This page last changed on Apr 10, 2008 by smaddox.

Below is the full list of issues resolved by Confluence 2.8. You can read the release notes here.

Atlassian JIRA (128 issues)
T Key Summary Status Res
Improvement CONF-1031 Page ordering Resolved FIXED
Improvement CONF-1075 Custom print-only stylesheet Resolved FIXED
Improvement CONF-3525 View News needs to be more prominent Resolved FIXED
New Feature CONF-3719 Drag and Drop functionality in the Tree Viewer for moving pages Resolved FIXED
Improvement CONF-4002 Write uploaded file directly to disk. Resolved FIXED
New Feature CONF-4577 Filter by multiple labels Resolved FIXED
Improvement CONF-4939 Notify on delete Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-4961 Blog-posts macro limits number of results before applying label filter rather than after Resolved FIXED
Improvement CONF-5735 Improve handling of downtime of an LDAP repository Closed FIXED
Bug CONF-6532 Stack trace when LDAP user tries to reset password in "Forgot my password" action Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-7451 Many LDAP groups make 'Edit Groups' very slow Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-7620 Downloaded zip files with IE7 is corrupted (not able to open the archive) from confluence.atlassian.com Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-8138 Notifications for file attachment removal states the file attachers name, not the file removers name Resolved FIXED
Improvement CONF-8293 Removed content notifications should include "removed by" user Resolved FIXED
Improvement CONF-8483 under 'Space > List Attachments', make 'Filter By File Extension' non-case-sensitive Closed FIXED
Bug CONF-8921 Show All Comments Doesn't Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-8971 Inefficient group lookups Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-8972 NullPointerException when accessing a Confluence instance via tinyURL link wihtout identifier Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-9093 Max label limit can be passed by adding labels via ajax Resolved FIXED
New Feature CONF-9220 Create a support request page similar to JIRA Resolved FIXED
New Feature CONF-9291 Pluggable wiki renderers Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-9302 match-labels=all behaviour of the blog posts macro is not correct if a label does not exist Resolved FIXED
Improvement CONF-9304 Remove dependency on pell-multipart Resolved FIXED
Improvement CONF-9433 Upgrade Atlassian Common modules for Confluence 2.7 Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-9571 Upgrade tangosol to a new version Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-9609 Space key with "-" (hyphen) thows exception Resolved FIXED
New Feature CONF-9640 Upgrade Confluence's Velocity dependency to 1.5 Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-9666 SQLException when trying to purge external referrers Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-9723 remove comment notification wrongly claims that the comment author (or perhaps page author?) is the comment remover Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-9750 IllegalStateException from JDK hook on shutdown Closed FIXED
Improvement CONF-9790 Check for database latency and display it in system information page Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-9806 Pagination on Attachments tab does not reflect filtered results Closed FIXED
Bug CONF-9832 Ability to 'Show Comment' even when No comment set Resolved FIXED
New Feature CONF-9861 JMX interface for core statistics Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-9885 Admin group membership URL fails for groups with parentheses in group id Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-9892 Page Removed notification contains wrong user Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-9893 Pagination in the User Picker(Search) is broken when using the group filter Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-9895 & in User group name causes problems Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-9930 Gzip filter creates very large temporary objects in memory Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-9983 Editing News items (blog posts) allows you to save them without a title Resolved FIXED
Improvement CONF-10029 Include JDBC database info in automatic support request email Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-10037 Pages - Alphabetical View , problem with 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ... Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-10213 XML RPC server uses platform default character encoding to decode requests Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-10222 "Diff" option in the RSS Feed Builder does not take effect Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-10260 Blank daily notification emails Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-10305 Multimedia *.swf files are not able to render in Internet Explorer browser Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-10323 Coherence Lock being held when it appears no thread should have the lock. Causes ConcurrentModificationException Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-10328 Upgrade mail in Confluence 2.8 trunk Closed FIXED
Improvement CONF-10343 Upgrade atlassian-cache-servlet in Confluence trunk Closed FIXED
Improvement CONF-10392 Confluence javac should not fork Closed FIXED
Bug CONF-10394 Bloated logfiles due to warning message from [apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase] getResponseBody() Closed FIXED
Improvement CONF-10397 Index what kind of content a comment has been added to Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-10409 Image insert popup reports that uploaded images are not valid images Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-10449 No whitespace before the word 'updated' on comments Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-10463 RPC method 'convertToPersonalSpace' ignores parameter 'newName' for space's new name Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-10467 Multimedia WMV files embedded into a Confluence page fail to load Closed FIXED
Task CONF-10484 Update http compression documentation Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-10491 Page Ordering: The tree component should show all pages Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-10505 When clicking 'preview' you don't get a spinning graphic showing that page is loading Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-10524 Unable to edit an attachment comment to blank (effectively removing it) Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-10550 LDAP Acceptance Tests fail with OutOfMemoryErrors Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-10552 ConfluenceCachingBandanaPersister retrieves entire contexts when asked for a single record. Resolved FIXED
Improvement CONF-10554 Improve instructions in README text and HTML files in Confluence Standalone zip Resolved FIXED
Improvement CONF-10574 Typo in attachment logging statement - "Cound" instead of "Could" Closed FIXED
Improvement CONF-10584 Integrate Paddle into Confluence Resolved FIXED
Improvement CONF-10587 Path Conversion Plugin Points Resolved FIXED
Improvement CONF-10589 Page Ordering:Should be able to cancel an operation after I started dragging a page Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-10602 Lots of plugins broken by CacheManager change Closed FIXED
Improvement CONF-10605 Groups listed in user profile should link to group search page Resolved FIXED
Improvement CONF-10611 Improve user listing navigation and make number of users displayed configurable Resolved FIXED
Improvement CONF-10620 Update the confluence-jira3-plugin to use the new cache API Closed FIXED
Bug CONF-10645 class cast exception when viewing users in groups and Userlister macro throws ClassCastException when using osuser for user management. Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-10650 No groups are displayed under the "Manage Groups" page if Confluence fails to query an LDAP repository Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-10660 Renaming a blogpost to use an illegal character causes exception instead of a simple error/try-again page Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-10686 Some space permissions lost after upgrade to 2.7.1 Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-10712 Add menu appears behind some plugins Closed FIXED
Bug CONF-10726 Ctrl+S isn't saving in editor Closed FIXED
Bug CONF-10736 Anonymous users can't remove news / blogs even though there is an explicit permissions allowing them to do so Resolved FIXED
Improvement CONF-10777 Stop processing views of historical content in the usage tracking plugin Resolved FIXED
Task CONF-10831 Order children pages according to page ordering rules Closed FIXED
Improvement CONF-10849 Cache editor resources using /s/ caching servlet Resolved FIXED
Task CONF-10851 Renderer component plugin documentation Closed FIXED
Task CONF-10852 Document move away from using Administrative and SpaceAdministrative interfaces Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-10905 Can edit a news post to have the same title as another post in the same day Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-10910 Confluence Setup Wizard points to incorrect documentation on CAC Resolved FIXED
Improvement CONF-10912 Improve comment threading Resolved FIXED
Improvement CONF-10913 Remove GlobalHelper dependency from Condition implementations Resolved FIXED
Improvement CONF-10922 Various UI improvements required Closed FIXED
Improvement CONF-10927 Page link should only include the Page Title Resolved FIXED
Improvement CONF-10936 Incorporate improved German and French translations Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-10940 NPE when attachment has no client provided content-type header Closed FIXED
Bug CONF-10946 No 404 on Tree view when invalid space key is given Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-10991 Upgrade to Velocity 1.5 has drastically reduced concurrency Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-10996 Cannot save a page once a location is changed through the page ordering tree. Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-11014 Exception when visiting page drafts Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-11017 Fix anti-aliasing of icons in menus Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-11040 Grouppicker and Userpicker display unescaped user-entered content Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-11046 customised heading colours not respected Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-11065 Pages with no children have a '- ' icon against their title on a page ordering tree when viewed in Safari Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-11069 Clicking breadcrumbs ellipsis makes navbar bigger through incorrect wrapping Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-11081 URL not encoded for group browser Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-11100 Menus wrap when using French translation Closed FIXED
Bug CONF-11118 Scrolling almost unusable Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-11121 Backup does not work in 2.8 Closed FIXED
Bug CONF-11123 Page ordering tree, esc does not cancel the move on ie6 Closed WON'T FIX
Bug CONF-11127 Location label on a edit/new page should be updated after a user clics 'DONE' if the location is changed via the PO tree. Closed FIXED
Improvement CONF-11139 Improve custom profile pic detection logic in templates Closed FIXED
Improvement CONF-11147 Results of query for latest versions of attachments should be cached Closed FIXED
Bug CONF-11152 User with null email address breaks daily report job Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-11178 Cannot restrict permissions when my locale is set to French Resolved FIXED
Improvement CONF-11215 Use hCard microformat for people directory Closed FIXED
Bug CONF-11223 Classic theme comment tabs layout ugly Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-11230 calls to userAccessor.getUser(userName) causes IncompatibleClassChangeError Closed FIXED
Improvement CONF-11239 Anonymous rpc access causes large amount of WARN messages in logs Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-11253 SimpleSmtpServer fails to start Closed FIXED
Bug CONF-11259 Cannot switch language in the setup wizard prior to the database setup step Resolved FIXED
Improvement CONF-11274 Confluence should display server ID on "outdated license" page Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-11275 Moving the base UserAccessor and DefaultUserAccessor out of bucket broke binary compability Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-11279 Adding a comment on the clickr theme produces a javascript alert of a SQL exception Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-11307 Bread-crumbs for long running task not internationalized Resolved FIXED
Task CONF-11311 Documentation page for mission critical applications Closed FIXED
Bug CONF-11322 Installer does not prevent you from selecting lnk files - Confluence fails to start up Closed WON'T FIX
Bug CONF-11326 Duplicate filter-mapping in web.xml prevents deployment in Weblogic Server 9.2 Closed FIXED
Improvement CONF-11328 Improve label for license generation in Setup Wizard Resolved FIXED
Task CONF-11330 Supply new indexes.ddl file for Upgrade Guide Closed FIXED
Bug CONF-11334 In "Support Request" email, some variables aren't set Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-11352 Lost i18n of comment.show.all for other bundled themes Resolved FIXED
Bug CONF-11384 The Save/Cancel buttons are in the wrong place in the edit page, and initially can't be clicked Resolved FIXED

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