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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

Info

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

Please upgrade from Confluence -> Apps -> 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.