If you are a plugin developer testing for compatibility against Confluence 4.1, it is very important that you read the information at the bottom of these release notes about Velocity templates and deprecation. |
After inserting an image, you can now apply one of five effects to the image by clicking the new Effects button and choosing from one of the following:
The images above are displayed using the 'Snapshot' Image Effect.
Linking to things in Confluence is much too hard. Sometimes you already have the URL from some other tab and just want to paste it in. If it's a link to a system Confluence knows about, why should you have to mess around with doing it "properly" by looking it up in the link dialog or the issue dialog just because you want it to get refactored later?
For example, if you paste in https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-23567 then some people will give you grief for not using the insert JIRA issue link to make it . The new Autoconvert feature will automatically convert pasted links into a useful macro. You have to see it to believe it. It works for:
This will be a welcomed feature to users who used to copy wiki markup out into another text editor to do a find replace then paste it back in. Now everyone will be able to do it right from the editor.
Having a difficult time finding relevant content in the dashboard activity stream? This allows you to see recent updates from just the people you follow in Confluence. As part of this work there were some changes made in the background to the way the Dashboard works meaning
We've spent time focusing on a number of editor efficiency issues, most recently being the ability to easily copy and paste multiple table rows or whole tables within a page, across pages, across Confluence installs or even from other sources (eg: HTML tables on the web). Additionally (which didn't happen in Wiki Markup where users could previously copy/paste rows fairly simply) you can now overwrite existing cells by pasting into them and where the clipboard contents are bigger than the existing table, it will automatically be adjusted with additional columns to fit. This is a big usability improvement.
Oh and one more thing, you can now use Alt+Up Arrow or Alt+Down Arrow to add a new row above or below your current one, which works beautifully with the new easy to copy/paste rows.
Fixing another similar pain point, we also spent some time working on the pasting of list items into existing lists, making this more consistent with what you'd expect. If you copy a couple of list items from one part of a list, or another one, and paste them into the middle of a list, they are added at the same level, not indented. This is the first of a number of tweaks to the way lists work which will be a big usability improvement.
The concept of a personal label has been removed and you'll now see a newly named and cleaner Favourites tab in your personal space. Additionally the list of favourites is now paginated and uses AJAX to un-favourite pages on the page.
Now a custom PDF stylesheet can be set at the global level, just like custom layouts, so where there is no specific individual space stylesheet defined when a PDF space export is done it will fall back to this global stylesheet, meaning users won't have to apply the same stylesheet to all their individual spaces if they want the same behaviour.
You can now use "special" characters such as : or @ or % in your page titles, as in the screenshot below. Various new features like this are now possible, thanks to the move to the new Confluence editor.
There is now a globally configurable timeout setting which will stop pages going into a permanent loading state leaving users no easy way to edit them to sort out the offending macros or plugins. In the worst case scenario this had the potential to bring down Confluence itself before.
As you may know, Atlassian introduced a new logo in October. Now, Charlie 2.0 has made it to Confluence.
You'll also notice a bunch of new icons to give some of your favourite features in Confluence a fresh look. Here are some examples of the new page and blog post icons.
Important note for plugin developers
As of Confluence 4.1, Confluence will now log a warning every time a Velocity template makes a call to a deprecated Java class or method. Under Confluence's deprecation policy, deprecated code is likely to be removed in future releases of the product, and plugin developers are strongly advised to stop using it as early as possible.
When you run Confluence in Developer Mode, these warnings will instead cause an exception to be thrown and the processing of the template to be aborted. This is to give plugin developers much more immediate (and harder to ignore) feedback about potentially dangerous code. Developer Mode is turned on by the Atlassian SDK, so if you use the SDK to build or test your plugin you should know right away if there's something dangerous going on in your Velocity files.
If you want to switch this behaviour back to just logging a warning, you should start Confluence with the -Dconfluence.velocity.deprecation.strictmode=false system property set.