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Development Releases

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Confluence 3.0 Documentation

Development Releases are interim builds of Confluence that we make available so that interested customers can try out new features, especially those features that you may have been waiting for, and don't want to wait another month for the next official release.

Development Releases are Not Safe
Development releases are snapshots of the ongoing Confluence development process. As such:
  • While we try to keep these releases stable, they have not undergone the same degree of testing as a full release.
  • Features in development releases may be incomplete, or may change or be removed before the next full release.
No Upgrade Path
Because development releases represent work in progress, we cannot provide a supported upgrade path between DRs, or from any DR to the eventual final release. So it's possible that you won't be able to migrate any data you store in a Confluence DR to a future Confluence release.

Confluence 3 Beta Phase

For the Beta overview and discussion, please follow this link

Current Development Release Cycle

The links below show the improvements made every two weeks only, and will mainly be relevant to plugin developers.

Previous Development Release Cycles

2.10 Development

2.9 Development

2.8 Development

2.7 Development

2.6 Development

2.3 Development

1.5 - 2.0 Development

1.4 Development

1.3 Development

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Development Release Warnings
Milestone release advisory
Release Notes 1.3-DR1
Release Notes 1.3-DR2
Release Notes 1.3-DR3
Release Notes 1.3-DR4
Release Notes 1.3-final
Release Notes 1.4-DR1
Release Notes 1.4-DR2
Release Notes 1.4-DR3
Release Notes 1.4-DR4
Release Notes 1.4-DR6
Release Notes 1.4-DR7
Release Notes 1.4-RC2
Release Notes 1.5-DR1
Release Notes 1.5-DR2
Release Notes 2.0-RC1
Release Notes 2.0-RC2
Release Notes 2.3-DR1
Release Notes 2.3-DR2
Release Notes 2.6-dr1
Release Notes 2.7-m2 ("Milestone 2")
Release Notes 2.7-m4 ("Milestone 4")
Release Notes 2.7-m5 ("Milestone 5")
Release Notes 2.7-rc1 ("Release Candidate 1")
Release Notes 2.8-m2 ("Milestone 2")
Release Notes 2.8-m3 ("Milestone 3")
Release Notes 2.8-m4 ("Milestone 4")
Release Notes 2.8-m6 ("Milestone 6")
Release Notes 2.8-m7 ("Milestone 7")
Release Notes 2.8-m9 ("Milestone 9")
Release Notes 2.9-m2 ("Milestone 2")
Release Notes 2.9-m3 ("Milestone 3")
Release Notes 2.9-m5 ("Milestone 5")
Release Notes 2.9-rc1 ("Release Candidate 1")
Release Notes 2.10-m1 ("Milestone 1")
Release Notes 2.10-m2 ("Milestone 2")
Release Notes 2.10-m3 ("Milestone 3")
Release Notes 2.10-m4 ("Milestone 4")
Release Notes 2.10-m5 ("Milestone 5")
Release Notes 2.10-m7 ("Milestone 7")
Release Notes 2.10-m8 ("Milestone 8")
Release Notes 2.10-rc1 ("Release Candidate 1")
Release Notes 3.0-beta2 ("Beta 2")
Release Notes 3.0-m3 ("Milestone 3")
Release Notes 3.0-m4 ("Milestone 4")
Release Notes 3.0-m5 ("Milestone 5")
Release Notes 3.0-m6 ("Milestone 6")
Release Notes 3.0-m7 ("Milestone 7")
Release Notes 3.0-m8 ("Milestone 8")
Release Notes 3.0-m9 ("Milestone 9")
Release Notes 3.0-rc1 ("Release Candidate 1")


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