How can I upgrade Atlassian Confluence SDK from version 6.14.0 to the latest stable version?

Question

Hi everyone,

I'm new to Confluence plugin development. I recently downloaded and installed the Atlassian SDK from the official Atlassian website. By default, the SDK is using Java 8 and sets up a Confluence development environment with version 6.14.0.

I want to upgrade my local development setup to use the latest stable version of Confluence (8.x) that supports Java 11 or newer.

Could someone please guide me on:

* How can I update the SDK or project configuration to use a newer Confluence version?

* What changes do I need to make in my plugin's pom.xml?

* Is it necessary to update the SDK itself, or just the project dependencies?

* Any other things I should keep in mind when moving from Confluence 6.x to 8.x?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Fabio Racobaldo _Catworkx_ · Answer

Hi @Harshit Mishra and welcome,

if you are developing something for Confluence DataCenter, you need just to download new atlassian sdk https://developer.atlassian.com/server/framework/atlassian-sdk/downloads/  and setup it in your IDE. If you have an existing project using an old sdk version, please update the link in order to use the new one. At project level you need to define which jdk should be used.

If you are referring to a cloud development (I see that in your tag), you need to use https://developer.atlassian.com/platform/forge/

Hope this clarifies,

Fabio