legacy to cloud editor conversion

[michael_blake]

I have been reviewing our site/spaces and noticed that all pages that were in legacy editor mode have been converted to cloud editor. Did Atlassian move up the timeline to complete a full conversion on pages?

We had a project plan in the works to manually complete this task (and other steps) but it appears as though this has been completed. I confirmed with our internal atlassian team that they did not update the site. 

https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Confluence-articles/The-Legacy-Editor-is-being-deprecated-in-Confluence-Cloud-Here-s/ba-p/3046832

[Arkadiusz Wroblewski]

Hello @michael_blake 

Yep, that can happen even if nobody on your side touched anything.

Atlassian has been moving Confluence Cloud away from the legacy editor for a while, and part of that rollout is that they auto-convert remaining legacy pages to the Cloud editor. So it can look like the timeline suddenly changed, but it’s often just Atlassian finishing the migration on their side.

Why they do it:

Running two editors long-term is painful (different page formats/markup, different macro behavior, inconsistent experience).

The Cloud editor is the supported path, so they want everything on one format going forward.

What I’d do now:

Your manual “convert pages” project is probably no longer needed as a conversion task, but I’d still keep the rest of the plan: QA critical spaces, check macros/layouts, and clean up pages where legacy formatting doesn’t translate 1:1.

[L B]

Hi Michael, I found this in FAQ Understanding Legacy Editor Depreciation: "By February 18, 2026, all sites will have auto-conversion enabled."

The easiest way to tell if your page has been auto-converted is to look in the page history. If the page started in legacy editor and there was never a new page version added for the conversion, it was an auto-conversion. 

Interestingly, I tried to check in my space to confirm that auto-conversion was enabled, and it looks like the location to enable it has been removed from the space menu. It used to live between Avatars and status and Related content in the space menu.

I was able to confirm that some of my legacy pages have been auto-converted by looking at the page version history in a particularly dusty section of my sandbox site.