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The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Watch 1.0 RC 2.

Go grab it at http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download#HXWikiWatch

This is the second and hopefully the last release candidate for the 1.0 version. It fixes several bugs, notably the ones regarding skin and browser compatibility. The final release is planned for the next week. Changes from 1.0RC1:

• Inconsistencies caused by feed renaming are now all fixed (XWATCH-122, XWATCH-158, XWATCH-175, XWATCH-173)
• XWiki Watch is now fully compatible with the toucan skin (XWATCH-113)
• Performance has been improved and bugs have been fixed for uniform usage across browsers (XWATCH-161, XWATCH-167, XWATCH-172)
• Various bug fixes and improvements: (XWATCH-143, XWATCH-170, XWATCH-171)

For more information see the Release notes at: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ReleaseNotesWatch10RC2

Thanks -The XWiki dev team

First release candidate of the XWiki Enterprise 1.5 version (Roadmap). 

Main changes:

• Updated french translation
• Updated spanish translation
• LDAP authenticator no longer creates a local user if it exists at the global level
• Mail sender plugin now supports SMTP authentication
• Arguments passed to radeox macros like or null are not rendered anymore
• UTF-8 characters are now all correctly rendered in PDF exports
• Statistics database mapping working well under oracle

For more details about this 1.5 Release Candidate 1 release, check the release notes.

The XWiki project was honored to be present at the OCTO IT University Conference, next to famous speakers such as Michel Serres (French Philosopher), Bjarnes Stroustrup (Inventor of C++), Elihayu Goldratt (Father of the Theory Of Constraints) and Neil Armstrong (First man on the Moon). …

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Last milestone of the XWiki Enterprise 1.5 version (Roadmap). 

Main changes:

• [Experimental] New ability to set the wiki syntax used in a page (Confluence,MediaWiki,TWiki,JSPWiki,Creole), thanks to the new Rendering Engine
• Brand new Administration Application (see http://tinyurl.com/4qym7w)
• Universal Edit button support (see http://universaleditbutton.org/)
• Reduced execution time of Selenium tests (from 12-15 minutes to 7 minutes)
• An administrator can modify a user profile or password when visiting a user profile page
• The copy page feature is now available from the top menu (Actions > Copy)
• XWiki properties names are now translatable
• new renamePage method in the XML-RPC API
• Slightly modified header
• New Croatian translation

For more details about this 1.5 Milestone 2 release, check the release notes.

The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Watch 1.0 RC 1.

Go grab it at http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download#HXWikiWatch !

This is the first release candidate for the 1.0 version, the final release being planned for end June.

Changes from 1.0M4:

• fixed interface and usability bugs (XWATCH-10, XWATCH-104, XWATCH-109, XWATCH-110, XWATCH-145, XWATCH-156, XWATCH-157, XWATCH-159, XWATCH-164, XWATCH-126)
• improved usage coherence (XWATCH-77, XWATCH-124, XWATCH-133, XWATCH-84, XWATCH-128, XWATCH-123)
• added installers to XWiki Watch (XWATCH-85)

For more information, see the Release notes at: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ReleaseNotesWatch10RC1 .

The XWiki Development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Workspaces 1.1 Milestone 2. This is the last milestone for the 1.1 cycle, introducing a couple of new features: Public registration with optional captcha can now be enabled from the XWS interface, Responsibilities delegation with Administrators and Power Users groups management, Email invitations to join workspaces, and more. …

This is the first release based on stable XE 1.4 branch.

It include all XE 1.4 and 1.4.1 modifications and add new wiki creation/management features and improvements.

See ReleaseNotesXEM12

This is an important bugfixes release (including one regression introduced in 1.4) mainly around multiwiki mode and encoding:

• Global groups are not taken into account in a virtual wiki
• Feed plugin's startUpdateFeedsInSpace does not allow to update two or more wiki with same space name in virtual mode
• Macro Mapping does not initialize properly macro definition in multi wiki mode
• The inline edit loses the doc's parent and title attributes
• Wysiwyg editor breaks accents in links
• Curly Quote coming from a Copy Paste is transformed into ? after cache is reset

See ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise141

First milestone of the XWiki Enterprise 1.5 version.

Note that general goals for XWiki Enterprise 1.5 are:

• More bug fixes
• Better performance
• More automated tests
• Overhaul of the Administration

For more details about this 1.5 Milestone 1 release, check the release notes.