Confluence 2.9 : Release Notes 1.2
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Atlassian is proud to present Confluence 1.2, otherwise known as Swan, to the world. Existing customers who wish to upgrade, or new users who wish to try out Confluence for 30 days can download either the standalone or WAR distributions from the Atlassian website: http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence Swan is the second major update to Confluence, and once again all existing customers can upgrade for free, thanks to the provision for one year of free upgrades in your license. You will find that Swan contains significant new features in the areas of user management, search and space browsing, as well as the usual raft of enhancements, bug fixes and things we just couldn't resist throwing in at the last minute. In all, 109 issues were resolved between 1.1.2 and 1.2. You can see the full list here: Issues Resolved for 1.2 Looking towards the future, we are going to attempt to increase the frequency of releases. While having one release every three months makes for impressively long release notes, it also means that customers are often left waiting longer than might be necessary for important enhancements or bug-fixes. Upgrading from 1.1.2Upgrading Confluence should be pretty easy: you can find instructions here. We strongly recommend that you backup your confluence.home directory and database before upgrading! You will need to reindex your site after upgrading to enable some of the new site search features. You can do this from the "Rebuild Search Index" link on the Administration Console. Site administrators upgrading from 1.1.2 or earlier should take particular note of the changes to global and space permissions. Confluence should automatically upgrade old permissions to the new scheme when upgrading from or importing data from earlier versions, but it is a good idea to check that your spaces are still secure and accessible after the upgrade, just in case. Upgrading from 1.0.3aUsers upgrading directly from 1.0.3a should also read the Nymboida Release Notes for caveats regarding the 1.0 -> 1.1 upgrade. ContentsSee also: Issues Resolved for 1.1 New FeaturesPage List ViewsThe old "list pages" screen has been enhanced, almost to the point of being unrecogniseable. In its place, we now offer three ways to browse the contents of a space. The Alphabetical View looks like the "list pages" screen from 1.1 and earlier, but it has been enhanced to allow you to find pages quickly by the first letter of their title. The Directory View presents the contents of a space as a tree, allowing you to drill down the hierarchy of parent and child pages (You will need Javascript turned on to use this view). The Search View presents Swan's enhanced search interface, already focused on the space you are looking at. Image Thumbnails and Thumbnail GalleriesYou can now display a thumbnail of any image attached to a page. Clicking on the thumbnail will pop up a window containing the full-sized image. For example, the nice picture of the waterfall from my holiday in California was generated by the following wiki-markup. !waterfall.jpg|align=right thumbnail! In addition, the {gallery} macro will create a thumbnail gallery of all the images that are attached to the page the macro is included in. You can see an example of this macro in action here: Thumbnail and Gallery Example. The maximum sizes for thumbnails are configured in the General Configuration section of the Administrative Console. Threaded CommentsBowing to public demand, we have added the ability to arrange comments by thread: users may respond to a particular comment, and the comments will be arranged in accordance with who responded to what. The default is still for comments to be presented as a flat list, but you can enable comment-threading in the General Configuration section of the Administrative Console. ImprovementsEnhanced SearchThe site-search functionality of Confluence has been enhanced, both subtly behind the scenes, and quite obviously in front of them. Behind the scenes, we now index more information such as attachment comments and filenames. We have improved the indexing of Powerpoint presentations so that more text is extracted from the Powerpoint file. We have also tweaked the ranking algorithms behind the search so that you are more likely to find the page (space, comment, blog post, attachment, user...) you are looking for. More obviously, we have given the user a lot more control over searching with an intuitive user interface that allows you to limit searches by space, type of content, or date last modified, and to group search results by type and space. The {search} macro has also been updated to take advantage of the new search features (the options are described more fully in the notation guide linked from Confluence's edit page): {search:query=Confluence|maxLimit=5|spacekey=DISC|type=page} New Permissions InterfaceTwo of the biggest issues users have been having with permissions in Confluence were:
Both of these issues have been fixed in Swan, but it has involved a slight change in the way permissions are checked. This should not be a problem for new Confluence users: the new system is easier to use than the old,. However, if you are upgrading from 1.1.2 or earlier, you should read this document to see what's different. And a whole lot more...Here's the quick fire version of some of the other improvements we've made in this release:
Notable Bug-fixes
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