what version of confluence supports Collaborative editing?

[William Antjoule]

I have an self installed version of Confluence 5.10.0 and was wondering if Collaborative editing was available for this version or if i have to update?

[AnnWorley]

Collaborative editing was introduced in Confluence 6, it can't be added to a 5.10.x instance.

The current version is Confluence 6.5.1, so there have been features introduced and bugs fixed since Confluence 5.10.x. Please review Confluence 6.0 Release Notes and Confluence 6.5 Upgrade Notes and test the upgrade in a non-production environment.

[William Antjoule]

Thank you :)

[Davin Studer]

To add to what @AnnWorley wrote...

If you currently access your Confluence instance over SSL and are not doing it via a reverse proxy, but instead through configuration in the Tomcat server.xml file, you will need to change how you do SSL termination to use a reverse proxy instead. Collaborative editing will not work otherwise. If you don't care about SSL, then you don't need to reverse proxy.

Reverse Proxy Setup

• IIS
• Apache
• Nginx

[AnnWorley]

Please see the diagrams at:

Proxy and SSL considerations

If you don't run Confluence behind a reverse proxy, you'll connect to Synchrony via Confluence's internal Synchrony proxy. SSL, if used, is terminated at Tomcat.  This is the default configuration, and you shouldn't need to make any additional changes to use collaborative editing. 

[William Antjoule]

Greta call Davin, I will check current state and take this into account.

[Davin Studer]

Wait, so can you now do collaborative editing will SSL enabled and not have to use a reverse proxy?

[AnnWorley]

That is my understanding per our documentation:

Proxies

[Davin Studer]

Ok,. Nevermind what I wrote then. I know you used to not be able to do it without a reverse proxy. Didn't realize that changed.