XWiki

XWiki can be used for creating intranets, simple websites, knowledge management apps, can be embedded into a CMS, for project collaboration, and even run as a fully-fledged portal.

The plethora of features included with the platform allow it to easily adapt to any project's requirements and let developers create a custom structured website without having to modify or write new code.

XWiki comes with a powerful WYSIWYG page editor, that also features its own syntax.

There's also support for basic features like content importing and exporting, secure user authentication, user profile pages, and a fine-grained permissions system.

An administration panel is provided, where various settings from database details, to language options can be set.

On top of these you also have a powerful programming API to create your own set of features, along with lots of documentation if you ever need it.

Overall XWiki should be the perfect solution if you like working with Java, being as powerful and as developer friendly as other more famous products like Liferay or dotCMS.

What is new in this release:

• Solr Search
• REST Script Services
• Document Picker
• XWiki Select Widget
• New Secure Query
• New Space/XWikiSpace Table
• JS API Improvements
• New Rename/Delete Jobs
• Nested Spaces
• LDAP Improvements
• New Breadcrumb
• Nested Pages

What is new in version 7.2:

• Solr Search
• REST Script Services
• Document Picker
• XWiki Select Widget
• New Secure Query
• New Space/XWikiSpace Table
• JS API Improvements
• New Rename/Delete Jobs
• Nested Spaces
• LDAP Improvements
• New Breadcrumb
• Nested Pages

What is new in version 7.1.1:

• Diff View Summary
• Extension History
• Watchlist
• Flavors
• Debug mode
• Solr Search

What is new in version 7.0.1 / 7.1 Milestone 2:

• Improved document diff view
• Experimental real-time watchlist notification
• Extension installed as dependencies
• Extension categories
• Advanced extensions search
• Document index tree finder
• Easier wiki creation
• The WYSIWYG editor uses the new tree widget
• Solr index changes
• WebJars caching
• Mail Sender API improvements
• Custom properties in REST protocol
• Advanced extensions search in REST protocol

What is new in version 7.0.1 / 7.1 Milestone 1:

• Improved document diff view
• Experimental real-time watchlist notification
• Extension installed as dependencies
• Extension categories
• Advanced extensions search
• Document index tree finder
• Easier wiki creation
• The WYSIWYG editor uses the new tree widget
• Solr index changes
• WebJars caching
• Mail Sender API improvements
• Custom properties in REST protocol
• Advanced extensions search in REST protocol

What is new in version 6.4.2 / 7.0 Milestone 1:

• Menu Application
• Flamingo Skin
• Rating Features
• Wiki Configuration
• Mail Feature
• New Parameters for Document Tree Macro

What is new in version 6.3:

• Extension Manager and Repository improvements.
• User Directory customized globally.
• Flamingo skin.
• Bootswatch themes for Flamingo.
• The default color themes (DefaultColorTheme and FlamingoDefaultTheme) have been renamed Azure and Charcoal.
• In the select field of the 'color theme' property, in the administration, the color themes are now ordered by name.
• In the administration, clicking the "Customize" button for customizing a Skin or a Color Theme now opens the page in edit mode.
• Improved L&F when a template fails.

What is new in version 6.2:

• This release is mainly focused on the Flamingo skin and it being now used by default.
• It also features improvements for applications such as AWM and Blog and various performance improvements.
• Developers can benefit from new APIs such as the new Mail Sender API and the new Blame API but also from improved APIs such as the wiki module API and JS widgets.

What is new in version 6.1:

• A lot of work has been done for the new Flamingo skin and we hope to make it the default in 6.2.
• Introduce many new APIs and tools for developers like the integration of LESS preprocessor, a new authorization API taking care of the context and its associated script service, a new experimental Mail API, the support of grouped and asynchronous jobs in default job module executor, the possibility to log from any script, a new converter to make easier to manipulate XDOM in Velocity, and many others.

What is new in version 6.0:

• New experimental Flamingo skin
• New Chart Renderers
• Moved to Java 7 as minimum version
• Panels Application Improvements
• Standard XAR import scalability
• WebJars Integration
• LiveTable Query Filters

What is new in version 5.4:

• Advanced Search Options Removed
• Improved File Type Facet
• Improved File Size Facet
• Debug Mode
• Distribution Wizard improvements
• WikiStream improvements
• No Upgrade Mode anymore
• New report step
• Repairs Previous UI

What is new in version 5.3:

• This release comes with a new syntax guide and brings improvements to the Solr search, multi-wiki support and the Wiki Stream module. You can now choose the user scope (local, global or both) and also create wiki templates from the wiki creation wizard.

What is new in version 5.2.1:

• Fixed:
• Several RSS feed regression (XWIKI-9576 and XWIKI-9610): Makes some RSS readers show duplicate entries (for readers who use a Feed entry's URL as its unique id).
• A Watchlist regression: Links in the HTML email sent by the Watchlist do not work anymore.
• Any Scheduler job that computes external URLs will have the generated URL be empty.
• Image attachments don't appear in the PDF export if their URL contains special characters.
• PDF export missing images.

What is new in version 5.2:

• This release comes with multiwiki support enabled by default.

What is new in version 5.1:

• Solr is the default search engine.
• Moved the User Directory feature to an application on its own.
• Moved the XWiki Syntax Help feature to an application on its own.
• More documents marked as hidden by default: Blog.News, Blog.Other, Blog.Personal, Main.Activity, Main.MessageSenderMacro, Main.Tags, Sandbox.WebPreferences, XWiki.WebHome, XWiki.XWikiAdminGroup, XWiki.XWikiAllGroup, XWiki.SearchConfig.

What is new in version 5.0.2:

• Fixed PostgreSQL support and new multiwiki behavior bugs.

What is new in version 5.0.0:

• Extension Manager improvements
• Extension Updater
• Distribution Wizard improvements
• New wiki mode step
• WYSIWYG Editor improvements
• Virtual mode is always enabled
• New security authorization module replaces the old RightService

What is new in version 4.5.1:

• Fixed an important bug in Distribution Wizard.

What is new in version 4.4.1:

• Add experimental warning on the SolrSearch page
• PanelWizard not rendering any statistics panels content correctly
• Translation document loaded several time at startup
• Count filter doesn't work if the query statement starts with whitespace
• Improve the message in the UI when the database is not up to date to properly report the exact cause of failure
• Allow the customization of the xwiki.properties file with extra settings at build time
• Failure to update the schema during migration doesn't fail the migration
• Attachment on-disk file cache leaks open file descriptor
• Success Message macro does not have translation keys
• Display macro does not have translation keys
• Comment macro does not have translation keys
• Cache macro does not have translation keys
• Notification widget should have a callback function that gets called when the notification hides
• Search suggestions for the "User Name" field from the "Workspace Users" administration page don't appear correctly
• Blog pages should not set template field
• Hidden display mode doesn't work anymore for date, user and group fields
• Repair job does not return proper job status
• Lucene leaks file descriptor

What is new in version 4.4:

• Replaced the Rendering Standalone JAR with a Rendering Standalone ZIP.
• New unit and integration testing best practices.
• New Rendering Syntax module for the annotatedxhtml syntax. Before this syntax was included in the Syntax module for the xhtml syntax.

What is new in version 4.3.1:

• This is a bugfix and stabilization version that brings fixes for various areas of XWiki's features like Workspaces, Extension Manager, Search and others.

What is new in version 4.2:

• Extension manager improvements
• Experimental install/upgrade wizard
• New field types (emails, lists of pages, and computed fields)
• New macros (JIRA and content macros)
• Macros improvements (chart and documents macros)

What is new in version 4.2 Milestone 2:

• This release adds support for storing an email address and a list of wiki page names in XWiki objects using dedicated xclass property types.
• It also adds the ability to have an object property whose value is computed from the other properties.

What is new in version 4.2 Milestone 1:

• This release brings a couple of bug fixes and improvements to the Extension Manager as well as two new extensions integrated into the platform but not bundled by default: an improved JIRA macro and a Git module that lets you perform Git operations from within wiki pages.

What is new in version 4.1.2:

• This release fixes a serious issue preventing the display of differences between versions in both history and Extension Manager.

What is new in version 4.0.1:

• This is a bugfix release for the 4.0 cycle.

What is new in version 4.0:

• This release brings reduced document database id collision, a new LDAP administration UI and quite a few improvements and bug fixes on Extension Managger, annotations, App Within Minutes and user profiles.

What is new in version 4.0 RC 1:

• Extension Manager improvements
• New technical content hiding system
• Bug fixes and improvements

What is new in version 4.0 Milestone 2:

• This version mainly introduces various ways of customizing users directory and profiles and it also bring all comments features to annotation (answer, threaded annotation, etc.) by merging the two concepts in one comment with optional precise location.

What is new in version 4.0 Milestone 1:

• This release brings reduced document database id collision and quite a few improvements and bug fixes.

What is new in version 3.5:

• This is a stabilization release that brings many improvements to the Extension Manager, a new macro for displaying documents in a live table and quite a few bug fixes.

What is new in version 3.3.1:

• This is the first and probably last bugfix for the 3.3 series.

What is new in version 3.3:

• Experimental "App Within Minutes" feature
• Improved Extension Manager
• Automatic external link checker
• Better support for exporting CJK documents as PDF
• LDAP user membership improvements
• Attachment handling improvements
• Debian packages for installing XWiki

What is new in version 3.3 Milestone 1:

• A preview version of the new class editor to be used in the Application Within Minutes designer.
• New Debian packages for XWiki.
• A few extension manager improvements.
• LDAP improvements.
• Improvements on uploading and downloading attachments, especially when filesystem storage is enabled.

What is new in version 3.2:

• Many extension manager improvements
• New implementation of the sheet system making it easier to bind sheets to objects without an explicit inclusion of the sheet in the document content
• User dashboards giving each user the possibility to configure their own home page
• Introduction of wiki workspaces, as a more collaborative way of managing an XWiki virtual farm
• Improvements of search results scoring
• Storage improvements, bringing in numerous performance and compatibility improvements
• Conversion of the panels application to the XWiki 2.0+ syntax
• Easier activation and configuration of Google Analytics
• CSRF prevention enabled by default
• Support for DocBook syntax
• xwiki-commons and xwiki-rendering are now published on the central Maven2 repository
• Some major code cleanup due to the retirement of some very old plugins and The move of legacy/deprecated code into separate modules

What is new in version 3.1 Milestone 2:

• Support for user-defined, personal dashboards,
• Improvements to the spotlight-like search suggestions,
• Improvements to the extension manager,
• Support for arbitrary named parameters in the event stream,
• A few dependency upgrades and bug fixes

What is new in version 3.1 RC1:

• XWiki Enterprise 3.1 Release Candidate 1 was a bug fix and stability version only.

What is new in version 3.1 Milestone 2:

• XWiki now requires Java 6!
• Upgraded versions of libraries which also no longer support java 1.5.
• Code removal and re-factoring to strengthen the platform foundation.

What is new in version 3.0-rc1:

• Administration section for the WYSIWYG content editor.
• Attachment Selector Macro.
• Improvements to the message stream, dashboard, gallery macro, search suggest, extension manager and the administration application.

Requirements:

• Java 7 or higher