Confluence version 8 - Release date and new features?

[Nicolas Casel]

Browsing through this Community platform, I did not find anything about "Confluence 8". I suppose there is no release date yet, however is there already some information about new features?

Thank you,

[ EDIT 29/11/2022 ]

Info available: https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-8-0-release-notes-1127254402.html

[James Conway]

https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/preparing-for-confluence-8-0-1095775426.html is targeted at add-on developers

[Fabian Lim]

Hi @Nicolas Casel

The only upcoming release I found is this: https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-development-releases-8163.html

[Nicolas Casel]

Thank you @Fabian Lim  ,

In other words, as version 8 is absent in this (development) roadmap, it means that it has not started yet, correct?

[Fabian Lim]

Hi @Nicolas Casel

I will let one of the members from the Atlassian team to comment.  

[Jonny Carter]

They may not have external communication up yet, but you can snoop on their maven repos to see that work on 8.0 is underway. That said, if they haven't published anything, it's probably a good sign that they aren't 100% sure what all is going to go into the 8.0 release yet.

It's also a reasonable bet that the Confluence team will lag a bit behind the Jira 9 / Bitbucket 8 updates, as those two usually go first on major platform upgrades.