The Confluence team is proud to present the first public beta release of our upcoming Confluence 3 release. It contains all the features we intend to ship. We will be publishing Beta 3 next week, and then a rapid succession of Release Candidates in two weeks. We aim at shipping Confluence 3.0 in (very) early June.
So, calling all plugin developers: If you want to make sure your plugin plays nicely with 3.0 on the launch date, and if you maybe even want to use our new features from within your plugin, this is really the last chance to get started. Download the Beta right now
Note: This is still not a stable release, it is not meant for production use. So our normal Milestone disclaimer still applies:
All the features we intend to ship are available in this beta. Unfortunately. the official documentation is not ready yet, so until we get a more official summary of the new features, please refer to our recent Milestone release notes, and try the beta out yourself.
Since publishing Milestone 9, we have focussed on polishing our existing features. Here is a rundown on the changes since then:
Some important bug fixes:
Some IE issues: CONF-15497, CONF-15137, CONF-15474, CONF-15421, CONF-14593
Improvements to User Follow: CONF-15335, CONF-15279, CONF-15427, CONF-15286, CONF-15016
Removed the annoying page reload when following a user, CONF-15290
Preview button removed and replaced by a refresh icon:
Some important bug fixes:
CONF-14720Inserting a macro via the macro browser would always scroll to the top, which is very annoying if you are editing the end of the page.
CONF-15487 It is now possible to insert more than one macro in Safari via the macro browser!
CONF-14798 Performance improvements on the backend for the viewfile macro.
Also, the initial loading of the Flash front end should be a little snappier. There was a default "pre-load" screen that added 1-2 seconds to the load time. We also changed the background color to white so it also adds the impression of not appearing until it's loaded.
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Confluence has been upgraded to the latest releases of Plugins 2 and SAL.
We did a small performance improvement by caching PersonalInformation objects by user name (CONF-15484), which will in particular speed up the rendering of profile pictures.
As part of this release cycle we fixed a lot of smaller bugs, but the most notable ones were related to content indexing:
CONF-15352 Fixed a race condition during content indexing which would result in leaked file handles, which had been introduced in M9
CONF-15483 Fixed a problem with a reindex being started before the plugin system was loaded. This would result in empty documents in the index.
CONF-14322 was fixed, so change comments containing ampersands and angle brackets will no longer affect the system.
The Flash preview is broken in Office Connector that is bundled with beta 2. See CONF-15612. It's already fixed and it will be bundled in Beta 3 next week.
