Just released: Confluence Server and Data Center 7.19 LTS (Long Term Support release)

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Hello Community!

We know that many of you have been eagerly awaiting the next Confluence Server and Data Center Long Term Support (LTS) release. After ensuring that this release has appropriately soaked and hardened for quality, we’re excited to announce that Confluence 7.19 LTS is now available!

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 for the full two years before this version reaches end of life. It enables you to move quickly when a high impact bug fix, or security fix is ported over and released for upgrading.

What to look forward to in Confluence 7.19

In the lead up to Confluence 7.19, the Confluence teams have focused on building great user value by shipping product improvements and new features, as well as tackling high impact items / bugs, to ensure we have a high-quality, high-value release. Several of these items turned out to be extremely complex, and required significant time to fix and test. All in all, we've resolved over 245 issues since 7.13.0.

Confluence 7.19.0 includes all of the improvements and features that we’ve shipped since Confluence 7.13.0, our last Long Term Support release, including:

• Encrypt your database password for greater security (Data Center, Server)

• Make your integrations more secure with OAuth 2.0 (Data Center, Server)

• Keep your site running like clockwork with new application metrics (Data Center, Server)

• Updated VPAT documents for accessibility improvements (Data Center, Server)

• Support for more databases (Data Center, Server)

• Faster permission checks for complex sites (Data Center, Server)

• Set retention rules to automatically delete historical page and attachment versions (Data Center)

• Set retention rules to automatically purge unwanted pages from the trash (Data Center)

• Use multiple identity providers (IdPs) for single sign-on (Data Center)

• Block basic authentication (Data Center)

• Install Confluence Data Center on Kubernetes (Data Center)

• Upgrade to the next Confluence version without downtime (Data Center)

• Schedule regular data pipeline exports (Data Center)

• Import events into an existing calendar (Data Center)

• Security improvements (Data Center, Server) across all releases between 7.14-7.19

For a bird's eye view of all the changes, check out the Confluence 7.19 Long Term Support Release Change Log. 

Planning your upgrade

As a quick reminder for those customers currently on Confluence 7.4, the end of life (EOL) date for Confluence 7.4 has extended the support window until 18 August 2022 to give you more time to plan your upgrade.

We encourage you to move to 7.19 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 7.19 Release Notes

• Confluence 7.19 Upgrade Notes

• Confluence 7.19 Long Term Support Release Change Log.

Looking for the release? You can download Confluence 7.19.0 from our Confluence Server & Data Center Download Archives.

Feel free to share any questions or comments in the Comments below!

Thank you!

The Confluence Product team

[Ollie Guan]

Preferred version for next upgrade.

[Rilwan Ahmed]

We upgraded from 7.4 to 7.13 last weekend. Now time to one more upgrade :)

[Gonchik Tsymzhitov]

Wonderful! :) 

Thank you for that @Mauricio Franzoni 

[Mayur Jadhav]

Exactly @Ollie Guan  next upgrade would be 7.19