Background
Sometime after March 31, 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. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused by this issue.
What you should do
You should check whether all active “Edit Permission Inheritances” are consistent. To do so please perform the following steps:
Step | Details |
|---|---|
1 | Get all active “Edit Permission Inheritances” by navigating to the following URL: https://example.atlassian.net/wiki/search?cql=editinheritenabled%3D%22true%22 |
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: Inheritance seems to be inconsistent. 1 (2770927747) descendants seem suspicious. Fix those pages |
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. 💡 You might use additional tabs of your browser to speed up the process. |
Questions/concerns
Please feel free to open a ticket here. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused by this issue.