[xwiki-users] [ANN] XWiki Enterprise 1.6 Milestone 1 Released

The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Enterprise 1.6 Milestone 1. Go grab it at http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download First milestone of the XWiki Enterprise 1.6 version. Main changes: * New experimental support for other syntaxes (Confluence, JSPWiki, Creole, MediaWiki, TWiki and XHTML), including a new XWiki Syntax v2.0 (work in progress, see XWiki Syntax 2.0 Draft). More information about this in the release notes. * New experimental WYSIWYG editor (Work In Progress). More information about this in the release notes. * Improved page footer displaying : comments, attachments, history, various informationpagebottom.png * New "Password Renewal and Forgot Username" feature * Default account validation & confirmation emails provided in the wiki preferences * Added .xml extensions to all exported wiki pages (XAR) * The generated HTML for wiki titles now start at h1 instead of h2 * New or improved translations: german, french, czech, norwegian, ukrainian * The name of the main database in virtual wiki mode is not hardcoded to 'xwiki' anymore, and in virtual mode all database names can be prefixed with a configurable value Important bug fixes: * Use of "." in LDAP logins fixed * Various fixes in the watchlist: ** Watchlist now works with platform 1.5 and 1.6 ** Fixed rights checks in multiwiki mode ** Fixed RSS feed generation in multiwiki Note that general goals for XWiki Enterprise 1.6 are: * Beta versions of new rendering + new WYSIWYG editor * Revamped Blog UI + features * Security issues already in JIRA (marked as high priority) * Bug fixes For more information see the Release notes at: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise16M1 Thanks, The XWiki dev team