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21 May 2008
Confluence 2.8.1 is a recommended upgrade which fixes some security flaws as well as other bugs in Confluence 2.8. Please refer to the security advisory for details of the security vulnerabilities, risk assessment and mitigation strategies.

Two of the bug fixes resolve problems with rendering a wiki page in Internet Explorer 6. Additionally, these fixes will significantly improve performance in some configurations of Confluence 2.8.

We have created some performance testing scripts, which will be particularly useful for large or mission-critical Confluence installations.

Using a custom space logo caused some problems, particularly with Resin application server, where the page would sometimes hang and then display incorrectly. This is now fixed.

There's a complete list of fixes below. Click a specific issue to see details of the fix.

Don't have Confluence 2.8 yet?
Take a look at the new features and other highlights in the Confluence 2.8 Release Notes.

Upgrading from a Previous Version of Confluence

Upgrading Confluence should be fairly straightforward. Please read the Confluence 2.8.1 Upgrade Notes. We strongly recommend that you back up your confluence.home directory and database before upgrading.

Updates and Fixes in this Release

Jira Issues
Type Key Summary Priority Status Resolution
Bug CONF-12153 Rollover help text for comment action links is misleading Minor Closed Fixed
Bug CONF-11779 Collapse all comments link collapses add, reply and edit comment forms Major Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-11774 IE6 clients download spacer.gif from wrong URL many times Critical Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-11625 Attachments view can't collapse Major Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-11621 Numbered Lists getting cut off in tables when using IE 6 and IE 7 Major Resolved Fixed
Task CONF-11612 Add note to top of DOC and archived CONFnn spaces about documentation versioning Major Closed Fixed
Bug CONF-11605 Bad link in description for Plugin Repository plugin Major Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-11585 Mailbox Import errors not escaped Trivial Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-11582 Macro for printable icon should not include <li> tags Minor Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-11532 Mailbox Import errors appear twice Trivial Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-11524 XSS vulnerability in viewinfo.action Major Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-11512 requests to fake.gif (defined in menu.css) causes SocketException in server when requested by IE6 Major Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-11491 Invalid tooltip on Edit | Remove | Reply in comments section - always says "Permanent link to this comment" Minor Closed Fixed
Bug CONF-11485 backslash missing in ConfluenceActionSupport.properties Minor Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-11482 Mail server MBean does not unregister correctly after changing name Minor Resolved Fixed
Task CONF-11479 Add left-hand pagetree navigation to Confluence documentation DOC space Major Closed Fixed
Task CONF-11468 Drop services and JavaWrapper from installer, or fix documentation Critical Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-11463 Error message styles lost in setup Minor Resolved Fixed
Improvement CONF-11462 Run as Service should not be a default - installer Major Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-11456 Installer deletes old Confluence installation without warning Critical Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-11452 Users can move attachments to a space they have no permission for Critical Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-11444 As 'Administrator' (not system admin) I cannot change parameter in General Configuration Major Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-11435 Restore and deprecate general-breadcrumbs.vm Major Closed Fixed
Bug CONF-11414 The first comment action at the bottom left should not have a border Minor Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-11412 Site Import leaves key generation strategy in an inconsitent state when running in a cluster Major Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-11399 blog-posts macro did not render "Read More..." link after excerpt Trivial Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-11385 Cancelling raise support request screen takes you to a blank page Minor Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-11378 Draft spacekey index name is too long for DB2 Critical Resolved Fixed
Task CONF-11368 Provide load-testing scripts for Large or Mission-Critical Confluence Installations Minor Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-11358 Tools link appears in wrong place on first page load Minor Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-11331 OSUser entity migration fails due to case differences in database columns Major Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-11325 Refreshing a page hangs and corrupts page results when a custom logo is used on Confluence running behind mod_jk or mod_proxy_ajp Critical Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-11300 If you collapse a loading tree node the node stays collapsed Major Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-11297 Custom end of body HTML appears twice Minor Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-11292 Page Ordering tree: Location label updates wrongly after clicking "done" Minor Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-11183 Numbered list entries are too close to left-hand margin Major Resolved Fixed
Improvement CONF-11156 Name of new page should be shown in the tree on edit Major Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-11133 Changing passwords in Confluence does not update the user cache Critical Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-11073 Menus wrap when font size is increased Minor Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-10931 New add menu still appears when user has no permissions to add Minor Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-10854 Accepting an Invitation leads to a NonUniqueObject Exception Critical Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-10335 Mail connections do not specify a timeout, leading to monopolization of resources Major Resolved Fixed
Improvement CONF-10142 Improve performance by specifying a larger size for the Content Permission Set cache Major Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-9390 Adding the same membership twice via UserAccessor throws Hibernate runtime exception Major Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-8637 Resin 3 responses are being concatenated sometimes when a custom logo is specified Critical Resolved Fixed
Bug CONF-2487 Attachments containing spaces download with + in their filenames. Major Resolved Fixed


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