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These are not the release notes you are looking for! The final Confluence 3.2 Release Notes are over here. |
![]() | For testing use only Do not use this release to upgrade your production systems. |
For all production use and evaluation of Confluence, please use the latest official release.
This release is a public development release ('milestone') leading up to the next Confluence major release. 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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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 (that is, they are 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 all supported databases and user management systems. So, for example, a milestone release may behave well on a small installation but show severe problems when subjected to many users.
Upgrade Procedure
Follow the normal upgrade instructions to upgrade your test instance to this release. We strongly recommend that you backup your Confluence home directory and database before upgrading!
Downloads
All development releases are available from the development releases page on the Atlassian website.
Welcome to the Confluence 3.2 Beta program
With great pride we bring to you the Confluence 3.2 Beta release. We still have a few bugs to fix, but overall, this is how 3.2 will get rolled out to customers in mid March. And we want your feedback.
Note to partners and translators: The preliminary translation diff files can be found as a subpage of this overview page: Translations for Confluence Releases
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Advance warning This release is the last one to officially support Internet Explorer 6. Read the upgrade notes and the original announcement over here. This release is the last one to officially support application servers other than Tomcat. From the next release on, Websphere and Weblogic and JBoss will not be supported anymore. For further information on this, please see the end of support announcements page |
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Autocomplete in the editor |
We are adding a new feature called Autocomplete to the Rich Text Editor. In this beta it only works in Firefox and Safari, but the goal is to make it work on Internet Explorer as well by the time the 3.2 release ships.
You can type "[" at the start of a line to display your browsing history and link to those pages, and if you keep typing you'll get recommendation for pages that match what you types:
If you type "!" you'll see the attached images to the current page, and if you keep typing you'll be able to link to any image in your deployment.
This feature's goal is to make the RTE even faster than using wiki markup. Try it out and tell us what you think!
Note: May require a re-index of your system to show attachments
Known issues
- CONF-18281 - doesn't work in IE yet
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New Links Dialog |
We have rewritten the way you add links in Confluence. The new links dialog is faster, better looking, and more powerful.
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New "Documentation Theme" |
Confluence now comes bundled with our hugely successful "Documentation Theme". See https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/16393 for details about the theme.
This theme replaces the old "Left Navigation Theme". We are still shipping the Left Nav theme, but it is deprecated and will stop shipping in a later release.
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New "Easy Reader" Theme |
With today's huge monitors, it can become hard to read large amounts of text that spans the whole screen. We are introducing a new theme which, like most websites, only uses a portion of the screen, to facilitate readability.
This theme replaces the old "Clickr Theme". We are still shipping the Clickr theme, but it is deprecated and will stop shipping in a later release.
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Bundled templates and new template marketplace |
The Bundled Templates 20% project is actually a framework to allow customers and Atlassian to deploy bundles of templates to a Confluence instance.
3.2 includes the framework plugin and a bundle of default templates[1]; these are available to the administrator to import into their instance as either space templates or global templates.
The templates import framework allows the administrator to preview a template before importing it as well as view the associated wiki-markup.
[1] Current default template bundle will be changed, pending list from Matt and Bill.
Documentation on how to write your own template plugin can be found here: Creating A Template Bundle.
Please visit PAC for the new category. TODO: add link
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Better Move Page Dialog |
We introduced a new page move dialog in Confluence 3.1 but the ability to change the order of pages fell out of scope. This has now been implemented and is accessed as shown -
And looks like -
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REST APIs |
New REST Resources
- Attachment Resource
Request: https://confluence.example.com/rest/prototype/1/attachment/161Some fields removed<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <attachment niceType="Image" version="1" comment="image of Sydney harbour" fileName="harbour.jpg" type="attachment" id="161"> <ownerId>69518087748064278</ownerId> <title>harbour.jpg</title> <lastModifiedDate date="2004-11-21T23:20:18-0600" friendly="Nov 21, 2004"/> <createdDate date="2004-11-21T23:20:18-0600" friendly="Nov 21, 2004"/> </attachment>
More in-depth documentation coming soon.
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Useful Improvements and Enhancements |
Page History
What used to look like this...
.. now is a bit more understandable:
RTE Shortcuts Added
The following RTE shortcuts have been added, please try them out!
- Ctrl+Shift+C Copy table row
- Ctrl+Shift+X Cut table row
- Ctrl+Shift+V Paste table row
- Ctrl+Shift+B Bullet lists
- Ctrl+Shift+N Numbered lists
- Ctrl+Shift+F Full screen mode
- Ctrl+Shift+S Strikethrough
- Ctrl+Shift+T Insert Table
- Ctrl+Shift+A Macro Browser
RTE Hints
At the bottom of the RTE, useful editor hints get displayed. This will help promote the new keyboard shortcuts and the autocomplete feature.
Images in search results
Bug fixes and stability improvements
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