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This release of Page Branching adds Merge approval, an optional per-space gate that holds a branch until a named approver has reviewed it.
Merge approval
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A space administrator can require approval for merges and name who may approve them.
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Anyone can submit a branch for approval and pick which of the approvers to notify.
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Notified approvers are mentioned in a comment on the branch page, so Confluence tells them.
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Approvers decide on the branch diff, so a decision is recorded against the content they were shown.
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Merging stays blocked until the branch is approved, and the branch page says what is missing.
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Nobody can approve their own branch. An approver merging a branch they created is recorded as having had no second reviewer.
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Editing the branch or the original page after an approval invalidates it, and review is requested again.
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The Branches page shows each branch's approval status, and offers the diff to whoever may decide.
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Space administrators get an approval log of who approved which version, and when.
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The Working Copy agent knows about the gate, so it no longer calls a copy ready to publish that approval still blocks.
Bug Fixes
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An image added while resolving a merge conflict no longer breaks once the resolution is applied.
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A merge resolution page no longer shows the branch content twice when the whole page is in conflict.
Internal version number: 2026-09-16