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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:

New Features

Universal Plugin Manager

Confluence is now bundled with Universal Plugin Manager (UPM). The UPM allows you to see and manage the plugins that you have installed in Confluence, and it allows you to discover, download and install new plugins from the Atlassian Plugin Exchange. You can read more about the UPM here.

User Macros in the Macro Browser

User macros are now available in the Macro Browser and can have the same amount of metadata as existing plugin macros. The current default is to hide user macros from browse/search in the Macro Browser until the admin updates them. Below is a screenshot of what the user macro form looks like (Note: This will slightly change in a later milestone)

Confluence administrators and user macro developers can enter macro and parameter meta-data via the admin console. This meta-data will reflected in the macro browser. Below is an example snippet of the new syntax that is available in a user macro:

## @param author:title=Author(s)|type=string|required=false|desc=Include pages created or modified by these authors. Separate each author with a comma.
## @param showLabels:title=Show Labels for Each Page|type=boolean|required=false|default=true
## @param showSpace:title=Show Space Name for Each Page|type=boolean|required=false|default=true
## @param excerpt:title=Display Excerpts|type=boolean|required=false|default=false|desc=Displays the first line of excerpts for each page.
## @param maxResults:title=Maximum number of results|type=int|required=false|default=15
## @param title:title=List Title|type=string|required=false
## @param spaces:title=Spaces|desc=These are case-sensitive. Separate each item with a comma or single space.|type=string|required=false
## @param sort:title=Sort By|type=enum|required=false|enumValues=title,creation,modified|default=modified
##
## .... (rest of the macro content)

More detailed User Macro API docs  will be provided later, explaining how to enable user macros in the macro browser and how to develop user macros for the macro browser.

Improvements

Improvements in 3.4-m2 (4 issues)
Type Key Summary Status
Improvement CONF-20483 Add new component for OSGi plugins to get the active Hibernate session Resolved
Improvement CONF-20429 Replace default avatar and add avatar images Resolved
Improvement CONF-20274 Make real request and response objects available during Word export Resolved
Improvement CONF-16655 Display user macros in the macro browser Resolved

Bug Fixes

Bugs Fixed in 3.4-m2 (7 issues)
Type Key Summary Status
Bug CONF-20454 Doc Theme is incompatible with Page Restrictions Resolved
Bug CONF-20448 User options menu is unaligned Resolved
Bug CONF-20428 The "Server Base URL must be set to the same URL" message on editgeneralconfig.vm uses the doc macro to generate a link to the knowledge base, which doesn't work Resolved
Bug CONF-18962 Some pdf files don't get correctly indexed Resolved
Bug CONF-18403 Users with a whitespace in username cannot add favourites or apply page restriction Resolved
Bug CONF-10911 PDF Extractor unable to index chinese and Japanese characters Resolved
Bug CONF-5825 Confluence can't index certain types of PDF files Resolved


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