Confluence 2.9 : Release Notes 1.0rc1
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Confluence 1.0rc1It's Friday again, and that means it's time for us to release Murray; Confluence 1.0 Release Candidate 1. RC1 marks the start of the feature-freeze as we plunge headfirst towards a stable 1.0 release. From now until 1.0-final we will be concentrating on fixing up the remaining bugs and polishing the interface. We are hoping that we won't need to send out a second release candidate, but we can't really make any promises until we've had a chance to go through the inevitable deluge of new issues that will follow this release. Of course, this means that there are features you want to see in Confluence that won't make it into 1.0-final. Keep those ideas and suggestions coming. Confluence isn't going to stop at 1.0 – we just had to draw a line somewhere or we'd end up perpetually in beta. We have no plans to slow down development after the first major release. Your Confluence licence includes a year of upgrades, and if you think Confluence is way cool now, it's just going to get better. As always, before upgrading an existing Confluence installation, be sure to back up your data. As you can see below, we've been busy the last two weeks. A hard-earned thirst needs a good cold beer. Contents
See also: Issues Resolved for 1.0rc1 New FeaturesRemote API Cannot resolve external resource into attachment. Confluence can now be browsed and edited remotely via SOAP or XML-RPC. There are more details of the XML-RPC API here, while the SOAP WSDL can be downloaded from $your_confluence_root$/rpc/soap/confluenceservice-v1.wsdl. Throwing together a GUI client for Confluence is now pretty easy, so feel free to embed Confluence support into your favourite editor, web browser or IDE. Blogging Enhancements The sketchy blogging support from Beta4 has been upgraded and overhauled. Enhancements include:
Also, anonymous users are no longer allowed to post blog entries. We couldn't really think of a use-case where anonymous blog-posts would be wanted, but if you can, let us know! Configurable User Notification With any knowledge-sharing application, it's important to keep informed as to what has changed. One way to do this is by subscribing to any of the RSS feeds offered by Confluence. Another is to have Confluence email you directly whenever there has been a change. Up 'til now, users have had to make do with the ad-hoc regular-expression based notifications that were put in for developers. WIth RC1, we now have a more fine-grained and user-friendly way to choose how you find out about changes to the site.
Each user can now also choose whether or not they will be notified of changes they make themselves. Trackbacks While Confluence has always tracked links between pages within the Confluence site, it now has a way to track links to and from external sites: the Trackback API. In this way, a Confluence page can be informed when another site has mentioned it, and inform other sites that it has linked to them. We have implemented the Trackback and Trackback auto-discovery APIs across pages and blog-posts. Trackback is a widely implemented API that allows web pages to notify each other of links. You can enable (or disable) trackbacks from the Confluence general administration page. When Trackbacks are enabled, each Page and Blog Post within Confluence is set up to receive trackback pings, and contains the auto-discovery code to allow clients to automatically find out how to send those pings. Trackbacks that are received are listed in the right-hand sidebar of the page. Also when Trackbacks are enabled, Confluence will perform auto-discovery on each outgoing link from a page to see if the destination is equipped to receive trackbacks, and send its own trackback ping. Look forward to future versions of Confluence making very interesting use of this feature. Per-Space Look and Feel The template-- and colour-scheme editing features that were available on a global basis in previous versions of Confluence can now be configured separately for each space, allowing you to apply a different look and feel to the various spaces within your Confluence site. New Macros
Improvements
Notable Bug-fixes
Outstanding Issues
Database Changes from Beta4New Tables TRACKBACK and NOTIFICATION tables were introduced. These tables should be generated automatically when you first start RC1. New column in the EXTRNLINKS table
Constraint Change on LINKS Table The "not null" constraint was removed from the DESTPAGETITLE column of the LINKS table. Consult your database documentation on how to alter your database for this change. For example:
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