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This summer, Google organizes the seventh edition of the Google Summer of Code program:

 Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers students stipends to write code for open source projects. We have worked with the open source community to identify and fund exciting projects for the upcoming summer.

A participant in GSoC since the first edition in 2005, XWiki was left out of the program last year to make way for newer and smaller open source projects, but is back as a mentoring organization this year, and we're ready to give a few lucky students a chance to learn how real world, open source development works in the middle of our wonderful community.

With five years of experience as a GSoC organization, our developers are seasoned mentors, ready to guide students through the entire process. Some students are already mixing in with the developers on our IRC channel, or introducing themselves and their project proposals on the mailing lists. We're very happy to meet and discuss ideas with these interesting students, and we can't wait to see what these collaborations can lead to, since every year we've had great results, such as the WebDAV and RESTful remote access APIs, the Office importer, and the whole XEclipse project, just to name a few.

This year we're proposing a lot of interesting projects, from hard core java to clientside javascript projects, and from mobile devices to the cloud. Of course, the poster child of our GSoC experiences, XEclipse, is ready to receive further improvements, and application development on top of XWiki is also present in this year's proposals.

The student application period just started and lasts until April 8th, 19:00 UTC. Students interested in applying for a project with XWiki should:

• read the Google Summer of Code FAQ
• read the XWiki specific guideline
• look at the list of suggested projects and pick one or more favorite projects, or come up with a new project idea
• start interacting with the community on the IRC channel
• introduce themselves and their view of the selected project on the developers mailing list
• apply as a student on the GSoC official site

Let's work together to make this a great Summer of Code!

The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Enterprise 3.0 Release Candidate 1.

The highlights of this release are:

• Administration section for the WYSIWYG content editor
• Attachment Selector Macro
• Improvements to the message stream, dashboard, gallery macro, search suggest, extension manager and the administration application

For more information, see the full release notes.

The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Enterprise 3.0 Milestone 3.

The highlights of this release are:

• Dashboard editing UI
• Gallery macro and office presentation viewer based on it
• Search live suggestions
• User status updates and the ability to follow users
• Improved macro support in the WYSIWYG content editor
• Rendering and Commons top level projects

For more information, see the full release notes.

The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Enterprise and XWiki Enterprise Manager 2.5.2, 2.6.2 and 2.7.1. These are the last releases on the 2.5 and 2.6 branches, but the 2.7 branch will continue to be maintained.

The highlights of these releases are:

• Cannot login with Safari 5 without selecting "remember me"
• Better support for custom display of object properties
• Fixed several PDF export and WYSIWYG issues
• Support for Forgot Username & Password in private wikis
• Fixed some bugs with XAR Import
• New {{cache}} macro

For more information, see the full release notes:

XWiki Enterprise:

• Release Notes for XWiki Enterpriser 2.5.2
• Release Notes for XWiki Enterpriser 2.6.2
• Release Notes for XWiki Enterpriser 2.7.1

XWiki Enterprise Manager:

• Release Notes for XWiki Enterpriser Manager 2.5.2
• Release Notes for XWiki Enterpriser Manager 2.6.2
• Release Notes for XWiki Enterpriser Manager 2.7.1

Yesterday we've had a #bugfixingday and we've achieved significant results. One of the goals was to make a dent in the Created Bugs vs Closed Bugs ratio.

We wanted to thank all who have participated (Committers and Contributors alike). Here are stats for Committers work:

Thanks to the following contributors who helped:

• Andreas Jonsson
• Johannes Stoldt

Note that these stats may not reflect 100% of the reality since they rely on people tagging the JIRA issues with the bugfixingday keyword.

Again many thanks to all that have participated!

Let's hope the next bugfixingday will attract more from our 18 active committers.

The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Enterprise 3.0 Milestone 2.

The highlights of this release are:

• Full UI redesign of the administration application
• Experimental filesystem attachment storage
• PDF export improvements
• WYSIWYG content editor bug fixes and improvements
• More standardized UI forms

For more information, see the full release notes.

The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Enterprise 3.0 Milestone 1.

The highlights of this release are:

• Better WYSIWYG editor support for Opera, Safari and Chrome
• More ColorTheme customization options
• More standardized UI forms
• PDF export improvements
• Activity stream performance improvements
• Upgrade to Velocity 1.7

For more information, see the full release notes.

The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Enterprise and XWiki Enterprise Manager 2.6.1. This is a bugfix release for the 2.6 branch.

The highlights of this release are: better performance of the activity stream, fixes related to rights during import.

For more information, see the full release notes.

Vincent has published stats about XWiki Development in 2010.

It shows 2010 has been a good year with more releases than ever, even though the committer's activity has been slightly reduced in 2010 compared to 2009.

The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Enterprise and XWiki Enterprise Manager 2.7. This is the last major release of the 2.x development cycle (there will still be bugfix releases on the 2.7.x branch, if needed). The next release is going to be 3.0.

This is a stabilization release, with no major new features to highlight.

For more information see the release notes for XWiki Enterprise and XWiki Enterprise Manager for more details.