Confluence Release 5.6.1
September 23, 2014
We upgraded to the latest version of Confluence on Wednesday morning. This is our scheduled quarterly upgrade to make we are leveraging the latest features and have the latest bug fixes. This upgrade includes hundreds of defect resolutions and a number of nice new features:
Office Integration
- The Office Connector now supports displaying, editing and importing Office 2013 documents.
- Office Connector fixed in Firefox 29 and Firefox 30
Various Improvements and new features
- You can now restrict blog posts to a specific group or team, or when confidentiality is important.
- Your comments post instantly, without refreshing the page, so pages don't need to refresh
- Recently viewed" is synced across all your devices so from your mobile you can quickly access a page you were previously viewing from your laptop.
- Sorting in the Task Report macro has been improved. There is now a Sort parameter
- With Confluence 5.5 you could insert a date lozenge by typing // into the editor. Now we've added natural date recognition so you can type dd/mm/yyyy or dd-mm-yyyy to trigger the date picker. For example 31/12/2014 will convert to 31 Dec 2014 .
- The sidebar now defaults to show the page tree when you create a new space.
- Jira charing integration
- Improved the way emoticons, JIRA issues and tables render in PDF exports.
- Upgraded to TomCat 7
Links to all the release notes included in this upgrade
Highlights
- Better office integration
- Blog post privacy settings
- Better date insertion
- Mobile sync improvements
- Page Tree navigation is default