What's new in Confluence Standalone 5.3
Oct 16, 2013
- Highlights:
- Introducing Space Blueprints
- Get a Knowledge Base up and running in no time
- Make a place to collaborate with your team
- Promote blueprints and templates
- A new way to share links with your team
- Change usernames
- See the whole page tree in the sidebar
- Request access to a restricted page
- Macro Improvements
- Infrastructure changes and API improvements
- Upgrade notes:
- Rename user page version limitation:
- As part of the work required to allow administrators to rename users a migration task will create a new version of each page / blog in your site. Only the latest version of each page / blog will be migrated. This means that when a username is changed, any user mentions in page versions prior to the 5.3 migration will contain that user's old username. This is a limitation of our migration framework.
- Personal space keys are not changed when a user is renamed:
- If a Confluence Administrator renames a user who has a personal space, the space key for that space will remain the user's original username. For example if jsmith's username is changed to jbrown, their personal space key will remain ~jsmith.
- Some translations not available in 5.3:
- Translations for several new features, including the new Create Space dialog, new blueprints, Whitelist and the Livesearch macro, are not available in this release. We hope to make these translations available shortly after this release in 5.3.1. If you use a language pack other than English, we do not recommend you upgrade to Confluence 5.3 yet.
- Notifications refresh:
- In Confluence 5.2 we refreshed the look of our email notifications. As part of this work we have removed the Edit Space notification email.
- End of support for MS SQL 2005:
- As previously announced, from this release onwards we no longer offer support for MS SQL 2005. See End of Support Announcements for Confluence for more information.
- End of support for the Social Bookmarking plugin:
- As previously announced, from this release onwards we no longer support the Social Bookmarking Plugin. This functionality has been replaced by the Shared Links blueprint.
- Features and Improvements:
- Change usernames
- Allow default template to be specified
- Generic link tracking and refactoring support for macros
- It is not possible to insert a single JIRA issue or a empty JIRA issue search as a table with the new JIRA issues macro
- Allow results in columns in the Page Properties Report Macro to wrap
- Fix inefficiency of the jiraissuesmacro
- Ability to automatically detect a changed username in Crowd
- Live search to be able to only search labels in a specific space
- Disable ehcache (and quartz?) phone-home timers.
- API change: extend PermissionDelegate to allow checking whether a user can create within a target
- ImageFilterServlet re-throws java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
- 'Request Access' to page with restrictions
- Recently Viewed Tab: User expects to see most-recently viewed issue at the top
- Bugs Fixed:
- when a page is renamed, find and update instances of the {include} and {excerpt-include}
- Paste images into the editor from clipboard using Firefox 22.x and above does not work
- Labels not getting indexed as part of the page
- Mail should handle extension for embedded attachments.
- All user specific page restrictions lost when upgrading to Confluence 5.2.4
- jiraissues macro does not display cascading select-list values properly
- 500 Internal Server Error upon visiting a page containing attachments via Confluence WebDAV
- Template variable values are lost going into Edit Mode
- Outgoing authentication settings for generic/etc AppLinks are broken
- Macro browser sometimes does not load
- Livesearch is case sensitive
- Regular administrator users cannot see user license count in Confluence-only OnDemand instances
- Share by Group is suggesting it was successful but it doesn't actually work
- Space Activity screen fails to display Most Active Contributors
- Column titles in the jiraissues macro do not respect changes to the configured global language
- StorageMacroV2Marshaller does not use old parameters array, macros created with deprecated method do not have parameters persisted
- Confluence Quick Reload Plugin Renders Confluence Unavailable
- Too many warnings in log: "Cannot find web resource module for: …"
- JIRA Issues Macro fails to get correct info for some fields if JIRA server use in another default language
- Confluence 4.3 source distribution has some critical problems that prevent it from building