Our midyear retrospective ??

Dear readers,

Ever notice how time flies when you're on a roll? Well, we’ve been busy bees these past 6 months, and we’ve got some exciting updates to share. We think you'll love them, so dive in and let us know what you think!

Pro Apps launches and improvements

These last 6 months we've worked hard to improve our Pro Apps while also bringing you 2 new major releases.

Analytics Application (Pro)

We've rolled out this privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative that you can use to get powerful?insights of your company wiki or public website.

It lets you access comprehensive stats and reports, including page views, most accessed pages, search terms, and much more. The best part? Opting for the on-prem installation, you own and control your data completely.

Find out why is Analytics Application (Pro) a game changer >

Admin Tools Application (Pro)

This new addition to the Pro Applications family enables you to run your on-prem wiki instance like a pro by optimizing your XWiki installation, maintenance, and resources allocation.

More specifically, you can access detailed information about your XWiki configurations and view the usage?for all wikis in the instance to monitor the?resource allocation. Additionally, you can run health checks to ensure optimal configuration and memory usage, and flush the instance cache to maintain performance, together with many other actions.

Find out more about the Admin Tools Application (Pro) >

Confluence Migrator (Pro): latest improvements

During the last 6 months, we enhanced our powerful Confluence Migrator (Pro) along with the Pro Macros to help you regain control of your time while migrating to XWiki with ease.

Here's an overview of the improvements brought to our optimized Migrator:

?? Faster migrations and?improved efficiency;

?? Automated checks and prerequisites?to streamline the setup process;

?? Greater flexibility, allowing you to select and customize exactly what you want to migrate;

?? Option to save and reuse migration settings?for future projects, making repeated migrations more convenient.

Find out more about the capabilities of our Confluence Migrator (Pro) >

Webinar: Migrating from Confluence to XWiki — It can't get easier than this

Following the improvements brought to the Confluence Migrator (Pro) and our Pro Macros, we held a webinar hosted by ?tefana Bianca Nazare , our Product Owner of Pro Apps?and Confluence Migration Specialist. We took the opportunity to talk about the latest advancements in our migration tools and provide detailed insights into the migration process.

Access the key takeaways, the recording, and the Q&A transcript here >

News on XWiki's 16.x development cycle

?? During the last half a year, we made several Live Table to Live Data migrations.

?? Starting with version 16.0.0, admins can control the?panel header text color with the help of a?new parameter called?“panel-header-color”.

?? Starting with version 16.1.0, when you export a page to PDF, the images displayed in it?will be included in their full size to avoid any poor quality image issues.

? From version 16.2.0 onwards, the?In-place WYSIWYG edit mode supports?real-time collaboration. If you want to try out this experimental feature, just ask your administrator to enable the "xwiki-realtime" CKEditor plugin from the?CKEditor administration section.

?? Starting with version 16.3.0, when adding an image to content in the WYSIWYG edit mode, you can double-click the attachment you wish to select in the gallery and validate the choice directly.?

?? Starting with version 16.4.0, you can manually order the pages displayed in a page tree:?Navigation tree, Breadcrumbs tree, Page Index Tree, etc. The?"pinned" pages are displayed first (in manual order), followed by the rest of the child pages in automatic order (e.g. by page title). You can pin and unpin pages at any level in the page tree hierarchy using the dedicated administration section.?

?? You can also reorder the top level pages using drag & drop or the Alt+Shift+Up/Down keys.

See all the improvements, new features and bug fixes for XWiki's 16.x development cycle here >

Spreading the news about our products, projects, and open source

These last months have been packed with opportunities to educate people of all ages about open source and to spread the news about our current projects and innovative products:

• openDesk, the sovereign collaborative suite;
• CryptPad, our end-to-end encrypted suite for real-time editing and collaboration;
• Cristal, our modern knowledge base front-end and wiki UI to rule them all;
• WAISE (Wiki AI Search Engine), our new project that leverages AI to elevate your wiki experience, now available in beta version.

Find out more about the discussions and presentations we had at the events >

CryptPad updates

?? Starting with the 5.7.0 release, instance admins can issue invitation links allowing to create one account each, even if registration is closed on the instance.

?? The documentation was also updated to version 5.7, and it includes a new accessibility section.

?? The team has moved the version numbering from semantic to calendar versioning.

?? Starting with the spring release 2024.3.0, you can easily customize instance logo and accent color.

?? With the Blueprints research project completed, the team launched their Research and Development website,?which will be the home for all CryptPad related research moving forward.

You can stay up-to-date with CryptPad's news and releases by following their blog >

Thank you for diving into our midyear journey. ??

See you next month!