16 March 2011 With great pleasure, Atlassian presents Confluence 3.5. Discover what's happening to your content and share it with your colleagues. Let people see for themselves what's new after a Confluence upgrade. Get cosy with LDAP and intimate with JIRA. Love that HTML5 drag-and-drop and more! |
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Highlights of Confluence 3.5
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Easy, Powerful Connections to Active Directory, LDAP and CrowdConnecting Confluence to an external user directory used to be painful, whether it was Active Directory, other LDAP servers or Atlassian Crowd. You had to edit XML files, and the configuration options were limited. Confluence 3.5 brings a simple, powerful and flexible directory management interface:
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Improved JIRA IntegrationIntegrating Confluence and JIRA has just become much easier.
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Drag-and-Drop for HTML5 BrowsersConfluence's drag-and-drop feature now supports HTML5 in preference to Google Gears. If your browser fully supports HTML5 and you no longer need the Google Gears browser add-on for anything else, you can uninstall this add-on without any loss of functionality in Confluence. The following browsers support HTML5-based drag-and-drop:
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Autowatch and Improved Notification SettingsConfluence's new autowatch makes it easier than ever to keep track of pages and blog posts that interest you. Other improvements help you optimise your notifications.
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Sharing Pages and Blog PostsWant to email a Confluence page or blog post quickly? Simply visit that page or blog post, click the new 'Share' button and specify the people you want to share the page with. Add an optional note then click 'Share'. More... ![]() |
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Enhanced Code MacroThe code macro offers several new options.
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More Administrative Improvements
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"What's New" Feature TourManaging change when rolling out a new software release can be a challenge. We've automated some of the work for you with the "What's New" feature tour in Confluence 3.5. The first time a user logs in after a major Confluence upgrade, the "What's New" window pops up showing screenshots, videos and links to documentation. We've designed this feature as a plugin, so you can change where the popup gets its information from or disable it altogether. More... ![]() |
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Categories, a New Way of Organising SpacesCategorise your spaces then view and manage them in the new space directory. As an alternative to the dashboard, the space directory displays a list of all the global and personal spaces in the Confluence site that you have permission to see. You can choose to see all spaces, the spaces you have marked as favourite, or the spaces in a specific space category. (Space categories were previously known as 'team labels'.) You can further restrict the list to spaces containing a given word or words in the space name or description. More... ![]() |
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Embedding Audio and Video with the Multimedia MacroUse the new Multimedia macro to display movies, videos and animations and embed audio files in a Confluence page. Before now, the only way to display multimedia content was using Wiki Markup. Now it's simple – just drag and drop the multimedia file into the Rich Text Editor. Confluence will attach the file and add the Multimedia macro for you. Alternatively, add the Multimedia macro via autocomplete or the macro browser, and tell it which file to display. ![]() |
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Other ImprovementsAs always, we have made a number of small improvements to Confluence screens and functionality.
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Infrastructure ChangesThis release includes a number of improvements in the APIs and under the covers too.
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Release Notices
- 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 3.5 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 3.5. 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 3.5 Team
DevelopmentBugfixing and Maintenance Editor Improvements User Management Small Improvements Plugin Updates Build and Release Engineering Architecture Special Projects (not shipping in this release) Development Manager SupportAmsterdam Brazil Kuala Lumpur |
San Francisco Sydney OthersDesign Performance Engineering New Code Macro Product Management Product Marketing Management Quality Assurance Technical Writing Integration Development |
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