Confluence 2.9 : Release Notes 2.8-m2 ("Milestone 2")
This page last changed on Jan 16, 2008 by pfragemann.
For all production use and testing of Confluence, please use the latest official release. Confluence 2.8-m2 is a milestone development release for 2.8. This is a public development release (DR) leading up to Confluence 2.8. Development releases are a snapshot of our work in progress, allowing our customers and especially plugin-developers to see what we're up to. Who should upgrade?
Our milestone releases aim to provide plugin developers with an opportunity to see the latest changes in the code. Each milestone release has passed all our automatic tests, and has been used for one week on our official internal Confluence server. Most of the issues solved have been reviewed too. However, since our milestones releases are timeboxed (i.e. they get released every two weeks, no matter how far we have come implementing features and bugfixes), there is always a chance that we have new known bugs, which are scheduled to be fixed in the next milestone, or completely new bugs unknown even to us. Milestone releases have not been load- or stress-tested. So, for example, they might behave well on a small installation but show severe problems when subjected to many users. Upgrade ProcedureFollow the normal upgrade instructions to upgrade from Confluence 2.7.x to this release. We strongly recommend that you backup your confluence-home directory and database before upgrading! DownloadsAll development releases are available from Development Releases on the Atlassian website. Issues resolved in this release
Confluence's velocity template engine has been upgrade from 1.3 to 1.5. This shouldn't mean too much to end users however there could be some compatibility problems with existing themes and plugins. Check this upgrade guide that we use internally as well: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Migrating+to+Velocity+1.5
Pell multipart has been replaced with the Jakarta Commons Fileupload component to handle web browser file uploads. Again this won't have much impact on the Confluence experience but could cause some odd problems when attaching files to Confluence.
There has been some optimizations made the space PDF export which should result in less server memory usage during export
Confluence team have integrated a new GZIP compression filter to achieve more efficient downloads and page views. This is not currently enabled by default, so to test this with your plugin you need to turn it on in the management console. We are using it internally at Atlassian, and the performance improvement while browsing pages is quite substantial. You can view the complete list of fixes and newly implemented features in JIRA. They contain all the issues resolved during development of 2.8, not just the ones fixed since the previous milestone. Known problemsThere are a few cosmetic UI problems related to space logos and to the login screen, none of them impact productivity. Notification mails are empty because of a Velocity macro bug. |
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