Approvals for Confluence Cloud - October 2026

Improvements 🛠️

• Page approvals cannot be removed by clearing the approvers. The approval requester, or a space admin, can explicitly cancel the request instead via the ‘Cancel request’ action in the ••• menu.

• The Permissions setting (Space settings > Approvals > Permissions) now controls who can create approvals only. This used to also control who could edit the approvals, but it allowed any user with this permission to edit any in progress approval, including those they don’t own. Now, only the requester, or a space admin, can edit an existing approval, protecting approval integrity while allowing admins to unblock approvals when needed.

Bug fixes 🐛

• We have released important security and performance updates.

Deprecations ❌

• The notification settings on page and section approvals, Notify approvers and Update owners, are now marked for deprecation and will be removed on 2026-10-05.

  • Users can now enable or disable individual email notifications from their personal preferences, and so from the removal date emails will always be sent for both page and section approvals, while respecting individual users' preferences.

Upcoming changes 🔀

• We plan to improve the way page approvals work, specifically regarding flexibility in making decisions and changing settings, and the impact this has on auditability (more details here).

  • These changes are planned for this month - October 2026.

• We plan to improve the way section approvals work, specifically regarding flexibility in making decisions and changing settings, and the impact this has on auditability (more details here).

  • These changes are planned for this month - October 2026.

Customer Support 🧡

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