Confluence 10.2 release notes
2 December 2025
We're excited to present Confluence 10.2Highlights
- Long Term Support release roundup
- Performance benchmarking report
- Search and WebDAV strict patch settings limited to system admins
- Cloud connectors for hybrid integrations
- OpenSearch for Confluence Data Center
- Supported platforms changes
- End of support announcements
- App developers
- Upgrade steps
- Resolved issues
This Confluence release supports only Data Center licenses. If you have a Server license, check out your options for upgrading.
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Confluence Data Center 10.2 is a Long Term Support release
This means we'll provide bug fix releases until 10.2 reaches end of life, to address critical security, stability, data integrity, and performance issues.
Long Term Support release roundup
It's been one year since our last long-term support release, Confluence 9.2. In that time we've shipped a huge amount of Enterprise value, especially for Data Center. Check out these highlights:
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Security and compliance
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Platform and performance
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AI and integrations
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Calendars and macros
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Search and indexing
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Content creation and editing
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Calendars and macros
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Search and navigation
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All in all, we've resolved over 800 issues since 9.2. For an overview of all the changes, check out the Confluence 10.2 Long Term Support Release Change Log.
So what can you expect from Confluence 10.2? We've been focused on raising the already high bar we’ve set for quality, stability, security, and performance, and have tackled some particularly high-impact bugs to make sure Confluence 10.2 is the best it can be.
Performance benchmarking report
For: ADMINS
We’re running comprehensive performance testing to compare our Long Term Support releases to see how the recent changes have affected Confluence, and to make sure we’re not introducing any performance regressions. Long Term Support releases are always a number of versions apart so changes in performance are much more visible than between smaller, feature releases.
Explore the Confluence 10.2 Long Term Support release performance report
Search and WebDAV strict patch settings limited to system admins
For: ADMINS
We’ve clarified the distinction between the global administrative permissions: Confluence Administrator and Confluence System Administrator. Access to the following sensitive features is now more clearly defined to ensure that only the appropriate roles have the required permissions:
Search configuration: only Confluence System Administrators can configure search settings.
Strict path checking of a WebDAV plugin: only Confluence System Administrators can disable and enable strict path checking.
Overview of global permissions in Confluence
Cloud connectors for hybrid integrations
For: ADMINS
We’re introducing cloud connectors to help you connect Data Center and cloud through the Atlassian Admin Hub. Now, you can set up and manage Rovo and Portfolio Insights connectors in one place, with OAuth 2.0 securing every authentication and authorization flow. Details on configuring cloud connectors
Your existing Portfolio Insights and Rovo connectors will keep working with OAuth 1.0. Portfolio insights security key will expire in 180 days after it was set up. You can switch Portfolio insights to cloud connectors with OAuth 2.0. To do so, follow these steps to upgrade Portfolio Insights to cloud connector.
We don’t recommend switching your existing Rovo connectors to cloud connectors yet because this will trigger reindex and may cause issues.
In-product integrations, like using Confluence as a Jira Service Management knowledge base, continue to work as well. If you’re using older connection methods, such as the Cloud Companion app or application tunnels, these will still work, but we recommend switching to cloud connectors as you upgrade.
Read more about available ways of integrating Data Center and cloud
OpenSearch for Confluence Data Center
As your Confluence site grows, you need a search that keeps up with your team’s pace. That’s why Confluence Data Center now offers OpenSearch as an opt-in alternative to the default Lucene search platform. We recommend switching to OpenSearch because it offers performance, scalability, and reliability improvements over Lucene.
We’re sharing a guide that explains the benefits of using OpenSearch as an alternative to the default Lucene search platform in Confluence Data Center. It includes:
Key differences between OpenSearch and Lucene
Benchmark results that show OpenSearch delivers faster search and better scalability
Guidance on when and why to switch, with further configuration steps
Explore the full documentation for more details and performance test results
Supported platforms changes
This section contains a run-down of all the changes that have been made to supported platforms since the last Confluence LTS release. See the complete list of supported platforms
We’ve confirmed support for:
JDK 21
MySQL 8.4
Oracle AI Database 26ai (rebranded from Oracle 23ai)
PostgreSQL 17
OpenSearch 2.11 through to 12.19
This version of Confluence runs only on Java 21.
End of support announcements
We've removed support for:
PostgreSQL 14
PostgreSQL 15
MySQL 8.0
Java 17
We’ve deprecated support for:
PostgreSQL 16
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 16
MSSQL Server 2019
Oracle 19c
For more information on these notices, see End of Support Announcements for Confluence.
App developers
Head to Confluence 10.2 beta release notes to find out more about changes under the hood. For Confluence 10.2, there were no Early Access Programs (EAPs) releases. Instead, only beta releases are available. This is because Confluence 10.2 is a Long Term Support (LTS) release.
Upgrade steps
Always test the upgrade in a test environment before upgrading in production.
To upgrade Confluence to the latest version:
From the Administration menu
, select Manage apps, and then Confluence update check to verify the compatibility of your user-installed apps with the target application version.- From the Administration menu , select General Configuration, and then Plan your upgrade and the version you want to upgrade to. This will run the pre-upgrade checks.
- From the Administration menu , select General Configuration, and then Troubleshooting and support tools to check your license validity, application server, database setup, and more.
- If your version of Confluence is more than one version behind, read the release notes and upgrade guides for all releases between your version and the latest version.
- Back up your installation directory, home directory, and database.
- Download the latest version of Confluence.
- Follow the instructions in the Upgrade Guide.
Update configuration files after upgrading
The contents of configuration files such as server.xml, web.xml , setenv.bat / setenv.sh, and confluence-init.properties change from time to time.
When upgrading, we recommend manually reapplying any additions to these files (such as proxy configuration, datasource, JVM parameters) rather than simply overwriting the file with the file from your previous installation; otherwise you will miss out on any improvements we have made.
Upgrade instructions
Follow the usual upgrade instructions to upgrade your site.
Been a while since your last upgrade? Check out our upgrade matrix for a bird's-eye view of the most important changes since Confluence 9.2 LTS .
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Resolved issues
For full details of bugs fixed and suggestions resolved, head to our public issues tracker on Jira.
Issues resolved in 10.2.0
Released on 02 December 2025
Confluence 10.2 Long Term Support release performance report
Highlights
As with all Long Term Support (LTS) releases, we aim to provide the same, if not better, performance. Confluence Data Center 10.2 LTS testing demonstrates largely stable performance across the product, with a few noticeable improvements.
Here are some highlights seen during the testing we ran:
Confluence 10.2 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 10.2 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 9.2.
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.
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