Confluence 6.2 Upgrade Notes
Below are some important notes on upgrading to Confluence 6.2. For details of the new features and improvements in this release, see the Confluence 6.2 Release Notes.
Upgrade notes
Confluence 6 is a major upgrade
If you're upgrading from Confluence 5.x, be sure to read these upgrade notes thoroughly, take a full backup, and test your upgrade in a non-production environment before upgrading your production site.
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Changes to the Share dialog
We've made some minor changes to the Share dialog. It is now always available, and includes a tiny link to the page, which can be shared via chat or other means. Previously the Share button only appeared if you had a mail server configured.
Changes to the Page Index macro
The Page Index macro can be quite memory hungry in large spaces. To prevent it causing out of memory errors in your site, we no longer show page excerpts when there are more than 200 pages in the space, and don't list any pages if there are more than 5000 in the space. This limit can be increased or decreased using a system property.
Updating configuration files after upgrading
The contents of configuration files, such as server.xml, setenv.bat / setenv.sh and confluenceinit.properties change from time to time.
When upgrading, we recommend manually reapplying any additions to these files (such as proxy configuration, datasource, JVM parameters etc) rather than simply overwriting the file with the file from your previous installation, otherwise you will miss out on any improvements we have made.
Upgrading from Confluence 5.x?
Collaborative editing is made possible by the magic of Synchrony. When you install Confluence Server, Synchrony will be configured to run as a separate process on your server.
If you're upgrading from Confluence 5.x, there are a few requirements you need to be aware of:
- Memory and CPU: You may need to give your server more resources than for previous Confluence releases. When you install Confluence, Synchrony (which is required for collaborative editing), will be configured to run as a separate process on your server. The default maximum heap size for Synchrony is 1 GB (on top of Confluence's requirements).
- WebSockets: Collaborative editing works best with WebSockets. Your firewall / proxy should allow WebSocket connections.
- SSL termination: SSL should be terminated at your load balancer, proxy server, or gateway as Synchrony does not support direct HTTPS connections.
- Database drivers: You must use a supported database driver. Collaborative editing will fail with an error if you're using an unsupported or custom JDBC driver (or
driverClassNamein the case of a JNDI datasource connection). See Database JDBC Drivers for the list of drivers we support. - Database connection pool: your database must allow enough connections to support both Confluence and Synchrony (which defaults to a maximum pool size of 15).
Infrastructure changes
For developers
There were a few library upgrades in this release which may have an impact on add-ons.
Head to Preparing for Confluence 6.2 to find out more about the changes.
End of support announcements
There are no changes to our supported platforms in Confluence 6.2.
- Advance Notice: End of support for Oracle Solaris
Confluence 6.2.x will be the last release that supports the Oracle Solaris operating system.
See End of Support Announcements for Confluence for more information.
Known issues
- If you use Apache to limit who can access the admin console, you should update your configuration. See Using Apache to limit access to the Confluence administration interface for our suggested configuration.
- There is a known issue where the "hibernate dialect" property was being incorrectly retained after upgrade. Customers who have been using Confluence since version 2.4 or earlier (legends!) should check the hibernate dialect in their
<confluence-home>/confluence.cfg.xmlfile before upgrading to Confluence 6.x to avoid this error: Upgrading fails with ERROR The size (16777215) given to the column 'event' exceeds the maximum allowed for any data type (8000) in Confluence. See CONFSERVER-52103 - Getting issue details... STATUS . - Confluence 6.2.2 introduced the following bug CONFSERVER-52626 - Getting issue details... STATUS . We recommend skipping 6.2.2 and upgrading directly to 6.2.3 or later.
- Confluence Collaborative Editing does not work with SSL and Apache 2.4.9 or earlier.
- There is a known issue when upgrading Confluence with an Oracle database. Oracle users should upgrade their driver to 12.2.0.x before upgrading to Confluence 6.1 or later. See Upgrade to version 6.1.x Failed With Error "ORA-01000: maximum open cursors exceeded" for more information.
Upgrade procedure
Note: Upgrade to a test environment first. Test your upgrades in your test environment before rolling them into production.
If you're already running a version of Confluence, please follow these instructions to upgrade to the latest version:
- Go to
> General Configuration > Support Tools > Health Check to check your license validity, application server, database setup and more. - Before you upgrade, we strongly recommend that you back up your installation directory, home directory and database.
- If your version of Confluence is earlier than 6.0, read the release notes and upgrade guides for all releases between your version and the latest version.
- Download the latest version of Confluence.
- Follow the instructions in the Upgrade Guide.
Checking for known issues and troubleshooting the Confluence upgrade
After you have completed the steps required to upgrade your Confluence installation, check all the items on the Confluence post-upgrade checklist to ensure that everything works as expected. If something is not working correctly, please check for known Confluence issues and try troubleshooting your upgrade as described below:
- Check for known issues. Sometimes we find out about a problem with the latest version of Confluence after we have released the software. In such cases we publish information about the known issues in the Confluence Knowledge Base.
- Check for answers from the community. Other users may have encountered the same issue. You can check for answers from the community at Atlassian Community.
- Did you encounter a problem during the Confluence upgrade? Please refer to the guide to troubleshooting upgrades in the Confluence Knowledge Base.
- If you encounter a problem during the upgrade and can't solve it, please create a support ticket and one of our support engineers will help you.