12 December 2007: With great pleasure, the Atlassian Confluence team presents Confluence 2.7.

Confluence 2.7 has improvements for administrators and end-users alike. Administrators can set up trusted communication between Confluence and JIRA. The result? The JIRA Issues and JIRA Portlet macros will show only the issues which the Confluence user is authorised to see. You no longer need to include a username and password in the markup code.

2 ティアの管理者権限により、システム管理者は、一部の機能をチーム リーダーやマネージャーに委任することができます。ログが簡素化され、管理者は実行時にログ レベルを変更することができます。ユーザー管理フレームワークが改善され、ユーザーの検索が高速化されます。

ギャラリー マクロで画像の並べ替えを実行できるようになりました。また、ページやニュース項目を作成する際には、ページが保存されるのを待たずに、すぐに画像やファイルを添付することができます。

  • Upgrading to Confluence 2.7 is free for all customers with active Confluence software maintenance as at 12 December 2007.
  • Thank you for all your issues and votes. Keep on logging!
  • We've highlighted our favourite bits of this new release below.

  • And there's more.

    Upgrading Confluence should be fairly straightforward. We strongly recommend that you back up your confluence.home directory and database before upgrading!
    Please refer to the upgrade instructions. There you will find instructions on upgrading, and details of the following:

    • サードパーティ プラグインを使用している場合は、2.7 を本番環境で導入する前に徹底的にテストしてください。
    • Resin アプリケーション サーバーを使用している場合は、XSD 対応の XML パーサーを使用するように Resin を設定する必要があります。
    • When upgrading, you should consider turning off the new JIRA/Confluence trusted communication feature and/or warnings.
    • Your users will be automatically migrated to AtlassianUser during the Confluence upgrade process.
    • All users and groups with the old 'Administer Confluence' permission will be converted to the new 'System Administrator' permission.
    • By default, all installations of Confluence will now write log messages to the Confluence home directory instead of the application server's log file.
    • Confluence 2.8 以降、Java 1.4 は廃止される予定です。
    • Read more information.


Responding to your feedback:
(green star) 4 new feature requests implemented
(green star) 380 votes satisfied
 


Highlights of this release:

Highlights of Confluence 2.7

JIRA 課題およびポートレット マクロが新しい信頼できる認証を使用

  • The JIRA Issues macro and the JIRA Portlet macro allow you to display a list of JIRA issues on your Confluence page.
  • Prior to Confluence 2.7, you had to include a username and password in the markup code if you needed to display issues with restricted viewing. This release and JIRA 3.12 solve the problem.

  • Read more about trusted communication.
     


    Example markup– User will see the issues they are authorised to see (provided trusted communication is enabled):

    {jiraissues:url=CONTENT|columns=type;key;summary}

    Example markup– User will see only the issues authorised for anonymous viewing:

    {jiraissues:url=CONTENT|columns=type;key;summary|anonymous=true}

2ティアの管理者権限

  • The original 'Administer Confluence' permission is now called 'System Administrator'.
  • A new permission level, called 'Confluence Administrator', is similar to 'System Administrator' but excludes the functions which may compromise the security of the Confluence system.
  • You can delegate administrator privileges to project managers or team leaders while preserving the security of your Confluence site, by granting the managers the new 'Confluence Administrator' permission.
  • Read the documentation.
     

ページ作成時の画像の挿入とファイルの添付

  • You can now attach an image or other file during creation of new page – before you have saved the page.
  • This applies to pages and news items.
  • We have standardised the options for Wiki Markup mode and the Rich Text editor:
    • The 'Insert Image' popup allows you to select thumbnails and alignment.
    • The 'Insert Link' popup allows aliases and tooltips.
  • Read more about inserting an image and attaching a file to a page.
     

ギャラリー マクロでの画像の並び替え

  • The new 'sort' argument allows you to order the images by file name, comment or date last modified.

  • Read the documentation.
     
    Example: Sorting the images by file name

    {gallery:title=Some office photos, and a waterfall|sort=name}

    Example: Sorting the images by date and showing the most-recently-modified first

    {gallery:title=Some office photos, and a waterfall|sort=date|reverseSort}

簡単化および改善されたログ記録

  • Confluence now writes its logs to the Confluence home directory. Both the Confluence and Confluence EAR/WAR distributions behave in the same way. For more information, see the logging documentation.
  • We have rationalised the reporting to the different levels (ERROR, INFO, WARN, etc) and removed many unnecessary exceptions and stacktraces from the logs.
  • You can change the logging levels while Confluence is running. Read more information.

パフォーマンス、保守性、および管理

  • If you are currently using the standard configuration for user management, your users will be automatically migrated to the AtlassianUser framework on upgrade to Confluence 2.7. See the upgrade notes. This will result in a dramatic increase in the speed of user searches.
  • Confluence は Java 6 をサポートするようになったため、改善されたパフォーマンスを活用できます。
  • その他の一連の改善によって、Confluence システムの安定性が向上しています。

Plus over 90 fixes and improvements

  • You'll no longer see those annoying browser messages when you click the browser's 'Back' button, for example after viewing search results.
  • We've fixed some problems with the image and file attachment popups, and made them behave in the same way for both the Rich Text Editor and Wiki Markup.
  • See the list of features, improvements and bug fixes.

The Confluence 2.7 team

Development
Agnes Ro
Anatoli Kazatchkov
Samuel Le Berrigaud
Andrew Lynch
Charles Miller
Christopher Owen
Dave Loeng
David Taylor
Dmitry Baranovskiy
Don Willis
Matt Ryall
Matthew Jensen
Paul Curren
Sam Le Berrigaud

Oversight & Mismanagement
Adnan Chowdhury
Mike Cannon-Brookes
Per Fragemann
Scott Farquhar
Soren Harner
Tony Dagger

UI
Jason Taylor
Stephen Russell

Technical Writing
Sarah Maddox

Support
Choy Li Tham
Emily Stumpf
Gurleen Anand
Ivan Benko
James Fleming
Jeremy Largman
Kevin Tran
Mei Yan Chan
Ming Giet Chong
Partha Kamal
Roy Hartono
Tony Cheah Tong Nyee
Vincent Chang
Wayne Tombo