Confluence Docs 3.0 : Release Notes 1.4-RC2 This page last changed on Jun 29, 2006 by david.soul@atlassian.com. ### Confluence 1.4 Release Candidate 2
| 1.4-RC2 is now available for download here.
Confluence 1.4-RC2 is (barring some absolute disaster) the final public developer build for Confluence 1.4. It incorporates all the changes that were deployed in the private DR7 build, as well as around 60 new bug fixes and improvements. Confluence 1.4-RC2 is being released to give Confluence customers the opportunity to test the upgrade path for their existing Confluence installation. By testing your migration with this pre-release, you can ensure that any problems you may experience will be fixed before the final 1.4 release, rather than having to rely on ad-hoc patches or wait for 1.4.1. #### Who should upgrade? While 1.4-RC2 is still pre-release software, and we do not recommend upgrading production Confluence sites until the release of 1.4-final, we would recommend any existing Confluence customer install this release on a test server, and try to import their existing Confluence data into it. #### Upgrade Procedure Upgrading Confluence should be pretty easy. If you are upgrading from Confluence 1.3 or higher, you can find instructions here. We strongly recommend that you backup your `confluence.home` directory and database before upgrading! If you are upgrading from Confluence 1.2.3 or earlier, be sure to read the upgrade instructions in the Confluence 1.3 release notes.
| When you first start Confluence 1.4-RC2 after upgrading, the server may take a few minutes to become fully functional. This is because Confluence is rearranging information in the database so that it can be looked up more efficiently. This will only be done the first time Confluence is started after upgrading.
### New Features in Confluence 1.4-RC2 The changes made between DR7 and RC2 are mostly correctness and polish issues - major feature development on Confluence 1.4 has been completed. A few notable changes however are: You can upload attachments while editing a page – from the "Insert Link" popup The dynamic content-tree degrades gracefully on unsupported browsers Many bugs related to PDF export (and images included in PDF exports) have been fixed Ü characters in page titles no longer confuse the database Text properties set via the contentPropertyManager can now be longer than 255 characters, fixing related bugs in the {tasklist} and {excerpt} macros The {attachments} macro can display the list of attachments inline within a page New XML-RPC and SOAP plugin types allow you to deploy web services dynamically into Confluence A potential connection leak that has been causing problems for Oracle users has been fixed. And much much more.

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