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1 September 2015

Atlassian presents Confluence 5.9.1-pluginsfour013. This release is a snapshot of our work in progress, primarily focused on allowing Confluence users to see the new features in advance. Beta releases also give add-on developers an opportunity to test and fix their add-ons in advance of an official release.

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The Confluence 5.9.1-pluginsfour013 release is available at the download site. When upgrading, please follow the upgrade notes below.

Development releases are not production ready. Development releases are snapshots of the ongoing Confluence development process. While we try to keep these releases stable, they have not undergone the same degree of testing as a full release, and could contain features that are incomplete or may change or be removed before the next full release.

No upgrade path. Because development releases represent work in progress, we cannot provide a supported upgrade path between development releases, or from any development release to a final release. You may not be able to migrate any data you store in a Confluence development release to a future Confluence release.

Atlassian does not provide support for development releases.

Highlights of this release

A better way to restrict pages

In this release we've made it easier to restrict who can edit and view your pages in Confluence. 

The new padlock icon  at the top of the page gets you straight into the restrictions dialog (you can still get there using ... > Restrictions, but why click twice?).

There's three options:

  • No restrictions - keep the page open to everyone (hint: use this for a quick way to remove existing restrictions). 
  • Edit restrictions - limit who can edit a page, but keep it open for everyone to view.
  • Edit and view restrictions - set exactly who can view, and who can edit. It's is the most flexible option. 

Here's how it looks:

The padlock icon at the top changes when a page is restricted , or when it's inheriting view restrictions from another page . We'll also give you a warning in the restrictions dialog when your page is affected by restrictions on other pages.

One-click create for blank pages

We love our Confluence templates, and think they're really handy, but we also know that many pages start out blank. To save you time when creating blank pages, we're taking the process from 3 steps down to 1 with our new 'quick create' option. Instead of a single create button in the header, you'll now see two options: Create (blank page) and Create from template.

Page templates and other content types are just as easy to access as they were before. Just choose the Create from template  option in the header.

Infrastructure changes

We've made some pretty significant changes that'll impact plugin developers. If you're one of them, check out the preparing for Confluence 5.9 page for more information.

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