12 October 2010 With great pleasure, Atlassian presents Confluence 3.4, with more ways to extend your wiki, manage your plugins and go places quickly. |
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Highlights of Confluence 3.4
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New Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac-Friendly TooConfluence has a number of new keyboard shortcuts to aid both navigation and editing. If you are already using JIRA 4.1, you will notice that we have made an effort to be as consistent as possible. Confluence shortcuts now support the standard Mac 'Cmd' key. Some examples of shortcuts to use when viewing a page or blog post:
Try these from within the Rich Text Editor:
Read more about keyboard shortcuts. |
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Keyboard Shortcut DialogConfluence has many useful keyboard shortcuts. Now it's easy to discover them. Select 'Keyboard Shortcuts' from the 'Browse' menu or just press '?' on your keyboard. The new keyboard shortcut dialog shows shortcut keys for the editor as well as for general use. See the documentation on keyboard shortcuts. |
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User Macros in Macro Browser and AutocompleteLooking for a macro to add to your page?
Here is an example of a user macro, the Expand macro, appearing in the autocomplete dropdown: It looks like this in the macro browser: Read about the macro browser and autocomplete. |
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New Plugin ManagerManaging plugins and performing Confluence upgrades is now much easier with the brand new plugin manager. The Universal Plugin Manager (UPM) is now bundled with Confluence and will soon make its way into our other tools, including JIRA. With the UPM you can:
See the documentation on managing plugins. Discover, download and install new plugins from the Atlassian Plugin Exchange without leaving Confluence. |
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Improved PerformanceConfluence is faster in a couple of ways.
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Other ImprovementsWe have made a number of small improvements to Confluence screens and other functionality described below.
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Infrastructure ChangesPlugin developers will find some improvements in this release too.
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Release Notices
- Security advisory. This release fixes some security flaws. Please refer to the security advisory for details of the security vulnerabilities, risk assessment and mitigation strategies.
- Upgrading from a previous version of Confluence. Upgrading Confluence should be fairly straightforward. We strongly recommend that you back up your Confluence Home directory and your database before upgrading. Please refer to the Confluence 3.4 upgrade notes for further essential information about plugins and other factors affecting your upgrade.
- Known Issues. We have an enthusiastic and dedicated group of testers and customers who jump in there, try out the new Confluence release and report any problems so that we can fix them quickly. We value this feedback, which means that we can tell you about any minor known issues in Confluence 3.4. Please check the important technical advisories on the front page of the Knowledge Base.
A big thank you to everyone who helps us ensure that Confluence keeps getting better and better.
The Confluence 3.4 Team
DevelopmentBugfixing and Maintenance Engine Room & Security Editor Improvements Small Improvements Plugin Updates Special Projects (not shipping in this release) Team Lead SupportAmsterdam Brazil |
San Francisco Sydney OthersDesign Performance Engineering Product Management Product Marketing Management Quality Assurance Technical Writing |
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