Confluence Docs 3.0 : Release Notes 3.1-m6 ("Milestone 6") This page last changed on Oct 22, 2009 by pfragemann. Milestone release advisory
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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?
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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. ## Overview We are pretty close to Beta now, so if you are a plugin author and haven't checked out the latest milestones of 3.1, you should do it now. The API won't change much anymore, from now on it's mainly bugfixing. ## Gadgets & Office Team ### Editing user preferences of OpenSocial gadgets in the Macro Browser You can now edit user preferences of OpenSocial gadgets directly in the Macro Browser. Let's take our all time favourite Hamster gadget as an example:
| The UI will be slightly different in the next milestone, as we are going to move the form fields in the center of to the right hand side and make them part of the normal macro parameters.
### Gadget Directory You can now discover which gadgets are exposed by Confluence and can be used in other OpenSocial containers like JIRA 4 or iGoogle. There is a new "Gadget Directory" menu item in the browse menu which allows you to browse through the list of available gadgets. ## Dialogs Team There's a new "Insert" menu in the editor that helps you insert links, attachments, images and some default macros without having to already know which little button you're meant to press. (On IE the macro icons look odd, that's a bug and will be adressed soon) Help us choose the right macros! We picked a few macros that we thought users should know about, which are simple enough to use right away, and which represent a decent spread across a range of macros to stimulate your interest in the "add more" buttton. Our constraint is 5 macros max, since the menus gets too long on stupid goddamn good old IE6 on a 1024x768 screen. Apart from the edit menu, some bug fixes of note: [Problems with links] in the RTE have been fixed; pressing escape in the new image dialog doesn't prevent it working next time; and move page works in IE8. A lot of work has gone into the new page move dialog but it's not quite ready, so we didn't put it into M6. ## Engine Room A setting (under General Config) to serve the Javascripts back in the header has been introduced. This has been disabled by default for this milestone but will eventually be turned on as the default for 3.1. Reasoning behind this is that quite a few plugins have been broken and unusable by moving the scripts to the bottom of the page. Work has been continued on the REST API however these were purely back end changes and the API itself has not changed since m5. ## Bugfix Team CONF-17171 - made selecting a page version on a page history view easier General bug fixing. ## Small Improvements # New Login Screen design, which looks more consistent with other products like JIRA. Another step forward in terms of making Confluence look better ## Known Issues Errors were reported by the JIRA trusted connection. APP_UNKNOWN; Unknown Application: {0}; ["confluence:4557196"]
JIRA Issues (20 issues)
Type | Key | Summary | Assignee | Reporter | Priority | Status | Resolution | Created | Updated | Due
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| CONF-17444 | The move-page dialog can be cancelled with ESC but the move operation is still executed | Unassigned | Per Fragemann [Atlassian] |  | Open | Unresolved | Nov 02, 2009 | Nov 02, 2009 |
| CONF-17441 | Pasting text into RTE in Safari loses focus from the editor | Unassigned | Don Willis [Atlassian] |  | Open | Unresolved | Nov 02, 2009 | Nov 02, 2009 |
| CONF-17413 | TaskQueueFlushJob not longer uses abstract getQueueName method to set the queue name | Agnes Ro [Atlassian] | Roberto Dominguez |  | Open | Unresolved | Oct 30, 2009 | Nov 02, 2009 |
| CONF-17406 | Changes to content properties don't get rolled back | Unassigned | Chris Kiehl [Atlassian] |  | Open | Unresolved | Oct 29, 2009 | Nov 02, 2009 |
| CONF-17396 | groupSearchActionName velocity markup shown on "Edit Space Permissions" screen | Brian Nguyen [Atlassian] | David Taylor [Atlassian] |  | Open | Unresolved | Oct 29, 2009 | Nov 02, 2009 |
| CONF-17388 | RTE Rendering Issue | Unassigned | Stephen Russell [Atlassian] |  | Open | Unresolved | Oct 28, 2009 | Oct 29, 2009 |
| CONF-17364 | Attachments dropdown allows users to access edit screen without permission, and gives confusing error | Unassigned | Mark Hrynczak [Atlassian] |  | Open | Unresolved | Oct 27, 2009 | Nov 03, 2009 |
| CONF-17355 | Image dialog should not allow thumbnail to be selected for web images | Matt Ryall [Atlassian] | Mark Hrynczak [Atlassian] |  | Open | Unresolved | Oct 27, 2009 | Nov 02, 2009 |
| CONF-17341 | NPE in ListItemConverter.convertNode(ListItemConverter.java:50) when saving page | Unassigned | George Barnett [Atlassian] |  | Open | Unresolved | Oct 26, 2009 | Nov 02, 2009 |
| CONF-17332 | Can click Preview multiple times on "From the web" tab in image dialog, produces many spinners | Matt Ryall [Atlassian] | Per Fragemann [Atlassian] |  | Open | Unresolved | Oct 26, 2009 | Nov 03, 2009 |
| CONF-17329 | When Adding or Editing a page, the top 'Save' and 'Cancel' buttons are partially 'eaten up' by the text editing field in Wiki Markup mode. | Unassigned | Giles Gaskell [Atlassian] |  | Open | Unresolved | Oct 26, 2009 | Oct 28, 2009 |
| CONF-17322 | IE8 complains that some parts of the edit page are not secure. Suspecting the hamster | Chris Kiehl [Atlassian] | Per Fragemann [Atlassian] |  | Open | Unresolved | Oct 25, 2009 | Nov 02, 2009 |
| CONF-17292 | Office 2007 Excel file does not preview, results in proxy error, then in Out of Memory | Ryan Ackley | Per Fragemann [Atlassian] |  | Open | Unresolved | Oct 21, 2009 | Oct 25, 2009 |
| CONF-17277 | Quicknav doesn't allow command-click to open in new tab anymore | Dmitry Baranovskiy [Atlassian] | Per Fragemann [Atlassian] |  | Open | Unresolved | Oct 20, 2009 | Nov 02, 2009 |
| CONF-17272 | NullPointerException when rendering comments on a page on EAC | Unassigned | Matt Ryall [Atlassian] |  | Open | Unresolved | Oct 19, 2009 | Nov 03, 2009 |
| CONF-17248 | Bundled Plugin dependency model causing problems with source build | Paul Curren [Atlassian] | Matthew Jensen [Atlassian] |  | Open | Unresolved | Oct 15, 2009 | Nov 03, 2009 |
| CONF-17237 | Drag & Drop does not work on Attachments page for Left Nav and Clickr themes | Dave Loeng [Atlassian] | Mark Hrynczak [Atlassian] |  | Open | Unresolved | Oct 14, 2009 | Nov 03, 2009 |
| CONF-17236 | Drag & Drop plugin - attachments page should refresh after attachments have uploaded | Dave Loeng [Atlassian] | Mark Hrynczak [Atlassian] |  | Open | Unresolved | Oct 14, 2009 | Oct 25, 2009 |
| CONF-17235 | Drag and drop - error is given on IE8 when clicking on an uploaded image | Dave Loeng [Atlassian] | Mark Hrynczak [Atlassian] |  | Open | Unresolved | Oct 14, 2009 | Nov 03, 2009 |
| CONF-17226 | Drag & Drop plugin shows incorrect file name during upload for files containing '<' | Unassigned | Mark Hrynczak [Atlassian] |  | Open | Unresolved | Oct 14, 2009 | Nov 02, 2009 |
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