Two minor bugs have been fixed with the Gliffy Confluence Plugin version 2.0.3.

• [GLIFFY-1710] – System Error anytime we try to use the gliffy plugin
• [GLIFFY-1761] – Full Size link goes to page that just prints $globalHelper.renderConfluenceMacro($macro)

We suggest all customers upgrade to this release.

Today we are announcing that releases of the Gliffy Confluence Plugin and the Gliffy JIRA Plugin issued after March 31st, 2010 will require JDK 1.5 or better. The Gliffy JIRA Plugin version 2.2.0 and The Gliffy Confluence Plugin version 2.2.0 will likely be the last versions of our plugins that are JDK 1.4 compatible.

Our decision is based on the fact that the Sun EOSL date for JDK 1.4 was October 30th 2008, and Atlassian stopped supporting JDK 1.4 with the release of Confluence 2.9 and JIRA 4.0. Since Atlassian’s customers must now all switch away from JDK 1.4 anyways, we feel like it is reasonable to require JDK 1.5 as the minimum JDK version.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Gliffy support.

Today we released the Gliffy Confluence Plugin version 2.0.2. This release includes nearly 20 bug fixes and improvements related to the Confluence integration. Download the latest version of the Gliffy Confluence Plugin here. Three major highlights of this release include:

• Confluence 3.1 compatibility – Atlassian hasn’t released Confluence 3.1 yet, but that hasn’t stopped us from making sure Gliffy works with this new version. If you’re planning on using Gliffy in Confluence 3.1, you need to upgrade to the Gliffy Confluence Plugin version 2.0.2 to ensure everything works smoothly.
• Improved workflow when adding diagrams – We’ve reduced the number of clicks by one when adding a new diagram through the ‘Add Diagram’ link.
• License Expiration Notifications – Administrators of your Confluence installation will now be notified when your Gliffy Confluence Plugin license has 30 days left before it expires. This should help ensure customers don’t get stuck unable to upgrade to a new version of Gliffy by accidentally letting their maintenance period slip by.

This will be our last Flash 7 compatible release -This will likely be our last release that includes a Gliffy Editor that works with Flash 7. Our next release will require that users are running Flash 9 or better. Buy adopting Flash 9, our users will see a significant performance improvement when using the Gliffy editor, and we’ll be able to take advantage of some new features in Flash 9 that will benefit everyone. We decided not to jump to Flash 10 since the most recent Flash Enterprise Penetration Statistics from Adobe suggest that Flash 10 is not widely deployed inside the Enterprise yet.

Detailed release notes for the Gliffy Confluence Plugin 2.0.2 are below:

• [GLIFFY-1360] – Editing diagrams not working anymore after updating to gliffy version 2.0.0
• [GLIFFY-1454] – The create diagram button text spills over the button on Firefox 3.0/3.5 on Mac
• [GLIFFY-1528] – Confluence 3.1 compatibility
• [GLIFFY-1612] – Document Manager does not show spaces in Confluence 3.1-m4 release
• [GLIFFY-1613] – Remove Pencil icon from Gliffy Plugin Admin link
• [GLIFFY-1614] – Creating diagram doesn’t work when confluence isn’t hosted at root context
• [GLIFFY-1660] – URL field is truncating/deleting characters
• [GLIFFY-1067] – Improve integration with Confluence
• [GLIFFY-1441] – Links truncated / limit at 100, previusly at least 117 allowed
• [GLIFFY-1521] – Change ‘Add Diagram’ link to show ‘Add Gliffy Diagram’
• [GLIFFY-1672] – Copying Confluence Pages causes user confusion when they then edit diagrams
• [GLIFFY-1415] – When there are only 5 days left in a plugin free trial, send an email to Administrators letting them know
• [GLIFFY-1416] – Automated emails from Confluence plugins to administrators
• [GLIFFY-1427] – Admin screen should report the number of Gliffy diagrams that exist in Confluence
• [GLIFFY-1339] – Let users know that the Gliffy Plugin Trial is about to expire in more locations
• [GLIFFY-1419] – i18n updates for 2.0.2 release
• [GLIFFY-1560] – Change references to http://www.gliffy.com/confluencePlugin to http://www.gliffy.com/confluence-plugin

Today we’re releasing a minor update to both our Confluence Plugins and JIRA Plugins. Most notably, we’re taking advantage of the usability improvements that are now possible with Confluence 3. We continue to be committed to making improvements on our JIRA and Confluence plugins to make the addition of high-impact drawings easier for users.

For our Confluence customers, we strongly suggest that you upgrade to Confluence 3 and Gliffy 2.0.1 as you’ll enjoy significantly improved performance in both Gliffy and Confluence.

Gliffy Confluence Plugin Updates

Gliffy Macro Browser in Confluence

Macro Browser Support

We’ve added support for the Confluence Macro Browser which is included in Confluence 3.0. The Macro Browser makes it a lot easier to edit the {gliffy} macro parameters. To activate the Macro Browser, simply click the new Macro Browser icon (it looks like a scroll) in the Confluence Page editor screen.

Support for new Confluence Pricing Plans

Another announcement that came out of the Atlassian Summit was that Confluence now has new user pricing options. Atlassian has replaced the 50 user license with a 100 user license, and has added a 2000 user license level. We’ve updated our pricing and licensing system to take advantage of these new user sizes.

Other minor updates

• [GLIFFY-1096] – Diagram images reported to not render in Gliffy Plugin for Confluence under OpenJDK 6
• [GLIFFY-1129] – Description Notation Guide ist not actual
• [GLIFFY-1290] – User can create diagram attachment even if they don’t have ‘create attachments’ permission in a space
• [GLIFFY-1324] – Page Not Found Error when Click "Edit in Gliffy" from Attachments Page
• [GLIFFY-1350] – New network symbols are missing 1U and 2U rack server
• [GLIFFY-1063] – Create help template for confluence plugin admin
• [GLIFFY-1308] – Consider changing the scrollbars so that they don’t auto stretch/contract
• [GLIFFY-1346] – Swim Lane Rotation Causes Unwanted Edits to Text
• [GLIFFY-1318] – Localisation for Confluence plugin updates

Gliffy JIRA Plugin Updates

• [GLIFFY-1309] – Make sure when support expires, you can still add diagrams.
• [GLIFFY-1350] – New network symbols are missing 1U and 2U rack server
• [GLIFFY-1308] – Consider changing the scrollbars so that they don’t auto stretch/contract
• [GLIFFY-1346] – Swim Lane Rotation Causes Unwanted Edits to Text

Just in time for the Atlassian Summit (where we are a sponsor), today we are announcing a number of updates to our popular products, The Gliffy Plugin for Confluence and The Gliffy Plugin for JIRA. Among the updates are a redesigned, more professional looking user interface; improved application usability, default colors, and revision history; and improved and redesigned network symbols. Gliffy’s intuitive drag-and-drop interface combines the power of traditional desktop software with the lightweight, low learning curve and flexible features of today’s most popular browser-based applications. More Atlassian customers use Gliffy to make information visual and easier to understand than any other diagramming plugin.

The Gliffy Plugin for Confluence 2.0.0 also includes an important update to ensure compatibility with the upcoming Confluence 3.0 release.

The updated plugins are available immediately on their respective download pages:

• Confluence Plugin
• JIRA Plugin

An example of the new Gliffy Network Symbols

In addition to the before mentioned updates, a few other minor issues were addressed:

• [GLIFFY-120] – Fitting to screen and then resizing palettes and symbols, won’t let you fit to screen again
• [GLIFFY-200] – Mousing over Flowchart shape in Palette at zoom ‘Fit to screen’ changes its line width
• [GLIFFY-243] – line color ‘no fill’ does nothing
• [GLIFFY-356] – Hard to see rotate widget/icon for shape
• [GLIFFY-1281] – Whitespace should be trimmed from diagram names before they are created
• [GLIFFY-1294] – Highlighted diagram name incorrectly indicates that Diagram is seleted
• [GLIFFY-264] – Evaluate Changing Order of Buttons on Toolbar.
• [GLIFFY-268] – Make Shape Overlay less beefy
• [GLIFFY-274] – Revision History needs rethinking maybe
• [GLIFFY-512] – Improved Interface
• [GLIFFY-477] – Have a ‘help’ button where people expect it
• [GLIFFY-1269] – Enable Lock / Unlock Shape function when multiple shapes are selected

Today we have released an improved version of the Gliffy Plugin for Confluence, version 1.5.0.

We recommend this upgrade for all users of the Gliffy Plugin for Confluence. Download to upgrade your existing installation, or start a 45 day free trail today

The two major highlights of this release are the new BPMN Symbols, and French and German Translations

BPMN Symbol Library
With this release, Gliffy now enables you to create detailed Business Process Modeling Notation diagrams. Helpful in providing members of your team with a clear picture of your business processes, this symbol library includes events, activities, artifacts, gateways and swimlanes, as well as related connectors.

French and German Translations (Excludes Gliffy Client)

One of the things I learned at the recent Atlassian Developer Camp was that French and German are the only two additional languages that Confluence supports out of the box. As such, we’ve also added support for these two languages on the Confluence Integration side only. We have some major changes to the Gliffy Client that we’ll be working on in 2009 which will enable us to add language support there, too.

Other Improvements and Bug Fixes

In our never-ending quest to improve Gliffy, we’ve made over 30 bugfixes and improvements to the product in this release. Those previously not mentioned are included below:

• [GLIFFY-872] – Legacy Network Shapes have lost connection points
• [GLIFFY-871] – Symbol does not change with resizing: Network / Home Network / Server
• [GLIFFY-773] – Network Cloud shape is blurry when large, especially in expored images and svg
• [GLIFFY-659] – Flowchart multidocument image element has inconsistant colouring
• [GLIFFY-629] – Selection UI control for checkboxes and radio buttons should be a checkbox, not a drop down box.
• [GLIFFY-626] – Color picker for all UI symbols doesn’t function
• [GLIFFY-625] – Color Picker UI symbol doesn’t change color
• [GLIFFY-624] – Video player UI symbol should have a large ‘play’ button in the center (just like youtube does)
• [GLIFFY-623] – Vertical justification of text for ‘Image’ UI shape should be at the top of the shape (but not above it)
• [GLIFFY-621] – Color should be removed from UI symbols that have color
• [GLIFFY-620] – List Box UI symbol should have a scrollbar in it
• [GLIFFY-573] – Text Names for symbols in Symbol Palette left justifies when multiline
• [GLIFFY-452] – Danish characters look broken when Confluence encoding set to ISO-8859-1
• [GLIFFY-797] – Provide user feedback when diagram images fail to render due to out of memory issues
• [GLIFFY-839] – Javascript onclose check should not be applied after clicking return to confluence button
• [GLIFFY-840] – Admin action breadcrumbs are broken
• [GLIFFY-841] – Spaces in diagram name generate error when trying to export Confluence page as PDF
• [GLIFFY-880] – Document manager doesn’t work in Confluence plugin
• [GLIFFY-1018] – Closing tag for links appears to be incorrect.
• [GLIFFY-1024] – Make sure space names (categories) are xml encoded before being returned to the client
• [GLIFFY-1040] – Alignment parameters are broken
• [GLIFFY-1056] – Support Confluence character encoding setting other than UTF-8
• [GLIFFY-1070] – When editor is configured to open in own window, ‘Edit in Gliffy’ links on attachment pages don’t open editor in own window
• [GLIFFY-1023] – IE sets jpeg mime type to image/pjpg
• [GLIFFY-1003] – Edit in Gliffy link on Confluence attachment screen
• [GLIFFY-1041] – Add ‘edit in Gliffy’ links on attachment page
• [GLIFFY-639] – Make sure Confluence Plugin compiles with script limits setting set to max
• [GLIFFY-681] – Make sure we’re using PropertyManager.CHARACTER_ENCODING everyplace
• [GLIFFY-832] – Check for licenses that have been revoked in license manager
• [GLIFFY-876] – update revoked license list

We’ve just released a minor update to the Gliffy Plugin for Confluence today which includes several bug fixes, a small feature, and Confluence 2.9 compatibility. We recommend this update for users of Confluence versions 2.6 and better. Download the update here.

Highlights of this release:

Confluence 2.9 Compatibility

Atlassian has made significant improvements to the plugin architecture of Confluence in the upcoming 2.9 release. Our plugin needed some modifications to ensure compatibility, which we’ve implemented in this release.

Option to turn border off

We’ve added a small new feature in this release which will enable you to turn off the border in a Gliffy diagram in a Confluence page. Simply add ‘border=false’ to your {gliffy} macro, and the border will be turned off.

Detailed Release Notes

• [GLIFFY-15] – The label for the "login" button is moving towards left, when it is clicked more than once.
• [GLIFFY-662] – Breadcrumbs on view large diagram action are broken
• [GLIFFY-680] – showgliffyeditor.action should fail gracefully when user doesn’t have permissions
• [GLIFFY-685] – ‘Remove Diagram’ link should not show if user doesn’t have Remove Attachments permission
• [GLIFFY-705] – GPFC Document Manager shouldn’t have a ‘public’ column
• [GLIFFY-706] – Add Diagram links don’t show up for the non default themes with for Gliffy 1.4, Confluence 2.8
• [GLIFFY-709] – Remove link should be shown when user has permission to edit page
• [GLIFFY-711] – Improve null checks in confluence extractor
• [GLIFFY-748] – Group Function Not Working
• [GLIFFY-789] – Reference to nonexistent action in LargeDiagram.vm
• [GLIFFY-798] – Clicking on diagram image results in page not found
• [GLIFFY-801] – In some cases, symbols fail to load in editor
• [GLIFFY-638] – Remove the ‘requires restart’ checks from the confluence macro and actions
• [GLIFFY-660] – Remove pre 2.6 elements from atlassian-plugin.xml
• [GLIFFY-661] – Confluence 2.9 compatibility
• [GLIFFY-461] – Edit/Remove Border to Gliffy Diagram in Page
• [GLIFFY-695] – Setup bamboo for 1.4.1 branch
• [GLIFFY-751] – Remove Struts from Plugin

I’m happy to announce that we’ve released the most recent version of The Gliffy Plugin for Confluence. We recommend this upgrade for all users of The Gliffy Plugin for Confluence.

Download the latest version of the Plugin, or try it out in our wiki sandbox.

The detailed release notes are included below, but I’d like to give you a quick overview of some of the improvements we’ve made.

Automatic Diagram Sizing

In older versions of the plugin, when you created a new diagram, you were limited to the initial page size of 576 X 754 pixels. Some of our users thought this was restricting, and we agreed. Now, when you create a new diagram, the initial page size is set to 5000 X 5000, giving you lots of room to express your ideas. When you save your diagram, we automatically size the diagram image shown in Confluence pages so that it fits the content you’ve created. We think this will save our users a little bit of time when creating diagrams.

Better Looking Symbol Libraries, now with more shapes than ever!

One of the big tasks we’ve worked on for the last year has been to improve the overall quality and visual appeal of symbols shown in Gliffy. This release represents a huge improvement for the symbols used in The Gliffy Plugin for Confluence. Here are some examples of the improved symbol libraries (click to enlarge):

Wireframe Symbols
Floor Plan Symbols	Network Diagram Symbols

Along with the visual improvements, we’ve added many new symbols as well. Gliffy now has over 225 symbols to choose from.

Include your own images in Gliffy

Are you still missing that favorite symbol library, or would you like to include your company logo on a diagram? Fear not, we’ve solved this problem with this release too. Any JPG image attached to the same page your diagram is attached to will now be available to include in your diagram. For example, this diagram Clint created when planning his wedding is now possible with The Gliffy Plugin for Confluence.

One limitation with this feature is that only JPEG images are currently supported. We expect to be addressing this limitation in a release not too far off in the future.

OK, that covers the big features I wanted to highlight. The detailed release notes covering everything else is below:

New Features

• Vastly improved symbol libraries for Network Diagrams, Wireframes, and Floorplans
• [GLIFFY-50] – JPEG images attached to Confluence pages may now be used in Gliffy Diagrams
• [GLIFFY-234] – Diagram image shown on pages automatically resizes to fit content
• [GLIFFY-237] – Have stage/page be very large when starting a drawing
• [GLIFFY-636] – Image alt text (508 Compliance)

Improvements

• [GLIFFY-544] – Change web item text for adding diagram in confluence 2.8
• [GLIFFY-564] – Verify that ‘Commercial’ is the default when entering new licenses
• [GLIFFY-594] – Remove diagram action breadcrumbs should include action name
• [GLIFFY-636] – Image alt text

Bugs fixed

• [GLIFFY-18] – Suggest to display "Save" or "OK" or "Submit" buttons first, then followed by "Cancel" button. Current UI shows this in reverse order.
• [GLIFFY-19] – Capitalize first letter on several command buttons throughout application. Examples of current usage include "save", "ok", "apply", "print", "cancel", "submit" etc
• [GLIFFY-72] – Pasted UML shape ‘Object’ changes height
• [GLIFFY-107] – Some users are seeing "VBFlashVer’ is undefined in IE.
• [GLIFFY-153] – text pasted into small firewall shape is cut off (Firefox on Win)
• [GLIFFY-172] – Default Text Format for Objects.
• [GLIFFY-291] – Add "Photo" object to user interface shapes.
• [GLIFFY-335] – We need a 3D box shape.
• [GLIFFY-423] – Attachment for Diagram not indexed when created
• [GLIFFY-473] – Image transcoding failure test case
• [GLIFFY-474] – Transcoding failure due to undefined symbol
• [GLIFFY-483] – Adding a diagram to a Confluence page does not bump up the attachment count shown in the attachments tab
• [GLIFFY-484] – The link back to the page on successful removal of a gliffy diagram is broken
• [GLIFFY-485] – After removing a gliffy diagram, the actual underlying attachment is still there
• [GLIFFY-528] – Add diagram link displayed when users don’t have add permission
• [GLIFFY-541] – File->Open command is causing null pointer exception for removed diagram attachments
• [GLIFFY-545] – Fix typo in macro error text: spacified -> specified
• [GLIFFY-547] – Notify Watchers in Confluence to Changes in Gliffy Diagram
• [GLIFFY-580] – diagrams with special characters in name break when trying to remove
• [GLIFFY-593] – Breadcrumbs on create diagram action are broken
• [GLIFFY-596] – Transcoding of diagram with Chinese char ‘?’ causes out of memory error
• [GLIFFY-597] – When configuring Gliffy it crashes
• [GLIFFY-642] – Size of server is rendering at a different size in Gliffy editor vs transcoded image
• [GLIFFY-643] – The Shadow layer of the Tape Backup shape is shifted when dropped
• [GLIFFY-651] – Tab sliders fail on certain combination. Create whitespace
• [GLIFFY-654] – Printing from Client is not working when Images are added.
• [GLIFFY-655] – Copying and pasting between diagrams located on two different pages fails
• [GLIFFY-657] – Save and Close from Plugin only Saves.
• [GLIFFY-666] – Character "ø" in Diagram Name Cause "Error Processing Request"
• [GLIFFY-667] – Character "ø" in Diagram Name Result in Export Name "clientexportimage" and File Error for PNG / JPG
• [GLIFFY-668] – Character "ø" in Diagram Name Result in Error for Export of SVG
• [GLIFFY-676] – Space names shown in Document Manager are the Space Keys, when they should be the Space Name
• [GLIFFY-678] – Make sure Gliffy plugin is shown as ’supported’ in Plugin Repository

Today we’ve released what we expect will be the last in the 1.3.X series. 1.3.6 has focused on ensuring compatibility with the upcoming 2.8 release of Confluence, and addressing various other minor issues:

• Confluence 2.8 compatibility – Please note that we’ve made improvements to ensure compatibility with Confluence 2.8-m5-r2. When Confluence 2.8 final is available, we’ll verify our updates still work as expected.
• [GLIFFY-35] – HTML Export doesn’t include gliffy diagrams
• [GLIFFY-40] – Clicking "Save and Close" when Session times out causes diagram to be lost.
• [GLIFFY-430] – Gliffy Plugin for Confluence cannot be removed and then re-installed into Confluence without restarting servlet container
• [GLIFFY-455] – ‘Remove’ and ‘Full Size’ links break Builder Theme
• [GLIFFY-458] – ‘No’ link and ‘Click here to go back to your page.’ links on removediagram.action don’t handle base URL correctly
• [GLIFFY-454] – Don’t allow gliffy diagrams with ‘/’ in it

We are happy to announce the release of The Gliffy Plugin for Confluence 1.3.5. This is a significant bug fix release, and we encourage all customers to upgrade to this release. Download this release or upgrade using the repository client. As always, restart Confluence after you upgrade to complete the installation.

• Fixed issue where diagrams with certain characters failed to show up correctly in Document Manager
• When diagrams are stored as attachments to a page, we now set the size of the attachment
• Creating a diagram with name ‘ççççç’ fails
• Fix two image generation issues
• Fixed issue where long diagram names get cut off in the Gliffy editor
• Fixed issue where theme is lost for Builder plugin when visiting the ‘New Diagram’ page
• Fixed issue where File->Open Document manager failed sometimes when Anonymous users edit diagrams
• Fixed issue where blank text shape showed up in diagrams
• Default diagram settings not set correctly
• Make plugin compatible with Confluence 2.7
• Near infinite loop causes out of memory errors
• Support Personal Spaces within Document Manager
• Enable licensing option for folks who are using free Confluence personal license
• Add ‘Remove Diagram’ link next to ‘Edit Diagram’ and ‘Full Size’ diagram lnks
• Extractor shouldn’t warn that every attachment is not in the database