Atlassian is proud to announce the latest version of Confluence, the enterprise wiki. Confluence 2.6 offers user-friendly UI changes, including a new theme with a fresh look and feel. Additional new features include default content for spaces, template labels, official MySQL 5.0 support, PDF export of images and default bundling of the social bookmarking plugin.

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Social Features Enhanced in Atlassian Confluence 2.6

Newest Version of Enterprise Wiki Offers User-Friendly UI Changes, Robust New Social Software Features

San Francisco (BusinessWire) October 1, 2007 – Atlassian, a pioneer in affordable, lightweight software for the enterprise, today announced Confluence 2.6, the latest version of the world’s most advanced enterprise wiki. Confluence 2.6 offers a revised user interface and additional social features. More information about Confluence is available at http://www.atlassian.com/confluence.
Confluence 2.6 includes a new theme with a fresh look and feel, created in response to customers’ interest in something friendlier for new users. Several new social features in 2.6 emphasize community, such as author photos that are now appended to comments and dashboard recent updates. Other new features include default content for spaces, template labels, official MySQL 5.0 support, PDF export of images and the default bundling of the social bookmarking plugin.
Next week, Atlassian will begin upgrading its Confluence Hosted customers to this latest edition.
Leading a new breed of enterprise-class software, Confluence provides the scalability, support, robustness and fine-grained security that are essential for today’s businesses. Even with its advanced features, the key to Confluence’s success has been its simplicity. More than 3,700 organizations rely on Confluence, including Adobe, BBC, Microsoft, Sabre, MIT, Motorola, Pixar, Toshiba and many others.
Other enterprise features that are standard in Confluence include:

• Behind-the-firewall download version and a hosted solution
• Unlimited workspaces and pages
• Simple-to-use WYSIWYG interface that requires little or no training
• Ability to store and search across multiple file types (.PPT, Word, .PDF, .GIF, etc.)
• Enterprise-grade security and permissioning
• Highly extensible and interoperable architecture

Evaluation and pricing information are available at http://www.atlassian.com/confluence.
About Atlassian
Atlassian is pioneering affordable, lightweight software for organizations large, small and within every industry. More than 8,000 customers in 90 countries rely on their products, including 30 of the world’s top 50 corporations. Award-winning products include Jira, world popular issue tracker, and Confluence, the most advanced enterprise wiki. All products are free to qualified open source and non-profit organizations. http://www.atlassian.com