This month was the annual XWiki seminar where most of our team got to meet IRL in Romania for a week. This shifted some of our usual deadlines such as the publication of this post and the Autumn Release (2025.9.0), basically everything is a couple of weeks late so thank you for bearing with us!

🌲 Seminar and hackathon

Each year a fixture of the seminar is a day of Hackathon where the team gets to work on wildcard projects, experiments, or prototypes. This year we have a great selection!

Webxdc CryptPad

The team produced a prototype for using the Webxdc API within CryptPad. This simple file format for applications is designed to be lightweight and take advantage of the offline-first and end-to-end encrytpion capabilities of the platform hosting it (for example a messenger such as Delta Chat).

The team managed to port and integrate a simple chess game into CryptPad.

CryptPad CLI

XWiki CEO Ludovic Dubost experimented with a command-line client for CryptPad. He managed to connect a CryptPad account and browse the drive using commands like cd and ls.

Cristal in CryptPad

XWikier Pierre Jeanjean experimented with an integration of the new XWiki user-interface Cristal as a CryptPad application. This leveraged both Cristal's wiki support capabilities and CryptPad's secure sharing and file support. This PoC integration offers the capability to create and manage a shareable encrypted wiki, that can contain any pad type supported by the CryptPad instance by embedding the corresponding editor.

📹 ParisJug Tools in Action Video

Fabrice & Ludovic presented CryptPad to the Paris Java Users Group, 9 years after the initial demo. They talked about what changed in the project's first decade, and demonstrated the clientside API. The video of the presentation is now available (in French).

🔭 Up Next

• We are working on the delayed Autumn Release (2025.9.0) with some big user-interface improvements. We hope to release this in the next couple of weeks.
• We will be present at Capitole du Libre in Toulouse (in French): https://capitoledulibre.org/programme/
  • Private collaboration with CryptPad
    • Fabrice on Saturday Nov. 15^th, from 4:30PM to 4:55MP in room A201
  • 20 ans de "hacking" du financement de XWiki et CryptPad
    • Ludovic on Saturday Nov. 15^th from 3PM to 3:55PM in room A002
  • CryptPad booth
    • Please find our spot to discuss anything XWiki/CryptPad related