This page last changed on Jul 26, 2007 by smaddox.

Confluence 2.5.5 is a recommended upgrade that resolves issues you may have encountered in Confluence 2.5.4 or earlier. Confluence 2.5.5 resolves two security bugs, related to space permissions and invalid characters in space names and keys.

As such this release is a recommended upgrade for all customers.

Confluence 2.5.5 is a free upgrade for all customers who purchased their Confluence license or maintenance renewal after July 26th 2006.

Upgrading to Confluence 2.5.5

Upgrading Confluence should be fairly straightforward. You can find instructions here. We strongly recommend that you backup your confluence.home directory and database before upgrading!

Changes in 2.5.5

Patch for security issues

Confluence 2.5.5 resolves two security bugs, related to:

  • space permissions
  • invalid characters in space names and keys.

For more information, please see the security advisory.

Server ID

Starting with release 2.5.5, Confluence will generate a server ID for you. Server ID has replaced License ID on the License Details page. You will find the server ID useful when contacting Atlassian support.

Server ID:

  • is generated when you install Confluence for the first time
  • exists for the life of the Confluence instance
  • survives an upgrade
  • is held in the database
  • is not bound to a specific licence
  • is the same for all servers in a cluster.
Translations for rich text editor now compatible with Confluence language pack plugins

Thank you to everyone who voted for this popular fix.

The rich text editor in Confluence shows text in tooltips, warnings and other messages. If you are using Confluence in a language other than English, you will want to translate these messages as well as the standard Confluence text.

With Confluence 2.5.5:

  • The translations for the rich text editor can be part of a Confluence language pack plugin.
  • If your language pack does not contain translations for the rich text editor, the text will show in English. (Before 2.5.5, it showed the 'key' value rather than English.)
  • Partial translations of rich text editor messages are already included in the professional French and German language packs. Full translation is under construction.

This makes things much simpler!

You will find more information here:

Other fixes in 2.5.5

2.5.5 resolves these issues:

Atlassian JIRA (19 issues)
T Key Summary Assignee Reporter Pr Status Res Created Updated Due
Bug CONF-8992 Confluence system error exporting a page as PDF Unassigned Igor Mironov Major ClosedClosed CANNOT REPRODUCE Jul 24, 2007 Aug 06, 2007
Bug CONF-8917 XSS vulnerability: space name and key not validated nor escaped Unassigned Samuel Le Berrigaud [Atlassian] Major ResolvedResolved FIXED Jul 17, 2007 Jul 26, 2007
Sub-task CONF-8916 Create patch to CONF-8877 for Confluence 2.5.4 Samuel Le Berrigaud [Atlassian] Samuel Le Berrigaud [Atlassian] Critical ResolvedResolved FIXED Jul 17, 2007 Jul 27, 2007
Bug CONF-8877 Security issue: user can copy page with only view permissions Samuel Le Berrigaud [Atlassian] Jon Nermut Critical ResolvedResolved FIXED Jul 11, 2007 Jul 26, 2007
Bug CONF-8868 Userlister plugin causes NullPointerException Unassigned Tuomas Jormola Minor ResolvedResolved FIXED Jul 09, 2007 Jul 16, 2007
Bug CONF-8864 RSS feed doesn't filter personal labels Charles Miller [Atlassian] Charles Miller [Atlassian] Major ResolvedResolved FIXED Jul 09, 2007 Jul 09, 2007
Bug CONF-8860 Naming a page with a single dot locks page or space Charles Miller [Atlassian] François Nonnenmacher Blocker ResolvedResolved FIXED Jul 06, 2007 Jul 09, 2007
Bug CONF-8855 Page title length is not being validated, leading to errorpage for titles longer than 255 characters Samuel Le Berrigaud [Atlassian] Igor Minar Minor ResolvedResolved FIXED Jul 06, 2007 Aug 14, 2007
Bug CONF-8851 "Next" link appears on the "Manage Groups" screen for duplicate groupnames Charles Miller [Atlassian] Gurleen Anand [Atlassian] Minor ResolvedResolved FIXED Jul 06, 2007 Jul 16, 2007
Bug CONF-8846 Input for Labels is not properly validated Christopher Owen [Atlassian] Igor Minar Critical ResolvedResolved FIXED Jul 06, 2007 Jul 17, 2007
Bug CONF-8830 Stand alone tomcat server.xml has enableLookups="true" Unassigned Tom Davies [Atlassian] Minor ResolvedResolved FIXED Jul 04, 2007 Jul 06, 2007
New Feature CONF-8789 Add Server ID implementation Christopher Owen [Atlassian] Christopher Owen [Atlassian] Major ResolvedResolved FIXED Jun 28, 2007 Oct 09, 2007
Bug CONF-8770 Email address exposure - email hidding option is ignored in user lookup Don Willis [Atlassian] Igor Minar Blocker ResolvedResolved FIXED Jun 27, 2007 Jul 19, 2007
Bug CONF-8703 contentbylabel operator=AND performs like an OR Unassigned Fennie Ng [Atlassian] Major ResolvedResolved FIXED Jun 14, 2007 Jul 05, 2007
Bug CONF-8657 Rich Text Editor broken with IE6 and French language pack Unassigned Don Willis [Atlassian] Major ResolvedResolved FIXED Jun 07, 2007 Jul 30, 2007
Bug CONF-8123 Using attachments syntax on space template results in NPE Charles Miller [Atlassian] Lothar Hegebart Minor ResolvedResolved FIXED Mar 23, 2007 Jul 17, 2007
Bug CONF-8092 Rescan for new plugins in {1} - ConfluenceActionSupport_en_US.properties Unassigned Jim Clark Minor ResolvedResolved FIXED Mar 20, 2007 Jul 05, 2007
Improvement CONF-6987 Simplify Rich Text Editor localisation Unassigned Don Willis [Atlassian] Critical ResolvedResolved FIXED Sep 14, 2006 Aug 16, 2007
Bug CONF-6167 Javascript errors when draft/heartbeat is interrupted can cause Internet Explorer to crash Unassigned Matt Ryall [Atlassian] Critical ResolvedResolved FIXED May 16, 2006 Aug 13, 2007

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