General goals for all releases:

• More tests
• Better javadoc
• More documentation on xwiki.org
• Code cleanup/refactoring

Already implemented roadmaps can be found in the archives.

Note that all planned release dates are also entered in the Calendar on JIRA.

XWiki Enterprise 5.x Cycle

• Theme: Speed and Simplicity

Mission: Improve XWiki's usage for new and regular users by improving Usability and Usage Speed in order to make XWiki simpler and faster both from a pure performance point of view and from are user interface point of view.

Technical details:

• Individual Feature Improvement from a Usability perspective including speed of access (real time updates, commenting in activity stream)
• General Usability Improvements on XE and XEM for simplicity
• Technical Rewrite of certain features (activity stream) for performance or architecture reasons
• General Performance Improvement of XWiki (page loading, rendering time)
• Bug Fixing in general

Release dates for the 5.x Cycle:

• 5.0: April 2013
• 5.1: June 2013
• 5.2: September 2013
• 5.3: November 2013
• 5.4: December 2014
• 5.5: January 2014

XWiki Enterprise 5.0

Targeted features/Improvements/Bugs

• Continue SOLR implementation

  TODO

  Edy to list jira issues and assign himselves to them + set fix for on them

  
  

• EM upgrade of subwikis in farm mode + flavor concept (add Flavor type in EM/Repository)  + leftover from 4.x for EM/DW:

  TODO

  Thomas/Marius to list jira issues and assign themselves to them + set fix for on them

  
  

• AWM work from 4.x to finish:

  TODO

  Marius to list jira issues and assign himselves to them + set fix for on them

  
  

• Scalable import/export

  TODO

  Thomas to list jira issues and assign himselves to them + set fix for on them

  
  

• Home page improvements (XE) and usability improvements in general

  TODO

  JV to list jira issues and assign himselves to them + set fix for on them

  
  

• Horizontal Menu management (add, remove pages)

  TODO

  JV to list jira issues and assign himselves to them + set fix for on them

  
  

• virtual=1 by default

  TODO

  Edy to make a proposal on list ASAP + list jira issues and assign himselves to them + set fix for on them

  
  

• Various important bugs to fix (ordered by priority - top is first priority):

Investigations

• XEM Homepage / Portal - Caty
• Knowledge base Flavor - Caty/Ludovic
• New Activity Stream Investigation Part 1 - JV (he's agreed to become our AS champion )
• General Flavours Investigation - Caty

Proposed dates

• 5.0M1: 4 March 2013
• 5.0M2: 25 March 2013
• 5.0RC1: 8 April 2013
• 5.0Final: 15 April 2013

XWiki Enterprise 4.x Cycle

• Theme 1 (top priority): Ease of use
• Theme 2: Quality

Release dates for the 4.x Cycle:

• 4.0: April 2012
• 4.1: June 2012
• 4.2: September 2012
• 4.3: November 2012
• 4.4: January 2013
• 4.5: February 2013 (estimation)

XWiki Enterprise 4.5

See what was done in the release notes.
Check the complete list of issues fixed for 4.5.

Targeted features/Improvements/Bugs

• AWM stabilization
• Extension Manager stabilization
• Localization module stabilization/improvements:
• SOLR improvements/stabilization:
• Workspaces stabilization:
• Various bug fixes:

Proposed dates

• 4.5M1: 14th of Jan 2013 29 Jan 2013
• 4.5RC1: 21st of Jan 2013 4 Feb 2013 6 Feb 2013
• 4.5 Final: 4th of February 2013 11 Feb 2013