What's new in XWiki

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 16.10.5. This release is a bug fix release containing important fixes, a improvement allowing users with edit rights to pin pages, performance improvements, and security fixes. See the release notes for more information.

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 16.10.4. This release is a bug fix release containing important fixes, performance improvments, and security fixes. See the release notes for more information.

The JIRA Extension 10.0, 10.1 and 10.1.1 have been released. Version 10.0 adds the concept of JIRA charts macro in XWiki pages with the idea of displaying the same kind of widget you can see in a JIRA dashboard. Three new macros are provided: pie chart, created vs resolved line chart, and bidimensional grid chart. Version 10.1 improves usability by allowing copy pasting a JIRA URL inside the WYSIWYG editor, which gets automatically transformed into a JIRA macro. Version 10.1.1 is a small bugfix release fixing extension metadata.

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 17.0.0. This is the first release of the 17.x cycle. The most notable change is the move to Jakarta EE 9.1 that allows XWiki to run on recent versions of the supported application servers (like Tomcat 10+ and Jetty 12 EE9/10). Make sure to read the migration notes though since this change can potentially break backwards compatibility. Besides this, it's worth mentioning the new sort parameter for the Document Tree and Children macros, and the new notification email headers for auto-replies. Being the start of a new cycle we also took the opportunity to upgrade of a lot of our dependencies. This release contains security fixes, with the highest severity being 8.7/10. See the release notes for more information.

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 16.10.3. This is mostly bug fix release. It also have 2 improvements: the new sort parameter for the Document Tree and Children macros, and the new notification email headers for auto-replies. It also contains security fixes, with the highest severity being 8.7/10. See the release notes for more information.

December is over and this means we've finished the XWiki 16.x cycle. It's time to look back at what we achieved in 2024.

In the 16.x cycle, we've been refining and integrating the real-time WYSIWYG editor as the default in XWiki, while introducing new features like manual navigation menu ordering. We've also improved the UI of the notifications watch buttons, added the option to include summaries for attachments, and worked to achieve the WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility compliance (in the last year, 70 WCAG issues were closed). We made additional efforts to transition from Live Table to Live Data, boost performance, fix bugs, and release security updates. Several contributions have been made to our extensions, including releases like Glossary, Machine Translation, Replication, Word-based Notifications, Change Request, and the Interactive Link Visualizer, among others.

A new LLM Application (BETA) has also been contributed: a server app with a wiki interface and chatbot powered by LLMs for searching, generating, translating, and editing content. 

Additionally, we had a few releases for Cristal, a modular wiki UI using modern web technologies and supporting multiple backends, including XWiki, to store wiki data.

The XWiki development team is happy to announce that the XWiki and CryptPad communities will be gathering at an informal meetup at FOSDEM, on Saturday, 1st of February. For this purpose, we have created a registration form so that we can organize everything and also keep you informed of all the latest details.

Important information to know:

• Day: February 1, 2025
• Hour: starting with 20:00 until 00:00
• Location:  Scott’s Bar & Kitchen, Rue Montagne aux Herbes Potagères 2,1000 Bruxelles, Belgium

The party will be organized in collaboration with NextCloud and OpenProject.

PS: If by chance you can’t make it anymore, please let us know as soon as possible to open up your place to somebody on the waiting list.

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 15.10.16. This is a bug fix release. It contains security fixes, with the highest severity being 9.3/10.0. See the release notes for more information.

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 16.10.1. This is a bug fix release, but it also marks the beginning of 16.10.x as the LTS branch. This release also includes security fixes. See the release notes for more information.

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 16.10.1. This is a bug fix release including security fixes. See the release notes for more information.

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XWiki SAS announces the release of the first XWiki LLM application (BETA), funded by NGI Search. The app integrates AI-powered functionalities directly into your wiki instance, bringing content generation, translation, and intelligent knowledge retrieval to your fingertips. To facilitate this, we’ve integrated a chatbot inside XWiki that allows you to ask any question about the information in your wiki, receiving answers based on our Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) system. Additionally, the LLM app offers you flexibility and control over your data through the chosen model, ensuring that your sensitive information remains private and secure. Read the full announcement here.

XWiki SAS has launched 3 Confluence-equivalent bridge macros — Page Properties, Page Properties Report, and Content by Label. These macros can be found in the new Confluence Migration Toolkit, a bundle with all the macros, apps, and services that you need to transfer data but also benefit from long-term technical support from XWiki SAS. Read the full announcement here.

The XWiki SAS and CryptPad development teams support this open letter addressed to the European Commission in favor of funding the Next Generation Internet (NGI) programs. The letter emphasizes the critical role the programs have in supporting open-source software development and technological innovation, calling for the preservation of NGI to maintain digital sovereignty and foster long-term international collaborations. Read the full article here.

XWiki SAS has released the Admin Tools Application (Pro) v1.0, one of the many business-ready Pro Apps, available in the XWiki SAS store. Through this app, you can optimize your XWiki on-prem installation, maintenance, and resources allocation — all from one central dashboard. Read the full article here.

XWiki SAS has released the Analytics Application (Pro) v1.0, one of the many business-ready Pro Apps, available in the XWiki SAS store. Through this app, you can learn valuable insights about the most accessed pages, searched terms and user behavior from your company wiki or public website — all straight from your XWiki instance. This way, you'll have an open-source ecosystem without any data lock-in. Read the full article here.

XWiki SAS has long upheld its commitment to independence, with shareholders exclusively comprising current and former employees. However, recognizing the importance of strong collaboration among major open-source projects in the EU, the company is embracing a strategic shift through a symbolic investment in XWiki SAS from Frank Karlitschek, Founder and CEO of Nextcloud. Moreover, Nextcloud GmbH and XWiki SAS have signed a mutual resellers' agreement to provide their customers an easy way to purchase a complete solution from either vendor. Read the full article to learn about the why, how, and what.

XWiki SAS has upgraded XWiki Cloud to version 15.5.4 of XWiki. XWiki Cloud is a convenient and cost-effective solution for running XWiki. XWiki SAS handles the setup, hosting, upgrades, maintenance, and backups, allowing you to focus on your work. To try out all the new features and improvements, set up a Cloud demo in just a few minutes.

XWiki SAS has launched the new Confluence Migrator (Pro), an all-in-one toolkit that allows you to quickly migrate and reorganize your content in the hierarchical order identically as to how it was on the Confluence side. The migrator is available for any deployment method, whether it is on your premise or in the XWiki Cloud. Read the full article to learn about all its new features and how to install it.

XWiki SAS did a short mid-year recap of the most notable features and improvements done so far in the 15.x cycle of development by the XWiki SAS Product team and the XWiki community contributors. Read the full article here.