The Atlassian Confluence team is excited to announce the release of Confluence 5.9:

What's in this release?

• A brand new dashboard, which makes it easier to find and resume your work
• CQL filters in Confluence search – specially exciting is the option to search in multiple specific spaces, and filter for labels
• One-click create for blank pages
• A better way to restrict pages
• A better on-boarding experience, including the ability to watch spaces
• Easier page and post favouriting
• Performance improvements – Confluence 5.9 is 25% faster than 5.7 (we have some other cool numbers in the release notes)
• JIRA Service Desk customers can now access your Confluence knowledge base space, without a Confluence license
• More control over page excerpts – simple or rich content
• Confluence Data Center improvements:
• Single download for Confluence Server or Data Center
• Support for TCP/IP when configuring cluster nodes (hello Amazon Web Services!)
• Improvements for disaster recovery
• Status updates removal
• Infrastructure changes – Atlassian plugins version 4, Soy 3, and more

Check out the Confluence 5.9 Release Notes for the full scoop, or download Confluence 5.9 now!

Note on version numbers: The first public release for 5.9 is Confluence 5.9.1. Confluence 5.9.0 was an internal release.