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 .