Confluence

Confluence project is an enterprise wiki that makes it easy for your team to collaborate and share knowledge. Adding, sharing and finding content has never been easier.

Features:

• Enterprise security
• Simple installation and management
• Attractive, user-friendly WYSIWYG interface
• Powerful tools for structuring and searching your wiki
• Professional features such as PDF export and automated refactoring
• An open API for extension and integration
• Atlassian's Legendary Service.

What is new in this release:

• This version introduces a new notification and work action system, called WorkBox, that helps users focus on what needs their attention and act on it faster.
• It also adds simple personal and team-based tasks that can be added to any Confluence page and simply managed in WorkBox.
• Everything can be accessed through Confluence's new full, mobile-ready user interface for working with content, people, and tasks on-the-go.

What is new in version 4.0:

• This is one of the most significant updates to Confluence since its initial release in 2004.
• With a brand new WYSIWYG editor and wide-ranging user interface improvements, this is the most productive and user-friendly version to date.

What is new in version 3.5:

• Easy, Powerful Connections to Active Directory, LDAP and Crowd
• Improved JIRA Integration
• Drag-and-Drop for HTML5 Browsers
• Autowatch and Improved Notification Settings
• Sharing Pages and Blog Posts
• Enhanced Code Macro
• More Administrative Improvements
• "What's New" Feature Tour
• Categories, a New Way of Organising Spaces
• Embedding Audio and Video with the Multimedia Macro
• Other Improvements
• Infrastructure Changes

What is new in version 3.4:

• More keyboard shortcuts were added.
• Improvements were made to user macros.
• There's also a new plugin manager.

What is new in version 3.0:

• Confluence 3.0 introduces the Macro Browser, a new way for users of all experience levels to build content-rich pages in seconds. The macro browser exposes the macros in your Confluence site - charts, task lists, photo galleries, RSS feeds and more - through a point-and-click graphical interface.
• Confluence 3.0 comes bundled with over 80 out-of-the box macros and can be extended with hundreds of other third party plugins like Balsamiq mockups or Gliffy diagrams.
• The features that improve people discovery include:
• Hover Profile - hover over a users name wherever it appears in Confluence to view summary profile information, follow the user or click into his complete user profile;
• Enhanced User Profiles - personal profiles now let users enter personal information like position, department and location while displaying the user's recent activity, current status and people in their network.
• Redesigned Personal Spaces - Each user's personal space now includes a collapsible side panel that shows detailed profile information such as recent activity, current status and people in their network.
• The features that improve people connections and relationships include:
• Status Updates - post a 140-character message to share links, ask questions or simply inform coworkers on what you're working on;
• Networks - follow other users to add them to your personal network and track their activity throughout your Confluence site;
• Activity Streams - view an aggregated stream of all the activity recently undertaken by all the users in your network;
• Customer-Focused Improvements:
• Upgraded PDF Export - PDF export now produces higher quality output and provides greater control through customized stylesheets, title pages, headers and footers.
• Major performance improvements - Response times for clustered environments are up to 100% faster while response times for standalone environments are up to 40% faster.

What is new in version 2.10.0:

• This release introduce the new Widget Connector, an easy way to embed multi-media content from all over the Web directly into your page.
• Add Youtube videos, Flickr slideshows, and Google Gadgets, just to name a few.
• With the improved Office Connector, you can now view the contents of attached files. Finding all your content is a lot easier.
• With Quick Navigation, just start typing in the search box and immediately see suggested results.
• And with 'Did You Mean', Confluence now suggests corrections for misspelled words.