1 August 2011
Today we are happy to announce our third public EAP build for Confluence 4.0. An Early Access Preview (EAP) release is a snapshot of our work in progress, primarily focused on allowing Confluence users to see the new features in advance and provide us with some useful feedback. It also gives plugin developers an opportunity to test and fix their plugins in advance of an official release.
Please see previous 4.0 EAP release notes for the complete list of 4.0 changes:
Highlights of Confluence 4.0 EAP: More:
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![]() | Downloading the Confluence 4.0 EAP The Confluence 4.0-m36 EAP Release is available here. When upgrading, please follow the upgrade notes below. |
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Highlights of this Milestone
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New Confluence InstallerMuch to the delight of any sysadmins that are installing any new instances of Confluence, the Windows (.exe) and Linux (.bin) guided installers are now available. Simplified Installation Process
Sample screenshots below: Easy JIRA Integration
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Improved Image HandlingTurn Images Into Links New Default Image Sizes Custom image sizes |
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Links Dialog: Remember My TabSome of the feedback you gave us:
We've taken some of the pain out of this by having the link browser remember the last tab you clicked. So if always use web links, it will always open to the web links tab for you. We're investigating taking this a step further by allowing users to insert a web link from the "search tab as well." |
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Improved Conflict MergingThis feature is back into Confluence 4.0. Now if you're editing a page at the same time as someone else, Confluence will intelligently merge your changes with the other person's change when you save. This means you'll be seeing the "another user has made changes to this page since you started editing" warning a lot less often. We've also made merging table conflicts much more reliable. |
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Set Page Location On SaveWe've heard a lot of feedback from new users that understanding where their page fits in the Confluence page hierarchy is not very intuitive. To help solve this problem when you create a new page and save it, users will be prompted and asked where they would like to save the page. |
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Infrastructure changes
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We Welcome Your FeedbackTo make it easy for you to provide EAP feedback we've created a simple "Got Feedback" button in the Confluence navigation bar: |
Important Note - Comments Editor
You will notice in this milestone we have a new, simplified comments design. Please note - this design was experimental for internal dogfooding and will not be shipping in Confluence 4.0. It will be removed in the next EAP release.
Upgrade Notes
- Upgrading from a previous version of Confluence. Follow the normal upgrade instructions to upgrade your test instance to this release. We strongly recommend that you back up your Confluence Home directory and your database before upgrading.
- When upgrading from a previous version of Confluence, if you have customised your cache settings (as documented in Cache Performance Tuning) then you may run into memory problems during the wiki to XHTML migration. We are working to fix this in a later milestone release but in the meantime you can revert your
ehcache.xml
to the default version.- If you still experience problems you should try reducing the 'maxElementsInMemory' attribute on each cache to a very small value such as 50.
- Note that any cache changes you make to work around migration problems should only be considered temporary. You should restore caching to it's original settings again after migration has been successful.
- Note that the 'Edit Page in Word' functionality of Confluence is being removed in Confluence 4.0.
A big thank you to everyone who helps us ensure that Confluence keeps getting better and better.
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