Release Notes

1. Backup of Labels & Site Health Report

Feature: Added comprehensive backup and restore support for Space Labels and Space Categories. Additionally, introduced a corresponding Site Health Report specifically for labels to ensure data integrity across your Confluence instance.

Purpose: To provide a more complete data protection strategy by ensuring that organizational metadata (labels and categories) is preserved during backups and can be accurately recovered, maintaining your content's search-ability and structure.

Get more information about the feature here: Backup of Space Labels & Categories

2. User Impersonation

Improvement: Restored items now accurately reflect their original content owners and authors. This replaces the previous behavior where restored data defaulted to the Revyz app user as the creator/modifier.

Purpose: To maintain audit trail integrity and ensure that data history remains seamless after a restore. By preserving the original authorship, administrators can maintain accurate compliance records and internal accountability.

Get more information about the feature here: User Impersonation & Ownership

• Major Architecture Upgrade (Connect to Forge): Revyz Command Center for Confluence has transitioned from Atlassian Connect to the Forge framework.

  • Deprecation Notice: Atlassian Connect is officially deprecated for this product.

  • Key Benefits: This migration improves the security posture of your Confluence backups by utilizing Atlassian’s native compute and storage, ensuring that your collaborative content is protected by the highest industry standards.

Site Health Reports

• Feature: Introduced specialized reporting for Restricted Pages and Blogs to help administrators quickly manage site permissions. Provides a real-time diagnostic dashboard and downloadable reports that list all content with restricted viewing or editing permissions, including metadata like space name, author, and modification dates.

• Purpose: To streamline security auditing and content management by allowing administrators to quickly identify organizational gaps, monitor access controls, and maintain a historical inventory of the site's "health" at specific points in time.

• Get more information about the feature here: https://support.revyz.io/revyz-data-manager-confluence/site-health-reports

1. Restricted Content Support

• Feature: Revyz now captures and restores page-level and blog-level restrictions (permissions), ensuring that sensitive content remains protected even after a restoration. Automatically identifies, backups, and restores specific viewing and editing permissions attached to individual Confluence pages and blogs.

• Purpose: To maintain data security and compliance standards during the recovery process, preventing unauthorized access to sensitive information by ensuring original permission levels are preserved upon restoration.

Learn more about how to enable backup and restore of Restricted content: https://support.revyz.io/revyz-data-manager-confluence/backup-restore-of-restricted-content

1. Export Data (Offline HTML View):

• Feature: Introduced a new "Offline HTML View" for Confluence content, allowing users to access critical data even during total site outages. Converts Pages, Blogs, and Attachments into a human-readable HTML format that is exported directly to your own storage (AWS S3 or Azure Blob).

• Purpose: To provide "air-gapped" business continuity and platform independence, ensuring mission-critical documentation remains accessible locally without an active internet connection or a live Atlassian instance.

• Get more information about the feature here: https://support.revyz.io/revyz-data-manager-confluence/export-data-offline-access

2. End-User Portal

• Feature: Launched the End-User Portal for Confluence, enabling users to view content from specific configured snapshots during disasters. A high-availability interface that allows administrators to share a secure link where authorized users can browse and view backed-up data.

• Purpose: To ensure organizational operations continue during a site outage or disaster by providing employees with a secondary, independent access point to view critical information and historical data states.

• Get more information about the feature here: https://support.revyz.io/revyz-data-manager-confluence/end-user-portal

3. Content Explorer

• Feature: Introduced a new Content Explorer tool, providing a powerful way to browse and navigate site data within your backups. An administrative tool to browse the hierarchy of spaces, pages, and blogs, including metadata like page counts, directly from backup snapshots.

• Purpose: To allow administrators to validate data integrity, preview specific content versions before restoration, and maintain granular visibility into backed-up site data independently of the production environment.

• Get more information about the feature here: https://support.revyz.io/revyz-data-manager-confluence/content-explorer

Configuration-Only Deployment

• Feature: This specialized deployment capability allows administrators to replicate the underlying architecture of a Confluence space, including its settings, permissions, and security controls, while excluding all page content and attachments. It provides a streamlined way to clone a site’s functional "skeleton" without transferring legacy data or sensitive documents.

• Purpose: The primary objective is to facilitate environmental standardization and rapid site scaling by using existing spaces as templates for new setups. This ensures a consistent user experience across production and sandbox environments and eliminates the manual effort of recreating complex configurations from scratch.

For more information: https://support.revyz.io/revyz-data-manager-confluence/deploy-configurations

1. Storage Switch

• Feature: Implemented Storage Switch, allowing customers to change their storage configuration seamlessly.

• Purpose: This enables users to transition to new storage providers or locations without losing any of their existing data, ensuring continuous data integrity during infrastructure changes.

UI Layout Enhancements

• Feature: Introduced Applets, Information Cards, and Breadcrumb navigation as part of the new user interface layout.

• Purpose: These updates streamline the user experience by providing quick access to key tools, summarizing critical data at a glance, and improving navigational clarity across the app.

1. Platform Migration to Forge

• Feature: Migrated the Revyz application architecture from "Connect on Forge" to a native "Forge" implementation.

• Purpose: This transition leverages Atlassian’s latest app infrastructure to provide enhanced security, improved performance, and tighter integration with Jira’s native ecosystem.

Merger of 'Revyz Data Manager for Confluence (BYOS)' app & 'Revyz Data Manager for Confluence' app

• Purpose - The consolidation is a strategic decision driven by our commitment to streamlining our product offerings and simplifying the customer experience. By having one unified app for each platform, we can improve our go-to-market efficiency and focus our engineering efforts on a single, robust codebase which existed anyways before this change. This change is purely for marketing and operational reasons and does not reflect any alteration of our core technology or codebase.

• What has changed?

  Earlier this year, we introduced separate BYOS versions of our Data Manager apps to cater to customers who wished to use their own AWS S3 or Azure Blob storage. After a about six-month period of offering both the Revyz-storage-backed and BYOS apps, we have merged the BYOS functionality into our primary "Revyz Data Manager for Confluence" application.

  This means you now have a single, powerful application for each platform that supports all storage options: Revyz-managed storage, AWS S3 (BYOS), and Azure Blob (BYOS).

“Confluence notifications“ feature

Purpose

• To confirm that a backup and restore jobs are completed successfully, giving administrators peace of mind that their data is protected.

Impact

• Performance Monitoring

• Compliance and Audit Trails: To provide a verifiable record of backup and restore activities, which is often required for regulatory compliance or internal auditing purposes.

Use cases

• Successful Backup & Restore Confirmation: - An administrator receives an email notification confirming the backups and restore of their production Confluence site completed without errors.

• Backup / Restore Failure Alerting: A backup / restore operation fails due to some reason. An instant notification allows the team to try an older backup or escalate to support.

• Backup and restore job notifications for Confluence are indispensable tools for proactive monitoring, rapid response to issues, ensuring data integrity, meeting compliance requirements, and maintaining business continuity.

“Automation rules - backup and restore“ feature

Purpose

• Prevent Data Loss – Ensures that important Automation rules are not lost due to accidental deletion, system failures, or migration errors.

• Change Management – Supports safe rollbacks in case an updated automation rule breaks existing workflows.

Impact

• Disaster Recovery – Prevents loss of critical automation logic due to accidental deletions or system failures.

• Version Control – Enables teams to store different versions of rules for testing and historical reference.

Use cases

• Restoring Accidentally Deleted Rules - Restore the automation rule from backup to reinstate the workflow without having to recreate it manually.

“Confluence templates backup and restore“ feature

Purpose

• Prevent Data Loss – Ensures that important custom templates are not lost due to accidental deletion, system failures, or migration errors.

• Simplifies Site Migration – Helps organizations transfer templates when moving to a new Confluence site or instance.

• Version Control & Template History – Enables teams to restore previously saved versions of templates if changes were made in error.

Impact

• Disaster Recovery – Provides a safety net in case of unexpected data loss due to system crashes, security breaches, or misconfigurations.
  

Use cases

• Restoring Deleted or Overwritten Templates - Use the restore feature to bring back the original template without manually recreating it.

• Migrating Templates to a New Confluence Site.

• Backup and restore ensure that templates remain intact after migration.

• Quick Disaster Recovery - The restore function helps quickly reinstate important templates without disrupting workflows.

“Site insights“ feature

Purpose

• Site Insights for deleted blogs, pages, and spaces in Confluence provide visibility into content deletion activities, helping admins and users track, analyze, and recover important content when needed.

• These insights ensure data integrity, compliance, and informed decision-making.
  

Impact

• Preventing Accidental Data Loss - Site Insights track deletions, helping admins identify and restore critical content.

• Site Insights for deleted blogs, pages, and spaces enhance visibility, prevent data loss, improve compliance, and optimize content management in Confluence.
  

Use cases

• Optimizing Confluence Space Management - An organization wants to monitor which spaces are frequently deleted to optimize content storage and management.

• Identifying Unauthorized or Malicious Deletions - Site Insights help track who deleted what, allowing security teams to investigate and restore lost content.

• Monitoring Content Cleanup Efforts - Insights help verify which pages were deleted and ensure only unnecessary content was removed.

• Recovering Important Knowledge Base Articles - Insights provide a history of deleted content, allowing quick recovery before data is permanently lost.

Improvement in Navigation bar - Add “Side navigation bar“

Purpose

• A navigation bar in an app serves as a central hub for accessing key features, organizing workflows, and improving user experience.

• It provides a structured way to navigate between different sections, ensuring users can efficiently find tools, settings, and data.
  

Impact

• Enhance User Experience & Accessibility 🎯 – Ensures intuitive and easy navigation.

• Provide Quick Access to Core Features ⚡ – Reduces time spent searching for tools.

• Organize Information Hierarchically 📂 – Helps structure data for better usability.

• Maintain Consistency Across the App – Ensures uniform navigation across different modules.
  

Use cases

• Quick Access to Key App Features 🏠 - A user wants to switch between different sections like Home, Audit logs and Settings.

• Streamlining User Workflows ⚙ - A Confluence admin needs to quickly jump from Backup Jobs to Restore Jobs.

• Enhancing Productivity with Shortcuts & Quick Actions ⚡ - The navigation bar includes quick-action buttons, reducing manual steps.

• Ensuring Easy Access to Support & Documentation 📖 - The navigation bar includes a Help section, Support center to improve user assistance.

“Cross site restore” feature

• Spaces

• Pages

• Blogs

Purpose

• Cross-site restore support enables users to migrate or recover confluence data across different confluence sites, ensuring business continuity, reducing manual effort, and maintaining data integrity.
  

Impact

• Migration Between Confluence Instances 🚀 - Facilitates seamless migration of Confluence data (Spaces, pages, blogs) when moving from one confluence site to another.

• Reducing Manual Configuration Effort ⏳ - Eliminates the need for manually recreating spaces, pages and blogs.

Use cases

• Migrating Confluence Data to a New confluence Site 🔃 - A company moves from one confluence site to another confluence site.

• Creating a Backup & Restore Plan for Confluence data 🔐 - Enables quick restoration of Confluence data (Spaces, Pages and Blogs) in case of accidental deletion or security breaches.

Introduced “Revyz Data Manager for Confluence” app

Purpose

• Confluence is a critical knowledge management tool for organizations, storing essential documents, pages, spaces, and collaboration history.

• A backup and restore feature ensures that data remains protected, recoverable, and accessible in case of accidental deletions, system failures, or security breaches.
  

• Impact

• Prevent Data Loss & Ensure Business Continuity 🔄 – Protects Confluence spaces, pages, attachments, blogs and comments from accidental deletion or corruption.

• Enable Quick Data Recovery ⚡ – Allows fast restoration of specific pages, spaces, blogs.

• Facilitate Migration & Cross-Site Restores 🔄 – Allows movement of Confluence data between different sites or instances.

• Enable Granular & Selective Restoration 🎯 – Restores individual pages, spaces, or attachments instead of a full backup.
  

Use cases

• Recovering Accidentally Deleted Confluence Pages & Spaces 📝➡❌➡✅ - A user accidentally deletes an important project documentation page.

  • Benefit: Quickly restores the deleted page without impacting other data.

• Migrating Confluence Data Between Instances 🔄 - A company moves from one Confluence Cloud site to another or consolidates multiple instances.

  • Benefit: Restores all spaces, pages, and blogs to the new site seamlessly.

• Retaining Backup Copies for Audit & Compliance 📜 - Ensures data retention policies are met with long-term backup storage.

• Automating Regular Backups for Risk Management 🔄 - Ensures up-to-date backups without manual intervention.