Confluence Docs 3.1 : Release Notes 1.1
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Nymboida, Nym to his friends, is Confluence 1.1. He wants to be your friend. Confluence 1.1 is the first major update to Confluence. It's faster, more reliable, and packed with new features. Thanks to our policy of a year's free upgrades, any current Confluence customer will be able to upgrade to 1.1 at no cost. Current customers, 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 Upgrading from 1.0.3aUpgrading Confluence should be pretty easy: you can find instructions here. We strongly recommend that you backup your confluence.home directory and database before upgrading!
ContentsSee also: Issues Resolved for 1.1 New FeaturesMacro ManagementThe biggest Nymboida new feature from an end user point of view is going to be the rewritten macro support. Management - You can now enable and disable macros from this convenient (and very attractive) console. Macros are now grouped into libraries to make the management and creation of related macros simpler. Libraries can be installed, activated or deactivated as a single entity. Cannot resolve external resource into attachment. User Macros - We've also had a lot of requests from users for simple formatting macros: people who wanted their code snippets or notes to be formated in a certain way. Confluence 1.1 contains a simple way for administrators to create new macros from within the application without a restart: defining a template that the macro will apply to its arguments or content. User macros are very handy for providing consistent formatting and layouts across your pages. Cannot resolve external resource into attachment. Custom Macros - Installation of new macro libraries is a breeze: simply drop the library .jar file inside the web application, restart Confluence, and your new macros will appear in the management console. Confluence 1.1 also includes a custom macro toolkit (with Task List example shown below) to help users build their own complex macros easily using Java. Cannot resolve external resource into attachment. More information:
Attachments: versioning, comments and WebDAV supportVersioning - The number one feature request for Confluence 1.0 was versioned attachments. You ask, we deliver! Comments - Each attachment can now be accompanied with a comment describing why it is there, what it's about or the reason for it being attached. This is useful for tracking the differences between attachment versions, as well as for informing users as to why they should be interested in a particular file. Cannot resolve external resource into attachment. WebDAV - You can configure Confluence to store attachments in an external WebDAV server. This allows companies with an existing WebDAV infrastructure to give users alternative ways of accessing attachments and attaching files to Confluence pages. Improvements to Page and Space Exports
Customise Display of Blog PostsThe templates used to display blog posts (both individually and in lists) can be edited either globally, or on a per-space basis, in the same way as the site's main decorators are editable. Also, the interface for editing templates has improved and will continue to do so in future releases. Page LockingIf you want to prevent another user from editing, deleting or renaming a page, you can now lock it. You may want to do this because certain pages in an otherwise public space (for example, front pages, disclaimers or copyright notices) must remain un-edited, or just because you're working on the page and don't want anyone else to interfere just yet. Locking a page restricts editing to a single user (yourself), or members of a particular group. Anyone with the space administrative permission can override or delete a lock. Oracle and Weblogic SupportWe have made a concerted attack on the various issues that were making Confluence unreliable on Oracle and Weblogic, and we're pleased to report that both have been running just fine in testing. Most importantly, the bug that was preventing pages being saved to Oracle when they were over 4Kb in length has been fixed. For details of what precisely was fixed, see: Search Powerpoint and Excel AttachmentsConfluence already searches across attached Word, PDF and RTF documents, XML, HTML and any plain text file. This search support has now been expanded in Nymboida to include searching and indexing of all text within Microsoft Powerpoint presentations and Excel spreadsheets. In addition, the new attachment comments are also searchable. TinyURLEvery page has a unique, short URL displayed at the top of its Page Information page. This makes it easier to send colleague's the URLs for pages with long titles via email, instant message or IRC. New and Improved MacrosNew
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ImprovementsImprovements to the Markup EngineMany improvements have been made to the Confluence markup parser, fixing niggling inconsistencies, and allowing many more combinations of effects. If you want to produce something like the following, you can:
You can also center an image using !image.gif|align=center! Improvements to Linking
Note: Some web browsers (specifically Mozilla) consider file: URLs to be a security hazard, and do not follow them. 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-fixesIt's hard to know where to start. We've fixed a lot of bugs across the whole application. If you want to know what's been fixed, you're probably best off looking for yourself. Two areas, however, have been improved enough to deserve special mention.
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