On Friday we released an update to The Gliffy Plugin for Confluence. We strongly recommend that all current users upgrade to this release as it includes important performance and stability updates along with new features.

This update includes:

New Features

• Vastly improved diagram rendering performance
• Vastly improved plugin startup time
• Added document manager. Now you can open other diagrams in the system via thew new document manager. This will enable you to copy and paste between different documents.
• Ability to “lock” a shape
• Easier to make horizontal and vertical lines with straight line tool
• More entity-relationship line types
• Prettier Server symbol in network shapes
• New Mail Server symbol
• New Mainframe symbol
• New Database server symbol
• Prettier laptop symbol
• Prettier printer symbol
• Prettier hub symbol
• New stairs symbols in floorplan shapes
• Prettier door symbols
• Vertical Rule in user interface shapes.

Bugs fixed:

• Plugin loads MUCH faster
• Various Confluence Clustering issues resolved
• Text format changes do not force save to diagram GLFY-27
• Snap to grid doesn’t work when dragging shape off of a symbol library GLFY-24

Misc:

• Version 2 of EULA
• Cluster license verification

What’s the Gliffy Plugin for Confluence all about? Check out this two minute video for a quick overview:

New Features

• Changed Gliffy license page to “Gliffy Plugin Administration”
• Changed look & feel of Gliffy Plugin Admin page to match Confluence better
• In Gliffy Admin, you can now configure the Gliffy Editor to pop up in a new window. Useful for certain custom Confluence themes.
• Rolled in features and bug fixes from the Gliffy Online payment release. Includes new Gliffy L&F plus Entity relationship diagrams
• Free trial is now 45 days instead of 30. Users now get 14 days to take advantage of the 30% discount, and another 7 days after that for the 15% discount.
• show full name instead of username in revision history of diagrams

Bugs fixed:

• Opera/Gliffy no workie: http://developer.atlassian.com/jira/browse/GLFY-22
• Conform to older servlet spec: http://developer.atlassian.com/jira/browse/GLFY-21
• Problems with Japanese diagram names: http://developer.atlassian.com/jira/brow
  se/GLFY-18
• Text edit doesn’t force save prompt: http://developer.atlassian.com/jira/browse/GLFY-15
• Problems with revision history introduced in 1.1.0 : http://developer.atlassian.com/jira/browse/GLFY-19
• Removed incorrect warning about navigating away from page when user indicated
  they wanted to do so by clicking ‘Back to Confluence’ and not saving.

The Gliffy Plugin for Confluence is the first product that we charge for. We had what we thought was a pretty good month in December, so we thought we’d celebrate with a round of Golf at the Half Moon Bay Ocean Course. The weather was great. Not bad for January, eh?

Clint enjoying a fine day on the course

Clint is a golfing fanatic. There is a reason why a few of our examples involve golf. Me….. I’ve golfed 3-4 times in the last…. um…. 5 years, but with some good tips from my Dad when we golfed last month, and some more help from Clint, I managed to get through 18 holes without loosing too many balls.

Clint has some excellent commentary as I do my (ahem) best putting of the day:

In the mean time, we’ve been working hard wrapping up some new features for hosted Gliffy. We’re really excited about the new features, and you should expect to hear more about these in the next few days.

We have been working very hard lately ( especially Chris, remember surprise #2 ? ) on getting the Gliffy Plugin for Confluence released. Confluence is the world’s most popular Enterprise Wiki made by one of Australia’s fastest growing companies, Atlassian. Wiki’s have swept through the business community as of late as a key tool to allow colleagues to collaborate documents and other knowledge capital. Up until now, it has been impossible to dynamically create rich diagrams within a wiki. Gliffy Inc. has seamlessly integrated our beloved Gliffy Diagram Editor into Confluence, to take collaboration within Wiki’s to the next level. Showing great looking diagrams inside a wiki has never been so easy. Take a look at the example below:

So stop typing all those words in your business’ wiki. Download and try the Gliffy Plugin for Confluence today, because a picture, or diagram, is worth a thousand words.

Learn more about the plugin here: http://www.gliffy.com/products/confluencePlugin/index.shtml