The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Enterprise and XWiki Enterprise Manager 4.0. Go grab it at http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download This is the first release of the 4.x cycle. See http://enterprise.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Roadmap for more informations about the 4.x cycle. The highlights of this release are: * reduced document database id collision. It has been well tested but you might want to make sure you have a working backup of your database. * new LDAP administration UI * Annotations merged with Comments * Extension Manager improvements * App Within Minutes improvements * User profile customization * User directory improvements and user customized view * ColorThemes gradients customizable from ColorTheme Wizard * New IRC Bot Application On development side: * Extension Manager (without xar support and wiki UI) is now part of XWiki Commons project and can be easily used outside of XWiki * Component roles are now based on java.lang.reflect.Type instead of java.lang.Class which mean you can now have different roles with the same class and different generic types (e.g. ) * New Velocity tool to serialize Java objects to JSON format * Class reference always local * New Rights Implementation (Experimental). You can enable and test it in xwiki.cfg. * New technical content hiding system * A new ApplicationReadyEvent event has been introduce for component that need to access the database at init. For more information see the Release notes at http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise40 and http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXEM40 Thanks -The XWiki dev team