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Lite v2.5.0 - 2025/05/06

  • [New] Dashboard: the app now defaults to show a dashboard with stats and insights!

  • Routine dependency updates.

Standard v4.10.0 - 2025/05/05

  • [New] Dashboard: the app now defaults to show a dashboard with stats and insights!

  • [New] Classification: permission controls for whether to allow users to view classification levels, or allow users to specify classification level for their content.

  • Routine dependency updates.

v4.9.0 - 2025/04/28

  • [Improved] Content Audit: CPU and memory usage have been reduced by 50%+.

  • Routine dependency updates.

v4.8.0 - 2025/04/23

  • [New] Policies: support export and import configurations

  • [New] Classification: support export and import configurations

  • Routine dependency updates.

v4.7.0 - 2025/04/16

  • [New] Policies: support multi-selection of entities when creating retention rules

  • [New] Classification: support multi-selection of entities when creating classification rules

  • [Improved] UI: improved response time

  • Routine dependency updates.

v4.6.0 - 2025/04/10

  • Routine dependency updates.

v4.5.0 - 2025/04/01

  • [Improved] General: migrated to the new @forge/kvs package for Forge Storage used for storing app configurations and other data.

  • [Improved] UI: descriptive error message upon network errors between browser and Atlassian

  • Routine dependency updates.

v4.4.0 - 2025/03/24

  • [New] General: in-app notification for new major versions.

  • [Improved] Audit logs: long entries now wrap short when expanded.

  • [Improved] Content Audit: precise prompt in empty state

  • [Improved] General: Tabs are re-ordered to follow user journey

  • [Fixed] Classification: the app can now set per-page classification level in content property after re-installation of the app. Previously the app will fail silently without setting the classification level if the page already has one set by a prior and uninstalled version of the app.

  • Routine dependency updates.

v4.2.0 - 2025/01/31

  • [Improved] Automation: Automation now runs on a daily basis instead of hourly. This change significantly reduces system load by leveraging the newly available long-running functions offered by the Atlassian platform.

  • Routine dependency updates.

v4.1.0 - 2025/01/21

  • [Improved] Automation: performance tuning for large scale instances.

  • Routine dependency updates.

v4.0.0 - 2024/12/08

This is a major version update which adds classification support and requires an additional app scope to write Classification Levels into a content property on each page/post.

Please upgrade from Confluence administration ➔ Manage Apps.

  • [New] Classifications: added content classification support. Read more about the feature.

  • [Improved] UI: improved responsiveness and performance for text fields.

  • Routine dependency updates.

v3.10.0 - 2024/11/08

  • [Fixed] Automation: Fixed an issue discovered during internal scaling tests where platform authentication could expire during automation tasks for extra-large instances. This issue had not been encountered in production. The app now handles authentication expiry correctly, ensuring uninterrupted automation.

  • Routine dependency updates.

v3.9.0 - 2024/10/24

  • [Improved] Automation: improved speed for automation execution.

  • [Improved] Content Audit: improved UI performance during loading

  • [Fixed] Policy: fixed invalid URL link for deleted spaces

  • Routine dependency updates.

v3.8.0 - 2024/09/28

  • [New] Policies: Added support for specifying a time frame per retention rule. If defined, only content created or last modified within the time frame will match the rule.

  • [New] Policies: Added the ability to disable automation per policy.

  • [New] Policies: You can now choose between "Created" or "Last Modified" as the trigger for the retention period on a per-policy basis.

  • [New] Policies: Added an optional Code field to identify policies.

  • [Improved] Policies and Automation: Enhanced help messages in the Policies and Automation tabs.

  • [Improved] Content Audit: Search functionality now includes policy name and code.

  • [Improved] Automation: The purge delay can now be set to 0 days (previous minimum was 1 day).

  • [Fixed] Audit Log: The summary tag line now correctly handles empty states.

  • Routine dependency updates.

v3.7.0 - 2024/09/09

  • [New] Policies: Retention rules now support associating a policy to a user. Contents that are created or last-updated by the user will be applied with the associated policy. User-based policies takes precedence over space-based rules and the default retention.

  • [New] Policies: A new preset policy is added with 100-year retention period for Litigation Hold. Note that only new installation of Content Retention Manager for Confluence will see this new preset policy. Existing customers can manually add a policy to the same effect.

  • [Improved] Content Audit: Filters dialog now requires at least one content type, one content status, and one retention status to be selected, to avoid unintended empty filter results.

  • [Fixed] Policies: The Entity column of Retention Rules now shows the space ID instead of blank if the information of the space has not been loaded yet.

  • [Fixed] Policies: The title of the dialog for add or update retention rules has been corrected. Previously it mistakenly says add or update policies.

  • Routine dependency updates.

v3.6.0 - 2024/08/27

  • [Improved] Audit Logs: loading audit logs is now 5x faster

v3.5.0 - 2024/08/09

  • [Fixed] Content Audit: selection change should update available actions

  • Maintenance updates

v3.4.0 - 2024/07/10

  • [Improved] Content Audit: always show ID in tooltips for contents in trash

  • [Fixed] Content Audit: select-all checkbox now selects only contents visible in the table

  • [Fixed] Automation: acknowledging a warning is no longer retained if changes are made again during the same browser session. Separate acknowledgement is no required.

v3.3.0 - 2024/06/24

  • Maintenance release

v3.2.0 - 2024/06/20

  • [New] Audit log export is now in CSV format

  • [New] Offer manual view controls when there is a large number of pages/blogposts

  • [Improved] Further UI performance boost reducing peak memory footprint and CPU usage in browser

  • [Fixed] In Retention Rules section of Policies tab, policy entities may show space ID's instead of the space name under some circumstances.

v3.1.0 - 2024/06/03

  • [Improved] On average about 8% faster content scanning speed over last release

  • [Improved] Better error messages in UI for Confluence API call failure

v3.0.0 - 2024/05/21

This is a major version update with granular policies support and requires additional app scopes for authorizing users.

Please upgrade from Confluence administration ➔  Manage Apps.

Once upgraded, your current retention policy will be migrated as "Migrated Default Policy" and continue serve as the default. A number of preset policies will be generated for you with retention periods from 1-year to 10-year.

  • [New] Granular policies support. Now you can define multiple policies and specify which policy applies on a space-by-space basis via the retention rules.

  • [Improved] Automation now scans the contents faster and more efficiently

  • [Improved] Better audit log for policy changes

  • [Improved] Authorizing users now taking into account their membership of admin groups

  • Other bug fixes and improvements

v2.8.0 - 2024/04/28

  • Improved UI for retention policy settings

  • Automatically aggregate pre-existing audit log entries to a single entry for bulk operations

  • Content Audit tab now retains the following view settings during a session:

    • Filters

    • Rows per page

    • Show or hide summary

  • Audit Log tab now retains the following view setting through a session:

    • Rows per page

v2.7.0 - 2024/04/18

  • Search is now supported on both Content Audit and Audit Log tabs.

  • Audit log entry for bulk operations are now aggregated into a single entry instead of one for each resource.

  • Exporting audit logs is now supported. You can download loaded logs in JSON format directly from your browser

  • Other performance tweaks and improvements

v2.6.0 - 2024/04/09

Performance improvements with UI, scanning contents are now 20%+ faster.

v2.3.0 - 2024/04/02

Fixed automated purge for blog post. Previously blog post with retention ended in trash were not auto-purged even if automated purge is enabled.

v2.2.0 - 2024/03/28

This is the initial public release of Content Retention Manager for Confluence. Key features include:

  • Content Audit with Filtering and Sort

  • Policy Management - Set your team's retention period and manage automation

  • Automation allows for the active removal of content outside of the retention period.

  • Audit Log allows you to see who and when polices are update and content status is changed.

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