The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Enterprise 1.8 RC 2. Go grab it at http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download This is the second Release Candidate for the 1.8 version. Changes from 1.8RC1: 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 information see the Release notes at: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise18RC2 Note that general goals for XWiki Enterprise 1.8 are: * Office Importer * New Blog * REST API * Finish new rendering/syntax * Finish new WYSIWYG * French XE * MediaWiki import Thanks -The XWiki dev team