January 2026

New features

Page title and Confluence host in notification emails New

Every notification email Aura Workflows sends (approval reminders, expiration reminders, publish notifications, page-edit notifications, send-mail action emails, and the bundled hourly digest) now includes the page title in the body and identifies the Confluence host the page lives on. Recipients on multiple Confluence sites can tell at a glance which page and which site a notification refers to without opening the link.

Email config: pick recipients by entering an address New

The email recipient picker now accepts free-form email addresses in addition to user pickers, group pickers, and role-based recipients. Useful for sending notifications to addresses that aren’t tied to a Confluence user, such as distribution lists, external stakeholders, and ticket queues.

Space-typed workflow variables New

Workflow variables gained a Space type alongside the existing user, group, date, and duration types. A space variable resolves to a Confluence space and can be used wherever a space picker appears, most prominently the Publish page action’s target space. A single workflow can publish to a different space per page or per environment by reading the target from a space variable resolved at run-time, without duplicating the workflow.

Sync workflow variables to Confluence content properties New

Workflow variables and metadata are now mirrored into Confluence content properties on the page. This makes them queryable from Confluence’s CQL, surfaces them in third-party search and reporting tools, and exposes them to anything that reads page metadata via the standard Confluence API. The sync is automatic; values update when the workflow does.

CSV export of the workflow overview New

The active workflows table in the global app page now exports to CSV. One row per page, with the workflow, current state, owner, expiration, and key metadata fields included. Useful for audits, status reports, and pushing workflow data into external dashboards without an API hookup.

Comala migration page New

A new Migration page is available in the global app, accessible to site admins. Upload a JSON export of your Comala workflow instances (Data Center or Cloud), and Aura Workflows applies the matching native Aura Workflows workflow to every listed page in bulk, restoring each page to the state it was in under Comala.

The migration runs as a background job with a per-page progress view. Failures (page not found, workflow unmapped, permission missing) surface in the same view rather than aborting the run. Targeted at admins moving from Comala to Aura Workflows who want their existing pages re-attached to the corresponding workflows without going page by page.

See the migration guide for the full process.

Behavior changes

All user-typed reviewers must approve before transition Update

A subtle correction to approval logic: when a transition required “all reviewers” to approve, group-derived reviewers were sometimes evaluated differently from individually-named ones. The transition now requires every user reviewer, whether named directly or expanded from a group, to have approved before it fires. In practice, a few previously-borderline configurations will now wait for one more vote than they did before.

Bug fixes

• Fix Security and stability improvements.
• Fix Fixed save-modal events not propagating reliably under heavy load.
• Fix Fixed a UI error indicator missing on space-variable validation failures.
• Fix Fixed missing reply-to header on outgoing notification emails.
• Fix Fixed Comala migration JSON extraction for certain export formats.
• Fix Fixed minimum approval validation rejecting valid configurations.
• Fix Fixed reviewers not being added immediately when added in bulk.
• Fix Fixed missing condition handling that filtered out some history events incorrectly.
• Fix Fixed the apply-automatically UI rendering with broken layout in narrow viewports.