With our latest update in a addition to some general maintenance and bug fixes you will notice a few changes to the colours and logo of your Forums Application as well as it sitting under a new vendor named Kolekti.

Kolekti is part of The Adaptavist Group and the great team behind the application remains the same. Everyone at Kolekti thanks you for the continued support of our applications and we look forward to continue delivering tools that remove inefficient work within your business.

Additional updates include:

• “Sort by Title” throws up some errors when without “Status” column (Forums-1227)

Many thanks the Kolekti team

With our latest update in a addition to some general maintenance and bug fixes you will notice a few changes to the colours and logo of your Forums Application as well as it sitting under a new vendor named Kolekti.

Kolekti is part of The Adaptavist Group and the great team behind the application remains the same. Everyone at Kolekti thanks you for the continued support of our applications and we look forward to continue delivering tools that remove inefficient work within your business.

Additional updates include:

• “Sort by Title” throws up some errors when without “Status” column (Forums-1227)

Many thanks the Kolekti team

• Confluence 8 readiness - Re-write the topic search implementation to replace the usage of deprecated APIs in Confluence 8

• Confluence 8 readiness - Re-write the topic search implementation to replace the usage of deprecated APIs in Confluence 8

• Wrong translation for "topic" and "topics" in German (FORUMS-1213)
• No topic appeared on forums table (FORUMS-1208)
• Replace deprecated Quartz Scheduler with Atlassian Scheduler
• Confluence 8 compatibility
• Security fixes

• Wrong translation for "topic" and "topics" in German (FORUMS-1213)
• No topic appeared on forums table (FORUMS-1208)
• Replace deprecated Quartz Scheduler with Atlassian Scheduler
• Confluence 8 compatibility
• Security fixes

• Topic won't visible in forums table due to lucene query failing (FORUMS-1190)
• Security fixes and general product improvements

• Topic won't visible in forums table due to lucene query failing (FORUMS-1190)
• Security fixes and general product improvements

• Wrong spelling on creation date dropdown option (FORUMS-1176)
• Topic titles that contains German umlauts is not searchable using the searchbar (FORUMS-1175)

• Wrong spelling on creation date dropdown option (FORUMS-1176)
• Topic titles that contains German umlauts is not searchable using the searchbar (FORUMS-1175)

• Fix the unclickable Forums dropdown menu in the confluence navigation bar (FORUMS-1156)
• Some maintenance related works to improve user experience

• Fix the unclickable Forums dropdown menu in the confluence navigation bar (FORUMS-1156)
• Some maintenance related works to improve user experience

• Updated in-app links to new documentation site
• Fixed an issue that was causing failures in Confluence's Repair Ancestor Table job (FORUMS-1118)

• Updated in-app links to new documentation site
• Fixed an issue that was causing failures in Confluence's Repair Ancestor Table job (FORUMS-1118)

• 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)

• 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

Replaced a 3rd party library that contained a vulnerability.

We recommend upgrading to this version or later versions.

Replaced a 3rd party library that contained a vulnerability.

We recommend upgrading to this version or later versions.

Compatibility with Data Center Read-Only Mode

Introduction of Analytics

In this version of Community Forums for Confluence we've introduced a new system of gathering anonymous analytics.

Community Forums' analytics system gathers anonymous usage data in order to gain insight into how it is used with the aim of improving user experience.

For more information please see our documentation.

Introduction of Analytics

In this version of Community Forums for Confluence we've introduced a new system of gathering anonymous analytics.

Community Forums' analytics system gathers anonymous usage data in order to gain insight into how it is used with the aim of improving user experience.

For more information please see our documentation.

This release adds compatibility to the plugin for Confluence 7.

This release adds compatibility to the plugin for Confluence 7.

This release adds a new getting started page to the app for Confluence Administrators and new guides for all users.

You can find the getting started page under the Community Forums listing in the manage apps menu of Confluence. The new getting started guides can be found in our documentation.

This release adds a new getting started page to the app for Confluence Administrators and new guides for all users.

You can find the getting started page under the Community Forums listing in the manage apps menu of Confluence. The new getting started guides can be found in our documentation.

Security Patch

This update fixes a security vulnerability, FORUMS-111. The vulnerability is classified as high according to Atlassian's security severity levels and only affects Forums menu.

We strongly recommend customers update to version 2.26.4 of Community Forums as soon as possible, if you are unable to upgrade at this time we recommend you disable the Forums menu in the Community Forums for Confluence section of the Confluence Administrator menu. For more information on how to do this please visit our documentation.

Bug Fix

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

Security Patch

This update fixes a security vulnerability, FORUMS-111. The vulnerability is classified as high according to Atlassian's security severity levels and only affects Forums menu.

We strongly recommend customers update to version 2.26.4 of Community Forums as soon as possible, if you are unable to upgrade at this time we recommend you disable the Forums menu in the Community Forums for Confluence section of the Confluence Administrator menu. For more information on how to do this please visit our documentation.

Bug Fix

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

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

• FORUMS-60 - Fixed an issue where special characters weren’t being rendered correctly if an excerpt macro was being used.
• Compatibility for Confluence 6.15.x

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

• FORUMS-60 - Fixed an issue where special characters weren’t being rendered correctly if an excerpt macro was being used.
• Compatibility for Confluence 6.15.x

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

• Updated 3rd party libraries containing a security patch.
• FORUMS-70 – fixed a bug where reordering topics by the number of views created an error.

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

• Updated 3rd party libraries containing a security patch.
• FORUMS-70 – fixed a bug where reordering topics by the number of views created an error.

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

This release includes security fixes and has been tested as compatible with 6.12.1

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

This release includes security fixes and has been tested as compatible with 6.12.1

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

Support Escalation

Each of our DC Apps has it's own support escalation process, together with an improved SLA (24 hr - reasonable responses).

Data Center Testing Framework

Developed our own process to enable us to spin up DC instances of BitBucket, Confluence and JIRA in a cluster. This allows us to quickly and easily test the performances of our Apps in different DC environments.

Performance Testing

We developed solutions using tools like nGrinder, JMeter and Gatling to help us measure the performance of BitBucket, Confluence and JIRA with and without our Apps so we can be sure we have the best offering at scale.

Large Data Sets

We invested in scripts to help us create larger data sets so that our Atlassian instances better reflect larger instances our DC customers are using.

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

• Incorrect German translation: https://productsupport.adaptavist.com/browse/FORUMS-46
• Compatibility with Confluence 6.11.x

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

• Compatibility with Confluence 6.10.x https://productsupport.adaptavist.com/browse/FORUMS-45

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

• Fixed an issue where Reindexing caused a session exception: https://productsupport.adaptavist.com/browse/FORUMS-43

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

• German translations: https://productsupport.adaptavist.com/browse/FORUMS-42

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

• Compatibility with Confluence 6.9.x
• German translations: https://productsupport.adaptavist.com/browse/FORUMS-41

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

• Compatibility with Confluence 6.8.x
• Fixed issue where in help popups were not disappearing

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

• Compatibility with Confluence 6.7.x
• Fixed wrong behaviour when locking a Topic and Forum

https://productsupport.adaptavist.com/browse/FORUMS-38

https://productsupport.adaptavist.com/browse/FORUMS-36

https://productsupport.adaptavist.com/browse/FORUMS-37

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

• Confluence 6.6.x compatibility

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

• Fixed issue with Unmark Topic available to non admins: https://productsupport.adaptavist.com/browse/FORUMS-33

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

• Ability to disable the summary popup: https://productsupport.adaptavist.com/browse/FORUMS-29
• Compatibility with Confluence 6.5.x

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

• Improving performance of the Space Directory and Recent Forums

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

• Fixed issue with Forums menu taking extremely long to load or never loading https://productsupport.adaptavist.com/browse/FORUMS-27

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

• Padding Reset for aui-dialog2-content CSS class https://productsupport.adaptavist.com/browse/FORUMS-26#
• Compatibility with Confluence 6.4.x

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

• Compatibility with Confluence 6.3.x
• New feature: Added zebra coloring to rows

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

• Fixed incorrect times shown on Activity Column https://productsupport.adaptavist.com/browse/FORUMS-21
• Added a new option to mark a page as Topic: https://productsupport.adaptavist.com/browse/FORUMS-18

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

• Confluence 6.2.0 compatibility

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

• Fixed issue with Community Forum headers turning to a different color
• Fixed issue with Numbered Lists when combined with Forums

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

• Added Confluence 6.1.0 compatibility
• Added automatic reindexing upgrade task to make sure that the last comment by is displayed correctly.

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

• Fixed an issue where the Colour Palette was not applying correctly if an external theme was set.

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

Bug fixing

• Unmark as Topic should be accessible only to Space Admins and Confluence Admins
• Allow to hide all popups via a dark feature
• Last Commented By column should be the same width as the author
• Last Commented By should have a picture similar to the author
• Can not search chinese keyword in forum search

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

• Added a new Last Comment By column that shows the last user that commented on a Topic
• Fixed issued with small devices and small resolution screens
• Fixed issue with Adaptavist Analytics not being disabled properly.

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

• Unmark Topic: Now you can select a Topic and unmark it as a Topic if you wish so.
• Fixed an issue that a user could still comment on a locked topic.
• Fixed an issue with Adaptavist Analytics not respecting the global Confluence analytics setting.
• Fixed an issue with Adaptavist Analytics where if a client has behind a firewall the Confluence instance would become very slow.

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

Fixed in the Release :

• FORUMS-724 - Forum Name visible in the Forum Directory for users with no permissions
• FORUMS-725 - Issues with Forum Directory in Confluence 5.10

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

New in the Release :

• Confluence 5.10. compatibility

Fixed in the Release :

• FORUMS-713 - Root page not recognised from a different space
• FORUMS-715 - New Feature dialog changed to local storage
• Other bug fixes

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

Fixed in the Release:

• FORUMS-711 - Anonymous User sees errors in a Forum

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

Fixed in this release:

• FORUMS-611 - Removing a Forum macro from a page does not remove the Forum properties from the same page
• Fixed an issue with some macros not being able to be inserted with the “Other macros” shortcut
• Fixed an issue with “sticky topics on top” not being clickable

New in this release:

• FORUMS-346 - Allow using a different page as the template for topics
• FORUMS-347 - Added Topic Status Indicators
• FORUMS-585 - Added a new Topic Number of Views Column
• Icon appearance updated (Note: If new icons don’t appear please try clearing the browser cache)

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

Minor bug fixes

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

New in the release :

• Live search functionality: Search Topics as soon as you start typing in the search box
• Reorganising User Interface
• Search Topics by author: Now you can search Topics based on its author
• Bug fixing

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

Release notes:

- NEW feature! Now you can customise the way your Forums look like. With our new Forum colour palette, customise the colour of your Forum headings and text, very useful to distinguish between different forums, improve aesthetics or match your company colour scheme.

- Minor Bug fixes

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

• Bug fixing Product analytics

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

Fixed in the release:

• Bug fixing
• Improving product analytics

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

• New search that can include comments
• Compatibility with Confluence 5.9
• Bug fixing

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

New in the Release :

• FORUMS-614 - "Update to Community Forums 2" in the Admin Section only appears when there are pages to migrate

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

Fixed in the Release :

• FORUMS-653 - Create Forum button in Forums menu doesn't work in certain versions of Confluence.

A security vulnerability was discovered with the Forums menu, please download version 2.26.4 or later to resolve this. If you need to download this version we advise disabling the Forums menu.

New in the Release:

• FORUMS-615 - Forums Menu Shortcut & Directory - Find your forums quickly and easily using the new forums menu feature

Fixed in the Release

Note: If you're upgrading from 2.3 or below, please perform a re-index of your Confluence instance. This is due to the changes in 2.3 which requires a re-index.

New in the Release:

• Confluence 5.8 compatibility
• FORUMS-596 - Addressed the issue of exporting to PDF functionality by providing a workaround
• FORUMS-618 - Forum Macro "restrict to the editor" macro parameter is disabled.

Bugs fixed in this Release:

FORUMS-617 - Last Reply date in the Forum Summary Macro doesn't get updated

Please note - if upgrading your Community Forums from 2.1.6 or below, please perform a re-index after the upgrade. We've fixed an indexing issue which requires this important step. We apologise for the inconvenience.

New in the Release:

• New filters introduced for Forum Macro - users can now filter by hot topics, locked topics and topics they are following

Bugs fixed in this Release:

• FORUMS-575 : Topics/Replies column in the Forum Summary Macro shows a maximum of 20 topics only
• FORUMS-594 : Removing the Forum Macro from a page doesn't remove Forum properties

Please note - if upgrading your Community Forums from 2.1.6 or below, please perform a re-index after the upgrade. We've fixed an indexing issue which requires this important step. We apologise for the inconvenience.

Fixed in the release :

FORUMS-592 - Issue with German Indexing language

New in the release :

A "Show" & "Hide" switch for Filters in the Forum

New in the Release:

• Confluence DataCentre Compatibility with Confluence 5.6 and 5.7
• Plugin is Paid via Atlassian

New in the Release:

• Confluence 5.5 - 5.7 compatibility
• Rate Macro Compatibility - Rating Buzz column with Generic Forum Column Macro

Fixed in the Release:

• FORUMS-560 Community Forums conflicts with Team Calendars
• FORUMS-562 "Error while rendering columns" error is displayed instead of topics table when the page contains errors (not forums related)
• FORUMS-563 Clicking on "+New Topic" in the preview, creates a new topic
• FORUMS-564 Integration issue with Rate Macro

New Feature:

FORUMS-550 - Introduced a coupling between Community Forums and our popular Rate macro add-on. You can now display a Topic rating column when using both Community Forums + the Rate Macro add-on

Fixed in this version:

FORUMS-542 - Fixed a bug where IE9 was not supporting dataset

FORUMS-551 -Fixed a bug where the macro editor Preview wasn't rendering the Topic Summary & Forum Summary macros

Feature Improvement:

Introduced sort options for forum summary macro, providing stable forum summary table

We’ve introduced a tool to simplify migration as well as re-implementing features from the old macros to fit the new, more robust forums. For more detail, see our full release notes

- New migration task to assist in moving to the latest forum macros, see our Upgrade Guide

- Space level configuration of topic edit and sticky topic permissions

- Re-implemented the topic summary macro using new UI and parameters, automatically updated with the migration task

- In-line guidance on moving to the new forums macros for administrators

- Deprecated the old Community Forums administration pages - these will be completely removed in the future once we retire the old macros permanently

- Updated the Excerpt parameter which now checks to see if there is an excerpt macro on the page and takes that content, otherwise defaults tovConfluences page excerpt feature

- Minor UI improvements in order to simplify interaction with features such as pagination

- Minor bugs addressed

This new major version provides a series of major improvements and bug fixes through the new forum macros. Some of these features include:

• Search, sort and filtering of topics functionality
• Setup forums using blueprints - create forums in seconds
• Configurable forum columns
• Improved lock topic functionality
• Forum and Sub-Forum locking functionality
• Improvements to pagination and navigation
• Improvements to sticky topic functionality
• Improvements and bug fixes for excerpt macro
• Improvements to activity score calculation

Additionally we've either reduced or removed some minor functionality for this release that was exhibiting bugs or proving to be problematic. We'll be looking to re-introduce these features

• Display topics from author
• include and exclude topics (not working)
• Export to word or pdf

We have also removed minor features that had low use and were proving problematic. full release notes can be found here

A full list of new features and improvements, please see our documentation.

Fixed in the release:

• FORUMS-147- Paginate options doesn't work when the number of topics is greater than nine topics in a Forum

New in this release

• FORUMS-25 - Forum tab contains this help tip that is only appropriate for the forum admin tab,
• FORUMS-26 - Show forum stats attribute has no effect,
• FORUMS-29 - Incorrect information message appears when updating page comment locking,
• FORUMS-50 - The sort by activity not working for Topic-summary Macro and Forum Macro,
• FORUMS-64 - UI error when PLM licensing warning is displayed

Fixed in this release

• FORUMS-59 - Sort function "sort by date" is not working when reverse is selected
• FORUMS-63 Forum Macro doesn't show topics
• FORUMS-65 - Macro Images are broken,
• FORUMS-67 - Forum Macro and Topic Summary Macro- Recurse macro parameter is not functioning
• FORUMS-68 - Notifications about changes to a Forum are not received
• FORUMS-69 - Add Topic Macro restriction functionality doesn't work
• FORUMS-70 - Reverse Functionality not working for Topic Summary Macro

Please Use v.1.2.2 for Confluence 5.3.x - 5.4.x

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Fixed in this release

FORUMS-50 The sort by activity not working for Topic-summary Macro and Forum Macro

FORUMS-22 Insert "Forum Macro" creation screen is incorrectly rendered

FORUMS-43 Test suite fails locally

FORUMS-45 Flushing the index queue causes a stack-trace

FORUMS-49 stray "(" char before "hot" icon in display view for Topic-summary Macro and Forum Macro

FORUMS-38 Documentation link in the Forums Macro points to the Confluence Help page

Fixed bugs from previous beta.

Important: a re-index is required after installation if forums was previously installed.

Fixed bugs from previous beta.

Important: a re-index is required after installation if forums was previously installed.

Some minor bug fixes and enhancements.

Known Issues

FORUMS-29: In some situations Include and Exclude attributes have no effect.

FORUMS-27: The List of existing Forums can sometimes be incorrectly displayed if the Active Threshold indicator is active.

FORUMS-26: The showForumStats attribute only works when using Table Mode.