Confluence 3.5 : Confluence 3.5-m1 ("Milestone 1") Release Notes
This page last changed on Dec 13, 2010 by mhodges.
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)This is the first milestone in Confluence 3.5 development. FeaturesImproved user management – better LDAP support and moreThis milestone includes the first release of the new improved user management in Confluence trunk bringing a number of significant user management improvements to Confluence:
That said, there is still a bit of work to get this ready for release. Outstanding work on user management for Confluence 3.5 includes:
Feedback welcome. If you can test an upgrade of Confluence in your test environment and Confluence does not correctly upgrade your user management configuration or data, we would love to hear from you. Please raise an issue as covered in the Feedback section below. Screenshots
Documentation theme improvementsWe have added a neat improvement to the Documentation theme where you can configure the search box to limit searches to the current space by default. We think this will be really useful for knowledge base or documentation spaces, where searching in the current space is the most common use case.
Keyboard shortcut improvementsBuilding on top of the Confluence 3.4 keyboard shortcut improvements:
Other improvementsThe dashboard icons now use CSS sprites, which should make for faster initial and subsequent load times when viewing the Confluence dashboard. API changesThe user management changes have results in significant API changes in this area of the application. Specifically, the following change has broken some of our plugin test code:
We aim to preserve complete backwards-compatibility for plugins where possible, so please raise an issue if your plugin is broken in a way that cannot be backwards-compatible. 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. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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