Announcing Confluence 9.2 as the next Long Term Support release

[Jacqueline Bietz]

Hi Data Center Community,

We’re excited to share that Confluence Data Center 9.2 will be our next Long Term Support (LTS) release, planned to be available in Q4 2024.

If you manage complex systems that require infrequent upgrades with careful planning, we recommend upgrading to Confluence 9.2 when it becomes available. In the lead-up to the final release of Confluence 9.2, we’ll also make Early Access Program (EAP) releases available to give you a snapshot of our work-in-progress and an opportunity to try out new features early. Discover more about Confluence development releases here.

What you can expect

Confluence 9.2 will be the first LTS release on the Confluence 9 platform, packed with benefits to strengthen security for growing enterprises. You’ll also find powerful features that accelerate team productivity, and improvements to the admin experience.

Take a look at a selection of new features that will be available when you upgrade from Confluence 8.5 LTS to Confluence 9.2 LTS.

Delightful end-user and admin experience improvements

Your team will benefit from product experience enhancements that will help them work seamlessly and productively, such as:

• Choice of light or dark theme as your preferred interface

• One-click captions for images

• Sortable table columns

• Drag handles for more visual image resizing

• New REST APIs for easier content management

• Bulk deletion of attachments

• Seamless sharing of comment links

• Available for download: Our latest VPAT for Section 508 compliance

Strengthened security

Confluence 9.2 will include updates and improvements to strengthen the overall security of the platform, and better protect your organization, with benefits such as:

• AWS Secrets Manager for database credential management

• User directory password encryption in Secrets manager

• Support for HashiCorp Vault

• Tightened security with websudo allowlists

• Enhanced login security with a second authentication layer

Powerful productivity and sustainable scalability

To help achieve optimal performance for your team and organization, new features include:

• New infrastructure metrics for in-product diagnostics

• Support for clustered databases with Pgpool-II

• Updated Hazelcast for better performance

• Early access to OpenSearch

• New health checks in ATST

Learn more about the LTS

The Confluence 9.2 LTS will include every feature shipped in the 8.5 LTS through to the 9.2 LTS release. To explore all updates since your last upgrade, check out the Confluence upgrade matrix. The complete list of bug fixes and security improvements coming with this LTS release will be available in the release notes once shipped.

If you’d like to see what else is coming to Data Center, visit the Data Center roadmap.

For customers still relying on the Confluence 7.19 LTS, the End of Life (EOL) date for Confluence 7.19 will be extended to 31 October 2024 to give you more time to plan your upgrade.

If you have any questions or feedback you’d like to share, please reach out to us by leaving a comment under this post.

Thanks for being part of our community!

Confluence Data Center Team

[Vickey Palzor Lepcha]

Excited

[Sudarsana G]

Wonderful 

[Sebastian Schmidt]

@Jacqueline Bietz 

You guys really need to work on your constant spamming of users in the Data-Center Community, i get daily multiple emails about the same topic when you guys edit something in the article. 

This is just today from 6.5 hours (2am-8:30am)

I like the content here in the Data-Center community and 1 email is enough to stay informed but this constant spamming drives out users .... This is also far from the first time i mentioned this and the answer if even one existed was, we will work on this ... this going on since months.

• Whats the endgoal here?
• Are you fixing this?
• When do you fix this?

[jammsen]

Right this is getting annoying +1

[jammsen]

@Jacqueline Bietz 
I also want to extend on that, because this is going on for months and my screenshots are only from the emails i forgot to delete, there way a lot of them more.

 If you realize that you have 1434 Member in this community and you send 10 emails instead of 3, then you understand how much spam you generate with this.

[Grace Chang]

Hi @Sebastian Schmidt and @jammsen for the feedback. The frequency of notifications can be adjusted in your account through these steps.

[Kent Rogers]

Is it guaranteed that 9.2 will be released by 31 October 2024?? If not, extending the EOL of 7.19 is of no use, IMO. We will still need to upgrade to 8.5 in between.

[Gonchik Tsymzhitov]

Fruitful! :)

[Dave Liao]

Glad we’re finally getting bulk deletion for attachments!

[Damian Egli]

finally : Bulk deletion of attachments

[Alexander Naumann]

Hi,

does it provide support for OAuth 2.0 Outgoing mail (SMTP)?

best

[Ian Benson]

So is this imminent now?  Need to get planning around the upgrade.

[Benjamin Blum]

Any updates or a release date for 9.2 LTS?
The end of the year is comming and we need to plan our upgrade.

[Damian Egli]

we too ;-) so have a look here - they're working on it

[jammsen]

@Damian Egli Sadly Bamboo doesnt have any documentation about something that comes even close - https://confluence.atlassian.com/bamboo - *sadface*

[Blake Duffey]

It's basically mid-December.  Where is the announcement?

[Veronika Jandl]

Hi Jaqueline,

is there any new target date for the release? Already excited to get the latest version :-)

BR Veronika