This page shows the highlights of the major Confluence releases.

Current Release

For information about the latest release, see the Confluence Release Notes.

Confluence 8.6 - October 2023

• Say more with image captions
• A faster way to create text links
• Paste without formatting using Ctrl+Shift+V
• Use the forward slash command to add macros
• More accessibility improvements
• Use AWS Secrets Manager to manage your database credentials
• This is a Data Center-only release

Confluence 8.5 - August 2023

• Long Term Support release
• Server end of support

Confluence 8.4 - July 2023

• Align table content vertically
• Add your own emojis (custom emojis)
• Administer custom emojis
• Save time with space reindexing
• New REST APIs for user management
• Improvements to copy space

Confluence 8.3 - May 2023

• Manage inline comments in the editor
• Never miss an inline comment again
• Faster, simpler, and more reliable: a new way to backup and restore
• Copy spaces and their settings at scale

Confluence 8.2 - March 2023

• New emoji autocomplete
• Automate user management tasks with REST APIs

Confluence 8.1 - February 2023

• Express yourself with over 3000 new emojis
• Move pages without breaking or losing attachments
• Introducing support for Amazon S3 object storage
• New diagnostic metrics are available through JMX monitoring and log file
• New Cloud migration log
• Accessibility improvements and fixes

Confluence 8.0 - November 2022

• Introducing the emoji menu
• Improvements to the search ranking logic
• Easier workflows for license usage management
• Accessibility improvements and fixes
• Several platform and library upgrades
• Support for Java 17

Confluence 7.20 - October 2022

• Edit and browse with greater accessibility using skip links
• Add your Advanced Roadmaps in Jira to Confluence
• Create feedback reports to troubleshoot content problems
• Troubleshoot effectively with more diagnostic tools now available

Confluence 7.19 - July 2022

• Long Term Support release

Confluence 7.18 - May 2022

• Select cluster node on logging and profiling screen
• New /scan REST API endpoint

Confluence 7.17 - March 2022

• Make your integrations more secure with OAuth 2.0
• Keep your site running like clockwork with new application metrics
• Encrypt your database password for greater security
• Updated VPAT documents for accessibility improvements
• Support for PostgreSQL 12, 13, and 14

Confluence 7.16 - January 2022

• Faster permission checks for complex sites
• Set retention rules to automatically delete historical page and attachment versions DATA CENTER
• Set retention rules to automatically purge unwanted pages from the trash DATA CENTER
• Use multiple identity providers (IdPs) for single sign-on DATA CENTER
• Block basic authentication DATA CENTER
• Exclude spaces from the data pipeline DATA CENTER
• Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2019

Confluence 7.15 - November 2021

• No significant changes in this release

Confluence 7.14 - September 2021

• Upgrade to the next Confluence version without downtime DATA CENTER
• Schedule regular data pipeline exports DATA CENTER
• Change the data pipeline export location DATA CENTER
• Deleted date now displays in trash

Confluence 7.13 - August 2021

• Long Term Support release

Confluence 7.12 - March 2021

• Use data pipeline to export data and feed it into your existing data platform DATA CENTER

• Diagnostic information is now included in thread dumps

• Change to database validation query configuration

• setenv file improvements

• Support for PostgreSQL 11

Confluence 7.11 - February 2021

• Analytics for Confluence is now part of Confluence Data Center
• Team Calendars is now part of Confluence Data Center

• Mark logs when troubleshooting issues

• Access logging enabled by default

• Dedicated application log files security, outgoing mail, and indexing

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

Confluence 4.2 – 10 April 2012

Confluence 4.1 – 13 December 2011

Confluence 4.0 – 19 September 2011

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