Confluence Release Summary

This page shows the highlights of the major Confluence releases.

Current Release

For information about the latest release, please go to the Release Notes.

Confluence 2.10 — 3 December 2008

• Introducing the Widget Connector
• Improved Office Connector Now Bundled
• Introducing Quick Navigation
• 'Did You Mean', OpenSearch and More
• Custom Stylesheets for Confluence Spaces
• Updated JIRA Issues Macro with Custom Fields and Dynamic Display
• Enhanced User and Group Management
• Upgraded Rich Text Editor
• Universal Wiki Converter now with SharePoint Import and More
• Improved Activity Macros
• Plugin Framework 2
• More in the release notes

Confluence 2.9 — 7 August 2008

• Streamlined Search
• Auto Save
• Charts
• Page Tree
• Gallery
• New Tutorial
• More in the Menus
• Alphabetical Page Ordering
• Better Spam Prevention
• Plugin Repository
• Engine Room and Developers' Community
• More in the release notes

Confluence 2.8 — 10 April 2008

• Dynamic menus and simplified screen design
• Page ordering
• Collapsible comments
• Multiple-label filter
• Confluence installer
• Task list
• Performance enhancements
• Administration, management and monitoring
• More in the release notes

Confluence 2.7 — 12 December 2007

• JIRA Issues and Portlet macros use new trusted authentication
• Two-tier administrator permissions
• Inserting images and attaching files during page creation
• Sorting of images in Gallery macro
• Simplified and improved logging
• Performance, maintainability and administration
• More in the release notes

Confluence 2.6 — 27 September 2007

• Fresh look for the Default theme
• Personalised comments and Dashboard
• Space description on Dashboard
• Labels on templates
• Default content for space home pages
• Social Bookmarking plugin now bundled with Confluence
• Back-dating and renaming news items
• More in the release notes

Confluence 2.5 — 29 April 2007

• Introducing flexible page restrictions
• Dynamic task list JRE incompatibilities
• contentbylabel macro supports AND condition
• More in the release notes

Confluence 2.4 — 14 March 2007

• Editable comments
• Page mailing
• More in the release notes

Confluence 2.3 — 5 January 2007

• Confluence Massive — cluster support
• People directory
• Activity plugin — usage statistics
• Blogging RPC plugin — manage news in Confluence using blogger-compatible desktop clients
• WebDAV client support via WebDAV plugin — create, edit, move pages, attachments, etc via WebDAV
• More in the release notes

Confluence 2.2 — 27 April 2006

• Personal spaces
• Localisation/internationalisation — drop-in language packs (similar to JIRA)
• CAPTCHA support — spam protection
• Improved searching
• Improved LDAP performance
• Confluence Standalone ships with Tomcat 5.5
• More in the release notes

Confluence 2.1 — 20 December 2005

• Autosave
• Concurrent edit warnings
• LDAP integration with Atlassian User/POLIS
• More in the release notes

Confluence 2.0 — 17 November 2005

• Rich Text Editing — WYSIWYG editor
• Labels
• Dashboard tabs — All, My, Team, New
• RSS builder
• Export pages as Word documents
• Copy pages
• More in the release notes

Confluence 1.4 — 23 May 2005

• New user interface
• Enhanced editing — doing more in the edit interface
• Page permissions
• New plugin types
• Configurable themes
• Completely rewritten Wiki to HTML conversion engine
• More in the release notes

Confluence 1.3 — 30 November 2004

• Mail archiving
• Themes
• Trash can
• More granular space permissions
• More in the release notes

Confluence 1.2 — 23 August 2004

• Page list views — alphabetical, directory view and search view of all pages in a space
• Image thumbnails and thumbnail galleries
• Threaded comments
• Enhanced Search - indexing attachment comments and file names and contextual searching
• New permissions interface
• More in the release notes