The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of the XWiki 8.0 Release Candidate 1 release. This release candidate brings a couple of improvements, notably the ability to register a user from the Distribution Wizard and to auto-generate the main wiki descriptor at start up. The Chart Macro comes with new parameters and the UI for page rename/copy has better labels. On the technical side, this release brings the first, experimental, version of the minimalistic XWiki distribution. …

XWiki has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2016. Since its inception in 2005, the program has brought together over 10,900 successful student participants from over 103 countries worldwide and over 500 open source organizations, all for the love of code. This is our 9th time participating in the program and we are pretty excited about it. We value the participation in the program since it allows us to meet and discuss ideas with smart students from around the world. …

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 7.4.2. This is a bugfix release that fixes important bugs discovered in the 7.4.1 version. …

Yesterday we had our Bug Fixing Day #93. We've managed to close 12 bugs (8 real fixes) with 6 participants. We are still at -116 bugs behind the 1 year period. …

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of the XWiki 8.0 Milestone 2 release. This milestone improves some performance and caching issues of the LESS module and continues improving and fixing usability aspects of Nested Pages. …