Confluence: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for Confluence from Atlassian

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-04-10

What is Confluence?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementConfluence is a web-based corporate wiki developed by Australian software company Atlassian.[4] Atlassian wrote Confluence in the Java programming language and first published it in 2004. Confluence Standalone comes with a built-in Tomcat web server and hsql database, and also supports other databases.
 

The entire lifecycle of Confluence

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Confluence. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
Confluence (Atlassian) release, version and end-of-life information
XConfluence (Atlassian) release, version and end-of-life information
Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Confluence (Atlassian)
 

What is the Confluence release strategy?

Atlassian supports feature versions for two years after the first major iteration of that version was released (for example, we support Jira Core 7.2.x for 2 years after Jira 7.2.0 was released).

Facts and figures about Confluence

Product
Confluence
Vendor
Atlassian
Latest version
10.2.7
Number of releases
67
Number of versions
432
Number of unstable versions
1
Number of versions affected by CVE
325
Licence
Commercial
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confluence_(software)
 
 

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