The features listed on this page refer to Confluence version 1.0 beta1.

Content Management

• Content is organised into discrete spaces in which users can create and edit pages.
• Easy-to-learn, easy-to-read but powerful notation for designing pages and linking between them, based on the popular textile markup.
• Arbitrary files can be attached to pages.
• Comments can be left on pages.
• Page templating allows rapid creation of boiler-plate pages.
• Pages can be organised into hierarchies.

Update Tracking

• Each page has a full change history, accessible as coloured diffs highlighting each change made.
• Simple Reports which pages have been updated since you last logged in.
• Email subscription informs you of pages that have been added or updated, or comments left.
• RSS feeds available for new and updated pages across the site, or in individual spaces.

Searching

• Full-text searching of all content, including pages, comments and space descriptions

Site Management

• Smart page-renaming updates links across the entire site, even in comments or space descriptions.
• Pages or spaces can be imported from plain text files, or exported to PDF or HTML.
• Simple backup and restore to XML files.
• Automatic daily backup feature.
• Reports of "orphaned" pages that exist but are not linked to, and of links that point to pages that do not yet exist.

User Management and Security

• Flexible security, from a public site, to a personal space.
• User- and group-based permissions.
• Separate viewing, commenting, editing and administration permissions for each space.

Deployment and Compatibility

• Available on a wide variety of platforms, either as a stand-alone server, or as a web-archive deployable into a compatible Java application server.
• Compatible with a large number of databases
• See Requirements for more information

Support

• Confluence is under full-time development, with licensees entitled to a year of free updates.
• Atlassian's Legendary Service.