Notes about Confluence 10 and Jira 11

Please use our specific builds

Given the lack of adoption of Confluence 10 and Jira 11:

• We publish specific builds every few releases only,

• We will give priority to customers using Confluence 9.2 and Jira 10.3 LTS (enterprise customers),

• We currently consider Confluence 10 and Jira 11 as only used for testing and not production,

If you notice a difficulty with Confluence 10 and Jira 11, we will provide support with a release cycle of 1 month.

Please pick the latest build for your instance, which will be automatically suggested in the administration of Confluence and Jira.

See versions for Confluence

See versions for Jira

Context

Confluence 10 and Jira 11 was supposed to be a high-risk major release, but Atlassian has first coordinated the update with the vendors, while taking this opportunity to perform a huge library upgrade. Our app is fully compatible.

In practice:

• There is extremely low customer adoption, even after the LTS versions of Jira and Confluence,

• Not all plugins publish or properly maintain versions for Confluence 10 / Jira 11,

• Atlassian keeps breaking APIs in LTS versions of Jira (e.g. Jira 11.3.3 with the removal of the com.atlassian.spring.container package), making some plugins temporarily incompatible and adding friction for customers,

We expect extremely low adoption after Atlassian announced the EOL of Data Center.

Risk assessment

• All our features work well in Confluence 10 and Jira 11, as far as we know,

• Please expect unexpected issues,

• We expect that some customers will not be able to find compatible versions of other plugins.

It is risky to run unproven Jira 11 or Confluence 10 on production.

Our assumption is that most customers will stay on Confluence 9.2 LTS.

What we ask from customers

• important Please test the upgrade on a staging instance,

• important Please ensure all apps on your instance have a version available,

• important Please be patient and tell us each issue. We’re prepared to be responsive, give us the opportunity to demonstrate it. If you are not patient, then please see the section “Our recommendation for conservative customers”.

Specific features for Confluence 10 or Jira 11

• The JQL functions in Jira 11 have been removed in favor of the simple = method. See JQL Syntax.

• There is no other change, we haven’t removed other deprecated features. Indexing V1 is still there.

Our support policy

We support LTS versions of Confluence for 2 years, which means:

• Confluence 8.5 is not supported,

• Confluence 9.2 will be supported until December 2026,

• Confluence 10.0 started support in August 2025,

• Confluence 10.2 is LTS, published in December 2025 and supported until December 2027.

See our Compatibility matrix for version details.

Our recommendation for conservative customers

If you are still on Confluence 8.5, upgrade to Confluence 9.2 LTS, and stay until we see widespread adoption of the newer versions.