The XWiki development process uses JIRA for listing all tasks to be implemented and all bugs to be fixed.

You'll find there the dates and versions planned for issues to be fixed and hence the XWiki roadmaps. There's also a release calendar listing all known dates for future releases. Please understand that these dates are often tentative since XWiki's development is open source and lots of committers/contributors are working in their free time on XWiki.

If you're interested to help out check the contributing page.

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 6.x Cycle

• Theme: Slick, Slim and Secure

Explanations:

• Performance improvements across the board: page load time, scalability, activity stream rewrite, memory usage rationalization.
• Introduce the flavor mechanism (as already discussed here) with the idea of removing the maximum of extensions from the base and be able to build a minimal, lightweight wiki, have a few flavors.
• Slickiness achieved with things like new skin, syntax highlighting + autocompletion, easier rights UI and more.
• Also spend time improving various security aspects, including the addition of Signed scripts.

In short we’ve realized that XWiki has grown along the years and it’s becoming a bit heavyweight in various aspects. So the idea would be to focus on performances and ease of use to slim it down and ensure it’s kicking fast!

Release dates for the 6.x Cycle:

• 6.0: April 2014 May 2014
• 6.1: June 2014 July 2014
• 6.2: August 2014
• 6.3: October 2014
• 6.4: December 2014

XWiki 6.2

See what was done in the release notes.
Check the complete list of issues fixed for 6.2.

• Make Flamingo production-ready and the default skin in XE - Guillaume + Caty. Specifically this means (at least):
  • Finish the AppBar implementation (with proper icons) 
  • Polishing everywhere 
  • Ensure it works fine on mobile devices 
  • Finish Theme Editor 
  • Investigation about UI standards (theme variables , css classes, html/macros, js) (some thoughts here) 

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• Continue on improving page loading times and performances in general as much as possible in the time frame - Thomas

  TODO

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• Finish File Manager + javascript framework evaluation/proposal (propose angularJS with LT in angular + treeview, etc)  - Marius

  TODO

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• Release a usable v1 of signed scripts with UI - Denis
• Investigate Activity Stream v2 - Edy. Goal: take the occasion of the rewrite to:
  • Make it performant 
  • Catch up and leap over the competition in term of features/usability  
  • Need find all use cases and gather feedback from everyone 

  TODO

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• Implement as many JIRA issues as possible from the list below, starting with the top one and going down - Edy:
• Usability recording analysis and conclusions (Caty made some interviews with newcomers to XWiki with some scenarios to see what we should improve) + New icon set (vectorial) investigation (needed for AppBar) + UI standards (see above) - Caty
• Implement sending of mail invitations in Meeting Manager using the new Mail Sender API + Publish the Hierarchy Macro he’s been working on + work on Collaborative Apps - Lyes

Proposed dates

• 6.2M1: 4th Aug 6th Aug
• 6.2M2: 18th Aug 25th Aug
• 6.2RC1: 1 sep
• 6.2Final: 15 sep