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We will be moving to Confluence 7 soon. This upgrade primarily brings "under-the-hood" improvements to performance, but I wanted to point out a few of the new features being released.

New Features

Atlassian Companion

With a new desktop application—Atlassian Companion—you can edit any file attached to a Confluence page using your preferred desktop application (such as Microsoft Word), then when you're ready, upload the file back to Confluence. You can edit Office documents, Photoshop files, Keynote presentations — any attached file with a compatible application installed on your computer.

People who can view

Confluence is open by default, but due to the layers of space permissions and page restrictions that can be applied, it isn't always obvious who can actually see your page. Use the People who can view feature to know whether a user has adequate permissions to see a page before you share it with them.

Inspect permissions

Space administrators will also now be able to look up a user, and find out exactly why they do, or don't, have permission to do something. You can even query a specific page, to bring in page restriction information. After the upgrade, go to to Space Tools > Permissions > Inspect permissions to check it out. 

On Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019, we upgraded to the latest version of Confluence. We also improved the server resources for better performance.

New Features

• Collaborative editing
  Not just synchronous editing, but autosaving everyone's draft edits. You can even choose to close and save draft edits without publishing them, so you can resume team editing later. Publish only when you want to!
• Bulk page hierarchy copy/moves
  Grab an entire page hierarchy and create a copy of it somewhere else. This will help authors consolidate content or even use a current hierarchy as a template for a new one.
• No more documentation theme
  Atlassian has incorporated a lot of the documentation theme features into the default theme, so they've consolidated. Any space that had switched to the Documentation theme is automatically switched back to the improved Default theme.
• Expanded search scope and filtering capabilities
  The previous quick navigation feature restricted your search to titles, displaying a limited set of results based on the name of the page, file, space or user. Confluence now performs a full search of your site content, so you're more likely to find a match first go. We've also added interactive search filters, so you can easily narrow down your results in a few clicks.
• Improved editor experience
  Atlassian has made a huge number of improvements, including solving common frustrations relating to table cells, bullet points, and cursor behaviour, especially when copying and pasting content. The look of the editor hasn't changed, the improvements are all under the hood.

We will be moving to Confluence 6 soon, and I wanted to point out a few of the new features being released.

 New Features

• Collaborative editing, like in Google Docs, has come to Confluence. Not just synchronous editing, but autosaving everyone's draft edits. You can even choose to close and save draft edits without publishing them, so you can resume team editing later. Publish only when you want to!
• Bulk page hierarchy copy/moving allows you to grab an entire page hierarchy and create a copy of it somewhere else. This will help authors consolidate content or even use a current hierarchy as a template for a new one.
• No more documentation theme. They've incorporated a lot of the documentation theme features into the default theme, so they've consolidated. Any space that had switched to the Documentation theme is automatically switched back to the improved Default theme.