The Programmer’s Fulcrum: 15 May, 2026

This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum.

Welcome to this week’s The Programmer’s Fulcrum.

It’s your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.

As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional […]

https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-15-may-2026/ #ActivityPub #AI #ATProto #Beehiv #Buttondown #CastLab #Codeberg #CSS #Drupal #Elefeed #Emacs #Ente #FDroid #Faircamp #Fcast #Fedify #FediLab #FediProfile #fediverse #ForgeCMS #Forgejo #freebsd #Ghost #git #GitLab #Holos #HTML #HTTP #IndieWeb #javascript #LibreOffice #Librewolf #Linux #Mastodon #Matrix #MicroBlog #Movim #OMN #pckt #Pica #PostmarketOS #PureBlog #RSS #Silex #Snac #Substack #WebComponents #Webrings #WordPress #xPrivo #xWiki

Gibt es bereits Fraktionen, die #Projektmanagement Tools, wie #OpenProject/ #Xwiki oder redmine und ähnliches für ihre tägliche Arbeit einsetzen?

Nicht nur für Kampagnen, sondern um langfristige Vorhaben legislaturübergreifend zu dokumentieren?

Natürlich kann man in den #RIS und #Sitzungsprotokollen nach Informationen händisch suchen, aber es muss doch noch bessere Möglichkeiten geben, den Überblick zu behalten.

Wir wären an einem Austausch interessiert.

⚠️ CRITICAL: CVE-2026-23734 in XWiki Platform (xwiki-commons) allows unauthenticated path traversal — attackers can read config files via crafted 'resource' parameters. Patch to 18.1.0-rc-1, 17.10.3, 17.4.9, or 16.10.17+ now! https://radar.offseq.com/threat/cve-2026-23734-cwe-23-relative-path-traversal-in-x-16518aab #OffSeq #xwiki #vuln

🔐 XWiki SAS is now ISO/IEC 27001 certified for cloud and support services for XWiki and CryptPad..

For teams using XWiki Cloud and XWiki support, this gives clearer evidence around risk management, access control, incident response, business continuity, and continuous improvement.

Open source gives transparency. ISO/IEC 27001 adds a recognized security framework.

More: https://xwiki.com/en/security-and-compliance-iso/

#XWiki #ISO27001 #OpenSource #InfoSec #news #tech

🚨 CRITICAL: CVE-2026-33137 impacts XWiki Platform (<16.10.17, <17.4.9, <17.10.3, <18.1.0-rc-1). Unauthenticated users can create/modify documents via missing auth on POST /wikis/{wikiName}. Patch now! https://radar.offseq.com/threat/cve-2026-33137-cwe-862-missing-authorization-in-xw-b0399ab5 #OffSeq #XWiki #CVE #Infosec
Auf Arbeit läuft der geheime Plan, alle andere Wikis wie teiki, wikijs und mediawiki durch #xwiki zu ersetzen recht gut….

Short, focused sessions on XWiki Pro Apps, led by the people building them.

First up: Ștefana Nazare, Head of Pro Apps & Cloud at XWiki, presents Diagram App (Pro).

Not just drawing diagrams. This is about architecture decisions, compliance docs, operational processes, and structured knowledge workflows in real organizations.

Free session. Registration required: https://xwiki.com/en/webinars/Turn-diagrams-into-working-documentation-in-XWiki

#XWiki #OpenSource #KnowledgeManagement #Documentation

#XWiki 18.4.0RC1 has been #released! Check it out: https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/Data/XWiki/18.4.0RC1

This release enables realtime collaboration for the experimental BlockNote WYSIWYG editor and improves the display of the extension support plans. For developers, this release introduces a client-side component manager and a safe way to pass parameters to the translation macro. This release also fixes a number of security issues, with the highest severity being 9.3/10.

Release Notes for XWiki 18.4.0-rc-1 (XWiki.org)

Release Notes for XWiki 18.4.0-rc-1

Good documentation needs more than pages.

It needs structure, ownership, findability, and a lifecycle.

Otherwise, content gets duplicated, search gets noisy, and outdated pages keep haunting everyone. 👻

In our recent webinar, we showed how teams can use XWiki for internal docs, technical docs, procedures, public docs, knowledge bases, and collaborative workspaces.

Request the resources: https://xwiki.com/en/webinars/XWiki-as-a-documentation-tool

#XWiki #OpenSource #Documentation #KnowledgeManagement

You don’t need a 6-month evaluation to see if a knowledge base can work for your team.

On June 4, Ștefana Nazare, Head of Cloud & Apps at XWiki, will host a live webinar on how to start using XWiki Cloud.

We’ll cover:

• Full XWiki features in the cloud
• EU hosting with OVHcloud in France
• ISO 27001-certified hosting environment
• Open-source portability

📅 June 4
🕒 15:00 CET

Register: https://xwiki.com/en/webinars/start-using-XWiki-Cloud

#XWiki #XWikiCloud #OpenSource #KnowledgeManagement #Documentation