XWiki - The Advanced Open Source Enterprise and Application Wiki

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The Advanced Open-Source Enterprise Wiki

Learn about XWiki's concept and why it's an alternative to Confluence and MediaWiki

Features

Why use XWiki?

Developed for more than 20 years, XWiki is being used by many high profile companies as:

  • Knowledge base
  • Collaborative intranet
  • Public website
  • Business applications
    … or other use cases.

XWiki Projects

XWiki offers a generic platform for developing projects and collaborative applications using the wiki paradigm.

  • Platform 
  • Flavors 
  • Extensions 

All XWiki software is developed in Java and under the LGPL open source license. In order to see all our projects please visit the forge.

XWiki Extensions

Over 900 extensions: applications, macros, skins, plugins, themes, etc.

XWiki Cristal

A new XWiki.org experimental project to provide a modern knowledge base front-end

A modern front-end designed to plug into XWiki, GitHub, or local environments.

Use it online, locally, or as an embedded component. Full support for offline editing with smart synchronization.

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Latest Blog Posts

OAuth2 and OpenID connect extension 2.25.3 released

The version [[2.25.3>>extensions:Extension.OpenID Connect.Versions.2\.25\.3]] of the OAuth2 and OpenID connect extension has been released. It's highly recommended to upgrade if you have an older version because it fixes several very important security vulnerabilities.

XWiki 18.4.4 Released

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 18.4.4. This is a bug fix release, that fixes, among other things, an important regression concerning attachment renaming. This release contains security fixes as well, with the highest severity being 8.7/10. See the release notes for more information.

LDAP 9.16.6 Released

The LDAP Extension 9.16.6 have been released.

XWiki 17.10.12 released

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 17.10.12. This is a bug fix release. Among other bugs, this fixes an important regression: renaming attachments without moving them to another page deleted them. This release contains security fixes, with the highest severity being 7.5/10. See the release notes for more information.

Cristal Integration 1.9.0 Released

The Cristal Integration extension 1.9.0 has been released. This version updates Cristal to version 1.6.1. You can refer to Cristal's release notes for a more exhaustive list of changes. Note that this version is not compatible with version 2.21 or higher of OpenID Connect Provider.

Numbered Content Extension 1.11 Released

The Numbered Content Extension 1.11 has been released. This version removes the cleanup of special characters at the end of the table of content entries as this cleanup turned out to be not useful and caused breakages for some content.

Change Request Application 1.23 Released

The Change Request Application 1.23 has been released. This release brings the capability to refactor change requests whenever pages are moved.

Cristal 1.6.1 released

Cristal 1.6.1 is now released. This is a bug fix release fixing a blocker discovered quickly after releasing Cristal 1.6.0. See the release notes for more details.

LDAP 9.16.3 Released

The LDAP Extension 9.16.3 have been released.

XWiki 17.10.11 Released

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 17.10.11. This is a bug fix release. It contains 9 security fixes, with highest severity being 8.7/10. See the release notes for more information.


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CNFPT

CNFPT uses XWiki to power a public information and learning platform designed for local government agents and citizens interested in local authority activities. The platform enables structured content sharing, community interaction, moderated publishing, and integration of external content through RSS. It also supports features like automatic keyword annotation, exportable content collections, and dynamic homepages tailored to user needs.

Testimonials

“10+ years of experience w/ @confluence & I must say, I'm hard pressed to find anything that I need there, that @XWiki does not provide.” Patrick Masson's X account
Patrick Masson, General Manager OSI
“I've been a follower of XWiki [...] have tried pushing it on anyone considering confluence; it's one of the few open source projects that I know of that actually has more features and work in it than most of its commercial counterparts” IRC Archive of this testimonial
Marc Mercer, CEO of CT-Unlimited
“We've been pleased and impressed with the power and flexibility XWiki has provided. Everything we've wanted to build with our wiki-based product been possible due to XWiki's well planned architecture.”
Mike Hoolehan, CTO @vCalc LLC

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