Release notes: Find and Replace for Confluence
4.6.0: May 12th 2025
Summary
Bug fix and pagination to URLs preview table
Details
We fixed a bug that caused the search on space level to freeze in some situations
Pagination was added to the preview table in the find and replace in URLs feature
4.5.0: March 28th 2025
Summary
Bug fixes: find and replace on pages and limits for URL search
Details
Improved URL find and replace
handles larger search result sets without hitting payload limits
ensures more reliable bulk link updates
4.4.0: March 11th 2025
Summary
Bug fixes: app icon display and find and replace error
Details
Menu icon display fix
now correctly displays the menu icon in spaces after it failed to load in the previous version.
Addressing page update errors
Previously, if you attempted to update a page using the find and replace feature, an error would occur if the text to be replaced was only found in the title while both "Title" and "Content" were selected as the areas to search.
This update resolves the issue, allowing you to successfully update the title under these settings without error.
4.3.0: January 28th 2025
Summary
Global settings page loading fix, improved find and replace functionality
Details
Global settings page loading issue
global settings page has been optimized to address an issue where it failed to load if an instance contained more than 400 user groups. With this fix, you can seamlessly access the global settings regardless of the number of user groups present.
Improved find and replace functionality
resolved issues that previously failed to update text in specific scenarios, such as when a backslash or quotation mark was at the start or end of text, or when a sentence end character led the text. Users will now experience consistent behavior when using these characters, ensuring accurate text updates across their pages.
4.2.0: December 18th 2024
Summary
New feature: Find and replace in URLs
Details
Find and replace in URLs
space admins can now perform find and replace operations on URLs within pages
providing an efficient way to update links while safeguarding existing ones
this feature is restricted to admins to prevent accidental changes by general users
Improved page titles in large spaces
resolved an issue where page titles were not displayed during initial loading in large spaces
titles now load correctly, allowing seamless page selection
Enhanced data protection, no egress
app is now fully no egress
no longer requiring fetching of data from outside your instance for displaying user avatars
4.1.0: November 12th 2024
Summary
Improved text search functionality
Details
This update boosts the accuracy and reliability of finding specific content across pages.
Enhanced text search capabilities:
now correctly identify text blocks that include punctuation characters, such as periods and exclamations, within body content
addresses issue where searches for text on pages with punctuation characters could return in no results
4.0.0: November 6th 2024
Summary
New: selection by occurrence on space level
Details
New feature: selective term exclusion on space level
users can now exclude terms on a per-occurrence basis in documentation which gives precise control over terminology changes in preview mode
Bug fix: replacement by occurrence now works properly on page level
Please note that the app needs to be manually updated by a system admin to take advantage of the new release.
Required scopes changed:
added: read:page:confluence, write:page:confluence
3.0.0: March 8th 2024
Summary
New: page level Find and Replace, permission settings, help tab
Details
Added page level find and replace:
find and replace or convert text to upper/lower case
access via ‘More actions’ menu on any page
Permission settings (system admins only):
limit each feature by space, group or individual user
access by clicking on the button 'App settings' in the app
Help tab:
new help tab for easier access to documentation, support and email contact
Added edit permission check:
If a user tries to select a page to edit when they only have view permission, the user gets an alert that they are not allowed to change the page, but they are able to see the page in search results
Bug fixes:
search no longer limited to 200 pages
spaces with 10 or fewer pages now work without any issues
Required scopes changed:
Added: read:confluence-content.summary, read:confluence-content.permission
2.3.0: December 15th 2023
Summary
Bug fix on page selection
Details
Bug fixed that pages couldn't be found in the search in spaces with a certain number of pages.
2.2.0: November 25th 2023
Summary
Allow access prompt removed, dark mode
Details
The allow access prompt, which was shown to every user after app installation or update, has been removed.
Dark mode
Find and replace now supports dark mode. The app's interface will automatically adapt to your chosen theme.
Required scopes changed:
Removed: read:me
2.1.0: August 14th 2023
Summary
1st release: space level find and replace
Details
Find and replace across a space even if it has thousands of pages:
make changes across a space at once
restrict find to child pages
search only specific pages
only search title or body
bulk convert to UPPER case
bulk convert to lower case
detailed preview before clicking replace