draw.io for confluence cloud migration to full forge app

[davidjgraph]

As part of upcoming changes in the Atlassian Marketplace, all apps must move to Forge or face a staged revenue penalty (4% at year-end, rising to 8% six months later). In order to avoid this we are completing the migration away from Connect to a fully Forge-based app.

Most functionality will remain unchanged. The main difference is that Forge currently does not provide a full-screen custom macro option. We first requested this in November 2021 (FRGE-557) , but it is still unavailable and won’t be ready before the first migration deadline.

Migration will begin in the second half of September 2025. Depending on Atlassian’s rollout rules, administrators may need to manually update, though in some cases updates could occur automatically. If possible, we recommend delaying the update until the full-screen option becomes available.

Migrating right up against the deadline is too risky for us, plus there is no indication that the full screen editor will be available in 3 months, so the result will be the same.

We regret the impact the reduced editor size may have on productivity. If this affects your team, we encourage you to provide feedback directly on FRGE-557.