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:
- Overview of language pack translations
- Technical overview of language pack plugins
- Specific information on translating the rich text editor
Other fixes in 2.5.5
2.5.5 resolves these issues:
Atlassian JIRA
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CONF-8992 | Confluence system error exporting a page as PDF | Unassigned | Igor Mironov |
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 Closed
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CANNOT REPRODUCE | Jul 24, 2007 | Jul 26, 2007 | |
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CONF-8917 | XSS vulnerability: space name and key not validated nor escaped | Unassigned | Samuel Le Berrigaud |
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 Resolved
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FIXED | Jul 16, 2007 | Jul 26, 2007 | |
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CONF-8916 | Create patch to CONF-8877 from 2.2.10 up | Samuel Le Berrigaud | Samuel Le Berrigaud |
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Resolved
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FIXED | Jul 16, 2007 | Jul 26, 2007 | |
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CONF-8877 | Security issue: user can copy page with only view permissions | Samuel Le Berrigaud | Jon Nermut |
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Resolved
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FIXED | Jul 10, 2007 | Jul 26, 2007 | |
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CONF-8868 | Userlister plugin causes NullPointerException | Unassigned | Tuomas Jormola |
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Resolved
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FIXED | Jul 09, 2007 | Jul 15, 2007 | |
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CONF-8864 | RSS feed doesn't filter personal labels | Charles Miller | Charles Miller |
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Resolved
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FIXED | Jul 08, 2007 | Jul 08, 2007 | |
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CONF-8860 | Naming a page with a single dot locks page or space | Charles Miller | François Nonnenmacher |
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Resolved
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FIXED | Jul 06, 2007 | Jul 09, 2007 | |
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CONF-8855 | Page title length is not being validated | Samuel Le Berrigaud | Igor Minar |
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Resolved
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FIXED | Jul 05, 2007 | Jul 19, 2007 | |
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CONF-8851 | "Next" link appears on the "Manage Groups" screen for duplicate groupnames | Charles Miller | Gurleen Anand |
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Resolved
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FIXED | Jul 05, 2007 | Jul 15, 2007 | |
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CONF-8846 | Input for Labels is not properly validated | Christopher Owen | Igor Minar |
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Resolved
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FIXED | Jul 05, 2007 | Jul 17, 2007 | |
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CONF-8830 | Stand alone tomcat server.xml has enableLookups="true" | Unassigned | Tom Davies |
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Resolved
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FIXED | Jul 03, 2007 | Jul 05, 2007 | |
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CONF-8789 | Add Server ID implementation | Christopher Owen | Christopher Owen |
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Resolved
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FIXED | Jun 28, 2007 | Jul 26, 2007 | |
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CONF-8770 | Email address exposure - email hidding option is ignored in user lookup | Don Willis | Igor Minar |
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Resolved
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FIXED | Jun 26, 2007 | Jul 19, 2007 | |
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CONF-8703 | contentbylabel operator=AND performs like an OR | Unassigned | Fennie Ng |
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Resolved
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FIXED | Jun 14, 2007 | Jul 05, 2007 | |
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CONF-8123 | Using attachments syntax on space template results in NPE | Charles Miller | Lothar Hegebart |
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Resolved
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FIXED | Mar 22, 2007 | Jul 17, 2007 | |
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CONF-8092 | Rescan for new plugins in {1} - ConfluenceActionSupport_en_US.properties | Unassigned | Jim Clark |
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Resolved
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FIXED | Mar 19, 2007 | Jul 04, 2007 | |
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CONF-6987 | Rich Text Editor localisation is ridiculously difficult | Unassigned | Don Willis |
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Resolved
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FIXED | Sep 14, 2006 | Jul 22, 2007 | |
