Summary

The Confluence team is proud to present another incremental milestone, called M7. We are currently aiming at shipping M8 in two weeks and M9 in four weeks. M9 will be almost feature-complete and therefore similar to a beta release. After a couple of betas and release candidates we intend to ship Confluence 3 in late May. As always, things can still change a little, so there is no fixed date. But if you are a plugin developer, you want to have your plugin tested well before the big marketing buzz kicks in. We try to remain as backward-compatible as we can for Confluence 3, but if something slipped through the cracks we need your feedback, and we need it now. So do have a look at this milestone release and tell us what you think.

Macro Browser and Rich Text Editor

You can now choose the kind of right-click context menu you want in the Rich Text Editor. A new button on the toolbar, handily called "Toggle context menu", toggles between the browser's default context menu and our TinyMCE one.

You can also tell the TinyMCE context menu that it isn't wanted via the "Disable context menu" option.

Macro Browser search has been improved and now accepts multiple words (order not important) and camel-casing (matches either case in consecutive words).
The filtering logic has been added to AUI as a new commented method of AJS, "filterBySearch" - feel free to use it.

Community Improvements

This milestone shows a number of improvements from the Community Team.

Profile Layout

In the spirit of making the profile page actually page you want to visit, it's been given a facelift and has now come closer in line with out stardard UI.

It also includes your current status is clearly visible at the top of the profile page.

For now you have a Status Updates section on the right hand side of the profile page, the next milestone will see this will be replaced with the new Recently Updated Macro (see below) so it will include other kinds of activity as well.  It's here now because otherwise you wouldn't have anywhere to delete or clear your status, eventually will be moved to another tab and/or page.

User Status Updates

• Delete And Clear Status
  You can delete status entries from the list on the right. Someone hacks in your status, you can now always delete it. You can also clear your current status, so any location showing your current status will show nothing. This won't remove it from your history but your current status will now be considered cleared.
• Status Icon
  A new status Icon was introduced by the Design team.  The lightbulb has been replaced with some sexy quotes ( ).
• Immediate Updates
  Updating your status will use Javascript-Magic to update your status on the current page, giving you immediate feedback, with no need to refresh the page.

Recently Updated Macro

This is the first milestone that shows the hard work that dave and Chris Broadfoot have been doing with our Recently Updated Macro.

To build up activity in the old recently updated macro the process would simply query the lastModified date of all the relevant content, then sort it accordingly.  The side effect of this was, if two people edited the same page, you would only see the one edit in your list.  Not only that, if you wanted to follow a certain user's activity and someone edited a page after them, you wouldn't see any update!

We've worked very hard on this and changed the way Confluence stores changes to documents and now tracks all changes every time a document, page, profile, status, anything, is updated.

This screen shot shows two edits from two different people on the same document, something that wasn't previously possible.  These changes were critical for implementing a proper follow feature for 3.0.

Bug Fixes

A number of bugs have been fixed by the community team, here are a list of some of the main ones:

• CONF-14773 Expanding and collapsing the personal sidebar will no longer affect the comments on that page/blogpost.
• CONF-14870 Delete links for user status items are now properly integrated with the new XSRF protection and actually work.
• CONF-14778 Printing pages from a personal space no longer includes the sidebar
  Other bug fixes:
• CONF-14689 Comment edits now send notifications

Plus a number of other fixes.

PDF export team

Removed the PDF Export++ option. The new PDF export is what you get when you select just PDF Export. The old PDF export was removed.

Added javascript to the space export tree that will select/deselect all descendants of the clicked node. This change applies to all export formats not just PDF. This should save hours for the Atlassian Techwriting team.

Bugs fixed

CONF-14906 - Fonts are too large in the page index macro when exported to PDF
CONF-14905 - Note macro missing colored background in PDF export
CONF-14902 - content by label macro looks ugly when exported to PDF
CONF-14900 - Bookmarks macro is producing really large font when exported to PDF
CONF-14899 - Attachments macro is showing velocity junk when exported to PDF
CONF-14898 - Panel macros (warning, note, info) could use some extra padding in PDF export
CONF-14897 - Spaces macro renders as a single bullet item list when exported to PDF
CONF-14895 - Recently-used-labels macro with a table style doesn't look like a table at all
CONF-14894 - Blockquote text too large in pdf export