New features
  • Onboarding: New users can be offered spaces to subscribe to for their personal news feeds.
  • Assistant: Each notice can be scheduled to only be shown once for each user instead of being shown repeatedly.
  • Assistant: Each notice can now have a start and expiration date. Prepare notices in advance and don't forget to disable them when they lose relevance.
  • The people directory now includes a filter option. You can search users based on their profile field values, like spoken languages, software expertise etc.
  • Users are now able to upload a header image to their profile.
  • First steps in supporting profile field data coming from identity providers (IdPs) via third-party apps: You can decide which profile fields should be filled by an IdP.
  • Theme Wizard: Upload a logo, set a primary color and your theme is up and running.
  • New content modules for the Linchpin Sidebar: All updates stream, open Confluence tasks, open Jira issues.
  • New configuration for the Linchpin Sidebar so you can decide which content modules to show and which to hide.
  • Added compatibility with "Aura" app.
  • When using Bitvoodoo's view tracker 5.7.0 or later, unread news in our news macros and hub are marked.
  • Directly access news categories from the news hub sidebar.
  • News categories are now compatible with Linchpin Translations which is included in the Linchpin Suite and allows translation of news category names.
  • Added measurement of anonymous usage information of news teaser (see detailed information on this page).
  • Our mobile app has received an appealing and modern design of the user interface.
  • Vimeo video playback is now supported in the mobile app.
  • We added support for the read-only mode in Confluence Data Center instances for our mobile app.
  • Added support for mobile user management of their own connections to a Confluence instance directly in our mobile app. This allows users who have received push notifications multiple times or lost a mobile device to remove outdated or insecure logins themselves. For more information, please visit https://seibert.biz/linchpinmobileconnections.