Creately Update: Creately Compatibility For Confluence 5.5

Creately Diagramming for Confluence has been updated. Confluence users can now continue their diagramming with the latest version of Confluence 5.5.2. We have been supporting Confluence platform versions from 3.1 to 5.4 up until our last plugin version 1.10.2.

With the release of the Creately plugin version 1.11.0 we are adding support for Confluence 5.5.2 and at the same time altering the support for earlier versions of Confluence. We will be discontinuing support for certain older versions of Confluence. The Creately for Confluence plugin will no longer support Confluence 3.x up to 4.0. Confluence 3.x and 4.0. Therefore Creately for Confluence plugin version 1.11.0 will only support Confluence 4.1 up to 5.5.2.

This table shows our recommended Creately plugin version depending on your version of Confluence:

Recommended Creately for Confluence
Release
Supported Confluence Release
1.5.1 3.0 – 3.1
1.10.2 3.1 – 5.4.4
1.11.0 4.1 – 5.5.2

 

Why We Stopped Supporting Older Confluence Platforms

The reason for dropping support for older Confluence platforms is because the of Atlassian licensing system limitations. The latest version of Atlassian licensing does not include compatibility with Confluence 2.x, 3.x and 4.0 as these products have reached end of life as per Atlassian’s product end of life policy.  Since our plugin uses the Atlassian Marketplace Licensing API it isn’t possible for us to continue supporting these earlier versions of Confluence.

For users of the Creately plugin who are on Confluence 3.x up to 4.0 you can still download and install the Creately plugin version 1.10.2 from the Atlassian Marketplace.

With Creately for Confluence you will be able to,

  1. Import Visio Documents, Stencils and Templates
  2. Import and Export SVG documents
  3. Export as Creately Editable SVG
  4. High Resolution Image Export
  5. Other improved features

You can read more on the improved features in this announcement Team Creately is bringing more awesome benefits you can enjoy in the future. Stay tuned for the latest updates and announcements on our ongoing optimization process.

More Creately Updates

Creately Confluence Plugin now Supports Confluence 4.0

Atlassian recently released Confluence 4.0 and the Creately Confluence plugin now supports the new version. There are some really good social networking elements added to the new version of Confluence and those features have gotten some great feedback from the users. Online collaboration is becoming increasingly important in future applications and adding social elements to the application makes it much more fun. If you are a Twitter user, the new additions like follow and mention within Confluence wont come as a big surprise for you.

Creately is all about visualizing things, so instead of writing some boring text explaining the benefits of Confluence diagramming plugin by Creately, I added a video to explain things more clearly. People hate reading texts, but love watching videos. Otherwise YouTube won’t be the second most visited site in the Internet.

If you have any trouble using the latest version of the Creately Confluence plugin you can contact support for help. There are some exiting new things to be announced soon, so be sure to add us to your RSS reader or follow us on Twitter.