Linchpin Intranet Suite
Release Notes
Discover the latest releases of the Linchpin Intranet Suite
Linchpin is ready for Confluence 9! 🎉
Our team has worked hard to ensure Linchpin is fully compatible with Confluence 9. While our initial Confluence 9-compatible release doesn’t yet support dark mode, we recommend enjoying all the enhancements using light mode for now.
Thank you for your patience as we took the time needed to ensure a seamless transition to this exciting new chapter for Linchpin!
Make sure to check out the full release notes!
Linchpin Enterprise News:
Linchpin Enterprise News now allows you to define multiple atom feeds, enabling precise targeting for different groups. With this new feature, you can curate and distribute specialized news streams tailored to specific audiences within your company, ensuring everyone receives the most relevant updates.
Moreover, the News Transfer offers a seamless solution for effortlessly transferring news between Linchpin instances.
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We've ensured the compatibility with Confluence 8.9 with this release.
Linchpin Enterprise News: Need to control the order of news categories? Now, you can do exactly that! Create an Atom feed (RSS) for Linchpin news to make specific news available outside of Linchpin, making it easier than ever to make specific news available outside of Linchpin!
Linchpin Events: You can now create event labels to improve your organizational skills! These also work as search criteria in the Event macro, Event Calendar macro, and Event List macro. In addition, the customizable CSV export allows you to tailor the information you export from your event. Also, administrators can now delete events that are older than a configurable amount of time!
Linchpin Mobile: The Linchpin Mobile app now has a notification center that displays notifications from the Confluence notification center.
Linchpin User Profiles: Now you can define the profile field responsible for sorting the results of the People Search & List Macro. You can also choose how many people to display at once.
Make sure to check out the full release notes because there's more!
Linchpin Mobile received lots of love and is now mightier than ever! You can add custom links (external or internal) to your mobile navigation now, view profile tooltips via mobile or restrict access to Confluence pages via mobile.
Linchpin Enterprise News brings two exciting updates: Use the new language filter in the News Hub to quickly find news articles in your relevant language. Furthermore, we introduced a new layout for the Cover Stories macro: the 3-tiles-design.
Make sure to check out the full release notes because there's more!
Linchpin Events: You all waited for this: Events can now be recurring! Configure a whole series of events at once, no more copy & paste 
We've also implemented caching to improve the events loading performance. It may be a good idea to increase the available memory on your instance. 
Linchpin User Profiles: The macro People Search & List now features an expert mode to select People via CQL statements. Furthermore, you can now insert a birthday list for today or this week using the People Search & List macro!
Linchpin Touch: Images and PDFs can now be viewed in a full screen mode. Tapping on it does not open another detailed dialog with only the image on it, but the image is displayed as large as possible on the entire screen.
Of course, we've also worked on bringing you some quickwins, improvements and bugfixes with this update.
Make sure to check out the full release notes!
First of all, the Suite itself: We've ensured the compatibility with Confluence 8.5 with this release.
Linchpin Events: We've added the brand new feature "waitlists for events". Are all seats fully booked? Join the waiting list and move up automatically! Event editors can now configure up to five messages to be sent to all attendees on specified dates. Moreover, the event hub now sports a brand new quickfilter for past events. You can now use images attached to Confluence pages or blog posts as event images.
Linchpin Enterprise News: You can now use images attached to other Confluence pages as news teaser image. As an user you can now read Mandatory News an hour or a day lat
Linchpin News Digest: It's now possible to send out more than one News Digest, addressed to different user groups.
There's a new macro in town: a combined search and list macro for users called People Search & List Macro. Functionality, look and feel are inspired by the people directory.
Of course, we've also worked on bringing you some quickwins, improvements and bugfixes with this update.
First of all, the Suite itself: We ensured the compatibility with Confluence 8.2 with this release. We've also changed the user interface to be gender neutral in the German version in all of our apps.
Linchpin Events: We've added the brand new feature "registration deadline for events". This ensures that people can only register for an event until the chosen deadline has expired. Moreover, the event organizer can now get notifications when people sign up and out of the created event. Furthermore, you now have the option to use custom CSS for color coding the event category to make your events look even prettier! Additionaly, the events in the event hub are now also visible in a calendar view.
Linchpin Theme: The footer is now fully customizable! You have the choice between a column of text and a column made out of a list of links. If you wish to hide the default columns, you can now simply do so. Additionally, you can now add as many columns as you want within your footer configuration and choose which five of those you want to be displayed in your footer. Unhappy with the order of the displayed columns? Simply change the order using drag and drop!
Furthermore, the Linchpin teaser macro can now use anchor links. Also, you can now define the width for the default, icon and image teaser.
Linchpin User Profiles: We've improved the display of the profile macro when the column, in which the macro is in, is not wide enough. Information won't be cut off anymore in this case.
Of course, while accessibility is a very important topic for both you and us, we've also worked on bringing you some quickwins, improvements and bugfixes with this update.
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.
The biggest star of this update is without a doubt: Timeslots for Events!
This new feature enables you to organize your event even better. Create timeslots to split events into multiple sub-events that can be booked by participants.
Moreover, we've added the ability to use several more field types as filters in the user directory.
You have the ability to set a default news teaser image per space. You don’t have to use one default image for all news anymore!
We’ve also added the option to add an image description for images in Microblog posts, which is especially useful for screen readers.
For the Linchpin Mobile App we’ve added the option to change the order and visibility of menu items to provide quick access to the most important features for your users.
Of course this release is bringing you a lot more improvements and bugfixes.
The biggest star of this update is without a doubt: Accessibility!
Navigate through Linchpin in read mode via keyboard now! Use the Tab key to navigate through the whole system. Skip links will help to get to the desired content faster. We also added focus frames to elements, so that it's easier to see which element is focused and where on the page you are. Use the Enter key to perform actions and the Escape key to close elements like pop-up windows. We improved screen reader compatibility of Linchpin, too! We still have some work to do here, but it's already way better than it was before this update.
Of course, while accessibility is a very important topic for both you and us, we also worked on bringing you some quickwins, improvements and bugfixes with this update.
Please note that the Linchpin Intranet Suite 5.2.0 was an internal patch release.
This release of the Linchpin Intranet Suite drops the support of IE 11 & Microsoft Edge Legacy and introduces exciting new features, improvements and, of course, takes care of some bugs.
We prepared a short summary of the most important changes, so you can keep track of them.
This release of the Linchpin Intranet Suite focuses primarily on improvements of all kind. Which of course doesn't mean that we didn't take care of some bugs, too, or worked on new features!
We prepared a short summary of the most important changes, so you can keep track of them.
First of all, because it concerns the Suite itself: We updated the demo content. Also: We ensured the compatibility with Confluence 7.12 with this release.
Linchpin User Profiles introduces a new profile field type: date input. Choose if a date is displayed with or without a year. Also, this field type can be used for filtering now!
Furthermore, we introduce a new macro: the "Structural Chart" macro! And since we're already talking about structural charts: you can map text input fields to structural chart's nodes now!
The Microblog and Linchpin Events receive performance upgrades and some bugfixes.
In Linchpin Enterprise News, a new role has been added to the news approval workflow: authors. Authors can edit scheduled news.
The mobile app received some love, too. We improved the stability of the admin area and gave it a new front-end. Also, administrators can now decide how long a QR login code is valid for.
And last, but not least: You can add additional filters to the navigation menus with the help of space categories!
The Linchpin Intranet Suite 4.1 release contains many new features, improvements and a number of bugfixes.
We prepared a short summary of the most important changes, so you can keep track of them.
The Linchpin Intranet Suite 4.0 release contains many new features, improvements and a number of bugfixes.
We prepared a short summary of the most important changes, so you can keep track of them.
The Linchpin Intranet Suite 3.4 release contains many new features, improvements and some bugfixes.
We prepared a short summary of the most important changes, so you can keep track of them.
The Linchpin Intranet Suite 3.3 release contains several patches for Linchpin. We introduced some new features, improved some more features and took care of several bugs.
We prepared a short summary of the most important changes, so you can keep track of them. If you want more info about a specific function, use the navigation to jump to this function's release notes.
The Linchpin Intranet Suite 3.2 release contains many patches for Linchpin. In addition, all apps are compatible with the read-only mode. We fixed several bugs and improved the user experience while also introducing some new features.
We prepared a short summary of the most important changes, so you can keep track of them.
We are happy to announce a new update for our beloved Linchpin Intranet Suite. This version of the suite revolves around user profiles. We improved the look of the profiles greatly and enhanced the people directory to make it easier to find colleagues.
We prepared a short summary of the most important changes, so you can keep track of them.
Yes, it's yet another new release of our beloved suite. We are happy to introduce it to you, because some things have changed significantly. Some bugs were fixed, that's true. But we also introduce many new improvements with version 3.0 of the Linchpin Intranet Suite.
We prepared a short summary of the most important changes, so you can keep track of them.
It's true - Linchpin Intranet Suite 2.0 has finally arrived!
We worked hard on this feature release to improve the user experience and optimize our plugins. Bugfixes, new features and a lot of improvements await you with Linchpin Intranet Suite 2.0!
We prepared a short summary of the most important changes, so you can keep track of them.
It's finally here - feature release 1.2.0 for our Linchpin Intranet Suite!
Version 1.2.0 is packed with bug fixes, new features, and a lot of the improvements you have been looking for.
Welcome to Linchpin Intranet Suite 4.1! This release brings significant enhancements for a streamlined intranet experience. Linchpin User Profiles now features Structural Charts for a comprehensive company hierarchy view.
You can conveniently upload CSV data for profile fields in the configuration dialog.
Administrators benefit from the new synchronization report view, offering detailed LDAP sync results.
Linchpin Theme introduces a live preview for news color configurations, simplifying real-time adjustments. The "Linchpin Teaser" macro is now more user-friendly.
Linchpin Enterprise News adds a "spaces by categories" filter for easy navigation, while caching improvements address user feedback.
Linchpin Events now supports full-height background images for enhanced visuals. Performance upgrades ensure smoother event signup processes and an updated event calendar foundation. Discover the enhanced features in Linchpin Intranet Suite 4.1!
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