Confluence 3.5 : Confluence 3.5-m2 ("Milestone 2") Release Notes
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For all production use and evaluation of Confluence, please use the latest official release. This release is a public development release ('milestone') leading up to the next Confluence major release. 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?
In supplying milestone releases, our aim is 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, and all of our milestone releases even have been performance tested for a while. However, since our milestones releases are timeboxed (that is, they are 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 that are scheduled to be fixed in the next milestone, or completely new bugs unknown even to us. Additionally, we have not completed our performance testing and compatibility testing for all supported databases and user management systems. So, for example, a milestone release may behave well on a small installation but show severe problems when subjected to many users. Upgrade ProcedureFollow the normal upgrade instructions to upgrade your test instance to this release. We strongly recommend that you backup your Confluence home directory and database before upgrading! DownloadsAll development releases are available from the development releases page on the Atlassian website. Previous Milestone(s)FeaturesImproved NotificationsAutowatch your contentHow many times have you created a page or blog post and then forgot to watch it? Confluence now lets you automatically watch any pages you add, edit or comment on. This is turned on by default for all new users and upgraded users (yes, that means you!), and you can turn off autowatch via your Email Settings page. Enabling this setting will improve your ability to keep track of your contributions on the wiki:
Easier to stop watching contentGetting too many emails from Confluence? In this milestone, we've made it much easier to stop watching pages, spaces and users. When you get a notification email now, (most of the time) there's a handy link at the bottom allowing you to quickly unsubscribe from your existing watches. The link will change depending on why you got the email in the first place (e.g. whether you were watching the space, page or network). The link takes you straight to your Manage Watches page (for space and page watches) or to your network page (for users you follow) and gives you a prompt to easily remove the appropriate watch: These notification improvements are the result of a 20% project by Anna Katrina Dominguez, who joined our team earlier this year. The project is still a work-in-progress, so please let us know what you think as per the Feedback section below. Multimedia MacroPreviously, the only way to embed multimedia items (videos and audio) in Confluence was through Wiki Markup. This milestone introduces a new multimedia macro so you can embed multimedia using the macro browser, eliminating the dependency on wiki markup. The first cut of this macro only supports SWF files but we will be adding support to more formats and advanced settings in later milestones. This macro is available via Autocomplete for Macros and the Macro Browser. Small Improvements
Performance Fixes
With these fixes, page rendering is now much faster than m1 – more than 100ms in our own testing – and roughly on par with 3.4.x. Work continues to make performance even better. Bugfixes
Known issues
FeedbackWe'd love to hear any feedback you have from testing this milestone of Confluence. Please raise any issues you discover in our issue tracker against the Confluence project with affects-version "3.5 (EAP)", or comment on this page. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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