Summary & Highlights

Welcome to Linchpin Essentials 2.5!

This release ensures compatibility of all included apps with Confluence 8. Compatibility with previous versions of Confluence is of course still a given.

Confluence 8 introduces a number of breaking changes. Those are ultimately a good thing, since they modernize some of the technical pillars Confluence rests on. At the same time, this meant a lot of work for everyone creating Confluence apps like the Linchpin apps to ensure compatibility with Confluence 8 and 7.x at the same time.

Please make sure that, before you upgrade to Confluence 8, all your apps are compatible with it. Since the changes are so fundamental, a non compatible app might very well break completely if you try to use it with Confluence 8. Also, please make sure to test everything thoroughly in a test environment, before deploying Confluence 8 to your prod system. 

If you still run on Confluence 7.x, you should be able to install this version with no worries. However, we still recommend testing it in a test environment before deploying to your prod system.

Linchpin Essentials

Improvements

• We ensured that Linchpin Essentials is compatible with Confluence 8.

Linchpin User Profiles

Improvements

• We ensured that Linchpin User Profiles is compatible with Confluence 8.
•   2.5.1 Profile pictures (in various places like macros, user directory, etc.) have a better text for screen readers now.
•   2.5.1 We made sure that phone numbers are displayed nicely everywhere instead of just a string of numbers here and there.

Bugfixes

•   2.5.1 We fixed the display of "vCards" in admin config.
•   2.5.1 We fixed a bug that broke the Linchpin Sidebar "My Contacts" tab under Confluence 8.
•   2.5.1 The profile macro doesn't break anymore when it tries to display a deleted user.
•   2.5.1 We fixed the display of the "background image" option.
•   2.5.1 We fixed an issue with dynamically linked profile fields in the profile header, which were emptied in some cases.

Linchpin Theme

Improvements

• We ensured that Linchpin Theme is compatible with Confluence 8.

Bugfixes

•   2.5.1 We fixed the behaviour of flyout menus when used on smaller displays.
•   2.5.1 We called the "back to top" button back to work that was missing in certain combinations of Confluence and Linchpin versions.

Complete changelog

Improvements

• We ensured compatibility with Confluence 8.
•   2.5.1 Profile pictures (in various places like macros, user directory, etc.) have a better text for screen readers now.
•   2.5.1 We made sure that phone numbers are displayed nicely everywhere instead of just a string of numbers here and there.

Bugfixes

•   2.5.1 We fixed the display of "vCards" in admin config.
•   2.5.1 We fixed a bug that broke the Linchpin Sidebar "My Contacts" tab under Confluence 8.
•   2.5.1 The profile macro doesn't break anymore when it tries to display a deleted user.
•   2.5.1 We fixed the display of the "background image" option.
•   2.5.1 We fixed an issue with dynamically linked profile fields in the profile header, which were emptied in some cases.
•   2.5.1 We fixed the behaviour of flyout menus when used on smaller displays.
•   2.5.1 We called the "back to top" button back to work that was missing in certain combinations of Confluence and Linchpin versions.