13 December 2011 With great pleasure, Atlassian presents Confluence 4.1. With numerous improvements for content presentation, it delivers the extraordinary new Autoconvert feature, along with attractive new image effects, find and replace, new icons, improved translation features and global PDF stylesheets.
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Highlights of Confluence 4.1
| Image effectsEnhance the presentation of your images and screenshots with slick new border effects. Click Effects to apply taped style, instant camera style, drop shadow style, captions and more. See the documentation for more details.
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| Quick find and replaceUpdating your wiki content is now easier with the new find and replace feature. Using familiar conventions, automatically find and replace specific text strings within your Confluence page or blog. It's also accessible with a keyboard shortcut Ctrl-F (Windows) or Cmd-F (Mac OS). See the documentation for more details.
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| Follow Your Network On the DashboardSee recent updates from just the people you follow in Confluence, with the new network tab on the Confluence dashboard. With this, following a few people in different parts of your company to make a quick filter of the main events happening outside your immediate team.
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| Space attachments macroThe new Space Attachments macro allows you to show all the attachments in the current space on your page. You can even filter them by file extension. Previously, you've only been able to show the attachments on the current page, using the Attachments macro. Simply type {space-attachments} into a page to use it. |
| Global PDF stylesheetsSet your custom PDF stylesheets at the global level, as with custom layouts. When there is no specific individual space stylesheet defined, PDF space exports will fall back to this global stylesheet. This means that users won't have to re-apply the same stylesheet to all their individual spaces. This is an efficient way of achieving one look and feel. See the documentation for more details. |
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Use any character in page titlesConfluence now allows "special" characters in your page titles, such as semicolons and exclamation marks. This allows more descriptive page names and generally removes restrictions when creating page titles and naming your content. |
| New translation featureFor those customers working on creating translations of the Confluence user interface, the 4.1 release has a new feature that will help. After opening the Confluence dashboard, you can simply add this text to the end of your Confluence URL, like so: ?i18ntranslate=on Then press Enter. This will then cause each element of the user interface to display its special key name while Confluence is still in an interactive mode. This makes it easier to find the essential context for each key, which can then be searched on http://translations.atlassian.com where you can enter an appropriate translation for your custom language pack. The key names are displayed with a "lightning bolt" graphic between elements of the names. For example, the buttons will show up with elements shown like so: For the Browse menu, you can find its associated To turn off the translation view, use this: ?i18ntranslate=off |
| Other improvementsAs always, we have made various small improvements to Confluence. General improvements
Editor improvements
New icons
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| Helping you transition to the Confluence 4.x generationWe've created a set of resources to help you manage the transition to Confluence 4.x. The change management resources are listed under the current documentation.
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Release notices
Upgrading from a previous version of Confluence
We strongly recommend that you back up your Confluence Home directory and your database before upgrading. Follow the normal upgrade instructions to upgrade your test instance to this release.
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 release, but in the meantime you can revert your ehcache.xml
to the default version.
Removed functionality
Features removed from Confluence
Personal labels
The ability to create personal labels is being removed in Confluence 4.1. You will still be able to access any personal labels you have created previously by going directly to http://<confluence_url>/users/viewmylabels.action- Mail archiving
This feature is being disabled by default in Confluence 4.1. However, it is still bundled as the Confluence Mail Archiving plugin, and easy to restore. Current users of the feature will not suffer any interruption, as the feature will be automatically kept in an operational state if you are using it. See details. - The SVG graphics library Batik
Any plugins that previously relied on the Batik package being provided by Confluence will now have to bundle their own version of Batik into their plugin. See details.
A big thank you to everyone who helps us ensure that Confluence keeps getting better and better!
The Confluence 4.1 team
DevelopmentRyan Ackley Architecture Build and release engineering Plugin updates ManagementProduct management Product marketing management Development manager Cross TeamDesign Quality assurance Technical writing | SupportSydney support Amsterdam support Brazil support Kuala Lumpur support San Francisco support |
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