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Confluence 7.13 Upgrade Notes

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This change log aims to give you an overview of what's changed since our last Long Term Support release. As 7.13 is our fourth Long Term Support release for Confluence, we'll give you a round up of everything that's happened since Confluence 7.4. 

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. 

Top features

Here's a summary of the great new features awaiting your users.  

7.5
  • Advanced auditing
  • Single sign-on with OpenID
  • More table cell colours
  • Widget connector improvements
Release Notes
7.6
  • Additional audit log events
  • Trusted domains for Companion app
Release Notes
7.7
  • Webhooks
  • Reindex in a cluster
  • Editor upgrade
  • Accessibility improvements
  • New audit log filters and file retention settings

  • Just-in-time user provisioning

Release Notes
7.8
  • Search performed audit log event
  • Disabled macros keep their body content
  • Increased label limit for Page Properties Report macro
Release Notes
7.9
  • Install bugfixes without downtime
  • Personal access tokens 
  • Office documents load in their own time

Release Notes

7.10
  • Jira Service Desk is now Jira Service Management
Release Notes
7.11
  • 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

Release Notes
7.12
  • Use data pipeline to export data into your existing data platform
  • Diagnostic information is now included in thread dumps
  • Change to database validation query configuration
  • setenv file improvements
  • Support for PostgreSQL 11
Release Notes
7.13

7.13 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 ones that were deemed critical severity and fixed since 6.13. 

7.5

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7.6

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7.7

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7.8

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7.9

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7.10

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7.11

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7.12

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7.13

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Supported platform changes

From time to time we will add or end support for a platform. Here's a summary of the changes since 6.6. 

7.5

Ended support for:

  • Internet Explorer 11
  • PostgreSQL 9.5
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2014
Supported Platforms
7.6No changesSupported Platforms
7.7No changesSupported Platforms
7.8No changesSupported Platforms
7.9No changesSupported Platforms
7.10No changesSupported Platforms
7.11No changesSupported Platforms
7.12

Added support for:

  • PostgreSQL 11
Supported Platforms
7.13

Ended support for:

  • Microsoft Edge Legacy
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. 

7.5
  • Existing audit log events will be migrated on upgrade. More detail
  • Page Properties Report macro now limited to 500 pages.
  • Import from Word now has a configurable maximum file size.
  • Collaborative editing limited mode has been removed.
  • JavaMail is now JakartaMail. This changes how you configure your mail server in the Confluence distribution.
Upgrade Notes
7.6
  • Change to the URL the mobile app login compatibility check uses. You may need to update your firewall or load balancer.
Upgrade Notes
7.7

  • New Data Center apps check as part of your license upgrade

  • New system properties for audit log, page properties report, and drop shadow image effect.
Upgrade Notes
7.8

  • You can't upgrade to 7.8.0 directly if you use the H2 database

  • Word and Excel conversion now handled by the external process pool

  • Allowlist and blocklist replace whitelist and blacklist in the Confluence UI

Upgrade Notes
7.9
  • Search index split into a content index and change index

Upgrade Notes

7.10
  • PostgreSQL driver upgrade
  • Login with query parameter no longer supported
  • Synchrony Xmx memory increased to 2 GB
  • XStream upgrade may impact your custom developed apps
Upgrade Notes
7.11
  • Upgrade will fail on Oracle 12 release 1 (not supported)
  • Upgrade will fail on some Microsoft SQL Server 2016 versions
  • Upgrade will fail on MySQL 8 if database user does not have adequate permissions
  • Page index macro limited to 1000 pages
  • Access logs enabled by default, you may need to provision more disk space
  • Some entries in the atlassian-application.log file are now sent to a dedicated log file
  • Outbound requests from application link URLs require users to be authenticated, unless you specifically allow anonymous users in the allowlist.
  • Analytics is now enabled for Data Center, review the data retention settings to make sure they are appropriate for your organization
  • GoodSoftware Analytics for Confluence users will need to re-apply global analytics permissions after upgrading to 7.11 Data Center
Upgrade Notes
7.12
  • Known issues with Java 11 and TLS 1.3 which has been added to the default server and client protocols in the setenv.sh and setenv.bat files.
  • Changes to the layout of the setenv file
Upgrade Notes
7.13

  • 7.13 is a Long Term Support release

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Last modified on Aug 16, 2021

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