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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

Keyboard shortcuts dialog

Confluence now has a keyboard shortcuts dialog. This dialog is accessible by pressing '?' on your keyboard or going to Browse > Keyboard Shortcuts.

New Keyboard shortcuts

  • 'e' to edit
  • 'm' to comment
  • 'l' to label
  • '/' to quick search
  • 'g' then 'd' to go to the dashboard
  • ... and lots more. Go to Browse > Confluence Keyboard Shortcuts to discover more of them...
    Note: There are some known issues with Safari for Mac, but we are ironing them out and they should be fixed next release. Some of these keyboard shortcuts are likely to change.

Notable Bug Fixes

  • Preview in FireFox now works
  • Move page dialog now works

Other Improvements

  • Recently updated on dashboard now tells you what the user did (eg updated, commented) and has a timestamp for each activity.
    Note: The space description no longer renders wiki markup
  • UPM has been upgraded to the latest milestone
  • Browse > Advanced > Space details form has been converted to AUI style forms

Improvements

Improvements in 3.4-m4 (5 issues)
Type Key Summary Status
Improvement CONF-20749 Improve sitemesh decoration performance Resolved
Improvement CONF-20685 Update Confluence Dashboard Macros to version 1.16, 2 issues fixed in this release Resolved
Improvement CONF-20601 websudo annotation backwards compatibility (Confluence 3.3) Resolved
Improvement CONF-20570 Add timestamp to the end of every item in the dashboard recently updated macro Resolved
Improvement CONF-20502 Update add and subtract icons Resolved

Bug Fixes

Bugs Fixed in 3.4-m4 (6 issues)
Type Key Summary Status
Bug CONF-21905 CLONE - Editor preview doesn't expand to show complete content Resolved
Bug CONF-20617 Cannot build REST documentation for Confluence 3.3.1 Resolved
Bug CONF-20608 Page gadgets fail with an internal server error Resolved
Bug CONF-20441 Editor preview doesn't expand to show complete content Resolved
Bug CONF-20343 sudo is decorated with global decorator Resolved
Bug CONF-19738 bootstrapPluginManager is still available to plugins system - is not thrown away. Resolved


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