XWiki Enterprise Roadmap Archives for the 1.x Release Cycle

Last modified by Vincent Massol on 2018/02/05

This page contains the roadmap for old releases that were part of the 1.x Release Cycle. Latest roadmaps can be found on the XWiki Enterprise Roadmap page.

XWiki Enterprise 1.9

See what was done in the release notes.

Initial Plan

  • Finish/stabilize/document new rendering - Thomas/Vincent
  • Finish/stabilize/document new wysiwyg editor - Marius/Anca/JV
    • Bug fixes
    • Insert Attachment
    • Font/Colors management
    • Remove formatting
    • New WYSIWYG/Wiki tabs + fullscreen - JV
    • Image picker for the image dialog - JV
    • Page / attachment picker for the link dialog - JV
    • Table plugin improvements and bugfix - JV
  • Finish/stabilize/document office importer + doc splitter/management - Asiri
  • Finish/stabilize/document webdav - Asiri
  • Finish/stabilize/document REST support - Fabio
  • Finish/stabilize/document new blog application - Sergiu/Guillaume
  • Continue UI improvements - JV/Ecaterina/Guillaume/Jerome
    • new Treeview in WYSIWYG + AllDocs
    • new search UI
    • Make a proposal about how to include the dashboard in space homes
    • Fix dashboard bugs
  • Captcha integration and configuration UI from the administration (regiter + comment actions) - Jerome
  • Velocity / Script macro bridge for rendering 2.0 (possibly wiki markup macros too, to be discussed) - Jerome
  • Finish XE French translations (Blog, etc) - JV/Guillaume
  • Fix other bugs, including:
    • watchlist working in XEM - JV

Proposed Dates:

  • 1.9M1: 6 April
  • 1.9M2: 4 May
  • 1.9RC1: 18 May
  • 1.9RC2/Final: 1 June
  • 2.0: 15 June

XWiki Enterprise 1.8

See what was done in the release notes.

Initial Plan

  • Finish new rendering: Continue Macro rewrite: rss, graph and more. - Lead: Dan Miron
  • Finish new rendering: Add embedded doc support + converter from 1.0 syntax to 2.0 + various leftovers - Lead: Thomas Mortagne
  • Office Importer (all types: word, excel, powerpoint, etc). Available from the WYSIWYG editor too. - Lead: Asiri
  • Working JCR/Query Manager - Lead: Artem
  • Finish WYSIWYG editor (UI + bug fixes + missing features).  - Lead: Marius/Anca
  • MS Office Plugin - Lead: Florin.
  • Start design work on new Application Manager (ability to package in a XAR: pages, external libraries, skin extensions, resources, macros, components, etc + ability to list/install/remove/upgrade applications + ability to install from a remote repo) - Lead: Thomas Mortagne/Jean-Vincent
  • Work on usability/navigation/UI improvements (like redesign special pages: WebHome, AllDocs, Tags, etc, improve navigation with a treeview panel, autosuggest in search box, etc). We need to define 3-4 items we want in priority. Lead: Jean-Vincent with Laurent/Guillaume
  • Invitation: backporting the invitation work done in XWS to XE. Lead: Jerome
  • French XE (was supposed to be done for 1.7) - Lead: Jean-Vincent with Thomas Eveilleau's help
  • MediaWiki import - Lead: Vincent with Asiri (Dropped because it wasn't considered important enough for 1.8)
  • Drag and drop spaces/pages in the AllDocs treeview to reorganize pages and spaces - Lead: Marius/Anca
  • Revamp the xwiki.org web site to focus on XE only (for ex main page should only list XE with aggregated feature list) so that we show that we have only one product but various add-ons. Lead: Vincent (note: I need to make a proposal for this)
  • Skin extensions/Interface extension finalization + Template/Skin cleanup. Lead: Sergiu + Jerome
  • Internal refactoring to redesign interfaces and transform them into components (Model, Actions, URLs, Velocity Bridge, etc). Lead: Vincent
  • Integrate REST support from GSOC into the core. Lead: Fabio.

Dates:

  • 1.8M1: 12 Jan
  • 1.8M2: 2 Feb
  • 1.8RC1: 16 Feb
  • 1.8RC2 (if need be): 2 March
  • 1.8Final: 9 March

XWiki Enterprise 1.7

See what was done in the release notes.

Initial Plan

  • Working and usable (i.e. users can use them for their day to day work instead of the old Syntax and old WYSIWYG editor) versions of new rendering and new WYSIWYG editor.
  • Working JCR (can be used for day to day work instead of Hibernate).
  • French XE
  • Blog revamping
  • Webdav integration

XWiki Enterprise 1.6

See what was done in the release notes.

Initial Plan

Must have:

  • Beta versions of new rendering + new WYSIWYG editor
  • One of the following two:
    • Revamped Blog UI + features
    • Easy creating of structured pages
  • Security issues already in JIRA (marked as high priority)
  • bug fixes or course

Good to have:

  • Office import. It could be released as a separate plugin for sure.
  • Single sign on w/ openID
  • French XE
  • Send forgotten password
  • Improved RSS feeds
  • Excel plugin
  • Installation wizard
  • Skin extension/Interface extension finalization
  • CSS + templates cleanup/simplification
  • Invitation manager in XE

XWiki Enterprise 1.5

See what was done in the release notes.

Initial plan

  • More bug fixes
  • Better performance
    • Run XE with a profiler and find bottlenecks
    • Reduce number of database calls
    • Improved page loading
  • More automated tests
    • More selenium tests
    • Add tests on Tomcat 6.x as part of the CI build
    • Add tests on Windows and with IE6 and IE7 as part of the CI build
  • Overhaul of the Administration

XWiki Enterprise 1.4

See what was done in the release notes.

TopicOutcome
  • Bug fixes
    • Go from 240 in JIRA for Core down to 180 on XE 1.4 release date
Failed, we've reduced only from 240 to 225.
  • Better performance
    • Run XE with a profiler and find bottlenecks
    • Reduce number of database calls
    • Improved page loading (JV)
    • Make Stats usable on xwiki.org (ThomasM)
Partly successful. Some performances improvements but far from enough.
  • More automated tests
    • More selenium tests
    • Add tests on Tomcat 6.x as part of the CI build
    • Add tests on Windows and with IE6 and IE7 as part of the CI build
Almost good. We have added more automated selenium tests but not set up multiple environments.

XWiki Enterprise 1.3

See what was done in the release notes.

TopicOutcome
  • Work on automated testing.
    • Examples:
      • add more selenium tests
      • start evaluating using VMs for setting up different test environments (Oracle + IE, XEM + MySQL, etc)
A few Selenium tests were added but this was not implemented to the scale required.
  • Clean up
    • Examples:
      • Extract skins into separate modules
      • Factor skin templates all in one place
      • Make it easy for someone to create a new skin
      • Code cleanup for more Javadoc in APIs
Done.
  • Improved performances
    • Examples:
      • Run XE with a profiler and find bottlenecks
      • Reduce number of HTTP requests done by the browser (about 50 right now)
      • Reduce number of database calls
Not done.
  • New Toucan skin.
Done
  • LDAP improvements: Support for groups
Done
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