Confluence (software)
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| Developer(s) | Atlassian |
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| Initial release | 25 March 2004 |
| Stable release |
6.2 / May 15, 2017
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| Written in | Java |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Available in | English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Russian, Swedish, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish |
| Type | Collaborative software |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www |
Confluence is a team collaboration software. Written in Java and mainly used in corporate environments, it is developed and marketed by Atlassian. Confluence is sold as either on-premises software or as a software as a service.
Atlassian released Confluence 1.0 on March 25, 2004, saying their purpose was to build "an application that was built to the requirements of an enterprise knowledge management system, without losing the essential, powerful simplicity of the in the process."
In recent versions, Confluence has evolved into part of an integrated collaboration platform, and has been adapted to work in conjunction with JIRA and other Atlassian software products: Bamboo, Clover, Crowd, Crucible, and FishEye.
In 2014, Atlassian released Confluence Data Center to add high availability with load balancing across nodes in a clustered setup.
Confluence includes set up CSS templates for styles and formatting for all pages, including those imported from Word documents. Built in search allows queries by date, the page’s author, and content type such as graphics.
The tool has add-ons for integration with standard formats, with a flexible programmable API allowing expansion. The software is relevant as an outline tool for requirements, that can be linked to tasks in the JIRA issue tracker by the same company.
From version 4.0, Confluence no longer supports a language. This has led to a sometimes-heated discussion from some of the previous versions' (mostly technical) users who regret the change. In response, Atlassian has provided a source code editor as a plugin, which allows advanced users the ability to edit the underlying XHTML-based document source. However, although the new source markup is XHTML-based, it is not XHTML compliant, so it would more accurately be called XHTML-like XML.
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