Confluence Docs 3.1 : Confluence 2.6 Upgrade Guide
This page last changed on Sep 22, 2008 by jnolen.
Confluence 2.6 brings many popular features which save you time and improve the your wiki's usability. Upgrading to Confluence 2.6 is free for all customers with active Confluence software maintenance as at 27th September 2007. A new theme brings a fresh, clean look and feel. This is for our customers who have asked for a friendlier interface and improved readability. We've included more social networking features, to enhance the sense of community in your wiki. For example, author photos are now shown in comments and in the 'Recent Updates' on the Dashboard. And the Social Bookmarking plugin is now shipped with Confluence, allowing you to share bookmarks with your team. Other popular new features include default content for spaces, labels on templates, the ability to backdate or rename news items (blog posts), official MySQL 5.0 support and PDF export of images. Upgrade NotesDraft PagesAll draft pages will be discarded during the upgrade process. Confluence administrators should warn users of the Confluence site that drafts will not survive the upgrade. PluginsIf you are using any third-party plugins, please test them thoroughly before rolling 2.6 into production. For plugin developers: the Joda-time library has been upgraded from 0.98 to 1.4 in Confluence 2.6. Plugins that use the date formatting or parsing functionality of Joda-time will need to be recompiled to work with Confluence 2.6. Custom ThemesCustom Confluence 2.5.x themes are expected to be compatible with 2.6 without authors needing to make any change to their existing themes. This is because Confluence will, by default, include all Confluence 2.5.x specific styles automatically. But if you would like to upgrade your theme to use the latest Confluence 2.6 style and typography, you will need to update the way you include stylesheets in your theme. You can read full instructions here. Custom Page Layout
Steps in detail:
Upgrade ProcedureUpgrading Confluence should be pretty easy. We strongly recommend that you backup your confluence.home directory and database before upgrading! You can get the latest version of Confluence here. If you are upgrading from Confluence 2.2.x or a later version, you can find instructions here. If you are upgrading directly from 2.1 or earlier, you should also read the 2.2 Release Notes for warnings about the 2.1 -> 2.2 upgrade. |
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