highest severity being 9.3/10.

See the release notes for more information.

Guided Tour Extension 0.1 Released

The Guided Tour extension v0.1 has been released.


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CNFPT

CNFPT uses XWiki to power a public information and learning platform designed for local government agents and citizens interested in local authority activities. The platform enables structured content sharing, community interaction, moderated publishing, and integration of external content through RSS. It also supports features like automatic keyword annotation, exportable content collections, and dynamic homepages tailored to user needs.

Testimonials

“10+ years of experience w/ @confluence & I must say, I'm hard pressed to find anything that I need there, that @XWiki does not provide.” Patrick Masson's X account
Patrick Masson, General Manager OSI
“I've been a follower of XWiki [...] have tried pushing it on anyone considering confluence; it's one of the few open source projects that I know of that actually has more features and work in it than most of its commercial counterparts” IRC Archive of this testimonial
Marc Mercer, CEO of CT-Unlimited
“We've been pleased and impressed with the power and flexibility XWiki has provided. Everything we've wanted to build with our wiki-based product been possible due to XWiki's well planned architecture.”
Mike Hoolehan, CTO @vCalc LLC

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