Release Notes

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2.28.1

05 January 2023

Compatible with Confluence Server and Data Center 7.11.0 - 8.0.2

Update

  • Confluence 8 readiness - We rewrote the topic search implementation to replace the usage of deprecated APIs in Confluence 8.

2.28.0

30 August 2022

Compatible with Confluence Server and Data Center  7.9.0 - 7.20.3

Bugs fixed

  • We fixed a wrong translation for "topic" and "topics" in German (FORUMS-1213).
  • We fixed a bug causing no topic to appear on the forums table (FORUMS-1208).
  • Replace deprecated Quartz Scheduler with Atlassian Scheduler.
  • Confluence 8 compatibility.
  • Security fixes.

2.27.9

06 April 2022

Compatible with Confluence Server and Data Center 7.8.0 - 7.19.4

Bugs fixed

  • Topics were not visible in the forums table due to a Lucene query failing (FORUMS-1190).
  • Security fixes and general product improvements were made.

2.27.8

28 December 2021

Compatible with Confluence Server and Data Center  7.3.0 - 7.16.5

Bugs fixed

  • We fixed the wrong spelling on the creation date dropdown option (FORUMS-1176).
  • Topic titles that contain German umlauts were not searchable using the search bar (FORUMS-1175).

2.27.7

25 August 2021

Compatible with Confluence Server and Confluence Data Center 6.13.0-

Fixes

  • Fixed some maintenance-related issues to improve user experience.
  • Fixed an issue that caused the Forums dropdown menu in the navigation bar to stop working after an upgrade to Confluence 7.12. [FORUMS-1156]

2.27.6

18 April 2021

Compatible with Confluence Server and Confluence Data Center 6.13.0-7.11.2

Updates

  • Updated in-app links to new documentation site

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue that was causing failures in Confluence's Repair Ancestor Table job [FORUMS-1118]

2.27.5

  • 24 Feb 2021
  • Compatible with Confluence Server and Confluence Data Center 6.13.0-7.11.1

Fixes

  • Fix for Deutsch i18n - eszet characters now display correctly (FORUMS-1114)
  • Improved the Forums root page so that it can be used with multiple forum macros (FORUMS-1120)

2.27.4

  • 13 Oct 2020
  • Compatible with Confluence Server and Confluence Data Center 6.13.0-7.11.0

Fixes

  • Security patch: Replaced a third-party library that contained a vulnerability
    We recommend upgrading to this version or later versions.

2.27.3

  • 15 April 2020
  • Compatible with Confluence Data Center 6.12.0-7.7.4

Updates

  • Compatibility with Data Center read-only mode

    See our documentation to learn more.

2.27.1

  • 20 Feb 2020
  • Compatible with Confluence Server 6.12.0-7.7.4 and Confluence Data Center 6.8.0-7.3.5

Fixes

  • Fixed a behaviour bug with new topic creation (FORUMS-91).

  • Fixed a minor issue with app logging.

2.27.0

  • 03 Dec 2019
  • Compatible with Confluence Server and Confluence Data Center 6.8.0-7.3.5

New Features

Introduction of Analytics; a new system of gathering anonymous analytics.

For more information, see the Analytics page in our documentation.


2.26.6

  • 17 Sep 2019
  • Compatible with Confluence Server and Confluence Data Center 6.5.0-7.1.2

2.26.5

  • 26 Jun 2019
  • Compatible with Confluence Server and Confluence Data Center 6.4.0-6.15.10

New Features

  • Added a new getting started page to the app for Confluence Administrators

  • Added new guides for all users

2.26.4

07 May 2019

Compatible with Confluence Server and Confluence Data Center 6.2.0-6.15.10

Fixes

  • Fixed a security vulnerability (FORUMS-111)

  • Fixed a bug where editing the forum summary page, in certain cases, caused forums not to display (FORUMS-64)

2.26.3

  • 01 Apr 2019
  • Compatible with Confluence Server and Confluence Data Center 6.2.0-6.15.9

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where special characters weren’t being rendered correctly if an excerpt macro was being used (FORUMS-60)

2.26.2

  • 06 Feb 2019
  • Compatible with Confluence Server and Confluence Data Server 6.1.0-6.14.3

Updates

  • Updated third party libraries containing a security patch.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where reordering topics by the number of views created an error (FORUMS-70)

2.26.1

  • 30 Oct 2018
  • Compatible with Confluence Server and Confluence Data Center 6.1.0-6.14.3

Updates

  • Added security fixes

2.26.0

  • 31 Aug 2018
  • Compatible with Confluence Data Center 5.7-6.11.2

New Features

  • Created support escalation process for each DC app (24 hr - reasonable responses)

  • Developed a process to enable the spin up of DC instances of BitBucket, Confluence, and Jira in a cluster, allowing the testing of app performances in different DC environments

  • Developed solutions using tools like nGrinder, JMeter, and Gatling to help measure the performance of BitBucket, Confluence, and Jira with and without apps to be sure the best offering is at scale

  • Invested in scripts to help create larger data sets so Atlassian instances better reflect larger instances that DC customers are using.

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