The XWiki project has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2009 organization. This is the fifth time in a row we're accepted (we've been participating since the beginning) and we're proud of it.

We've started gathering project ideas on the XWiki GSOC page. If you have project ideas or are interested to participate feel free to send us an email on the XWiki Mailing list. …

Second Release Candidate of the XWiki Enterprise 1.8 version.

Main changes:

• new "useravatar" macro for 2.0 syntax
• Improvements on 1.0->2.0 syntaxes convertion
• Add ability to configure xwiki to use the XWiki Syntax 2.0 as default when creating new pages
• Bugs fixed in XWiki 2.0 syntax rendering.
• Upgrade to groovy 1.6 final.
• Update french translations
• Update german translations
• Update spanish translation

Important bug fixes:

• XWIKI-3228 - Error while saving xwiki 2.0 documents containing anchor links
• XWIKI-3242 - Entering an empty link makes the rendering blow up
• XWIKI-3252 - Cannot view documents in other languages than the default when in multilingual mode and when using XWiki Syntax 2.0

For more details about this 1.8 Release Candidate 2 release, check the release notes.

This is the first release of XOffice. XOffice 1.0 M1 provides an Word Add-in that integrates XWiki with Microsoft Office. Main features:

• Create new pages using Word
• Edit existing pages inside Word
• Export a Word document as a wiki page
• Attach documents to the wiki
• Download attachments
• Browse the wiki using the Wiki Explorer.

For details about XOffice check: http://xoffice.xwiki.org For more info about this release see the release notes

First Release Candidate of the XWiki Enterprise 1.8 version.

Main changes:

• WYSIWYG improvements: macro support implemented, default browser list support overridden.
• Various improvements on XWiki REST service.
• Bugs fixed in XWiki 2.0 syntax rendering.
• Upgrade to groovy 1.6 RC3.

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This release is based on XWiki Enterprise 1.7.2.

See ReleaseNotesXEM151 for more details.