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Sometime after April 1, 2024, a still unknown incompatibility between the Spring Boot Framework and Confluence led to edit permissions no longer being deleted . When an edit permission can’t be deleted the “Edit Permission Inheritance” might be incomplete/not consistent. This means that child pages might contain edit permissions which they shouldn’t.
The issue has been fixed on 2024-05-08.
What you should
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do
You should check whether all active “Edit Permission Inheritances” are consistent. To do so please perform the following steps:
Step | Details |
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1 | Get all active |
Edit Permission Inheritances by navigating to the following URL:
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2 | Navigate to each of the pages returned by the search and click on the Edit Permission Inheritance Icon:  | ||
3 | Once the dialog opens the app searches for an incomplete inheritance. In case it detects issues a warning like this one is shown:
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4 | Click on “Fix those pages” and wait until the action has been completed. Once completed the app searches for issues again and displays the results. | ||
5 | Move to the next page and re-start with step #2 |