Confluence 2.1.4 is a maintenance release that resolves some issues users may have encountered using Confluence 2.1.3 or earlier. Confluence 2.1.4 fixes more than 55 issues, including bugs related to space import/export, the WYSIWYG editor, page breadcrumbs, and many more
2.1.4 is a free upgrade for all customers who purchased their Confluence license after February 16th, 2005.
Who should upgrade?
Confluence 2.1.4 fixes a number of bugs found in Confluence 2.1.3 and earlier. Customers are recommended to upgrade if they are experiencing any of the issues fixed in this release.
Confluence is a recommended upgrade for all customers using Confluence's new atlassian-user LDAP user management, as it fixes important issues related to user login validation.
Upgrade Procedure
Upgrading Confluence should be pretty easy. If you are upgrading from an earlier Confluence 2.1 release, you can find instructions here. We strongly recommend that you backup your confluence.home directory and database before upgrading!
 | If you are running a Sybase or Microsoft SQL Server database, please replace confluence/WEB-INF/classes/com/atlassian/confluence/upgrade/UpgradeUtils.class with this version before upgrading.
You should also install this if your upgrade fails with the message: Session is currently disconnected |
If you are upgrading from Confluence 2.0.3 or earlier, please check the release-notes of the other major Confluence releases:
Changes in 2.1.4
More than 55 issues were resolved between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4. For the complete list, see: Issues resolved for 2.1.4
Note about markup for embedded content
A bug was fixed in 2.1.4 that previously allowed spaces as attribute separators in embedded content wiki markup (CONF-5406). This means !image.jpg|alt=Great pic! now works correctly, but !image.jpg|border=1 alt=test! doesn't. The correct and documented way to write the latter continues to be !image.jpg|border=1,alt=test!.
Improvements
- {livesearch} macro results can now be limited to a particular space – CONF-3432
- A setting was added to General Configuration to control the maximum number of attachments that can be uploaded at once – CONF-5447
- A setting was added to General Configuration to enable or disable GZip content encoding – CONF-5257
- "Insert Link" and "Insert Image" now work correctly on Safari in OS X 10.4.4 and later – CONF-5435
- A draft is automatically saved when moving from 'Edit' to 'Preview' – CONF-5366
- A getPermissionsForUser method was added to the remote API to allow administrators to retrieve the permissions of particular users – CONF-5439
Notable Bugs Fixed
- Many fixes related to the maintenance of the ancestors table while moving or renaming pages, which may have resulted in the misplacing of page breadcrumbs or inherited page-level permissions – CONF-5104, CONF-5243, CONF-5244
- Many fixes related to Rich Text editing, including the handling of tables and whitespace – CONF-5299, CONF-5231, CONF-5492, CONF-5294, CONF-5324, CONF-5247, CONF-5362, CONF-5265
- Space import no longer overwrites part of global configuration – CONF-5370
- Confluence no longer tries to create indexes with names bigger than DB2 can handle – CONF-5316
- "Insert Link" and "Insert Image" no longer erase contents of edit fied in Safari on OS X 10.4.4 and later – CONF-5329
- Links from the {labels} macro are now space-relative – CONF-5346
emoticons no longer mistaken for embedded image markup – CONF-3369- "Profile:" no longer mistaken as the start of a file: URL
