How to troubleshoot the upgrade/migration issue of Confluence to 7.19.18 and above versions with Polls for Confluence

This article describes how to troubleshoot the issue encountered with Polls for Confluence after upgrading/migrating Confluence to 7.19.18 and above versions of 7.x.

Instructions

Follow the given steps:

  1. Navigate to the Confluence server installed location at this path:
    <confluencePath>/atlassian-confluence-7.19.18/confluence/WEB-INF/classes/velocity.properties

  2. Make the following changes to the file velocity.properties:

    1. Go to introspector.allowlist.classes.

    2. Add com.opensymphony.xwork.util.XWorkList to the existing values on a new line.

      Sample reference:

      java.io.ObjectInputValidation,\ com.opensymphony.xwork.util.XWorkList,\ net.sf.hibernate.proxy.HibernateProxy
  3. Stop and restart the server.

This workaround is required only for 7.x versions, and not the 8.x versions.