What's New for XWiki: Simple User

December is over and this means we've finished the XWiki 17.x cycle. It's time to look back at what we achieved in 2025.

In the 17.x cycle, the headline change was XWiki's move to Jakarta EE 9.1, which allows XWiki to run on recent versions of the supported application servers (like Tomcat 10+ and Jetty 12 EE9/10). Performance was a strong focus throughout the year: document saves are now much faster (only the modified objects are sent to the database and history diffs are no longer stored), the main view now prepares (caches) macros for faster page rendering, icons load faster, notifications are dispatched more quickly and Solr indexing was sped up. On the editing side, we redesigned the realtime editing toolbar, entirely revamped the macro configuration UI of the WYSIWYG editor, improved the definition of wiki macro parameters, started uploading pasted images as attachments, and now keep unsaved changes in the session storage. On the security front, we added a new UI to set and enforce the required rights of a page, and a new mechanism that warns users before they follow untrusted external URLs. Administrators gained dynamic configuration through environment variables and Java system properties, the ability to exclude pages from search, and new remote observation (cluster management) features. We also kept improving Live Data (migrated to Vue 3, better pagination) and navigation (users with edit rights can now pin and reorder pages, and panel columns can be toggled and resized), added the option to store attachments and recycle bins in Amazon S3 (or S3-compatible) storage, removing the need for a shared file system in clustering setups, and as every year we fixed a lot of bugs, released security updates and worked on accessibility (36 WCAG issues were closed in 2025).

A new, still experimental, BlockNote-based WYSIWYG editor has also been introduced, along with a new Yjs WebSocket endpoint to help developers implement Yjs-based real-time collaboration.

As usual, we also had releases for Cristal, a modular wiki UI using modern web technologies and supporting multiple backends, including XWiki, to store wiki data. …

The Mocca Calendar 2.9.11 has been released. The release fixes all-day events related issues and brings a new translation: RO
For more details, see the Mocca Calendar. …

The Documentation Extension 1.0 and 1.1 have been been released. This is the first release of this new extension which has been created to help create and maintain the documentation of XWiki on xwiki.org. However this extension can be used by anyone wishing to document a software products, and wanting to follow the Diataxis concepts using the XWiki way. See the documentation for more details. …

The Layout macros v1.0.0, v1.1.0, v1.2.0, v1.3.0 has been released. …

The Layout macros v1.0.0 and v1.0.1 has been released. …

The Link format macros v1.0.0 and v1.1.0 has been released. …

The Embed macro v1.0.2, v1.1.0, v1.1.1, v1.1.2 and v1.1.3 has been released. …

December is over and this means we've finished the XWiki 16.x cycle. It's time to look back at what we achieved in 2024.

In the 16.x cycle, we've been refining and integrating the real-time WYSIWYG editor as the default in XWiki, while introducing new features like manual navigation menu ordering. We've also improved the UI of the notifications watch buttons, added the option to include summaries for attachments, and worked to achieve the WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility compliance (in the last year, 70 WCAG issues were closed). We made additional efforts to transition from Live Table to Live Data, boost performance, fix bugs, and release security updates. Several contributions have been made to our extensions, including releases like Glossary, Machine Translation, Replication, Word-based Notifications, Change Request, and the Interactive Link Visualizer, among others.

A new LLM Application (BETA) has also been contributed: a server app with a wiki interface and chatbot powered by LLMs for searching, generating, translating, and editing content. 

Additionally, we had a few releases for Cristal, a modular wiki UI using modern web technologies and supporting multiple backends, including XWiki, to store wiki data. …

The XWiki development team is happy to announce that the XWiki and CryptPad communities will be gathering at an informal meetup at FOSDEM, on Saturday, 1st of February. For this purpose, we have created a registration form so that we can organize everything and also keep you informed of all the latest details.

Important information to know:

• Day: February 1, 2025
• Hour: starting with 20:00 until 00:00
• Location:  Scott’s Bar & Kitchen, Rue Montagne aux Herbes Potagères 2,1000 Bruxelles, Belgium

The party will be organized in collaboration with NextCloud and OpenProject.

PS: If by chance you can’t make it anymore, please let us know as soon as possible to open up your place to somebody on the waiting list.

XWiki SAS, and the XWiki software, are turning 20 this year, and I'm delighted to invite you to celebrate together this milestone on Thursday, the 19th of September, on the Loceynius barge, at Solférino port (Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France), starting at 20:30. 

Your contributions have been a vital part of this open-source journey, and so we have open spots for the XWiki community. Regardless how small or big your contributions were, if you contributed some code, a translation, some documentation, participated in some discussion, or contributed in another way, you're welcome. 

If you'd like to join us, please confirm your participation before the 6th of September at latest, so we can make sure there's enough cheer to go around: register. …