Confluence 8.5 Long Term Support Release Change Log
This change log aims to give you an overview of what's changed since our last Long Term Support release. As 8.5 is our newest Long Term Support release for Confluence, we'll give you a round up of everything that's happened since the last Long Term Support release, Confluence 7.19.
About Long Term Support releases
We recommend upgrading Confluence regularly, however if your organisation's process means you only upgrade about once a year, upgrading to a Long Term Support release may be a good option as it provides continued access to critical security, stability, data integrity and performance issues until this version reaches end of life.
LTS upgrade may require downtime
When upgrading from a previous Long Term Support version such as Confluence 7.13 or 7.19, your upgrade path will include the Confluence 8.0 Platform release, which contains breaking changes and requires downtime. Make sure you've read the release and technical upgrade notes for each version before upgrading. See more info and links below.
Top features
Here's a summary of the great new features awaiting your users.
8.5 (LTS) | 8.5 is a Long Term Support release. Learn more | Release Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 8.4 |
| Release Notes |
| 8.3 |
| Release Notes |
| 8.2 |
| Release Notes |
| 8.1 |
| Release Notes |
| 8.0 |
| Release Notes |
| 7.20 |
| Release Notes |
| 7.19 (LTS) | 7.19 is a Long Term Support release. Learn more | Release Notes |
Critical bug fixes
Every release contains a bunch of bug fixes. Here's all the bugs deemed critical severity and fixed since 7.13.
| 8.5 (LTS) |
| All 8.5.x bug fixes |
|---|---|---|
| 8.4 |
| All 8.4.x bug fixes |
| 8.3 |
| All 8.3.x bug fixes |
| 8.2 |
| All 8.2.x bug fixes |
| 8.1 |
| All 8.1.x bug fixes |
| 8.0 |
| All 8.0.x bug fixes |
| 7.20 |
| All 7.20.x bug fixes |
| 7.19 (LTS) |
| All 7.19.x bug fixes |
Supported platform changes
From time to time we will add or end support for a platform. Here's a summary of the changes since 7.13.
| 8.5 (LTS) | No changes | Supported Platforms |
|---|---|---|
| 8.4 | No changes | Supported Platforms |
| 8.3 | Added support for: Java 17 bundled with Confluence | Supported Platforms |
| 8.2 | No changes | Supported Platforms |
| 8.1 | No changes | Supported Platforms |
| 8.0 | Added support for:
Ended support for:
| Supported Platforms |
| 7.20 | Ended support for:
| Supported Platforms |
| 7.19 (LTS) | No changes | Supported Platforms |
Technical upgrade notes
This table is a high level summary of the upgrade notes. You should read the full upgrade notes before upgrading.
| 8.5 (LTS) | 8.5 is a Long Term Support release. Learn more | Upgrade Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 8.4 |
| Upgrade Notes |
| 8.3 |
| Upgrade Notes |
| 8.2 |
| Upgrade Notes |
| 8.1 |
| Upgrade Notes |
| 8.0 |
| Upgrade Notes |
| 7.20 |
| Upgrade Notes |
| 7.19 (LTS) | 7.19 is a Long Term Support release. Learn more | Upgrade Notes |