Confluence Docs 3.0 : Release Notes 3.0-m9 ("Milestone 9") This page last changed on Apr 28, 2009 by pfragemann. Milestone release advisory
| Do not use this release to upgrade your production systems.
For all production use and testing of Confluence, please use the latest official release. This release is a public development release ("Milestone") leading up to Confluence 3.1, which will be probably shipped in Q4/2009. 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.
Our milestone releases aim 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 (i.e. they get 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, which are scheduled to be fixed in the next milestone, or completely new bugs unknown even to us. Additionally, our performance-testing and compatibility testing for databases and application servers is not done to the full extent. So, for example, a milestone release might behave well on a small installation but show severe problems when subjected to many users. ## Upgrade Procedure Follow the normal upgrade instructions to upgrade from Confluence 3.0.x to this release. We strongly recommend that you backup your confluence-home directory and database before upgrading! ## Downloads All development releases are available from Development Releases on the Atlassian website. # Summary We are one week away from feature freeze, so this is the last major milestone before we enter beta next week. We are still working on some wording, on some plugin upgrades, and a few UI tweaks, but M9 is pretty much how Confluence 3 will look like. From now on, it's mainly about fixing up non-critical bugs and doing code reviews. Many Code reviews! Enjoy: ### Community ##### Followed Users and Favourite Spaces The terminology has been cleaned up and made consistent across the application. If you want to see what a user is doing you follow them, if you want to see what happens in a space, you mark that space as favourite. You can mark a personal space as favourite, and this is independent of following the user who owns the space. One area we still want to improve is the 'User Follow' menu item and profile tab, which needs a better name. ##### Follow Tab RSS and Design Improvements You can now get an RSS feed on any user's 'User Follow' tab. This feed will include all activity of the users followed by that person. This is a great new way of monitoring content on the Extranet. We've redesigned the follow tab to highlight the activity information more and handle large lists of followers. We also added some clarifying text to this tab to better describe the different sections of this page. There is now a maximum number of followers shown on this page, and separate pages to show the complete list. This addresses the performance and usability problems discovered in the previous milestone when you had a large number of followers or people following you.
##### Profile Page Updates The layout of the profile page has been changed to try to improve the visiblity of the activity. This puts the user's personal information over on the right hand side of the page. On the left hand side, we now have new links to follow a user and favourite their space.
##### Update User Status Permission A new global permission was introduced to give system administrators control over who can use the user status feature. If the permission is turned off for a user (or their group) then they will not have the ability to set their user status, nor will they have an 'Status Updates' tab in their profile. ### Macro Browser ##### Macro Browser in the RTE The Macro Browser is now finally available in the Confluence rich text editor (RTE)! It will assist you in inserting and editing macros, without having to understand the wiki markup. Editing a macro can be done by placing the cursor in the start or end tags of the macro wiki markup. If you have context menus enabled, you will also see a new option for insert/editing macros. ##### Upgraded Macro Icons Thanks to Stephen, we have even better icons for the macros in the macro browser. Check 'em out!
### AUI 1.0 Confluence is now using the first release of AUI, 1.0. ### PDF Export Many bug fixes have been done for the new PDF export: CONF-15220 - PDF Export converts a bulleted sublist into a numbered sublist CONF-15148 - Follow macro should not include the 'Add' action when exported to PDF CONF-15042 - PDF Space Export text uses US spelling instead of Australian CONF-15038 - PDF Export from a page with non-default theme is trying to use the old method, and so it fails with an error CONF-14909 - column and section macros render differently in PDF export when they have borders CONF-14904 - IM presence macro shows a roque nbsp when exporting to PDF CONF-14901 - The PDF export doesn't recognize all literal colors when used in the color macro CONF-14889 - PDF Export from the Info pages is trying to use the old method, and so it fails with an error ### Engine Room Confluence has been upgraded to the latest releases of Plugins 2 and SAL. Attachments: follow_help.png (image/png) follow_improvements.png (image/png) follow_pagin.png (image/png) NewMacroIcons.png (image/png) NewToolbarIcon.jpg (image/jpeg) profile_layout.png (image/png) profile_links.png (image/png)

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