Confluence Release Summary
This page shows the highlights of the major Confluence releases.
Current Release
For information about the latest release, please go to the Confluence Release Notes.
Confluence 7.10 - December 2020
- Jira Service Desk is now Jira Service Management
- Bug fixes and minor improvements
Confluence 7.9 - November 2020
- Install bugfixes without downtime DATA CENTER
- Step up your security with personal access tokens
- Office documents load in their own time
- Search index split into a content index and change index
Confluence 7.8 - September 2020
- Capture more end-user activity in the audit log DATA CENTER
- Increased label limit for Page Properties Report macro
- Disabled macros will preserve your content
- Allowlist and blocklist replace whitelist and blacklist
Confluence 7.7 - August 2020
- Webhooks
- Reindex your cluster without downtime DATA CENTER
- New audit log filters and file retention settings DATA CENTER
- Editor upgrade
- Accessibility improvements
- Page properties report scale improvements
- Just-in-time SAML user provisioning DATA CENTER
Confluence 7.6 - June 2020
- Additional audit log events DATA CENTER
- Trusted domains for Companion app
Confluence 7.5 - May 2020
- Advanced auditing DATA CENTER
- Single sign-on with OpenID DATA CENTER
- More table cell colours
- Widget connector improvements
Confluence 7.4 - April 2020
- Long Term Support release
- Inspect permissions improvements for complex external directory configurations DATA CENTER
Confluence 7.3 - February 2020
- Companion app and edit files experience improvements
- Check who can view a page
- Advanced permissions management DATA CENTER
- Rate limiting DATA CENTER
Confluence 7.2 - December 2019
Access Data Center features on your current infrastructure DATA CENTER
Confluence 7.1 - November 2019
- Java 11 support
- Exclude attached files when copying a single page
- Scale improvements for several macros
- Extended support for Edit in Office
Confluence 7.0 - September 2019
- CDN support for Confluence DATA CENTER
- Synchrony data eviction
- Pre-upgrade planning and post-upgrade support tools
- Several platform and library upgrades.
Confluence 6.15 - March 2019
- Filter search by space category
- Changes to the backup and restore screen
Confluence 6.14 - January 2019
- Improved search UI
- Editor upgrade
- Delete a user's profile picture
- Add page numbers to PDF exports the easy way
Confluence 6.13 - December 2018
- Long Term Support release
- Permanently delete a user account
- PDF export improvements
- Cloud Migration Assistant
- AdoptOpenJDK 8 support
Confluence 6.12 - October 2018
- Simpler Synchrony set up for Data Center
- Improvements to PDF exports in Data Center
- Generate support zips on any node in Data Center
- Easily distribute the Companion app via the Microsoft Installer
Confluence 6.11 - August 2018
- Edit any attached file and save it back to Confluence
- Generate support zips via REST
Confluence 6.10 - June 2018
- Read-only mode for Data Center
- Search improvements for everyone
- A new approach for resource-intensive tasks in Data Center
- Support for SQL Server 2016
Confluence 6.9 - May 2018
- More control over your editing experience
- Simpler proxy and HTTPS setup
- IPv6 support
Confluence 6.8 - March 2018
- New mobile app for Confluence Server and Data Center
- Request access improvements
- Visual improvements to emoticons, mentions, and lozenges.
Confluence 6.7 - January 2018
- Confluence gets a fresh new look - new fonts, colours and icons
- Improved experience when mentioning users
- YAML syntax highlighting for the Code block macro.
Confluence 6.6 - December 2017
- Additional bundled language packs for Czech, Dutch, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak and Swedish.
- Azure deployment template
- Ability to recover admin account.
Confluence 6.5 - October 2017
- Improved database configuration in the setup wizard
- New start and stop scripts for Synchrony standalone (for Data Center deployments)
- Improvements to email threading
Confluence 6.4 - September 2017
- Easier access to drafts and pages with unpublished changes.
- Improvements to page history
Confluence 6.3 - July 2017
- Stability improvements
- Additional bundled language packs for Estonian, Icelandic and Slovenian.
Confluence 6.2 - May 2017
- Invite people to edit a page with you
- New Performance Testing Framework for Data Center
- Additional bundled language packs for Finnish, Italian, Norwegian, and Romanian.
Confluence 6.1 - March 2017
- SAML single sign-on for Data Center
- AWS Quick Start and Cloud Formation Template deployment for Data Center
- Team Playbook blueprints
- Safe startup for Confluence Server
- Collaborative editing improvements.
Confluence 6.0 - November 2016
- Collaborative editing
- Copy page hierarchies
- Delete page hierarchy
- Epic links for the JIRA Issues macro
- Removal of the documentation theme.
Confluence 5.10 - June 2016
- Resize your table columns
- Get fewer emails with batched notifications
- Allow users to delete their own content
- Greater accountability with the audit log
- Better diagnostics for your integrations
- Get the lowdown on your macro usage
- Add and remove space watchers
- Improvements for audio and video files
- More bundled language packs.
Confluence 5.9 - November 2015
- It's the dashboard, but not as you know it - redesigned dashboard
- A better way to restrict pages - a new, easier-to-use page restrictions dialog
- One-click create for blank pages
- CQL for search - advanced searching with CQL (Confluence Query Language) filters
- Say goodbye to unknown attachment fails - copy and paste images with confidence
- Notify watchers remembers your preference for each page
- More control over page excerpts - simple or rich excerpts
- Improvements to on-boarding, inline comments, Data Center migration, and lots more.
Confluence 5.8 - June 2015
- Close the collaboration loop - present your files in full screen
- Massive improvements for big tables - auto row numbering and copy and paste for columns
- Restore deleted files from the trash
- More granular options for Page Properties Report and Content by Label macros with CQL
- View roadmaps by week or month
- Plus improvements to Data Center indexing, inline comments, notify watchers, onboarding and much more.
Confluence 5.7 - January 2015
- Inline comments on pages and pinned comments on files to simplify your feedback loop
- A whole new files experience - upload, preview, share and more.
- HipChat Cloud integration to supercharge your team collaboration.
- New macro for planning visual roadmaps.
- Data Center improvements including cluster monitoring and the return of workbox.
- New profile picture and space logo uploader
- Content search REST API (CQL)
- Improvements to the editor.
Confluence 5.6 - September 2014
- Introducing Confluence Data Center
- Keep track of your JIRA issues visually
- Restrict blog posts
- Collaborate faster with quicker comments
- Recently viewed pages on the go
- Tasks sorting improvements
- Insert date lozenges with ease
- Sidebar improvements
- PDF Export improvements
- Support for Office 2013
Confluence 5.5 - 30 April 2014
- Tasks that fit the way you work
- Move blog posts
- Disable space blueprints
- Add a custom favicon
- Improved JIRA integration
- Extended Page Properties and Page Properties Report macros
- Confluence Health Check
- New REST API
Confluence 5.4 - 3 December 2013
- Confluence and JIRA: better together for agile teams
- Create JIRA issues from Confluence
- Give feedback fast with Quote in Comment
- Communicate your releases with new JIRA Reports
- Reflect and improve on your sprints with Retrospectives
- Complete JIRA traceability
- Manage your docs with the Documentation space blueprint
- Macro and blueprint improvements including a new JIRA chart macro, and improvements to the JIRA Issues macro, Page Properties Report macro and Product Requirements blueprint
Confluence 5.3 - 1 October 2013
- Space Blueprints including Knowledge Base space and Team space
- Shared Links blueprint
- Ability to change usernames
- Display page tree in the sidebar
- Request access to a restricted page
- Improved macros including Livesearch, Include Page, Labels List and Code Block
Confluence 5.2 - 13 August 2013
- Faster and cleaner search
- Introducing the Decisions blueprint
- Blueprints keep getting better
- Add multiple layout sections to your pages
- Distraction free editing
- A single, smarter way of adding JIRA issues
- Collaborate with your team on the go
- Speedier interactions
Confluence 5.1 – 27 March 2013
- Introducing blueprints
- Meeting Notes blueprint
- File List blueprint
- Product Requirements blueprint
- New template features
- HTML5 viewers for PDF and PowerPoint files
- Page Properties Report macro
- Improved macros
Confluence 5.0 – 26 February 2013
- A visual refresh
- Updated global navigation
- Content creation made simple
- New sidebar for content discovery
- Editor improvements
- Quick access to recently viewed pages
- Redesigned space administration and space tools
- Improved theming and branding
- Improved user and group management for large sites
Confluence 4.3 – 4 September 2012
- Workbox notifications
- Personal tasks
- Tasks on pages
- Confluence mobile
- Table sorting and highlighting
- Draggable images and macros
- Rich text templates
- Space archiving
- Improved user invitations and signup options
- Default space permissions
Confluence 4.2 – 10 April 2012
- Page layouts
- Likes
- Quick comments
- Popular content on the dashboard
- Recommended content by email
- Labels on attachments
- Signup invitations via URL
- Easy upgrade, try and buy for plugins
Confluence 4.1 – 13 December 2011
- Autoconvert for Pasted Links
- Image effects
- Quick find and replace
- Follow Your Network On the Dashboard
- Space attachments macro
- Global PDF stylesheets
- Use any character in page titles
- New translation feature
Confluence 4.0 – 19 September 2011
- Brand New Editor
- Simplified Editing Experience
- New Macros
- Faster Editing Experience
- Introducing @mentions
- Improved Page Comparison Functionality
- Email Notification Improvements
- New Confluence Installer and Guided Upgrades
- New Editor Plugin Points for Developers
Confluence 3.5 – 16 March 2011
- Easy, Powerful Connections to Active Directory, LDAP and Crowd
- Improved JIRA Integration
- Drag-and-Drop for HTML5 Browsers
- Autowatch and Improved Notification Settings
- Sharing Pages and Blog Posts
- Enhanced Code Macro
- More Administrative Improvements
- "What's New" Feature Tour
- Categories, a New Way of Organizing Spaces
- Embedding Audio and Video with the Multimedia Macro
- Infrastructure Changes
Confluence 3.4 – 12 October 2010
- New Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac-Friendly Too
- Keyboard Shortcut Dialog
- User Macros in Macro Browser and Autocomplete
- New Plugin Manager
- Improved Performance
- Infrastructure Changes
Confluence 3.3 – 7 July 2010
- Confluence Page Gadget
- Autocomplete for Inserting Macros
- Property Panels for Links
- Property Panels for Images
- Manage Watchers
- Email Notifications for Network Activity and Blogs
- Blog Improvements
- Context-Sensitive Help Links
- Security Features
- Infrastructure Changes
Confluence 3.2 – 24 March 2010
- Autocomplete for Inserting Links
- Autocomplete for Embedding Images and Documents
- A Link Browser that's Smarter, Smoother, Faster
- New Documentation Theme
- New Easy Reader Theme
- Template Bundles
- Reordering while Moving a Page
- New Keyboard Shortcuts and Editor Hints
- User Interface Enhancements
Confluence 3.1 – 8 December 2009
- Introducing Gadgets
- Drag-and-Drop
- Office 2007 Support
- New 'Move Page' Feature
- Enhanced Image Browser
- Draft Comparisons
- Page Restrictions Dialog Box
- Other Editor Enhancements
- New Web Browser Versions Supported
Confluence 3.0 – 1 June 2009
- Introducing the Macro Browser
- Enhanced User Profiles
- Introducing Your Network
- New User Status
- New Hover Profile Feature
- Customizable Enhanced PDF Exports
- Improved Rich Text Editor
- Performance Improvements
- Engine Room and Developer Community
- Administration Improvements
Confluence 2.10 – 3 December 2008
- Introducing the Widget Connector
- Improved Office Connector Now Bundled
- Introducing Quick Navigation
- 'Did You Mean', OpenSearch and More
- Custom Stylesheets for Confluence Spaces
- Updated JIRA Issues Macro with Custom Fields and Dynamic Display
- Enhanced User and Group Management
- Upgraded Rich Text Editor
- Universal Wiki Converter now with SharePoint Import and More
- Improved Activity Macros
- Plugin Framework 2
Confluence 2.9 – 7 August 2008
- Streamlined Search
- Auto Save
- Charts
- Page Tree
- Gallery
- New Tutorial
- More in the Menus
- Alphabetical Page Ordering
- Better Spam Prevention
- Plugin Repository
- Engine Room and Developers' Community
Confluence 2.8 – 10 April 2008
- Dynamic menus and simplified screen design
- Page ordering
- Collapsible comments
- Multiple-label filter
- Confluence installer
- Task list
- Performance enhancements
- Administration, management and monitoring
Confluence 2.7 – 12 December 2007
- JIRA Issues and Portlet macros use new trusted authentication
- Two-tier administrator permissions
- Inserting images and attaching files during page creation
- Sorting of images in Gallery macro
- Simplified and improved logging
- Performance, maintainability and administration
Confluence 2.6 – 27 September 2007
- Fresh look for the Default theme
- Personalized comments and Dashboard
- Space description on Dashboard
- Labels on templates
- Default content for space home pages
- Social Bookmarking plugin now bundled with Confluence
- Back-dating and renaming news items
Confluence 2.5 – 29 April 2007
- Introducing flexible page restrictions
- Dynamic task list JRE incompatibilities
- contentbylabel macro supports AND condition
Confluence 2.4 – 14 March 2007
- Editable comments
- Page mailing
Confluence 2.3 – 5 January 2007
- Confluence Massive – cluster support
- People directory
- Activity plugin – usage statistics
- Blogging RPC plugin – manage news in Confluence using blogger-compatible desktop clients
- WebDAV client support via WebDAV plugin – create, edit, move pages, attachments, etc via WebDAV
Confluence 2.2 – 27 April 2006
- Personal spaces
- Localization/internationalization – drop-in language packs (similar to JIRA)
- CAPTCHA support – spam protection
- Improved searching
- Improved LDAP performance
- Confluence ships with Tomcat 5.5
Confluence 2.1 – 20 December 2005
- Autosave
- Concurrent edit warnings
- LDAP integration with Atlassian User/POLIS
Confluence 2.0 – 17 November 2005
- Rich Text Editing – WYSIWYG editor
- Labels
- Dashboard tabs – All, My, Team, New
- RSS builder
- Export pages as Word documents
- Copy pages
Confluence 1.4 – 23 May 2005
- New user interface
- Enhanced editing – doing more in the edit interface
- Page permissions
- New plugin types
- Configurable themes
- Completely rewritten Wiki to HTML conversion engine
Confluence 1.3 – 30 November 2004
- Mail archiving
- Themes
- Trash can
- More granular space permissions
Confluence 1.2 – 23 August 2004
- Page list views – alphabetical, directory view and search view of all pages in a space
- Image thumbnails and thumbnail galleries
- Threaded comments
- Enhanced Search - indexing attachment comments and file names and contextual searching
- New permissions interface
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