Preparing for Confluence 9.5
This documentation is intended for Confluence developers who want to ensure that their existing plugins and apps are compatible with Confluence 9.5.
Watch this page to find out when a new milestone is available and what’s changed. We will publish formal release notes once we release a beta.
Latest milestones
28 May 2025 | 9.5.0-rc1 |
Issues with this milestone?
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On this page:
Planned changes
In this section we'll provide an overview of the changes we intend to make, so you can start thinking how it might impact your app. We'll indicate when a change has been implemented, and in which milestone.
This release only supports Data Center licenses. If you have a Server license, check out your options for upgrading.
Confluence search behavior update
Status: DONE
We've made an update to the Confluence search behavior that may affect your applications. To provide more specific search results, we've enhanced search behavior when using double quotes. This means that if your applications rely on search APIs or direct users to search results, they will experience this enhanced search functionality.
This feature is now enabled by default for OpenSearch. Admins need to rebuild the search index to enable their users to perform exact string searching in Confluence.
Exact search isn't enabled by default for Chinese, Custom Japanese, and CJK indexing languages. If admins have instances that are indexing with these languages, they can enable exact search via the confluence.open.search.improvements.exact.scriptio.continua.enable dark feature.
If admins use Lucene as a search engine, they can follow this guide to enable exact search.
Implemented changes
In this section we'll provide details of changes we have implemented, organised by the milestone they are first available in. This will help you decide which milestone to use when testing.
RC 1 – 28 May 2025
Milestone 9.5.0-rc1
Contains:
- Minor bug fixes
Beta – 22 May 2025
Milestone 9.5.0-beta1
Contains:
- Minor bug fixes
EAP 3 – 12 May 2025
Milestone 9.5.0-m63
Contains:
- Minor bug fixes
EAP 2 – 5 May 2025
Milestone 9.5.0-m54
Contains:
- Minor bug fixes
EAP 1 – 28 April 2025
Milestone 9.5.0-m48
Contains:
- Minor bug fixes
Looking for updated documentation? Check out the Confluence EAP space for the latest docs.
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