Now available: Confluence Data Center 9.2 Long Term Support (LTS) release

Jacqueline Bietz

👋 Hello Community!

We know that many of you have been eagerly waiting for the upcoming Confluence Data Center Long Term Support (LTS) release. We’re excited to share that Confluence 9.2 has just been released!

ℹ️ Why choose a Long Term Support release? Upgrading to a Long Term Support release provides you with continued access to critical security, stability, data integrity, and performance fixes. Being on the latest version enables you to move quickly when a high-impact bug fix, or security fix is backported. Each Long Term Support release is supported for two years before reaching its end of life.

 

What to look forward to in Confluence 9.2

The Confluence team has been focused on continuing to raise the high bar we’ve set for quality, stability, security, and scalability.

The Confluence 9.2 LTS incorporates all enhancements and features introduced since our previous Long Term Support release, Confluence 8.5. This includes notable improvements for all users such as enhanced security, better scalability, new productivity features, and improved team collaboration with the removal of workflow obstacles.

View the full list of highlights in the table below.

Benefits for admins	Benefits for everyone
Security and compliance Seamless secrets management, encryption, and storage Encrypted user directory server passwords Tightened security with websudo allowlists New default HTTP security headers New health check for stored backups security Site-wide password policy enforcement More secure login with two-step verificatio	Editing improvements Say more with image captions Faster creation of text links Paste without formatting using Ctrl+Shift+V Use the forward slash command to add macros Sort your tables in the editor Delete multiple attachments instantly Resize images using a drag handle Code Block macro enhancements
Performance and scale Support for OpenSearch as an alternative search platform Improved performance and reliability of retention rules New REST APIs for easier content and permission management New infrastructure metrics for in-product diagnostics New health checks for Synchrony connectivity, mail error queue, and user directories in the Atlassian Troubleshooting and Support Tools app	Browsing improvements Dark theme is here! Word count and estimated read time for pages and blogs Support for languages and special characters in page URLs Single click to copy links to headings and comments More information about items in the trash Profile pic customisation
Supported third-party platforms Support for Pgpool-II Microsoft Entra ID integration	Accessibility improvements More improvements for screen reader and keyboard users across Team Calendars, the space sidebar, the editor toolbar, and more

 

Planning your upgrade

⚠️ As a reminder, Confluence 7.19 will reach its end-of-life (EOL) on 13 December 2024. If you haven’t already, we encourage you to plan your upgrade now.

To ensure you benefit from the latest security, scalability, and user productivity improvements, we encourage you to move to 9.2 as soon as possible. Atlassian will continue to provide assistance if you encounter issues related to upgrading from your EOL version to a supported version.

We understand upgrades can take some planning, here’s a round-up of resources to help you prepare:

• Pre-upgrade planning tool

• Confluence 9.2 Release Notes

• Confluence 9.2 Upgrade Notes

• Confluence 9.2 Long-Term Support Release Change Log

Looking for the release? You can download Confluence 9.2 from our Confluence Data Center Download Archives.

Feel free to share any questions or comments below.

Thanks for being part of our community!

Confluence Data Center Team

Elias B_ Sørensen - Kantega SSO

Thank you for this announcement @Jacqueline Bietz.

I'd like to highlight an important detail that isn't visible in this announcement, release notes or upgrade notes for Confluence 9.2 LTS. When upgrading to 9.2, you will also upgrade your system to Platform 7, which is a major rewrite of the core system architecture and the interfaces with apps/plugins that was introduced in version 9.0. Everyone upgrading should take a good look at the 9.0 release notes and 9.0 upgrade notes. 

I recommend testing version 9.2 with all production-relevant apps in a dev environment to reduce the risk of unexpected production outages. If you have internally written plugins, they will also be affected by the Platform 7 changes. We app vendors have put down a lot of testing efforts to achieve compatibility with this new release. However, even if an app is marked as "compatible", the risk of unexpected issues is a lot higher that normal for a major version upgrade due to the many fundamental changes in Platform 7. Careful testing is highly recommended.



Kind regards,
Elias
Kantega SSO