Confluence 9.5 beta release notes
Development releases are not production ready. Development releases are snapshots of the ongoing Confluence development process. While we try to keep these releases stable, they have not undergone the same degree of testing as a full release, and could contain features that are incomplete or may change or be removed before the next full release.
No upgrade path. Because development releases represent work in progress, we cannot provide a supported upgrade path between development releases, or from any development release to a final release. You may not be able to migrate any data you store in a Confluence development release to a future Confluence release.
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Highlights of 9.5.0-rc1
Released 28 May 2025
Contains:
- Minor bug fixes
Highlights of 9.5.0-beta1
Released 22 May 2025
Controlled site reindex
For: ADMINS
You now have precise control over how you rebuild your site's search index. You no longer have to spend time reindexing entire spaces or even the whole site when you only need to rebuild a portion of the content index.
You can now choose which elements you want to reindex for a space or site:
- Content, such as pages, blog posts, and comments
- Attachments
- For site reindex, users
Learn more about content index administration.
Exact search is now enabled by default for OpenSearch
For: ADMINS
We've enhanced exact searches in Confluence to provide more specific results. This feature is now enabled by default for OpenSearch, ensuring that exact searches return more precise matches by ignoring wrapping punctuation and capitalization. Rebuild the search index to enable your users to perform exact string searching in Confluence.
Exact search isn't enabled by default for Chinese, Custom Japanese, and CJK indexing languages. If you have instances that are indexing with these languages, you can enable exact search via the confluence.open.search.improvements.exact.scriptio.continua.enable dark feature.
If you’re using Lucene as a search engine, follow this guide to enable exact search.
Upgrade notes
There are no upgrade notes for this release.
Supported platforms changes
There are no platform changes in this release.
Infrastructure changes
Confluence 9.5 contains changes that may affect apps. Head to Preparing for Confluence 9.5 to find out how these changes will impact app developers.