Hi Community :waving_hand: , We’re sharing a concise one‑pager (five-pager :wink:) that pulls together the planned major release updates for Data Center. It’s your primary reference for key themes, likely areas of impact, and what may require attention from app vendors and technical teams. Action:…

The five-pager is missing app-specific changes like the complete Bandana removal or methods that are removed from the Confluence PageManager (at least getPageIds and countCurrentBlogs), which may increase the impact massively.

+ removing access to *DAO classes (Confuence) - no equivalent for getBlogPostByTitle

@adam.labus You can find an equivalent REST API your app for these requirements. For example: getBlogPostByTitle can be translated to: {{baseUrl}}/rest/api/content?type=blogpost&spaceKey={{spaceKey}}&title={{blogTitle}}&expand=version,space,history You can find the REST API at DAC here: https://…

@cheinig You can find an equivalent REST API your app for these requirements. For example: countCurrentBlogs can be translated to totalSize in: {{baseUrl}}/rest/api/content/search?cql=type=blogpost&status=current&limit=1 You can also add more filters like: space="{{spaceKey}}" Please let me kno…

In the item JNDI sanitization and OSWorkflow changes there is mention of removing com.opensymphony.workflow.loader and others opensymphony packages. Is there an alternative?

This is going to depend on what features of OpenSymphony you were using. Is there something specific you are worried about here? In general the removals are components that were not used within the products.

We are using it for workflows, for example running business logic on Issue transition. We are using JiraWorkflow with the WorkflowManager which give us ActionDescriptor and WorkflowDescriptor. We are also using ValidatorDescriptor and AbstractDescriptor, from com.opensymphony.workflow.loader .

Thanks! I do not think these components are removed. I’ll look into this, it is possible this package was either partly-removed or was included in the listing in error.

Hi again, I’ve confirmed this is an error in the release notes here. com.opensymphony.workflow.loader is not removed or slated for removal. In addition the com.opensymphony.workflow.util package is only removing classes related to other features that were removed, and most of it is still present. We…

Major release updates for Data Center

Jira Development Jira Data Center

ggautam April 13, 2026, 6:18am 4

@cheinig
Thanks for providing feedback, we will get back to you on countCurrentBlogs and others.
Please see this link for getPageIDs.

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