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It's the dashboard, but not as you know it

Confluence 5.9 sports a brand new dashboard, with a collapsible sidebar that makes getting around a breeze. 

Just like in the old dashboard, you can watch the action unfold in real time with All updates, or check out the pages with lots of activity and buzz in the Popular feed. 

作業を素早く再開

Here's where the new dashboard really comes into its own. Get lightning fast access to your recently created and edited pages in Recently worked on, get back to that page you stumbled across yesterday in Recently viewed, and have your most important pages on speed dial under Favorites.

Useful spaces at your fingertips

Last but not least, we've made a place for those spaces that you hop in and out of several times a day. Hit the star icon in a space's sidebar or in the space directory to make it appear under My spaces in the sidebar.  

Welcome people to your site with custom content

Give your site some personality by adding useful announcements, links or a happy, shiny photo from your last team outing. The the whole right hand column is ready and waiting for you to customize. If you're a Confluence administrator you'll be able to edit the content right from the dashboard. 

Edit a page, without losing your place

同じタイプミスを 2 度指摘することはもうありません。Confluence では、ページの編集と表示を切り替えても、ユーザーが同じ場所に留まるようになりました。スクロールの回数が減り、利便性が増しました。

また、より巧みな読み取り体験を提供するために、ページ データ (ブレッドクラム、ラベル、および制限) とツールは、ページを下にスクロールすると自動的に非表示になりました。上にスクロールし始めるとすぐに再表示されるので、必要なときに簡単にアクセスできます。

ページ データとツール

CQLでよりスマートに検索する

In Confluence 5.8 we brought you CQL (Confluence Query Language), and used it to power the Content by Label and Page Properties Report macros. Confluence 5.9 brings that CQL goodness to search.

When you do a full search in Confluence, you can now add CQL filters – like label, mentioning user, with parent – to really refine your search. Add as many filters as you need to, to get the right results.

空ページのワンクリック作成

We love our Confluence templates, and think they're really handy, but we also know that many pages start out blank. To save you time when creating blank pages, we're taking the process from 3 steps down to 1 with our new 'quick create' option. Instead of a single create button in the header, you'll now see two options: Create (blank page) and Create from template.

Page templates and other content types are just as easy to access as they were before – just choose the Create from template    option in the header.

A better way to restrict pages

We've made it easier to restrict who can edit and view your pages in Confluence.

The new padlock icon    at the top of the page gets you straight into the restrictions dialog (you can still get there using  > Restrictions, but why click twice?).

There's three options:

• No restrictions - keep the page open to everyone (hint: use this for a quick way to remove existing restrictions). 
• Editing restricted - limit who can edit a page, but keep it open for everyone to view.
• Viewing and editing restricted - set exactly who can view, and who can edit. It's is the most flexible option. 

Here's how it looks:

The padlock icon at the top of the page changes when a page is restricted   , or when it's inheriting view restrictions from another page   . We'll also give you a warning in the restrictions dialog when your page is affected by restrictions on other pages.

Watch spaces in on-boarding

When a new user logs in for the first time, we'll give them the opportunity to watch a short video introducing them to Confluence and upload their smiliest profile picture. They also get the chance to watch some popular spaces, or search for and watch specific spaces. It's a win for those of you who need to get Confluence newbies set up.

Before your new starters log in to Confluence:

1. Give them a list of spaces to watch
2. Wait
3. Profit!

Easier page and post favoriting

Marking a page or blog post as a favorite makes it easy to get back to, especially with favorites right there on the new dashboard. You might favorite pages and posts you really like, or just the ones you need to visit regularly. We've moved the Favorite option out of the   menu and into the main page tools section, so it's even easier to mark something as a favorite.

サービス デスクのカスタマーを含む、すべての人のための知識

If you use JIRA Service Desk, you can now allow all active users and customers to view knowledge base articles in Confluence without granting them a Confluence license or enabling anonymous access to your site. This new setting is enabled via JIRA Service Desk, but can be turned off in Confluence at any time (globally or for specific spaces).

In most cases, these unlicensed users will view pages through the JIRA Service Desk customer portal or help center; however, they can also follow a link to a Confluence page and then navigate to other pages in the same space.

Unlicensed users do not have permission to:

• Like, comment or edit content.
• ダッシュボード、ユーザー プロファイル、ピープル ディレクトリ、またはスペース ディレクトリを参照します。
• Search all of Confluence.

Allowing all active users and customers to view a space with the new JIRA Service Desk setting overrides all other space permissions. Due to the way Confluence inherits permissions, this means that any logged in Confluence user will also be able to see the space, regardless of their group membership.

Currently, this is only available if you integrate Confluence 5.9 with JIRA Service Desk Cloud. Keep an eye on the JIRA Service Desk release notes to find out when it is available for JIRA Service Desk Server.

Say goodbye to unknown attachment fails

When you copy content from the editor and paste it into another page we'll re-attach any images for you, automatically. You'll be seeing a lot less of the dreaded "unknown attachment" error.

To notify, or not to notify

The Notify watchers checkbox now remembers your choice on a per page basis. So if you've chosen not to notify watchers on a particular page, it'll be unchecked next time you edit that page again.

Inline comments improvements

Inline comments will now work when you highlight some macros. We've also made it a smoother experience when you can't inline comment, by adding your comment as a page comment.

Data Center の改善

To make things simpler for those of you upgrading to Confluence Data Center, we've dispensed with the separate downloads and now offer a single download for either Confluence Server or Data Center. Your Confluence variety is now determined by the license key you enter when you're installing or upgrading Confluence.

We're also introducing support for TCP/IP addresses when configuring your cluster nodes, so there's no longer a requirement to have a multicast address. This means you can now run Confluence Data Center on Amazon Web Services (AWS)!

More control over page excerpts

The Children Display and Content by Label macros both have an option to show a small excerpt of the content of the page in the list. In this release we've made those excerpts much more awesome. 

You can now choose between:

• Simple excerpt – This is the current excerpt, that shows a single line of text from the Excerpt macro on each page. If there's no Excerpt macro, this option will show nothing. 
• Rich content – This option shows formatted text, images and even some macros. If there's an excerpt macro on the page, it'll use the contents of that macro, or if there's no Excerpt macro it'll use whatever's at the top of the page. 

Give it a try – add a Children Display or Content by Label macro to your page, and turn on the rich content excerpt.

Infrastructure changes and a whole lot more

We've made some pretty significant changes in this version of Confluence, including:

• Upgrading to:
  • Atlassian Plugins version 4
  • Soy 3.x
  • Atlassian REST 3
  • Applinks 5
  • Trusted Apps 4
  • SAL 3
• Deprecating:
  • The Status Updates feature
  • Confluence-provided javascript globals

Check out the preparing for Confluence 5.9 page for more information on these changes and more.

Status updates removal

In our quest to simplify your Confluence experience, we're removing the Status Updates feature in Confluence 5.9. This includes the ability to:

• ステータスの更新
• プロファイルまたはユーザーステータス一覧マクロを介して他のピープルのステータスを表示。

サイト内の任意のページでユーザー ステータス リスト マクロを使用していると思われる場合は、これらのマクロを削除することをお勧めします。アップグレード後、これらのマクロは「不明なマクロ」として表示されます。

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アップグレード ノート

Follow the usual upgrade instructions to upgrade your test site to this release.