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The Atlassian Confluence team is delighted to present Confluence 2.6. We kept you waiting a bit longer than usual for this one, but now it's here and it's packed full of goodies and looks cleaner and fresher than ever before. Read on, to find that piece of functionality you've been longing for.

Confluence 2.6 is the eleventh major release of Confluence. This release is a free upgrade for any customers who purchased their Confluence license or maintenance renewal after August 22nd 2006.

Upgrading to Confluence 2.6

Upgrading Confluence should be fairly straightforward. Please follow the instructions here. We strongly recommend that you back up your confluence.home directory and database before upgrading!

2.6 highlights

 

New look and feel

  • Default font now Arial instead of Verdana.
  • Fresh, clean look and feel - these release notes are an example of the new style.
  • If you prefer the original Confluence look and feel, select the Confluence Classic Theme when creating a space.

 

Profile picture shows on comments

  • In the new themes (Confluence Default and Clickr)
     

 

Personalised 'Recently Updated' section on Dashboard

  • Changes are grouped by person.
  • Includes profile picture and a summary of the change.
     

 

Space description on Dashboard

  • List of spaces on the Dashboard now includes a short description of the space.
     

 

Labels included in templates

  • Include labels when adding a page template.
  • New pages based on the template will automatically include the labels.
  • Read the documentation.
     

 

Default content for home pages

  • Confluence site administrators can define default content for a space.
  • Home page for newly-added spaces will include the default content.
  • Read the documentation.
     

 

Social Bookmarking plugin now bundled with Confluence

  • Use Confluence to share bookmarks with your team.
  • Plugin will be enabled by default.
  • You can create a bookmark for any space in which you have 'create page' permission.
  • To view your bookmarks, go to the 'Bookmarks' tab under 'Browse Space'.
  • To add a bookmark, click the 'Add Bookmark' option.
  • Drag the bookmarklet from the 'Bookmarks' tab onto your browser toolbar to create bookmarks anytime.
  • Use the {bookmarks} macro to display a list of bookmarks anywhere in Confluence.
  • Subscribe to an RSS feed for your bookmarks.
  • Read the [documentation].
     

 

WebDav plugin now bundled with Confluence

  • The WebDAV 1.1 plugin is now bundled with Confluence.
  • Plugin will be disabled by default.
  • Use Confluence like a network drive:
    • Access Confluence content via a WebDAV client, such as 'My Network Places' in Microsoft Windows.
    • Read and write to spaces, pages and attachments in Confluence, provided that you have permission.
    • You will be asked to log in, and the standard Confluence permissions apply.
  • To configure the WebDAV permissions and other settings, site administrators can choose the WebDAV Configuration option on the 'Administration Console'.
  • Read the documentation.

 

TaskList plugin now bundled with Confluence

  • New and improved version of Dynamic Tasklist - you can:
    • Re-order tasks reliably.
    • Include some wiki markup (links, simple formatting) in the task names.
    • Edit task names.
    • Drag a task from one list to another.
    • Assign priorities to tasks.
    • Sort tasks.
    • Change task lists in edit mode - the task lists are now stored in the page.
  • Every change saves a version of the page - no lost information.
  • Easy upgrade: The new Dynamic Tasklist plugin will find any task lists in the previous format and automatically upgrade them to the new format.
  • Read the documentation.
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Back-dating and renaming news items

  • Set the date of a news item to earlier than today, upon creation.
  • Rename a news item at any time.
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Official support of MySQL 5.0

  • MySQL 5.0 is supported when used with Confluence 2.5 and above.

 

PDF export of image-generating macros

  • Macro plugins which produce images now export to PDF, .doc and .html formats.

The Confluence 2.6 team

Development
Paul Curren
Tom Davies
Matthew Jensen
Anatoli Kazatckov
Samuel Le Berrigaud
David Loeng
Charles Miller
Christopher Owen
Agnes Ro
Matt Ryall
Don Willis

UI
Jason Taylor
Stephen Russell

Technical Writing
Rosie Jameson
Sarah Maddox

Oversight & Mismanagement
Mike Cannon-Brookes
Scott Farquhar
Soren Harner


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