Confluence 9.5 upgrade notes
Here are some important notes on upgrading to Confluence 9.5. For details of the new features and improvements in this release, see the Confluence 9.5 release notes.
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Exact search is now enabled by default for OpenSearch
We've enhanced exact searches in Confluence to provide more specific results. This feature ensures that exact searches return more precise matches by ignoring wrapping punctuation and capitalization of the indexed text.
Exact search is enabled by default for OpenSearch. Rebuild the search index to enable your users to perform exact string searching in Confluence.
Exact search isn't enabled by default for Chinese, Custom Japanese, and CJK indexing languages due to technical limitations. If you have instances that are indexing with these languages, you can enable exact search via a dark feature.
If you’re using Lucene as a search engine, you can also enable exact search via a dark feature.
Refer to Configuring search for more details and exact steps for OpenSearch and Lucene.
Supported platforms changes
There are no platform changes in this version. See the complete list of supported platforms
End of support announcements
There are no advance announcements this time.
For more information on these notices, see End of Support Announcements for Confluence.
Infrastructure changes
Head to Preparing for Confluence 9.5 to find out more about changes under the hood.
Known issues
There are no known issues in this version.
Upgrade procedure
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.