The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki Enterprise 5.2. This release comes with multiwiki support enabled by default: users are able to create new wikis without the need to install additional extensions. This is possible because the Workspace Application has been integrated in XWiki Enterprise. We stopped the support for XWiki Enterprise Manager as a consequence. Apart from this, the new release brings a Solr-based live search (to replace the one based on Lucene) and the ability to track active XWiki installs. The Distribution Wizard has a new step to upgrade all wikis. Developers will be interested by the new Wiki Stream framework which can already be used to export large wikis in XAR format. A lot of bug fixes (135) and many improvements (50) complete this release and make it worth trying.

See the release notes for more information.

Yesterday we had our Bug Fixing Day #38. For the 5.x development cycle we've decided to intensify our bug fixing and invert the bugs created vs bugs fixed ratio so that we're always in the green, by having weekly BFDs.

We managed to close 8 bugs (7 real fixes) and we're now behind by 56 bugs for our new goal of closing more bugs than bugs that were created during the past 1500 days! We were lagging by 85 bugs last week! It's good to see that we're closing bugs not just during BFD but also during the other days!  Let's continue that! …

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki Enterprise 5.2 Release Candidate 1. This is mostly a stabilization release leading to XWiki 5.2 final and it brings a new "Home" top level menu (available when there is more than one wiki) and a new Distribution Wizard step to upgrade all wikis. The WikiStream framework has been improved and now can be used to export large wikis in XAR format. Besides this the new release includes 49 bug fixes and 16 small improvements.

See the release notes for more information.

Yesterday we had our Bug Fixing Day #37. For the 5.x development cycle we've decided to intensify our bug fixing and invert the bugs created vs bugs fixed ratio so that we're always in the green, by having weekly BFDs.

We managed to close 8 bugs (6 real fixes) and we've set a new goal of closing more bugs than bugs that were created during the past 1500 days! (upping by 100 days from our previous challenge). We're currently lagging by 85 bugs. …

On the 24th of September I had the pleasure to participate to SmartWeb, the "first world class web conference in Eastern Europe", held in Bucharest.
The presentations covered topics such as Responsive Web Design, writing CSS the right way, performance, working with a distributed team, usability testing, etc. (Take a look at the program) …