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Atlassian released Confluence 1.0 on 25 March 2004, saying its purpose was to build "an application that was built to the requirements of an enterprise knowledge management system, without losing the essential, powerful simplicity of the
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Additionally, wiki markup can be typed into the editor and Confluence's autocomplete and auto-format function converts the wiki markup to the new format. After the real-time conversion, content cannot be edited as wiki markup again.
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The tool has add-ons for integration with standard formats, with a flexible programmable API allowing expansion. The software is relevant as an outline tool for requirements that can be linked to tasks in the Jira
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templates for styles and formatting for all pages, including those imported from Word documents. Built in search allows queries by date, the page's author, and content type such as graphics.
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We refer to the Confluence storage format as 'XHTML-based'. To be correct, we should call it XML, because the Confluence storage format does not comply with the XHTML definition.
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language. This led to a sometimes-heated discussion by some previous versions' users who objected to the change. In response, Atlassian provided a source code editor as a
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and finds it "a good starting point" as a platform for social business collaboration, while SharePoint is better suited to companies with more structured processes.
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described it as "one of the most popular wikis in corporate environments," "easy to set up and use," and "an exception to the rule" that
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In 2014, Atlassian released Confluence Data Center to add high availability with load balancing across nodes in a clustered setup.
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files. Use cases include basic enterprise communication, collaboration workspaces for knowledge exchange, social networking,
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In October 2023, Atlassian disclosed a critical broken access control vulnerability allowing exploitation remotely.
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English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Czech, Finnish, French, German, Russian, Swedish, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish
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in 2007 considered Confluence an "emergent enterprise social software" that was "becoming an established player."
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programming language and first published it in 2004. Confluence Standalone comes with a built-in
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Confluence Cloud data is encrypted in transit and at rest. In June 2022, Atlassian disclosed a
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Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.
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https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/issues-resolved-in-8-5-2-1295815337.html
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Anja Ebersbach; Markus Glaser; Richard Heigl; Alexander Warta (2008).
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In recent versions, Confluence has evolved into part of an integrated
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Schmidl, Jörg; Reebs, Johannes & Wucher, Oliver (16 March 2012).
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Singh, Shiv; Becker, Michael; Williams, Ryan (26 September 2009).
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As of version 4.0, in 2011, Confluence ended support for
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cited in 2011 such new features in version 4 as auto-
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Atlassian Confluence
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Knowledge management software
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hsql
enterprise software
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