Release Notes 2.1.3
Confluence 2.1.3 is a maintenance release that resolves some issues users may have encountered using Confluence 2.1.2 or earlier, including issues related to Rich Text editing, LDAP user management, restoring to MySQL, and Unicode on MS SQL Server
2.1.3 is a free upgrade for all customers who purchased their Confluence license after January 23rd, 2005.
Who should upgrade?
Confluence 2.1.3 fixes a number of bugs found in Confluence 2.1.2 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 with dynamic group mappings. For more information see Release Notes 2.1.3
Upgrade Procedure
Upgrading Confluence should be pretty easy. If you are upgrading from Confluence 2.1 to 2.1.2, you can find instructions here. We strongly recommend that you backup your confluence.home directory and database before upgrading!
If you are upgrading from Confluence 2.0.3 or earlier, please check the release-notes of the other major Confluence releases:
- Release Notes 2.1
- Release Notes 2.0
- Release Notes 1.4
- Release Notes 1.3
- Release Notes 1.2
- Release Notes 1.1
Changes in 2.1.3
See also: Issues resolved for 2.1.3
Improvements
- You can now suppress camel-case linking with {nl:CamelCaseWord} – Release Notes 2.1.3
- Confluence RSS macro is now compatible with Google News RSS – Release Notes 2.1.3
- The {contentbylabel} macro supports a wider range of options – Release Notes 2.1.3
Bugs Fixed
- Many fixes related to Rich Text editing, and switching between Rich Text and Wiki Markup editing.
- Further PDF export fixes – Release Notes 2.1.3
- The upload option in the attachments macro works – Release Notes 2.1.3
- Fixed a bug where Word exports would open in the wrong application – Release Notes 2.1.3
- Handling of situation where site exceeds its licensed user limit and then removes users is improved – Release Notes 2.1.3
- Restoring a site to MySQL now properly removes and re-creates database tables – Release Notes 2.1.3
- Confluence now uses correct NVARCHAR type for multibyte text in MS SQL Server – Release Notes 2.1.3