Comment:
Fixed typo: Space menu appeared in 2.8 not 2.7
7 August 2008
With great pleasure, Atlassian presents Confluence 2.9.
First up is the Search. The new screen design focuses the eye on your search term and results. To help you find information more quickly, Confluence now searches all content types by default and puts the most relevant results at the top of the list. Because a wiki is all about people, Confluence treats personal information as the most relevant. With author filtering, you can now find content written by a specific person.
The macros bundled with Confluence have been treated to a major overhaul. The Chart and Gallery macros offer sophisticated new displays and more interactivity. The revised Pagetree macro is now included in the Confluence download. Try using the Pagetree to add a navigation panel to your pages. We have added some popular new features and fixed a number of much-voted-for bugs in other macros too.
When you are editing a page, Confluence now automatically saves your work and displays the time of the last auto-save. If something goes wrong, you can quickly retrieve your work by selecting 'Drafts' from the user menu.
Other features include resetting page order to alphabetical and some much-needed help in the ongoing battle against spam.
Confluence 2.9 requires Java 5 at a minimum, and will no longer work with Java 1.4. Before upgrading to Confluence 2.9, please refer to the Confluence 2.9 Upgrade Notes for more details on this change.
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 2.9 Upgrade Notes for further essential information about plugins and other factors affecting your upgrade.
Highlights of Confluence 2.9
Streamlined Search
The redesigned Search screen helps you to focus on the search term and results, by simplifying the filter box and other parts of the screen.
By default, the search now includes all spaces and all content types: pages, news items, comments and so on.
You can filter the search results by space, content type and date modified.
If your Confluence site uses the standard out-of-the-box configuration for user management, you can also filter the search results by contributor.
The search results are weighted to give personal information the highest relevance, followed by pages, news items and the other content types.
Confluence automatically saves your work to a draft while you are adding or editing a page.
Now with release 2.9, a message near the 'Save' button shows the time of the latest auto-save.
If something goes wrong, retrieve the saved draft easily from the dropdown menu under your name.
You can read more about drafts in the documentation.
Charts
The Chart macro presents a sophisticated new look.
Below are some example charts displayed on a Confluence page.
The documentation shows you how to add the macro to your page and choose different formats and types.
Page Tree
The Pagetree macro is now bundled as part of your Confluence installation.
It displays a dynamic, hierarchical list of pages which you can use as a table of contents or a navigation panel.
You can choose to include a search box above the tree of pages or on its own.
New links allow viewers to collapse or expand all branches in the tree at once.
There are a number of options for specifying the root of the page tree. For example, you can show children of the current page, or children of the current page's parent, or all pages in the space.
Take a look at the documentation to see the complete list of options.
Gallery
Use the Gallery macro to display a set of pictures on a page.
Now you can include or exclude individual pictures, or simply display all the images at once.
Choose pictures from the current page or another Confluence page.
Take a look at the documentation for help on these and other options.
Viewers can click an image to zoom in and view the gallery as a slide show.
New Tutorial
When you download Confluence and choose to include the sample content, you will receive a new Demonstration Space.
There's a tutorial for those are new to Confluence or new to wikis.
Other users will enjoy the advanced topics and links to more information.
You can use the tutorial as a quick-start guide for new starters in your organisation.
More in the Menus
The Space menu which appeared in Confluence 2.8 has now been renamed to 'Browse'. Faithful Confluence users will recognise and welcome this old friend.
A new link on the user profile screen allows administrators to jump directly to the user management screen — handy for dealing with those pesky spammers of the human variety.
We have enhanced Confluence's Captcha functionality to strengthen the barrier against non-human spammers such as bots or web spiders.
Captcha is now active on user profile pages as well as other pages.
The image which Captcha displays is now even more difficult for non-humans to read. Take a look at the word 'brihter' in the screenshot below.
The Plugin Repository shows more consistent information about the plugins on your Confluence site, including the system and bundled plugins which are shipped with Confluence.
Engine Room and Developers' Community
Confluence's request throughput has been improved, thanks to better class- and resource-loading strategies.
Startup time has also been reduced. This is particularly good for developers and anyone who needs to restart Confluence often.
The Search API now allows you to filter search results by contributor.
As part of the ongoing work to make it easier for internal developers and plugin developers to work on Confluence, this release includes re-factorings of some web action classes.
To improve Confluence's resistance to cross site scripting security vulnerabilities, we have added an experimental automatic HTML entity encoding feature. This is the first step to providing a more secure product by default.
Alas, the T-shirts are not for sale Aren't the T-shirts cool, in the screenshots...
Alas, the T-shirts are not for sale Aren't the T-shirts cool, in the screenshots above? A lot of people have already asked, "Where can I get one?" But these were designed for Atlassian's internal use and are not for sale.
Hallo there,
Thank you, that's a very good point
I have exported the Demo Space...
Hallo there,
Thank you, that's a very good point
I have exported the Demo Space and attached the files to the Confluence documentation download page.
Cheers — Sarah
Hallo Vanessa
The Demo Space is an entire Confluence space. You can copy the spa...
Hallo Vanessa
The Demo Space is an entire Confluence space. You can copy the space into your own Confluence instance, by importing it from the XML zip file. There are instructions in Restoring a Space.
Cheers — Sarah
Actually, a backup of this space is a part of your confluence installation (it's...
Actually, a backup of this space is a part of your confluence installation (it's used in new installations). Just copy confluence/WEB-INF/classes/com/atlassian/confluence/setup/demo-site.zip to confluence-data/restore and restore it. (you will have to remove the old Demonstration space first)
The usability of the new Tree view as the only straightforward way to move pages...
The usability of the new Tree view as the only straightforward way to move pages is quite poor, compared with the way 2.7 solved the user story. I like working with page families and found selecting a new parent page from a drop-down far superior to the tree approach, which present performance problems. The Tree takes a long time to build; click-drag and scrolling the Tree is prohibitively time consuming. There seems to be no option. Please restore the earlier method. Folks who like the Tree can have it.
Sorry to post this anonymously. Having to remember yet another unique login password to get into your site is annoying.
Hallo Terrence
You raise a good point. This issue is already under discussion, a...
Hallo Terrence
You raise a good point. This issue is already under discussion, at CONF-11469. I have copied your comment onto that issue — let me know if you'd like me to remove it. Also, you can add a comment yourself and 'watch' the issue to be notified of any updates. If you vote for the issue, that helps to let the development team know its importance. But you will need one of those annoying logins
Cheers — Sarah
Hi Math,
The New Tutorial is actually just a space with some tutorial pages. It...
Hi Math,
The New Tutorial is actually just a space with some tutorial pages. It comes by default in Confluence in the form of a zip file. This file is located at <confluence-install>/WEB-INF/classes/com/atlassian/confluence/setup/demo-site.zip. Once you get this file, you can basically restore this space in your Confluence instance.
210 votes satisfied
Comments (16)
Aug 07, 2008
Sarah Maddox [Atlassian Technical Writer] says:
Alas, the T-shirts are not for sale Aren't the T-shirts cool, in the screenshots...Aren't the T-shirts cool, in the screenshots above? A lot of people have already asked, "Where can I get one?" But these were designed for Atlassian's internal use and are not for sale.
Aug 11, 2008
Darren Bell says:
That's a pity, they look kinda coolThat's a pity, they look kinda cool
Aug 13, 2008
Anonymous says:
me too! BTW -- I have the "because you've got issues" one, the fabr...me too!
BTW -- I have the "because you've got issues" one, the fabric is superb, years since I had such a quality t-shirt. I'd buy even blank ones
hahaha
Aug 20, 2008
Anonymous says:
If we are upgrading an existing installation, is there any way we can get the ne...If we are upgrading an existing installation, is there any way we can get the new demonstration space loaded?
Dec 13
Sarah Maddox [Atlassian Technical Writer] says:
Hallo there, Thank you, that's a very good point I have exported the Demo Space...Hallo there,
Thank you, that's a very good point
I have exported the Demo Space and attached the files to the Confluence documentation download page.
Cheers — Sarah
Aug 21, 2008
Vanessa Madden says:
Next question... how does one go about "installing" this demonstration page?Next question... how does one go about "installing" this demonstration page?
Aug 21, 2008
Sarah Maddox [Atlassian Technical Writer] says:
Hallo Vanessa The Demo Space is an entire Confluence space. You can copy the spa...Hallo Vanessa
The Demo Space is an entire Confluence space. You can copy the space into your own Confluence instance, by importing it from the XML zip file. There are instructions in Restoring a Space.
Cheers — Sarah
Aug 21, 2008
Vanessa Madden says:
Too easy!! Thanks heaps. Any idea why this instance of confluence...Too easy!! Thanks heaps.
Any idea why this instance of confluence wont allow me to upload my own pic for my avatar?
Sep 13, 2008
André Heie Vik says:
Actually, a backup of this space is a part of your confluence installation (it's...Actually, a backup of this space is a part of your confluence installation (it's used in new installations). Just copy confluence/WEB-INF/classes/com/atlassian/confluence/setup/demo-site.zip to confluence-data/restore and restore it. (you will have to remove the old Demonstration space first)
Oct 31, 2008
Victor Rodrigues says:
More in Menus refers to the Space menu being introduced in 2.7 which is not corr...More in Menus refers to the Space menu being introduced in 2.7 which is not correct as it was introduced in 2.8.
Nov 02, 2008
Sarah Maddox [Atlassian Technical Writer] says:
Hallo Victor Thank you Fixed. Cheers — SarahHallo Victor
Fixed.
Thank you
Cheers — Sarah
Nov 02, 2008
Victor Rodrigues says:
Hoi Sarah. No worries always happy to contribute.Hoi Sarah. No worries always happy to contribute.
Nov 18, 2008
Anonymous says:
The usability of the new Tree view as the only straightforward way to move pages...The usability of the new Tree view as the only straightforward way to move pages is quite poor, compared with the way 2.7 solved the user story. I like working with page families and found selecting a new parent page from a drop-down far superior to the tree approach, which present performance problems. The Tree takes a long time to build; click-drag and scrolling the Tree is prohibitively time consuming. There seems to be no option. Please restore the earlier method. Folks who like the Tree can have it.
Sorry to post this anonymously. Having to remember yet another unique login password to get into your site is annoying.
Terrence C. Pennell
Seattle, WA
Nov 18, 2008
Sarah Maddox [Atlassian Technical Writer] says:
Hallo Terrence You raise a good point. This issue is already under discussion, a...Hallo Terrence
You raise a good point. This issue is already under discussion, at CONF-11469. I have copied your comment onto that issue — let me know if you'd like me to remove it. Also, you can add a comment yourself and 'watch' the issue to be notified of any updates. If you vote for the issue, that helps to let the development team know its importance. But you will need one of those annoying logins
Cheers — Sarah
Aug 11
Mathieu Filotto says:
Hi, We use the confluence 2.9.2 war version and would like to install the new t...Hi,
We use the confluence 2.9.2 war version and would like to install the new tutorial.
But I can't find the procedure or the source to do it.
Could you help me on that issue please
Thanks
Math
Aug 12
Sashidaran Jayaraman [Atlassian] says:
Hi Math, The New Tutorial is actually just a space with some tutorial pages. It...Hi Math,
The New Tutorial is actually just a space with some tutorial pages. It comes by default in Confluence in the form of a zip file. This file is located at <confluence-install>/WEB-INF/classes/com/atlassian/confluence/setup/demo-site.zip. Once you get this file, you can basically restore this space in your Confluence instance.
Hope this helps.
Cheers
JSashi
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