Linchpin Suite

Release Notes

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Linchpin Intranet Suite 6.1 & 5.12

Summary & Highlights

Welcome to Linchpin Intranet Suite 6.1 & 5.12!

Admins, event editors, and creators can now see who’s exactly on the waitlist. This helps to prioritize and manage those eager to attend as spots become available, while also improving the overall event experience by reducing uncertainty.

Sometimes you just need that little bit of extra space to make your event stand out. Event descriptions can now be up to 1,000 characters, giving you the freedom to provide more detail, grab attention, and engage attendees like never before.

Moreover, you can now enter copyright information for event images as well as news teaser images. This not only gives credit where credit is due, but it also enhances transparency and professionalism within your organization. By providing clear attribution, you demonstrate respect for creators and ensure legal compliance, safeguarding your company from potential copyright issues.

News Teaser images now require a mandatory alt text to ensure accessibility. This important update ensures that all users, including those with visual impairments, can fully understand and engage with your news content. By adding descriptive alt text, you’ll not only improve accessibility, but also improve your content’s SEO and overall user experience. We understand that sometimes things get missed, so as a fallback, if the user doesn’t enter a proper alt text, the image file name is used.

The country, language and multi-select profile field types are now writable to Active Directory (AD). This makes your intranet user profiles more dynamic and easier to maintain.

Make sure to check out the full release notes!

View the waitlist

Check it out

LDAP Sync for more field types

Check it out

Longer Event Descriptions

Check it out

Linchpin User Profiles

New Features

Bugfixes
ONLY IN SUITE 6.1

  • 6.1.2 – Profiles with more than one User Select field were not editable under Confluence 9.x. They are now.
  • 6.1.2  – In some cases radio buttons didn’t work as expected in the people search and list macro. Now they do!
IN SUITE 6.1 & 5.12
  • 6.1.1 & 5.12.1 – When using phone and IM fields in Linchpin User Profiles they were not displayed as clickable links in recent versions. This has been fixed.
  • 6.1.1 & 5.12.1 – We fixed some indexing issues leading to missing search results.

Linchpin Enterprise News

New Features
ONLY IN SUITE 6.1

IN SUITE 6.1 & 5.12

Bugfixes
ONLY IN SUITE 6.1

  • We fixed an incompatibility with Confluence 9.x that messed with the sequence of news when using the feature for planning news for the future.

IN SUITE 6.1 & 5.12

  • 6.1.1 & 5.12.1 – We fixed a bug that some notifications for news were sent by “anonymous”.
  • 6.1.1 & 5.12.1 – We fixed a bug that wrongly changed the publish date and author of a news item.
  • 6.1.2 & 5.12.2 – We fixed an issue where changes to additional header data made from the scheduling overview were not saved properly
  • 6.1.3 & 5.12.3 – The metadata panel couldn’t be loaded (and thus opened) if a news image was used. This has been fixed.

Linchpin Events

New Features
ONLY IN SUITE 6.1

IN SUITE 6.1 & 5.12

Bugfixes
ONLY IN SUITE 6.1

  • 6.1.2 – We fixed a bug that inserted CSS into notification mails that some email clients couldn’t parse correctly.

IN SUITE 6.1 & 5.12

  • We fixed a faulty error flag.
  • Fixed bug where attempting to unsubscribe from the entire event series resulted in an error message.
  • We fixed a bug that resulted in faulty ICS files when signing up to a series of events of which some where already fully booked.
  • We fixed a bug that prevented signing out of an event under certain circumstances in a recurring events series.
  • 6.1.1 & 5.12.1 – We fixed a rendering bug for event categories in Firefox.
  • 6.1.1 & 5.12.1 – We fixed a bug that prevented signing up or off for events when using an Oracle database.
  • 6.1.1 & 5.12.1 – We fixed a bug that occurred in combination with daylight savings time and timezones with various Outlook clients.
  • 6.1.2 & 5.12.2 – We clarified in email notifications that declining in your calendar event only doesn’t sign you off from the Linchpin Event in Confluence.
  • 6.1.3 & 5.12.3 – We removed an unnecessary header row when exporting event lists more than 100 participants.
  • 6.1.3 & 5.12.3 – We fixed a bug where event attendees without Confluence account were not properly shown in the wait list.

Linchpin Theme

Bugfixes
ONLY IN SUITE 6.1

  • 6.1.1 – We fixed a bug that led to headlines disappearing beneath the Linchpin header.
  • 6.1.1 – We fixed a Bug that prevented the proper link color from showing up in the Confluence editor.
  • 6.1.3 – We fixed a bug that incorrectly prevented rendering the create button for some users.
  • 6.1.3 – We fixed a bug that prevented rendering of custom HTML at the end of the body when using Confluence 9.x.

IN SUITE 6.1 & 5.12

  • 6.1.1 & 5.12.1 – We fixed a bug that led to broken attachment links in Linchpin Teaser macros.
  • 6.1.1 & 5.12.1 – We fixed a bug that made Linchpin Teaser macros look quite bland when used in a standard Confluence themed space.

Linchpin News Digest

Improvements
IN SUITE 6.1 & 5.12

  • We restructured News Transfer, Atom Feed and other related news features in the admin area to improve clarity and ease of use.

Linchpin Microblog

New Feature
ONLY IN SUITE 6.1

Bugfixes
ONLY IN SUITE 6.1

  • 6.1.1 – We fixed a bug that prevented loading all existing comments to a micropost.
  • 6.1.2 – We fixed a bug that inserted CSS into notification mails that some email clients couldn’t parse correctly.

IN SUITE 6.1 & 5.12

  • 6.1.1 & 5.12.1 – Sometimes attached images have been shown within the wrong comment. This has been fixed.
  • 6.1.2 & 5.12.2 – We resolved an issue where the microblog timeline didn’t display properly alongside the people search & list macro.

Linchpin Sidebar

Bugfix
ONLY IN SUITE 6.1

  • 6.1.1 – We fixed a bug that limited the display of “saved for later” pages to 25 in the Linchpin Sidebar when using Confluence 9.x.

Linchpin Launchpad

Bugfix
ONLY IN SUITE 6.1

  • 6.1.3 – We removed some unnecessary legacy code.

Terms of Use

Bugfix
ONLY IN SUITE 6.1

  • 6.1.1 – We fixed a bug where the language selector could overlap the terms of use.

Linchpin Onboarding

Bugfix
ONLY IN SUITE 6.1

  • 6.1.2 – We fixed a couple of incompatibility issues with Confluence 9.5.x & 9.2.x.

New Features
ONLY IN SUITE 6.1

IN SUITE 6.1 & 5.12

Improvements
IN SUITE 6.1 & 5.12

  • We restructured News Transfer, Atom Feed and other related news features in the admin area to improve clarity and ease of use.

Bugfixes
ONLY IN SUITE 6.1

  • We fixed an incompatibility with Confluence 9.x that messed with the sequence of news when using the feature for planning news for the future.
  • 6.1.1 – We fixed a bug that led to headlines disappearing beneath the Linchpin header.
  • 6.1.1 – We fixed a Bug that prevented the proper link color from showing up in the Confluence editor.
  • 6.1.1 – We fixed a bug that prevented loading all existing comments to a micropost.
  • 6.1.1 – We fixed a bug that limited the display of “saved for later” pages to 25 in the Linchpin Sidebar when using Confluence 9.x.
  • 6.1.1 – We fixed a bug where the language selector could overlap the terms of use.
  • 6.1.2 – We fixed a couple of incompatibility issues with Confluence 9.5.x & 9.2.x.
  • 6.1.2 – We fixed a bug that inserted CSS into notification mails that some email clients couldn’t parse correctly.
  • 6.1.2 – We fixed a bug that inserted CSS into notification mails that some email clients couldn’t parse correctly.
  • 6.1.2 – Profiles with more than one User Select field were not editable under Confluence 9.x. They are now.
  • 6.1.2 – In some cases radio buttons didn’t work as expected in the people search and list macro. Now they do!
  • 6.1.3 – We fixed a bug that incorrectly prevented rendering the create button for some users.
  • 6.1.3 – We fixed a bug that prevented rendering of custom HTML at the end of the body when using Confluence 9.x.
  • 6.1.3 – We removed some unnecessary legacy code.

IN SUITE 6.1 & 5.12

  • 6.1.1 & 5.12.1 – When using phone and IM fields in Linchpin User Profiles they were not displayed as clickable links in recent versions. This has been fixed.
  • 6.1.1 & 5.12.1 – We fixed some indexing issues leading to missing search results.
  • 6.1.1 & 5.12.1 – We fixed a bug that some notifications for news were sent by “anonymous”.
  • 6.1.1 & 5.12.1 – We fixed a bug that wrongly changed the publish date and author of a news item.
  • 6.1.1 & 5.12.1 – We fixed a rendering bug for event categories in Firefox.
  • 6.1.1 & 5.12.1 – We fixed a bug that prevented signing up or off for events when using an Oracle database.
  • 6.1.1 & 5.12.1 – We fixed a bug that occurred in combination with daylight savings time and timezones with various Outlook clients.
  • 6.1.1 & 5.12.1 – We fixed a bug that led to broken attachment links in Linchpin Teaser macros.
  • 6.1.1 & 5.12.1 – We fixed a bug that made Linchpin Teaser macros look quite bland when used in a standard Confluence themed space.
  • 6.1.1 & 5.12.1 – Sometimes attached images have been shown within the wrong comment. This has been fixed.
  • 6.1.2 & 5.12.2 – We resolved an issue where the microblog timeline didn’t display properly alongside the people search & list macro.
  • 6.1.2 & 5.12.2 – We clarified in email notifications that declining in your calendar event only doesn’t sign you off from the Linchpin Event in Confluence.
  • 6.1.2 & 5.12.2 – We fixed an issue where changes to additional header data made from the scheduling overview were not saved properly
  • 6.1.3 & 5.12.3 – The metadata panel couldn’t be loaded (and thus opened) if a news image was used. This has been fixed.
  • 6.1.3 & 5.12.3 – We removed an unnecessary header row when exporting event lists more than 100 participants.
  • 6.1.3 & 5.12.3 – We fixed a bug where event attendees without Confluence account were not properly shown in the wait list.

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