Confluence Docs 3.3 : Release Notes 3.0-m5 ("Milestone 5")
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Milestone release advisory
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In supplying milestone releases, our aim is 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 that are scheduled to be fixed in the next milestone, or completely new bugs unknown even to us. Additionally, we have not completed our performance testing and compatibility testing for databases and application servers. So, for example, a milestone release may behave well on a small installation but show severe problems when subjected to many users. Upgrade ProcedureFollow the normal upgrade instructions to upgrade from Confluence 3.2.x to this release. We strongly recommend that you backup your Confluence home directory and database before upgrading! DownloadsAll development releases are available from the development releases page on the Atlassian website. Issues resolved or improved in this milestone since Milestone 3Macro Browser (in Markup Editor)The Macro Browser is now available in the wiki markup editor! Features are listed below.
Browse MacrosYou can now browse through a list of categorised macros and select a macro to insert. Macros that do not have categories define can be found in the 'All' categories tab. To insert a macro, you can either double click on the macro or click it once and then click the 'Next' button. Insert MacroFor macros that have parameter metadata defined, you will see parameter labels and descriptions with the appropriate input fields. So far we are handling boolean and select-one-from-list type parameters. Everything else is considered a string. Please note that there is no field validation. For macros that don't have the parameter metadata defined, you will see a single input field for the macro parameters and its notation guide help (if any) below. Preview MacroA default preview will be loaded only if the macro doesn't have required parameters. The preview can be updated by clicking on the 'Preview' button. This button location will change in the future. Edit MacroYou can also edit a macro by placing your cursor in the start tag of a macro and then clicking the Macro Browser icon. It should display the 'Insert X Macro' page with it's parameters populated. Known Issues
CommunitySeveral major community features have their debut in this milestone. StatusThis milestone, we are releasing the first version of the Status feature. There is still a lot of work to be done, it's not particularly polished but we want your feedback.
First of all, set your status from the user menu, where you'll get a dialog box allowing you to enter your new status. You can see your status and others' statuses from user hover, under the "Status List" option in user profiles, the "Favourite People" tab (see below), personal space sidebar (see below). FollowMarking another user as "favourite" is now meaningful. In milestone 5, you'll be able to get a list of statuses from the people you follow.
Check out the "Favourite People" tab in your user profile – you can get there via your user menu. It will show you who you're following, and who's following you. You can also quickly follow someone with the user search, and see a list of status updates from the people you follow. Personal Space SidebarWith this release, we now have some structured form of a user profile for every user. On the right of any personal space*, there'll be a sidebar with various details of the person's space you're viewing. Don't worry, you can easily collapse the sidebar and it'll shift out of sight. Once you collapse the sidebar, it will stay collapsed for all personal spaces for the duration of your login session. Here's what it looks like:
We plan to put more information on the sidebar, at the moment it looks a little silly if the user doesn't have a status set and hasn't filled out any of the extra profile fields we added last milestone. This only works in the Default Theme. Known Issues
BugfixesThere are two relevant bug fixes in this milestone:
Engine RoomThe Engine Room team has delivered one more performance improvement and a significant security improvement this milestone:
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