This page last changed on Dec 01, 2009 by jens@atlassian.com.

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:

Errors were reported by the JIRA trusted connection.

  • APP_UNKNOWN; Unknown Application: {0}; ["confluence:4557196"]
JIRA Issues (19 issues)
Type Key Summary Assignee Reporter Priority Status Resolution Created Updated Due
Bug CONF-8992 Confluence system error exporting a page as PDF Unassigned Igor Mironov Major Closed 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 Resolved Fixed Jul 16, 2007 Sep 07, 2010
Sub-task CONF-8916 Create patch to CONF-8877 for Confluence 2.5.4 Samuel Le Berrigaud [Atlassian] Samuel Le Berrigaud [Atlassian] Critical Resolved Fixed Jul 16, 2007 Jul 27, 2007
Bug CONF-8877 Security issue: user can copy page with only view permissions Samuel Le Berrigaud [Atlassian] Jon Nermut Critical Resolved Fixed Jul 10, 2007 Aug 24, 2008
Bug CONF-8868 Userlister plugin causes NullPointerException Unassigned Tuomas Jormola Minor Resolved Fixed Jul 09, 2007 Jul 15, 2007
Bug CONF-8864 RSS feed doesn't filter personal labels Charles Miller [old account, do not assign issues] Charles Miller [old account, do not assign issues] Major Resolved Fixed Jul 08, 2007 Jan 28, 2008
Bug CONF-8860 Naming a page with a single dot locks page or space Charles Miller [old account, do not assign issues] François Nonnenmacher Blocker Resolved Fixed Jul 06, 2007 Feb 27, 2008
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 Resolved Fixed Jul 05, 2007 Aug 20, 2008
Bug CONF-8851 "Next" link appears on the "Manage Groups" screen for duplicate groupnames Charles Miller [old account, do not assign issues] Gurleen Anand [Atlassian] Minor Resolved Fixed Jul 05, 2007 Jul 15, 2007
Bug CONF-8846 Input for Labels is not properly validated Christopher Owen [Atlassian] Igor Minar Critical Resolved Fixed Jul 05, 2007 Jul 17, 2007
Bug CONF-8830 Stand alone tomcat server.xml has enableLookups="true" Unassigned Tom Davies [Atlassian] Minor Resolved Fixed Jul 03, 2007 Jul 05, 2007
New Feature CONF-8789 Add Server ID implementation Christopher Owen [Atlassian] Christopher Owen [Atlassian] Resolved Fixed Jun 28, 2007 Oct 08, 2007
Bug CONF-8770 Email address exposure - email hidding option is ignored in user lookup Don Willis [Atlassian] Igor Minar Blocker Resolved Fixed Jun 26, 2007 Jul 19, 2007
Bug CONF-8703 contentbylabel operator=AND performs like an OR Unassigned Fennie Ng [Atlassian] Major Resolved Fixed Jun 14, 2007 Dec 16, 2007
Bug CONF-8657 Rich Text Editor broken with IE6 and French language pack Unassigned Don Willis [Atlassian] Major Resolved Fixed Jun 06, 2007 Jul 29, 2007
Bug CONF-8123 Using attachments syntax on space template results in NPE Charles Miller [old account, do not assign issues] Lothar Hegebart Minor Resolved Fixed Mar 22, 2007 Jul 17, 2007
Bug CONF-8092 Rescan for new plugins in {1} - ConfluenceActionSupport_en_US.properties Unassigned Jim Clark Minor Resolved Fixed Mar 19, 2007 Jul 04, 2007
Improvement CONF-6987 Simplify Rich Text Editor localisation Unassigned Don Willis [Atlassian] Resolved Fixed Sep 14, 2006 May 12, 2008
Bug CONF-6167 Javascript errors when draft/heartbeat is interrupted can cause Internet Explorer to crash Unassigned Matt Ryall [Atlassian] Critical Resolved Fixed May 15, 2006 Aug 12, 2007

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