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The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki Commons, XWiki Rendering, XWiki Platform, XWiki Enterprise and XWiki Enterprise Manager 3.2. Following the goals established for the 3.x cycle, XWiki Enterprise 3.2 pushes forward in the directions of the Application Within Minutes and Extension Manager features. The highlights of this release are: 

• many extension manager improvements
• new implementation of the sheet system making it easier to bind sheets to objects without an explicit inclusion of the sheet in the document content
• user dashboards giving each user the possibility to configure their own home page
• introduction of wiki workspaces, as a more collaborative way of managing an XWiki virtual farm
• improvements of search results scoring
• storage improvements, bringing in numerous performance and compatibility improvements
• conversion of the panels application to the XWiki 2.0+ syntax
• easier activation and configuration of Google Analytics

And on the developers' front:

• CSRF prevention enabled by default
• support for DocBook syntax
• xwiki-commons and xwiki-rendering are now published on the central Maven2 repository
• some major code cleanup due to the retirement of some very old plugins and the move of legacy/deprecated code into separate modules

We've setup a Jira dashboard to present the work done for the whole 3.2 release. In summary, 338 issues have been closed by 12 committers (and other contributors providing patches), out of which 149 are fixed bugs.

See the full release notes for more details.

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki Enterprise 3.2 Milestone 3, the last milestone of the XWiki Enterprise 3.2 version. Main new features include improved Lucene scoring, new implementation of the sheet system which is more flexible and easier to use, support for OpenOffice 3.3 as the backend of the office importer, better support for IE9 in the WYSIWYG editor, and many improvements in the extension manager and the extension repository.

Also of importance is the retirement of several modules, like the Albatross skin, the Calendar application, or the Photo Album application, which can now be found at https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/ See the full release notes for more details.

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki Enterprise 3.2 Milestone 2, the second milestone of the XWiki Enterprise 3.2 version. Main new features include:

• support for user-defined, personal dashboards,
• improvements to the spotlight-like search suggestions,
• improvements to the extension manager,
• support for arbitrary named parameters in the event stream, 
• ... and a few dependency upgrades and bug fixes

See the full release notes for more details.

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the release of XWiki Enterprise 3.0.1. …

The XWiki development community is proud to announce the release of XWiki Enterprise 3.1.
You can review the new features and improvements since 3.0 by going to ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise31

And download the new version:
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XWiki Enterprise 3.1 Release Candidate 1 was a bug fix and stability version only and as such there are no new features.

You can review the bugs fixed since 3.1 Milestone 2 by going to:
ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise31RC1

And download the new version:
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A few highlights of the new version:

• XWiki now requires Java 6!
• Upgraded versions of libraries which also no longer support java 1.5.
• Code removal and re-factoring to strengthen the platform foundation.

You can review the changes made and bugs fixed since 3.0 by going to:
ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise31M2

And download the new version:
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The XWiki development team is proud to announce the release of XWiki Enterprise 3.1 Milestone 1.

A few highlights of the new version:

• Moved to git source code management to make community participation easier.
• Easy PDF export and export to other document types through OpenOffice
• Code removal and re-factoring to strengthen the platform foundation.

You can review the changes made and bugs fixed since 3.0 by going to:
ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise31M1

The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Enterprise and XWiki Enterprise Manager 3.0. This is the first release of the 3.x cycle. Conforming to the general themes of the 3.x cycle, a lot of features have been polished and improved, and a few new features have been introduced as well. The highlights of this release are: 

• Twitter-like messaging and networking inside the wiki,
• a new filesystem storage for attachments which allows huge attachments to be uploaded without requiring a lot of memory or database storage,
• improved dashboard editing,
• better cross-browser support and improved functionality for the WYSIWYG editor,
• a revamped UI for administration, improved office presentation import with a new gallery macro, 
• live suggestions for the search input, 
• a new UI for changing user avatars. 

On the developers' front, we've made it easier to reuse the XWiki rendering engine outside our own codebase, by extracting two new top level projects:

• XWiki Commons, holding generic modules not tied to the rest of the platform, 
• XWiki Rendering, holding all the XWiki-independent modules of the rendering engine.

We've setup a Jira dashboard to present the work done for the whole 3.0 release. In summary, 510 issues have been closed by 14 committers (and other contributors providing patches), out of which 236 are fixed bugs.

For more information, see the full release notes for XWiki Enterprise 3.0 and XWiki Enterprise Manager 3.0.

XWiki Enterprise & XWiki Enterprise 3.0 are being released and I wanted to share some stats with the Community.

XWiki Developers have fixed 510 issues during the XE/XEM 3.0 timeframe (i.e. between beginning of January 2011 and end of March 2011, that's 3 months - that's 6 issues per day including week ends, not bad!).

In order to provide a good visibility of the work done, who's worked on what, and more, we've created a JIRA Dashboard for XE/XEM 3.0.

From now on we'll try to provide such a dashboard for each major XE/XEM release. Let us know if it's useful to you and if you like it. Improvement suggestions are most welcome too. …