Confluence 3.5 : Release Notes 3.0-m9 ("Milestone 9")
This page last changed on Apr 28, 2009 by pfragemann.
Milestone release advisory
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. SummaryWe are one week away from feature freeze, so this is the last major milestone before we enter beta next week. We are still working on some wording, on some plugin upgrades, and a few UI tweaks, but M9 is pretty much how Confluence 3 will look like. From now on, it's mainly about fixing up non-critical bugs and doing code reviews. Many Code reviews! Enjoy: CommunityFollowed Users and Favourite SpacesThe terminology has been cleaned up and made consistent across the application. If you want to see what a user is doing you follow them, if you want to see what happens in a space, you mark that space as favourite. You can mark a personal space as favourite, and this is independent of following the user who owns the space. One area we still want to improve is the 'User Follow' menu item and profile tab, which needs a better name. Follow Tab RSS and Design ImprovementsYou can now get an RSS feed on any user's 'User Follow' tab. This feed will include all activity of the users followed by that person. This is a great new way of monitoring content on the Extranet. We've redesigned the follow tab to highlight the activity information more and handle large lists of followers. We also added some clarifying text to this tab to better describe the different sections of this page. There is now a maximum number of followers shown on this page, and separate pages to show the complete list. This addresses the performance and usability problems discovered in the previous milestone when you had a large number of followers or people following you.
Profile Page UpdatesThe layout of the profile page has been changed to try to improve the visiblity of the activity. This puts the user's personal information over on the right hand side of the page. On the left hand side, we now have new links to follow a user and favourite their space.
Update User Status PermissionA new global permission was introduced to give system administrators control over who can use the user status feature. If the permission is turned off for a user (or their group) then they will not have the ability to set their user status, nor will they have an 'Status Updates' tab in their profile. Macro BrowserMacro Browser in the RTEThe Macro Browser is now finally available in the Confluence rich text editor (RTE)! It will assist you in inserting and editing macros, without having to understand the wiki markup. Editing a macro can be done by placing the cursor in the start or end tags of the macro wiki markup. If you have context menus enabled, you will also see a new option for insert/editing macros. Upgraded Macro IconsThanks to Stephen, we have even better icons for the macros in the macro browser. Check 'em out!
AUI 1.0Confluence is now using the first release of AUI, 1.0. PDF ExportMany bug fixes have been done for the new PDF export: CONF-15220 - PDF Export converts a bulleted sublist into a numbered sublist Engine RoomConfluence has been upgraded to the latest releases of Plugins 2 and SAL. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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