How can I delete a history version of a confluence page

Joerg Bencke
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May 3, 2012

Hi Folks,

how can I delete specific older versions of a wikipage ?

Regards, Josh

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Thomas Schlegel
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May 3, 2012

Hi Josch,

this is an old unresolved issue: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-996

Vote and hope, someday it will come true ;-)

Best regards

Thomas

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August 4, 2013

This is now possible in Confluence 5. To remove a page history, navigate to the page where you want the history to be removed > Click on Tools > Page History > Under Operations, click on Remove. Once removed, you can't undo this action though and it has to be done per page.

Andrew DeFaria March 16, 2015

There is no Remove option in Page History for me. Do you need to be an admin?

Jason Papadopoulos February 28, 2016

Hi, you do need to be an admin - I ran into this myself, and for me the only visible operation was to restore a previous version of the page. With the help of our admin I was able to remove the old version.

Mikhail T May 3, 2016

Thanks, this was most helpful! Any chance, a simillar functionality exists in JIRA? Sometimes users post passwords and similar information here and we need to be able to clean it up for good.

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Lorraine Gorman September 20, 2018

Hi all,

Is there a solution to this [in bulk] for Confluence Cloud?  Thanks.

Di Chen March 16, 2019

I have got the same question.

Although confluence cloud has the storage of 25GB, I think it's still urgent needed.

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Kalas Richard April 22, 2017
Di Chen March 16, 2019

How about confluence cloud?

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Michiel Nieuwstraten February 17, 2014

Using Confluence CLI you can use removePageVersions to remove more historyversions in one time, for instance every version before a date, or to keep last n versions.

Take a look at https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-removePageVersions

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Jarrod December 4, 2020

Hi guys,

I got this to work on basic auth, with the following api call:

https://[yourinstance]/wiki/rest/api/content/[pageid]/version/

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