Confluence 4.1 : Confluence Release Summary

This page shows the highlights of the major Confluence releases.

Current Release

For information about the latest release, please go to the Release Notes.

Confluence 4.1

  • Autoconvert for Pasted Links
  • Image effects
  • Quick find and replace
  • Follow Your Network On the Dashboard
  • Space attachments macro
  • Global PDF stylesheets
  • Use any character in page titles
  • New translation feature
  • More in the release notes

Confluence 4.0

  • Brand New Editor
  • Simplified Editing Experience
  • New Macros
  • Faster Editing Experience
  • Introducing @mentions
  • Improved Page Comparison Functionality
  • Email Notification Improvements
  • New Confluence Installer and Guided Upgrades
  • New Editor Plugin Points for Developers
  • More in the release notes

Confluence 3.5 — 16 March 2011

  • Easy, Powerful Connections to Active Directory, LDAP and Crowd
  • Improved JIRA Integration
  • Drag-and-Drop for HTML5 Browsers
  • Autowatch and Improved Notification Settings
  • Sharing Pages and Blog Posts
  • Enhanced Code Macro
  • More Administrative Improvements
  • "What's New" Feature Tour
  • Categories, a New Way of Organising Spaces
  • Embedding Audio and Video with the Multimedia Macro
  • Infrastructure Changes
  • More in the release notes

Confluence 3.4 — 12 October 2010

  • New Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac-Friendly Too
  • Keyboard Shortcut Dialog
  • User Macros in Macro Browser and Autocomplete
  • New Plugin Manager
  • Improved Performance
  • Infrastructure Changes
  • More in the release notes

Confluence 3.3 — 7 July 2010

  • Confluence Page Gadget
  • Autocomplete for Inserting Macros
  • Property Panels for Links
  • Property Panels for Images
  • Manage Watchers
  • Email Notifications for Network Activity and Blogs
  • Blog Improvements
  • Context-Sensitive Help Links
  • Security Features
  • Infrastructure Changes
  • More in the release notes

Confluence 3.2 — 24 March 2010

  • Autocomplete for Inserting Links
  • Autocomplete for Embedding Images and Documents
  • A Link Browser that's Smarter, Smoother, Faster
  • New Documentation Theme
  • New Easy Reader Theme
  • Template Bundles
  • Reordering while Moving a Page
  • New Keyboard Shortcuts and Editor Hints
  • User Interface Enhancements
  • More in the release notes

Confluence 3.1 — 8 December 2009

  • Introducing Gadgets
  • Drag-and-Drop
  • Office 2007 Support
  • New 'Move Page' Feature
  • Enhanced Image Browser
  • Draft Comparisons
  • Page Restrictions Dialog Box
  • Other Editor Enhancements
  • New Web Browser Versions Supported
  • More in the release notes

Confluence 3.0 — 1 June 2009

  • Introducing the Macro Browser
  • Enhanced User Profiles
  • Introducing Your Network
  • New User Status
  • New Hover Profile Feature
  • Customisable Enhanced PDF Exports
  • Improved Rich Text Editor
  • Performance Improvements
  • Engine Room and Developer Community
  • Administration Improvements
  • More in the release notes

Confluence 2.10 — 3 December 2008

  • Introducing the Widget Connector
  • Improved Office Connector Now Bundled
  • Introducing Quick Navigation
  • 'Did You Mean', OpenSearch and More
  • Custom Stylesheets for Confluence Spaces
  • Updated JIRA Issues Macro with Custom Fields and Dynamic Display
  • Enhanced User and Group Management
  • Upgraded Rich Text Editor
  • Universal Wiki Converter now with SharePoint Import and More
  • Improved Activity Macros
  • Plugin Framework 2
  • More in the release notes

Confluence 2.9 — 7 August 2008

  • Streamlined Search
  • Auto Save
  • Charts
  • Page Tree
  • Gallery
  • New Tutorial
  • More in the Menus
  • Alphabetical Page Ordering
  • Better Spam Prevention
  • Plugin Repository
  • Engine Room and Developers' Community
  • More in the release notes

Confluence 2.8 — 10 April 2008

  • Dynamic menus and simplified screen design
  • Page ordering
  • Collapsible comments
  • Multiple-label filter
  • Confluence installer
  • Task list
  • Performance enhancements
  • Administration, management and monitoring
  • More in the release notes

Confluence 2.7 — 12 December 2007

  • JIRA Issues and Portlet macros use new trusted authentication
  • Two-tier administrator permissions
  • Inserting images and attaching files during page creation
  • Sorting of images in Gallery macro
  • Simplified and improved logging
  • Performance, maintainability and administration
  • More in the release notes

Confluence 2.6 — 27 September 2007

  • Fresh look for the Default theme
  • Personalised comments and Dashboard
  • Space description on Dashboard
  • Labels on templates
  • Default content for space home pages
  • Social Bookmarking plugin now bundled with Confluence
  • Back-dating and renaming news items
  • More in the release notes

Confluence 2.5 — 29 April 2007

  • Introducing flexible page restrictions
  • Dynamic task list JRE incompatibilities
  • contentbylabel macro supports AND condition
  • More in the release notes

Confluence 2.4 — 14 March 2007

Confluence 2.3 — 5 January 2007

  • Confluence Massive — cluster support
  • People directory
  • Activity plugin — usage statistics
  • Blogging RPC plugin — manage news in Confluence using blogger-compatible desktop clients
  • WebDAV client support via WebDAV plugin — create, edit, move pages, attachments, etc via WebDAV
  • More in the release notes

Confluence 2.2 — 27 April 2006

  • Personal spaces
  • Localisation/internationalisation — drop-in language packs (similar to JIRA)
  • CAPTCHA support — spam protection
  • Improved searching
  • Improved LDAP performance
  • Confluence ships with Tomcat 5.5
  • More in the release notes

Confluence 2.1 — 20 December 2005

  • Autosave
  • Concurrent edit warnings
  • LDAP integration with Atlassian User/POLIS
  • More in the release notes

Confluence 2.0 — 17 November 2005

  • Rich Text Editing — WYSIWYG editor
  • Labels
  • Dashboard tabs — All, My, Team, New
  • RSS builder
  • Export pages as Word documents
  • Copy pages
  • More in the release notes

Confluence 1.4 — 23 May 2005

  • New user interface
  • Enhanced editing — doing more in the edit interface
  • Page permissions
  • New plugin types
  • Configurable themes
  • Completely rewritten Wiki to HTML conversion engine
  • More in the release notes

Confluence 1.3 — 30 November 2004

  • Mail archiving
  • Themes
  • Trash can
  • More granular space permissions
  • More in the release notes

Confluence 1.2 — 23 August 2004

  • Page list views — alphabetical, directory view and search view of all pages in a space
  • Image thumbnails and thumbnail galleries
  • Threaded comments
  • Enhanced Search - indexing attachment comments and file names and contextual searching
  • New permissions interface
  • More in the release notes