How can I delete a history version of a confluence page

[Joerg Bencke]

Hi Folks,

how can I delete specific older versions of a wikipage ?

Regards, Josh

[Thomas Schlegel · Accepted solution]

Hi Josch,

this is an old unresolved issue: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-996

Vote and hope, someday it will come true ;-)

Best regards

Thomas

[hsuhailah]

This is now possible in Confluence 5. To remove a page history, navigate to the page where you want the history to be removed > Click on Tools > Page History > Under Operations, click on Remove. Once removed, you can't undo this action though and it has to be done per page.

[Andrew DeFaria]

There is no Remove option in Page History for me. Do you need to be an admin?

[Jason Papadopoulos]

Hi, you do need to be an admin - I ran into this myself, and for me the only visible operation was to restore a previous version of the page. With the help of our admin I was able to remove the old version.

[Mikhail T]

Thanks, this was most helpful! Any chance, a simillar functionality exists in JIRA? Sometimes users post passwords and similar information here and we need to be able to clean it up for good.

[Lorraine Gorman]

Hi all,

Is there a solution to this [in bulk] for Confluence Cloud?  Thanks.

[Di Chen]

I have got the same question.

Although confluence cloud has the storage of 25GB, I think it's still urgent needed.

[Kalas Richard]

You can use this plug in to remove page versions easily:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.elitesoftsp.confluence.page.utility.plugins/server/pricing

[Di Chen]

How about confluence cloud?

[Michiel Nieuwstraten]

Using Confluence CLI you can use removePageVersions to remove more historyversions in one time, for instance every version before a date, or to keep last n versions.

Take a look at https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-removePageVersions

[Jarrod]

Hi guys,

I got this to work on basic auth, with the following api call:

https://[yourinstance]/wiki/rest/api/content/[pageid]/version/