Release Notes for XWiki Enterprise 1.8 Milestone 1

First milestone of the XWiki Enterprise 1.8 version (Roadmap).

Summary of changes since XWiki Enterprise 1.7.1

Main changes:

• Syntax API to convert a document from one syntax to another + first beta of the XWiki 1.0 syntax to XWiki 2.0 syntax.
  You can try it by changing the syntax identifier of a page.
• New Office Importer.
• REST API
• Make it easier to disable footer information (comments, history, etc)
• New Blog application
• First usable version of the new GWT WYSIWYG editor (Beta)

• Erroneous rendering of links to page anchors
• If a macro fail it breaks the whole rendering process

Known issues

• Bugs we know about

Common Migration notes

You may also want to import the default wiki XAR in order to benefit from improvements listed above.