Delete page version does not reduce higher versions by one anymore

[dean87]

In earlier confluence versions, page version delete causes the higher page versions to be reduced by one, meaning that at a certain point of time, we will always have 1 to n versions (See API documentation). However, at later versions (at least 7.18.x) this behavior is gone in a way that a version delete does not include the change of any other version. This new behavior is not communicated in any release notes. Is this an intentional change or is it a bug?

[Florian Bonniec · Accepted solution]

Hi @dean87 

I think the change is intended, you are right on previous version of Confluence the version number was updated like it's describe in the doc for that Confluence version

Once you've deleted a version, the other versions are re-numbered where necessary.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf714/delete-or-restore-a-page-1087524169.html

Now the documnetation has been updated on more recent version of Confluence.

If you have Confluence Data Center, the remaining versions are not re-numbered, so that other users can see that a version has been removed. If you have Confluence Server, the versions will be renumbered. 

https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/delete-or-restore-a-page-139429.html

Regards

[dean87]

Thank you!