Confluence build number is the same for all bugfix releases

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Hi all,

I just realised that since Confluence 5.10 the build numbers as returned by GeneralUtil are no longer updated in each release. Instead they tend to stay the same for all bugfix releases of a minor version.

See https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev/development-resources/confluence-build-information

Apparently the marketplace build number is now the unique build number. Unfortunately the GeneralUtil has not been updated to reflect this change and does not seem to expose the marketplace build number at all.

This means we cannot keep for example 6.5.0 and 6.5.2 apart from each other by looking at the build number.

What is the best approach for this?

Thanks,
Jens

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Jens,

According to my notes from around the time of the 5.10 release, the correct build number should be returned by com.atlassian.sal.api.ApplicationProperties#getBuildNumber. (I admit that I haven’t tested this lately.)

Scott

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Hi Scott,

that seems to return the value of the ‘marketplace build number’ at least in 6.5.2.

I’ve actually checked the SAL API packages but didn’t look into ApplicationProperties for some reason - probably because that’s just too obvious …

Thanks a lot!

Cheers,
Jens