Changelog

How updates reach you

There is nothing to download, host or keep up to date yourself. How an update arrives depends on what kind of release it is:

Minor updates - fixes and improvements that need no new permissions - install themselves. You do not have to do anything.
Major updates - releases that ask for a new permission - wait for a Confluence admin to approve them. Until someone approves, your site keeps running the version it already has, and the new features do not appear.

If XPress looks like it is missing something described on this page, you are most likely on an older major version. A Confluence admin can check in admin.atlassian.com → your site → Apps, where a pending release shows the app as Outdated with an option to review the new permissions and approve the update.

Current release: version 7.

September 2026 - Clearer font uploads

Update to version 7 · installs itself

A small update with nothing to approve. The brand settings now explain a font file they cannot use, and XPress’s usage analytics cover more of the app, so we can see which parts help and which get in the way.

Fixes

A clear answer when a font file will not work - choose a TTF, OTF or WOFF file for your brand and XPress now says straight away that it needs WOFF2, and keeps your current typeface. Before, the file picker would not let you choose those files, and nothing said why. Details →

Privacy

Usage analytics cover more of XPress - besides XPress being opened and exports, XPress now reports which of its own buttons get used, how many searches find nothing, exports it refuses, changes to templates and your brand, and a daily summary of your site’s setup, including how many people exported in the last 7 days, as a range. Everything is filed under your site and sent from XPress’s server side. It includes your site’s address, but no account ID, no name or email address from anyone’s Atlassian account, and no page content, page titles, template names or search text. Details →

September 2026 - Start from the page

Update to version 7 · installs itself

Open XPress from Apps and it now starts where you do: with the page you have in mind, and the documents you have already made. There is nothing to approve - this update arrives on its own.

Features

Find a page, press Enter, press Enter again - the XPress page under Apps opens with a search box and the pages edited most recently. Pick one and press Enter: the export runs right there in its row, and when it is ready, Enter again downloads it - or tick Save the file as soon as it is ready and it downloads itself. The mouse works just as well - the row’s own button goes from Export to Download PDF in the same spot. Search checks the pages edited in the last few minutes too, so the one you have just written usually turns up straight away, and the document comes out in the same template the page’s own Export to PDF uses. Details →
See what you will get before you export - the Will export panel shows the page you have picked, the template it will use and why, and a small stack of sheets at its paper size. Change the paper, the cover page, the contents page or the watermark for that one export, from the keyboard too, and the template stays as it is. Details →
Your exports, on a shelf - your ten latest exports from every space sit below the list, drawn as sheets of paper in your site’s colours. Download one with a click, retry one that failed, or turn a page that is too large for a PDF into HTML instead. Only your own: a colleague’s exports stay in their space. Details →
Know when a PDF is out of date - a page you have exported before offers Download PDF while your copy is current, and Update PDF once someone has edited the page since.
Templates, your brand, help and support within reach - Templates opens the designer without leaving the page, and Brand, drawn in your colours, opens your logo and colours, next to the documentation and support.
Whole spaces are one click away - Export whole space or tree opens the space picker and page tree right over the page for the bigger jobs. Close it and you are back exactly where you were.

Fixes

An empty page says so - exporting a page that has nothing on it now tells you straight away, instead of trying again for a couple of minutes first.
Files named after your page - a template that leaves File name empty now names the document after the page it came from, or after its cover title, instead of an export number.
Large exports could end in an error even though your document had been made. XPress now waits for the finished document and hands it over.
SVG diagrams are back in your PDFs - for a few weeks a diagram drawn as SVG could come out as an empty box. Every picture on the page appears again.
A space’s default template always comes first - when a space has chosen a default, its one-click exports use it, even for a page whose label matches another template. What a space requires on its documents stays on them.
Template labels are kept - editing a template no longer clears the labels it is for, and you can type several of them, separated by commas.
The right name from the page’s own export - a document downloaded from Export to PDF on the page now carries the page’s title in your own script, as the rest of XPress already did.
A brief hiccup no longer ends an export - if Confluence is slow to answer for a moment, XPress tries again instead of telling you there was nothing to export.
Updates never interrupt you - an export you started just before an update finishes normally, and a page you had open keeps downloading.
Faster after a quiet spell - an export started after XPress had not been used for a little while could take around ten seconds longer than it should. It now starts as quickly as the one before it.
Clearer file name hint - File name under Adjust for this export now says that leaving it empty names the file after the page.

Privacy

Usage statistics describe your site, never a person - the counts XPress keeps about how the app is used carry your site and general values only. Nothing identifies who clicked, and nothing from your pages is included. Details →

Version 7 - Named export templates

August 2026 · current release · needs admin approval

The biggest change since launch. Export settings used to live and die with a single space. Now they are real, named objects you build once and reuse anywhere.

Features

Named export templates - save a full export configuration under a name, then pick it at export time instead of rebuilding the settings. Templates are site-wide, so a template means the same thing in every space. Details →
Template designer - a fullscreen visual editor for building a template, with a live preview of the page beside the controls, so you can see the document take shape as you build it.
Templates are shared site-wide - a template you save is available to everyone on your site straight away, and only you or a site admin can change or delete it.
Space default template - each space can nominate a default. One-click exports from the page byline and the ··· menu use it, so a whole space produces consistent documents without anyone opening the settings.
Off-template warning - change the settings for a single export and the settings panel flags that they no longer match the template, with Reset to template to put them back.
Your own logo, kept by us - upload your logo once and any template can put it on the cover. There is no public web address to arrange and no image host to keep alive, so nothing breaks the day somebody tidies up the file it used to point at.
More of your pictures arrive - diagrams drawn as SVG, along with GIF and WebP images, now come through into the document with everything else.
Export a whole space and get the whole space - a big, deeply nested page tree comes out complete, in the order it appears in Confluence, however many levels down it goes.
Your brand, set once - your logo, three brand colours and your own typefaces, defined for the whole site. Every template picks them up, so a rebrand is one afternoon rather than twenty edits. The font travels inside the document, so it reads the same on a machine that has never heard of it. Details →
A calmer template designer - the settings are grouped into sections you open one at a time, so the panel shows what you are working on instead of everything at once.
Set the size of your titles - each template chooses the size, weight and line height of its cover title, page titles and contents heading, with the preview following every change. Details →
A page can pick its own template - give a template the labels it is for, and a one-click export of a page carrying one of them uses it. No dialog, no picking. A space that has chosen a default template keeps it, so no label can step around what that space requires. Details →
Numbered pictures - every attached picture captioned Figure 1, Figure 2, in order through the document, using its description text when it has one. What a paragraph needs before it can say “see Figure 3”. Details →
A contents page that reaches into the pages - list each page’s own headings under it, one or two levels deep, every entry a link. Pages only stays the default. Details →
Your document has a name - the exported PDF now carries a title, so a reader shows it in the window bar instead of a file name, and anywhere documents are catalogued it is indexed on. HTML exports get it as the browser tab. It is the cover’s title, or the first page when there is no cover.
A cover with nothing in its margins - no running header, no footer, no page number on the cover sheet. It carries its own title. Details →
Your header in your own typeface - the running header and footer now take your brand’s typeface and colours like the rest of the document, instead of a plain system face whatever you set. Details →
Mirrored margins - for a document you print on both sides and bind. The wide margin stays on the bound edge and swaps sides every page, so the binding never eats a line of text - and the page number moves with it, to the outer edge. Details →
Numbered sections - turn it on and every exported page becomes a numbered section, with the headings inside it numbered beneath: 1. Release Notes, 1.1 Highlights, 2. Architecture. The kind of document people cite by number in a meeting. Details →
PDF bookmarks - every PDF now opens with a navigation pane. Each exported page is an entry, with its own headings nested beneath, so a two-hundred-page document is something you move around in rather than scroll through. Nothing to switch on.
File names in your own script - a document from a space called Ürün Yönetimi now downloads under that name instead of a transliteration of it. Applies to every script: Japanese, Cyrillic, Greek, accented Latin.
Headers that write themselves - put {title}, {space}, {date}, {page} or {pages} in a header, a footer, a watermark or a file name and XPress fills them in when the document is made. A shared template now dates and labels every document correctly without anyone typing it, and stays correct next quarter. Details →

Fixes and hardening

Only a space admin or a site admin can change a space’s default template. The default decides the cover, header, footer and watermark on every one-click export filed under that space, so it is no longer something any space member can change for everyone.
Fixed an image occasionally coming out as the wrong picture.
Export a page you have only just written. A page created moments earlier could come back as no exportable content was found, which read as though you had picked the wrong thing. You had not, and it now exports.
A branch buried deep in a page tree is no longer left out of a whole-space export.
Expired exports are now always removed on time.
Further hardening around export history and download checks.
Layout fixes in the export panel and in HTML exports.

Version 6 - Private delivery, retention and licensing

August 2026

Features

Exports are delivered privately - finished files stay private to XPress and are downloaded from there, instead of being written into your Confluence as page attachments. Exports no longer clutter your pages or inherit page-level sharing.
30-day retention - every export is deleted 30 days after it is created.
Export from anywhere - a global XPress page with a space picker, so you can start an export without navigating to the space first.
A clear, immediate message when a selection is too big for a single PDF, with what to do about it.

Security

An export can only be downloaded by someone who can read every page inside it.
Limits on how many exports one account can start in quick succession, and on how much one export can take on.

July 2026 - HTML export and true-to-Confluence styling

Features

HTML export alongside PDF - one web document you can open in any browser.
True-to-Confluence styling - panels, tables, status lozenges, layouts and macros come out looking the way they do on the page, instead of being approximated.
Watermark - a diagonal text overlay with control over position, opacity, rotation and size.
Blog post export - blog posts export the same way pages do.
Export from the page itself - entry points on the page byline and in the ··· menu, so a single page is one click away. Details →
Emoji and status colours render correctly rather than falling back to grey icons.

Fixes

PDF content no longer crops at the right edge, and your configured margins are applied as set. Details →

June 2026 - Faster, more reliable large exports

Large exports became noticeably more reliable and stopped timing out, and the XPress interface was refreshed.

April 2026 - Paid Marketplace listing

XPress became a paid app with Atlassian Marketplace licensing.
Collapsible export settings sidebar - the full PDF configuration surface, out of the way until you need it.

March 2026 - The app becomes XPress

Renamed to XPress.
Export history per space, showing status, who ran the export, and re-download links. Details →
Include All - select a parent and pull in its entire branch of the page tree. Details →
Macros, images and attachments render inside the exported document.

October 2025 - January 2026 - First versions

The original content exporter: a browsable page tree, root and blog post discovery, and the first single-page and styled exports.

Known limits

These are current, deliberate limits rather than bugs:

One layout per export - a single paper size, orientation and set of headers, footers and margins applies to the whole document; you cannot mix them inside one file.
Page tree order - bulk exports follow the Confluence page hierarchy; there is no manual reordering.
One running header for the whole document - it is stamped by the printer, page by page, so it can carry the document’s title but not the title of the individual Confluence page a given sheet came from.
History is the last 20 exports per space, and every export is deleted after 30 days.
Page content keeps Confluence’s styling. Your brand’s colours and typefaces set the cover, the contents page and the page titles; the headings, tables and code blocks inside your pages render the way they do in Confluence.
External images embed less reliably than Confluence attachments. If an image matters, attach it to the page.