12 March 2025
Fix an issue where categories couldn't be edited if an advanced theme was set.
Fixes a Confluence 9.3 compatibility issue related to visible header bar when logged out
Fixes an issue where anonymous users sometimes could not access categories they had view permissions for
Fixes an issue where anonymous users sometimes could not access sites they had view permissions for
Fixes an issue where the page tree would not load if the users did not have read access to the page home page
07 March 2025
Fixed layout and design issues with the news module.
06 March 2025
Fixed an issue where Blog spaces without a space description in the Atlassian data would cause crashes and be inaccessible.
Fixed a compatibility issue where custom HTML/CSS from Confluence admin settings weren't properly included on Refined sites on newer versions of Confluence.
Links previews in the news module text content are now clickable.
Fixed various issues with filter configurations on the news module
Fixes an issue where some buttons would be hidden behind the space title on smaller screens
Fixed an issue where images containing special characters weren't properly displayed in the news module.
Fixed an issue where dates weren't properly fetched and displayed in the news module, if it was configured to include confluence pages.
The setting for hiding titles in the news module or macro now works as intended again.
Fixed an issue where WebResourceManager would generate errors in the server logs.
Fixed an issue where text variables like "$spacekey" didn't work properly on layouts for certain modules.
Fixed an issue where using @home for the page tree caused issues with the collapsed sidebar.
Fixed an issue where advanced themes didn't work properly on newer versions of Confluence
Fixed an issue where you couldn't delete users set up as "Space users" if they had numeric usernames
25 February 2025
Fixed an issue with broken keyboard shortcuts
Fixed an issue where the create button was not displayed correctly
Fixed an issue where the footer could block the login button
Fixed styling issues related to the notification icon
12 February 2025
Confluence 9.3 compatibility.
Fixed an issue where the preview in a News module or macro would display an error if a video/multimedia resource was added to the blogpost.
Fixed an issue with how images are selected for the news module preview.
Fixes an issue with filtering on categories, labels and more in the news module.
07 February 2025
Fix for the calendar section showing a 500 error.
Fixed an issue where custom items in the global menu could not be deleted and would remain in the list after deletion.
Fixed an issue where unintended spacing appeared between menu items in the menu bar.
31 January 2025
Fixed a bug where the news module links didn't properly work with certain baseURLs.
Fixed an issue where news module links would wrongly open in a new tab.
Changed it so that blogposts with no image wouldn't show a default image for certain display types.
Fixed an issue where the news module styling weren't respecting the theme configuration.
Fixed an issue where it was not possible to properly load the app in certain situations where combinations of other apps were also installed.
Fixed an issue where custom links in the global sidebar menu weren't deletable.
24 January 2025
Fixed an issue where blog posts wouldn't open after upgrading to Confluence 9.2.0.
22 January 2025
Added the view option, near the breadcrumb, when editing a site.
Fixed an issue where the page tree would not expand to the correct child page and highlight it after collapsing the left column.
Fixed an issue where custom items in the global menu could not be deleted and would remain in the list after deletion.
Fixed an issue where unintended spacing appeared between menu items in the menu bar.
13 January 2025
This release updates the news module/macro, allowing you to optionally include the blog post likes while displaying blog posts.
Fixed an issue where the news module could show a negative creation time depending on timezone differences.
11 December 2024
Fixes an issue where the link styling disappeared when using dark theme
Fixes rendering issue related to the Page Tree
Fixes an issue related to pagination in the Users macro
Fixes a bug where space references could cause pages to be inaccessible
14 November 2024
Updated internal libraries.
Fixed an issue where custom and default items in the global menu weren't displaying in the admin configuration section.
Resolved a bug where global menu/sidebar menu items didn't respect the contextpath when linking.
04 November 2024
Added Confluence 9.1 compatibility.
Fixed an issue where the HTML module would produce an error when saving a layout.
18 September 2024
Fixed an issue where themes wouldn't apply properly for Anonymous users on Confluence 9+
Fixed an issue where editing space layout or user dashboard would reset the layout on save.
12 September 2024
Fixed an issue regarding not being able to properly view spaces and pages in certain cases.
Fixed an issue where custom CSS & HTML got wrongfully escaped.
20 August 2024
Fixed an issue where listing custom user dashboards did not work
Fixed an issue where sections where missing from space menu and blog settings menu
Fixed an issue where users would encounter a 'Page Not Found' error when attempting to create a new blog post.
Fixed an issue where a NullPointerException could be thrown when fetching layout boards.
Added compatibility for Confluence 9.0
08 July 2024
Fixed an issue where page tree without space home would crash with a 400 error.
24 June 2024
28 May 2024
Fixed an issue where setting a custom URL on a category and deselecting the checkbox resulted in permissions being removed.
Fixed an issue where the share menu dialog would jump across the page when adding users to the dialog.
Newly created spaces now properly ends up in the uncategorized section per default rather than the current category.
Fixed an issue where category admin settings weren't saved when editing a category.
Fixed an issue where $spacename and other of the system textvariables didn't work in space layouts.
15 May 2024
Ensure issue type icons are rendered in News modules if present in the preview.
29 April 2024
Fixed a bug where Confluence Content Module did not work on Confluence 8.9
Fixed an issue where space logos weren't displayed properly in the spaces macro.
22 April 2024
Fixed a bug where the velocity macros were not rendered.
Reformated the dashboard editor URL which could sometimes result in the editor not loading.
Fixed a bug where the "Share this page" inline dialog was rendered outside of the "Concealed menu" dialog.
Fixed a bug where the image was loaded instead of the thumbnail in the news module.
04 April 2024
Fixed an issue where Space News macro were not expanded by default in Space layouts
28 March 2024
Bug fix for NullPointerException when exporting a site containing images in the site migration assistant.
Fixing a bug in the site migration assistant export tab where the success icon was not showing even though the zip file was downloaded.
15 March 2024
Fixed an issue where the Activity and News modules would fail to retrieve any data
Fixed an issue where the site migration would fail
07 March 2024
Fixed an UI inconsistency issue with backgrounds for admins and users
27 February 2024
Fixed an issue where the site migration would fail
Fixed an issue where custom translations didn't apply placeholders
Added translations for the 7.5 release.
Ensure app works with Confluence 8.8
07 February 2024
01 February 2024
Fixed a bug where the Page Tree was not expanding the child pages of the selected page.
Fixed a bug in the layout export to cloud where the modules were missing default titles.
Fixed a bug in the layout export to cloud where the news module was not exporting the correct avatar setting.
Fixed a bug in the layout export to cloud where the navigation cards were missing the monochromatic setting.
Fixed a bug in the layout export to cloud where the navigation cards were missing content.
Fixed a bug in the layout export to cloud where the navigation content module’s button was exported even though no button text or url was present.
Fixed a bug in the layout export to cloud where the navigation highlight module’s monochromatic image setting was not being exported.
Fixed a bug in the layout export to cloud where the navigation highlight module’s primary text was not exported as bold text.
Fixed a bug in the layout export to cloud where the closed setting from the spaces module where not mapped to the correct setting on cloud.
25 January 2024
Ensure support for external custom translation app for Refined properties.
Fixed an issue where the 'Manage watchers' dialog didn't properly show when using the Concealed menu option on spaces.
Addressed an issue where you couldn't add/remove users via the Refined Admin pages.
Improved the performance and load times of the page tree when loading a large number of pages.
Added pagination/load more in the page tree when rendering sibling and child pages. This avoids having to load all pages unless needed and would trigger if there's more than 50 pages.
27 November 2023
Fixes an issue where the Content Layout macro would display two sets of menus/buttons and wouldn't save properly.
14 November 2023
Fixes a bug where the "Exclude from Site Switcher" option sometimes made the Global Themes inaccessible
07 November 2023
25 October 2023
Fixed an issue where the create button would not render properly and only display as #originaltheme_createButton()
12 October 2023
Allowing creation of spaces with a reserved CQL keyword as space key.
Ensuring compatibility with Confluence 8.6.
07 September 2023
Fixed an issue where page tree macros didn't properly expand to current page if root page was defined to e.g. @home, @parent etc.
Fixed an issue causing server errors with page tree macros having an expandDepth configured.
Adressed an issue where space logo wasn't being display properly based on the global & space logo settings.
Fixed an issue where the Users in Space macro didn't show admin users until regular users were added to the macro.
The Blog Site calendar sidebar now properly highlights the current blogpost being viewed.
18 August 2023
Fixed an issue where nested pages in pagetree weren't displaying properly. Also fixed an issue where special root page configurations like @home and @parent weren't working properly.
Fixed an issue where the Source Code Editor plugin wouldn't properly load if Refined and Scaffolding was in use.
10 August 2023
Performance improvements related to the page tree
Fixed a rendering issue with the Space News Macro
11 July 2023
Fixed a bug where Office and PDF macros were not rendering in Refined. The issue affected the display of attachments within the macros and caused navigation problems.
Fixed a bug when the app Microblogging and Refined was installed at the same time. This caused an error when saving comments in the Microblogging app.
Fixed an issue where the logos of Uncategorized Spaces would appear as broken images inside the Space Module.
14 June 2023
Minor animation & transition updates to the Integrations admin UI dialog.
Fixed an issue where you couldn't upload images to Confluence Content modules
Fixed an issue where the site switcher wasn't properly displaying when using an advanced theme.
Added new in-product information page about Refined for Jira on the "Integrations" tab if you currently don't have that set up.
31 May 2023
Fixed an issue where User Menus where not properly Rendered on Confluence 8.3
Fixed an issue in Search Module where settings from Basic and Advanced was active at the same time
Performance improvements for instances with app-links
Improved UI in integrations dialog
12 May 2023
Fixed it so that a scheduled job for clearing temp pages now show up in the Scheduled Jobs admin UI
Improved Site API for Refined for Jira Integration
Upgraded version of bundled jQuery library.
Added Performance profiling logs for Refined when troubleshooting.
Fixed an issue where the preview in a News module or macro would display an error if a video/multimedia resource was added to the blogpost.
The Global menu sidebar now properly displays a tooltip for the login button
13 April 2023
Fixed an issue where updating an advanced theme by re-uploading it would lead to a blank page.
Improved the way temporary pages are handled in the Refined Layout space, to avoid duplicates being created and temp pages not being deleted.
05 April 2023
Fixed an issue where you couldn't change theme if the currently selected one was missing/corrupt.
Added new UI placeholder items when loading data in the Site Switcher
Resolved an encoding issue where blog posts wouldn't display special characters correctly in the Space News section.
Fixed an issue where the PDF macro couldn't inline navigate between pages in a PDF.
Ensure blog spaces & blog posts are hiding comments if this is configured in the Space layouts.
Tweaked the animation when opening the Create/Edit Announcement dialog for a smoother experience.
Opening the user menu no longer highlights 2 rows if you have configured Refined Integration links to display.
Further updated in-app documentation links to new help.refined.com site.
Fixed an issue where third party Microblogging functionality wasn't properly rendering.
The collapsed setting in the Space news module & macro is now properly taken into consideration.
Solved an issue where some pages containing tables would overflow or not fit the screen.
8 March 2023
Added support for Applink oauth (non-impersonation) configurations for the Refined Integration feature.
Improved loading behaviour for Integration counter badges in the user menu.
Fixed an issue where the activity popup from the sidebar wouldn't close on 'esc' or when continuing keyboard navigation.
Saving or making changes in the Refined Integration admin UI now correctly shows a notification.
Updated in-app links to help.refined.com
Resolved a bug where Jira sites would show up in the Site Switcher even when the integration was deactivated.
Fixed an issue where administrator users would show up twice in the Space Users section if configured.
Ensure that encoding is aligned when importing & exporting layouts.
9 February 2023
25 January 2023
Fixed an issue where Refined couldn't be set as the Global Theme on new instances.
Critical Refined logging messages are now written into a separate log file.
Fixed an issue where a configured Refined integration would be no longer visible after deleting the respective applink.
21 December 2022
Fixed an issue where the Create button wouldn't render on Category landing pages
Fixed an issue where using java 1.8 would crash on the Refined 7.2.1 version.
The Site switcher is now properly rendered in the Blog site.
14 December 2022
Added support for Confluence 8
Unsupported applinks towards cloud instances no longer show up in the Integrations section.
The page for editing a Confluence Application Link is no longer included in the Refined Theme but kept in the context of Confluence Admin.
Ensure backwards compatibility if customizations has been added to announcement banners by keeping the old classes / CSS selectors available.
24 November 2022
4 October 2022
Improved space tool buttons accessibility by increasing the clickable area.
Fixed an issue where the footer theme wan't applied correctly.
Made changes so that the Users in category menu displays correctly in the category dropdown menu.
Closing the "Add Site"-Dialog now properly works in Edge and Firefox.
The Site builder now warns when trying to delete a category containing content the user can't access.
Fixed a bug where create button would overlap with theme header.
14 September 2022
Fixed an issue where the admin section for Announcements were displaying property keys rather than the actual text values.
Fixed an issue where nested sub-categories didn't properly display spaces.
Aligned 'Page not found' page titles with default Confluence behaviour.
Updated the login icon in the sidebar
Improvement: Added a number of spaces count in the support zip you can generate and supply during support requests.
2 September 2022
Fixed an issue where the 7.1 manual upgrade wouldn’t complete for certain themes.
1 September 2022
31 May 2022
Fixed an issue where an Oracle database error would be thrown if more than 1000 entries (Confluence spaces) were handled
Fixed an issue with Scroll Document compatibility when the footer was disabled.
Fixed a wrongly defined redirection url after doing downgrades from higher Refined versions.
20 April 2022
Improved event handling for when large amount of users are updated, e.g. when bulk updating group memberships.
Improved server logging behaviour for blog posts.
Pages Module
no longer shows thumbnails for images included via other macros. This to avoid picking up loaders etc as the first image to display. The first regularly added image is chosen for the thumbnail. Valid image formats are ['bmp', 'gif', 'jpeg', 'jpg', 'png', 'svg', 'tif', 'tiff', 'jfif']
Increased z-index of the category menu dropdown to avoid having content from the underlying layout render on top of the drop-downs.
Fixed an issue that would change the sorting order of a category if using the REST API to move spaces into the category.
Fixed inconsequent behaviour when combining Space layout settings for Showing/Hiding page meta data whilst using the concealed menu layout.
16 February 2022
Fixed an issue where max SQL query length could be reached on Oracle databases.
Removed references to default confluence group confluence-users for creating layouts/dashboards. Will now respect any setting for the default user group configured via the system property confluence.ondemand.default.user.group
Improved theme upload file validation to ensure proper theme format.
20 January 2022
Fixed an issue where editing layouts didn’t work.
Fixed an issue where Navigation Cards Module wasn’t correctly displaying the layout if an image was missing.
Addressed an issue with keyboard shortcut clashes between ‘esc’ and using the full screen feature on pages.
Fixed a faulty URL in the Blog “month list”
Fixed an issue where an error would occur when clicking blog post labels.
20 December 2021
Fixed an issue where blog posts where capped at max 25 entries per month in the calendar.
Ensured alt text is available on the Site/Confluence logo.
Fixed an issue where the Create button covered the avatar menu dropdown for certain theme combinations
Fixed a bug where it wasn’t always possible to upload images in the layout editor.
Ensured the “All” button option in the Spaces macro works on all Confluence versions.
Fixed an issue where the concealed menu option wrongly showed page meta data if configured not to.
1 December 2021
Compatibility with Confluence 7.15
Ensures newly created spaces have the correct category preselected
Ensures blog posts display the correct creation date
Ensures Navigation Image Module background images can be linked
3 December 2021
The create button is being read by screenreaders correctly.
Fixed a bug where sorting users in Users in Space macro deletes them from the macro.
Fixed an issue where the navigation Highlight image links did not work.
Addressed a problem where links could cause the Navigation Image module background image to not render.
Fixed a compatibility issue with Advanced Tables for Confluence where it would not export data properly on Refined themed pages.
The site home link now correctly goes to the current site and not always to the global site.
Fixed a layout issue for “Not permitted” pages that would show broken buttons.
Improved performance for event listeners triggering for large user directory bulk changes.
Improved performance when fetching blog calendar information in the Blog site.
Updated all in-app documentation links our newly cloud-migrated documentation site!
28 September 2021
Solved an issue where Custom Space Layouts could not be saved.
Solved an issue where an error message was displayed in the Theme configuration even though no errors occurred.
Added support for Confluence 7.12.3
Solved issue where the Global Space Layout could not be saved.
Fixed an issue where filter button "All" on Spaces Module wasn't clickable from Confluence 7.10-7.12
Fixed an issue where the page tools menu didn't fully display on small pages for Confluence 7.12
Improved the resource loading for the Confluence search experience for when user starts searching before page is fully loaded.
Refactored code to avoid creating to many database transactions when fetching categories.
Refined Administration link now properly shows in Admin settings section on Confluence 7.12 and newer.
Fixed an issue where coming from earlier versions of Refined, the upgrade procedure would produce an error and not display properly.
This release addresses some UI compatibility issues with Confluence 7.12.
Fixed an issue where the global menu icons didn't align properly when in Header mode.
Fixed an issue with AUI dropdowns displaying wrong in the theme editor.
Ensured missing icons rendered properly for the global menu in sidebar mode.
Addressed an issue where the page tools menu didn't display properly in combination with the concealed menu space layout option.
Removed usages of the deprecated AJS.params object
Fixed a bug that would cause an error message regarding the Footer and that it cannot be serialized for Atlassian cache.
Ensured proper CDN support for static font resources for Data Center instances. Read more on setting up a CDN here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/configure-your-cdn-for-confluence-data-center-976771362.html
Ensured Promise polyfills are isolated to the app to avoid conflicting with other apps.
Fixes issue with Activitystream popup rendering double titles
Version 7.0.6 is a bug-fix & improvements release addressing the following:
This release introduces a cluster node ID variable for clustered DC instances. We've added cluster node ID as information in the Footer default text using the placeholder $nodeId
You can add the placeholder yourself in the footer content section as needed.
Furthermore, we've extended our layout Text Variables to also include $nodeId so that it's possible to add it to layouts via the Layout Editor as well.
Added cluster node ID variable.
Addresses an issue where Refined and certain angular-developed apps wouldn't work together causing an error message related to ZoneAwarePromise
Fixed an issue where the header layout would break given the Header global menu layout option used in combination with Confluence 7.11.
Fixed a bug where buttons in the Refined admin footer editor would have the wrong colors on newer versions of Confluence.
Version 7.0.5 is a bug-fix release addressing the following:
"View more recently visited" link in the Confluence Search Dialog now works with Refined.
Fixed styling for button text colors in the footer editor.
Resolved an issue with a broken dependency on Confluence version 6.13.8
Fixed an issue with color styles not working for space layouts.
Addressed a layout issue when the create button is overlaying the avatar menu with narrow top theme and global menu as header.
HTML block "assistive-skip-links" no longer contains broken links.
Fixed a bug where filtering was not working as intended with content types being ignored in Activity Stream Module
Fixed an issue where the News Module slider option timing was off; the first slide was shown for a very short time upon page load.
Colors scheme on EPIC name from Jira in Jira list macro is now correctly displayed.
Version 7.0.4 is a bug-fix release addressing the following:
Added current theme key/ID as class to body. This will allow users to apply theme-specific CSS customizations.
Improved the readability on the dates on the News module.
Updated the color of the evaluation banner at the bottom of the screen to match Refined brand.
Clarified information text for delete confirmation when deleting a site.
Fixed an issue where you couldn't replace an existing advanced theme with the same key.
Subcategories now render properly as a link when parent subcategory has category home disabled
Fixed an issue where editing permissions would reset after a logo was uploaded to the category being edited.
Fixed an issue where invalid values in the news module would breaks the category layout.
The activities popup now properly displays on the blog site.
The $pagename Text Variable now properly works in a Content Layout Macro
Addressed a bug where the activity stream would apply filter parameters from both simple and advanced configurations.
Fixed an issue where labels were no longer included in CQL search for advanced if checkbox was checked.
Addressed a bug where Users In Space macro couldn't be edited once "No Title" parameter was checked.
Addressed an issue where macros with non-space keys as parameters would breaks the rendering of the page. An example was placing a site key as space key in the activity stream macro.
Excluding a site from site switcher no longer removes it from the permissions tab in Refined admin.
Fixed an issue where the divbox macro wouldn't render if nested in other macros.
The task Report macro now properly works on a layout for all supported Confluence versions.
Version 7.0.3 is a bug-fix release addressing the following:
This version includes a fix for the fixed header functionality that would fixate the page menu header when scrolling. This issue was introduced in Version 7.0.2.
Fixed an issue where the global menu notifications icon would disappear on some Confluence versions when running Caching in Refined
Custom CSS and HTML added on Refined Administrator > Themes are now also included on the refined-themed login page.
Added a check to ensure users are enabled and present when saving categories with Category admins via the Site Builder.
Version 7.0.2 is a bug-fix release addressing the following.
This version includes a fix in order to still be compatible with Edge version 44 for those who are not able to upgrade.
Fixed an issue where an automatic upgrade task would fail when coming from early versions of Refined.
Fixed an issue where the news, activity, pages and search module would incorrectly filter on the current site if another filter had been configured.
Fixed an issue where the Users Macro would not show avatars due to context path issues.
Users in Space macro now loads properly
Addressed a bug where you couldn't configure "Link to this page" -dialog from the category home page.
Fixed long space descriptions overflowing in layout modules via the Spaces Module
The Activity stream popup now respects the set keynav color.
Fixed an error where the Link to this page dialog wouldn't show correctly on blogposts.
Preview of Advanced Theming in the admin UI now correctly works again.
Fixed an issue where theme-defined shadows would overflow onto Announcement Banners.
Creating a new space from a site now correctly ends up on that site rather than on the global site if no location is specified.
Fixed some theme rendering issues with content effects such as borders.
Corrected some in-app documentation links and texts
Version 7.0.1 is a bug-fix release addressing the following.
Fixed an issue where upgrading with legacy or corrupt advanced theme still present would cause the app to crash and not work properly
Fixed an issue where the Refined Sites would not render properly while using Internet Explorer 11.
Improved the visibility of dates in the News module listings when using Image feed.
Fixed an issue where links weren't clickable in the Spaces module.
Addressed a compatibility issue where K15t's Scroll Version didn't work with the Refined page tree macro
Fixes print styles to only include page content when printing
Improved the global menu render for small screens by rending the icons smaller.