The Atlassian Confluence team is delighted to present Confluence 2.6.

Confluence 2.6 is the eleventh major release of Confluence. This release includes a number of popular new features:

• Dashboard improvements and a new look and feel
• labels included in templates
• default space content available as an administration option
• other features and fixes as listed below.

Confirm date when we know the release date: Confluence 2.6 is a free upgrade for any customerss who purchased their Confluence license or maintenance renewal after August 22nd 2006.

Thank you for your feedback

Thank you to everyone who helps us improve our products by providing ongoing feedback and voting for issues.

Upgrading to Confluence 2.6

Upgrading Confluence should be fairly straightforward. You can find instructions here. We strongly recommend that you backup your confluence.home directory and database before upgrading!

Dashboard improvements and a new look and feel

Improvements include:

• personalised 'Recently Updated' section on Dashboard
• space description in list of spaces on Dashboard
• profile picture on comments
• Confirm: dynamic content menu - dropdown for page actions and add content options
• default font now Arial instead of Verdana.

If you prefer the original Confluence look and feel, select the Confluence Classic Theme when creating a space.

Personalised 'Recently Updated' section on Dashboard:
The Recently Updated section on the Dashboard now shows the changes grouped by person, including their profile picture (if they have one) and a summary of the change.

Screenshot: Dashboard — 'Recently Updated' section

Space description in list of spaces on Dashboard:
The list of spaces on the Dashboard now includes a short description of the space, copied from the Description on the Space Details page.

Screenshot: Dashboard — list of spaces

Profile picture on comments:
Comments now include the profile picture of the person who made the comment.

Screenshot: Comment including profile picture

Labels included in templates

This new feature resolves a popular issue. Thank you to everyone who supported and voted on this issue.

You can now include labels on page templates. When someone creates a page based on such a template, the page will automatically be tagged with the template's labels.

Once a page has been created using your template, you can use the {contentbylabel} macro to find the pages.

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Default space content available as an administration option

This popular enhancement allows administrators to define default content for a space home page. Go to the Administration Console and select Default Space Content.

Screenshot: Customising default space content

WebDav plugin now bundled with Confluence

The WebDAV 1.1 plugin is now bundled with Confluence. By default, this plugin will be disabled.

The WebDAV plugin allows you to access Confluence content via a WebDAV client, such as 'My Network Places' in Microsoft Windows. Provided that you have permission, you will be able to read and write to spaces, pages and attachments in Confluence. You will be asked to log in, and the standard Confluence permissions apply.

To configure the WebDAV permissions and other settings, go to site Administration and choose the WebDAV Configuration option.

Refer to the plugin documentation for further details.

Social Bookmarking plugin now bundled with Confluence

The Social Bookmarking 1.0 plugin is now bundled with Confluence. By default, this plugin will be enabled.

The Social Bookmarking plugin allows you to use Confluence to share bookmarks with other members of your team. Every space now has a "Bookmarks" tab where bookmarks for that space are displayed. You can create a bookmark for any space in which you have "create page" permission.

• To view the bookmarks, use the Bookmarks tab under Browse Space.
• To add a bookmark, use the bookmarklet found of the Bookmarks tab, or enable the "Add bookmark" menu item.
• You can use the {bookmarks} macro to display a list of bookmarks anywhere, filtered by label, space, or author.
• You can get an RSS feed of bookmarks, also filtered by label, space, or author.

Refer to the plugin documentation for further details.

TaskList plugin now bundled with Confluence

TaskList 2.0 TBC - still undecided (JN)
We've replaced the original Dynamic Tasklist plugin with a new and improved version, Dynamic Tasklist v2! This new plugin fixes many of the long-standing limitations of the Dynamic Tasklist:

• You can now re-order the tasks reliably.
• You can include some wiki markup (links, simple formatting) in the task names.
• You can edit the task names.

We also added some useful new features:

• You can now drag a task from one list to another one.
• You can assign priorities to the tasks.
• You can sort the tasks.
• The task lists are now stored in the page, so you can change them in edit mode.
• Every dynamic task change saves a version of the page. No lost information.

The new Dynamic Tasklist plugin will find any tasks lists in the previous format and automatically upgrade them to the new format.

Refer to the plugin documentation for further details.

Full list of issues resolved in 2.6

You can view a full list of issues resolved.

The Confluence 2.6 Team

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