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Milestone release advisory
For testing use only
Do not use this release to upgrade your production systems.

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?

Please note the following
  • Development releases are not safe — Development releases are snapshots of the ongoing Confluence development process. As such:
    • While we try to keep these releases stable, they have not undergone the same degree of testing as a full release.
    • Features in development releases may be incomplete, or may change or be removed before the next full release.
  • No upgrade path — Because development releases represent work in progress, we can not provide a supported upgrade path between development releases, or from any development release to the eventual final release. Thus, it is possible that you will not be able to migrate any data you store in a Confluence development release to a future Confluence release.

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 Procedure

Follow 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!

Downloads

All development releases are available from the development releases page on the Atlassian website.

Previous Milestone(s)

Previous milestones in the 3.4 release:

Features

There are no new features in this release, it's mostly improvements and bug fixes to prior releases.

Other Improvements

  • Universal Plugin Manager has been upgraded and minor issues adressed
  • Browse > Advanced > PDF/HTML/XML Export page layouts updated for spaces.
  • Dropdown menu containing 'select all' and 'deselect all' options added to Edit Space Permissions form. (CONF-7817)
  • New AUI version includes new, redesigned shadows (now true drop shadows rather than the old three-side shadow effect)

Known issues

  • AUI drop shadows disabled in IE while a Confluence bug is resolved (this means no shadows on dropdowns and dialogs in IE for beta1)
  • IE renders some JavaScript errors for the new keyboard shortcuts

Improvements

Improvements in 3.4-beta1 (6 issues)
Type Key Summary Status
Improvement CONF-20599 Space details form should have display/viewing mode in the same (space admin) tab Resolved
Improvement CONF-20550 Improve error reporting when creating a child page with the same page as a parent Resolved
Improvement CONF-20204 The URL context and source IP (and headers?) should be logged when an login fails Resolved
Improvement CONF-19279 Slimmer blog pushes long titles down in global spaces Resolved
Improvement CONF-16013 Browse > Advanced >Export page layouts lack elegance Resolved
Improvement CONF-7817 Provide select-all and deselect-all options in Edit Space Permissions dialogue (or "remove user") Resolved

Bug Fixes

Bugs Fixed in 3.4-beta1 (6 issues)
Type Key Summary Status
Bug CONF-20841 Update Advanced Macros to 1.11, two issues fixed in this release Resolved
Bug CONF-20754 License Details: Links in error message are broken. Resolved
Bug CONF-20369 A user can access a space's PDF Layout/Stylesheets without global Confluence admin permissions. Resolved
Bug CONF-20290 Dropshadow missing from dashboard dropdown Resolved
Bug CONF-20199 Propery Panels, Autocomplete have lines in the corners that shouldn't be there in IE Resolved
Bug CONF-13890 Tooltip showing number of attachments is showing for all items in the Browse menu Resolved


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