Google decided to extend the student registration period in order to allow more students to apply, since most organizations reported (on the private mentors mailing list and on the program's IRC channel) that the number of applications is generally smaller than previous years. At the same time, the quality of the proposals seems to have improved for most organizations.

How do things look for XWiki? …

First milestone of the XWiki Enterprise 1.4 version.

Note that general goals for XWiki Enterprise 1.4 are:

• Switch to Java 1.5
• Improved stats performances
• XMLRPC improvements
• Improved performances (less Javascript files, more optimized CSS, better caching, etc)
• Skins extensions
• Bug fixes
• More automated tests

For more details about this 1.4 Milestone 1 release, check the release notes.

This is a bug fix release following the XWiki Enterprise 1.3 release. See the release notes for more details. Most important fixed issues are related to authentication : cookie problems, LDAP issues, etc. If you are using XWiki Enterprise 1.3 the upgrade is highly recommended.

XWiki Workspaces is a new product focusing on easy collaboration through workspaces and their applications : Wiki, Blog, Photo Galleries and Files sharing.

This first milestone implements the initial feature set of Workspaces, you can find more about it on http://workspaces.xwiki.org

• Read the release notes
• Visit workspaces Wiki

This is mainly a wiki management improvement (step by step wiki creation with documentation, wiki aliases management improvement). Also it now depends on XE 1.3.

See http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ReleaseNotesXEM11 for more.