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This page provides links to all the JIRA documentation. We supply documentation for the latest version and previous versions of JIRA, in both online and offline (downloadable) form.

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JIRA 3.11 Documentation
JIRA 3.10 Documentation
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JIRA 2.5.1 Documentation
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JIRA 2.3 Documentation
JIRA 2.2 Documentation
JIRA 2.1 Documentation

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We supply documentation for the latest version and previous versions of the documentation in PDF, HTML and XML forms. Here are the latest versions:

Creating your Own Local Version of our Documentation

We provide XML zip files of the documentation space, for you to download and use to create your own local version of our documentation on your Confluence site. Each XML zip file contains a Confluence-specific XML format plus attachments (screenshots etc), which you can upload to your Confluence site. Please take a look at the instructions for uploading an XML file.

Note: When you create your new space from our XML source code, the space will inherit the Confluence 'Documentation' theme and the customisations we have made to the header, footer and left-hand navigation bar. You will need to adjust or remove these customisations. Please refer to the Confluence documentation or JIRA documentation for details.

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To make JIRA's help links point to your own local copy of the documentation, please see the page about local JIRA documentation.

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Downloading the documentation for JIRA 3.13.x or earlier

For JIRA 3.13.x or earlier, please view the online documentation for your desired JIRA version (e.g. JIRA 3.13 documentation) — the PDF downloads will be available via the left-hand menu, under 'Printable manuals', and the XML downloads under 'Local docs (XML source)'.

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Name Size Creator Creation Date Comment  
ZIP Archive JIRA 4.4 Documentation (XML from Co… 100.81 MB Rosie Jameson [Atlassian Technical Writer] Jan 15, 2012 19:03 JIRA 4.4 Documentation (XML from Confluence 4.1.3)  
ZIP Archive JIRA 4.4 Documentation (XML) 201108… 127.79 MB Giles Gaskell [Atlassian Technical Writer] Aug 19, 2011 00:57 JIRA 4.4 Documentation (XML from Confluence 3.5.9)  
PDF File JIRA 4.4 Documentation (PDF) 201108… 59.90 MB Giles Gaskell [Atlassian Technical Writer] Aug 18, 2011 23:57 JIRA 4.4 Documentation (PDF)  
ZIP Archive JIRA 4.4 Documentation (HTML) 20110… 109.16 MB Giles Gaskell [Atlassian Technical Writer] Aug 18, 2011 23:53 JIRA 4.4 Documentation (HTML)  
ZIP Archive JIRA 4.3 Documentation (XML) 201103… 105.77 MB Giles Gaskell [Atlassian Technical Writer] Mar 28, 2011 00:48 JIRA 4.3 Documentation (XML from Confluence 3.5)  
ZIP Archive JIRA 4.3 Documentation (HTML) 20110… 89.33 MB Giles Gaskell [Atlassian Technical Writer] Mar 28, 2011 00:59 JIRA 4.3 Documentation (HTML)  
PDF File JIRA 4.3 Documentation (PDF) 201103… 56.20 MB Giles Gaskell [Atlassian Technical Writer] Mar 28, 2011 01:03 JIRA 4.3 Documentation (PDF)  
ZIP Archive JIRA 4.2 Documentation (XML) 201010… 103.57 MB Rosie Jameson [Atlassian Technical Writer] Oct 21, 2010 21:40 JIRA 4.2 documentation (XML from Confluence 3.4)  
ZIP Archive JIRA 4.2 Documentation (HTML) 20101… 84.61 MB Rosie Jameson [Atlassian Technical Writer] Oct 21, 2010 21:33 JIRA 4.2 Documentation (HTML)  
PDF File JIRA 4.2 Documentation (PDF) 201010… 51.27 MB Rosie Jameson [Atlassian Technical Writer] Oct 21, 2010 21:27 JIRA 4.2 Documentation (PDF)  
File JIRA 4.1 Documentation (HTML) 20100… 62.53 MB Giles Gaskell [Atlassian Technical Writer] Apr 11, 2010 20:13 JIRA 4.1 Documentation (HTML)  
File JIRA 4.1 Documentation (XML) 201004… 77.98 MB Giles Gaskell [Atlassian Technical Writer] Apr 09, 2010 02:33 JIRA 4.1 documentation (XML from Confluence 3.2.0)  
PDF File JIRA 4.1 Documentation (PDF) 201004… 39.15 MB Giles Gaskell [Atlassian Technical Writer] Apr 09, 2010 02:08 JIRA 4.1 Documentation (PDF)  
ZIP Archive JIRA-4-0-20091006-XML.zip 77.05 MB Andrew Lui [Atlassian Technical Writer] Oct 06, 2009 04:53 JIRA 4.0 documentation (XML from Confluence 3.0.2)  
ZIP Archive JIRA-4-0-20091006-HTML.zip 69.55 MB Andrew Lui [Atlassian Technical Writer] Oct 06, 2009 02:52 JIRA 4.0 documentation (HTML)  
PDF File JIRA-4-0-20091006-PDF.pdf 56.89 MB Andrew Lui [Atlassian Technical Writer] Oct 06, 2009 02:13 JIRA 4.0 documentation (PDF)  
ZIP Archive JIRA 4.0 Beta Documentation 2009082… 50.95 MB Rosie Jameson [Atlassian Technical Writer] Aug 20, 2009 22:00    
PDF File JIRA 4.0 Beta Documentation 2009082… 31.13 MB Rosie Jameson [Atlassian Technical Writer] Aug 20, 2009 20:46    
ZIP Archive JIRA 4.0 Beta Documentation 2009082… 58.11 MB Rosie Jameson [Atlassian Technical Writer] Aug 20, 2009 19:37    

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  1. Apr 17, 2010

    Matt Doar (CustomWare)

    The page number in the table of contents in the JIRA pdf files is limited to 3 digits which means that the least significant digit is not shown for pages greater than 999

    1. Apr 19, 2010

      Rosie Jameson [Atlassian Technical Writer]

      Thanks Matt, please watch http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-18006

  2. May 25, 2010

    jd lima

    The imported JIRA 4.1 space (from 20100409 XML) includes from the ALLDOC space; is there a common subset of ALLDOC that we should be able to get?

    Same behavior for the Confluence 3.2 space.

    Cheers,
    -jd.

    1. May 27, 2010

      Rosie Jameson [Atlassian Technical Writer]

      Hi JD,

      You will need to copy the pages from the Inclusions Library to your own Confluence site.

      I've updated the instructions to mention this important piece of information! Sorry that it was previously omitted.

      Cheers,
      Rosie

      1. Jun 01, 2010

        jd lima

        You will need to copy the pages from the Inclusions Library to your own Confluence site.

        Cool.

        How – are they downloadable as XML?

        1. Jun 01, 2010

          Sarah Maddox [Atlassian Technical Writer]

          Hallo jd

          I'm really sorry about the confusion. We've done a bit more investigation, and we're unsure whether people really do need to include the ALLDOC "inclusions library". For example, I can't find an instance in the Confluence 3.2 space where we include any pages from the ALLDOC space.

          Please would you give an example of such an inclusion?

          To answer your last question: No, at the moment the ALLDOC pages aren't downloadable as XML. I'll make an XML download available if necessary. But I'm hoping it isn't necessary and that we can fix the problem some other way. Maybe if there are just one or two inclusions in the Confluence or JIRA space, we can remove the inclusions to make life easier all round.

          Cheers
          Sarah

          1. Jun 02, 2010

            jd lima

            Thanks for the follow-up, Sarah.

            1. I guess mostly just the documentation theme is configured with headers/footers plus left column links to ALLDOC. There are only a couple instances within the JIRA 4.1 space itself as well, associated with downloadable docsets.
            2. There remain a number of links to other spaces – primarily in reference pages – but I guess that's the nature capturing just a slice of a larger wiki. E.g., GADGETS, DEVNET, etc.

            For our closed network deployment the workaround for the former is to strip the references from the documentation theme config, and for the latter globally note 'some links are (temporarily) broken'.

            This seems a pretty good (and searchable!) for user documentation with JIRA, though not quite as seamless as the JIRA localdocs using forrest.

            Cheers,
            -jd.

            1. Jul 19, 2011

              Sarah Maddox [Atlassian Technical Writer]

              Hallo jd

              Awesome, I've learned something! We didn't realise that the Documentation theme configuration was included in the XML export. (smile)

              I think your solution is probably the best one, i.e. to customise the header, footer and left-hand nav to suit your environment, or simply to remove all content from the header, footer and left-hand nav bar and to reselect the "page tree" checkbox. See the guide to the Documentation theme. The reason is that those included pages are full of links, that would be broken anyway in your own local Confluence site. Here's an example of one of the included pages: _Latest Versions of JIRA Documentation.

              There's one additional 'include' in the JIRA docs, that includes pages from the ALLDOC space. It's the one in the JIRA dev hub page, that lists all the developer resources. We could replace that with a hard-coded list, but actually the plan is to remove the dev hub from the JIRA space and put it into a separate JIRADEV space, much as we have done for Confluence. That will fix the problem, although in a different way. (wink)

              Broken links are a pity. There's not much we can do about that. If we included all the possible docs in the download, it would be totally humungous. The Forrest JIRA docs were great, in that they were an integral whole. But we're hoping that the more open, expandable and interactive environment of the wiki gives our readers many more advantages than disadvantages.

              I've raised a request, asking that the JIRA guide to getting your own local docs should include all the information resulting from your feedback here. See JRA-21477.

              Many thanks again! Sarah

            2. Jun 02, 2010

              Sarah Maddox [Atlassian Technical Writer]

              Alternatively, perhaps the Documentation theme header, footer and left-hand nav bar customisations should not be included in space XML export? Please discuss on this issue: https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/DOC-64

  3. Oct 03, 2011

    Rosie Jameson [Atlassian Technical Writer]

    Gente, buenas tardes, algun link con documentacion en español??? gracias

     

    Please see Translating JIRA and JIRA Documentation in Other Languages

  4. Oct 28, 2011

    Anonymous

    The links to the 3.x docs are broken.

    1. Oct 30, 2011

      Giles Gaskell [Atlassian Technical Writer]

      Hello there,

      We were aware that these links were broken but they should be fixed now. Please try them again.

      Cheers,

      Giles.

      1. Dec 27, 2011

        Bozena G. Haslund

        Hi there,

        I need to download the xml documentation for 3.3 version but the links are still broken - any tips?

        thanks,

        Bozena

        1. Dec 28, 2011

          Rosie Jameson [Atlassian Technical Writer]

          Thank you for catching this, we are investigating.

          1. Jan 16, 2012

            Bozena G. Haslund

            Hi Rosie,

            Any news on the 3.3 version?

            Thank you,

            Bozena

            1. Jan 16, 2012

              Rosie Jameson [Atlassian Technical Writer]

              Hi Bozena,

              The problem has been identified and should be rectified in the next day or so.

              Many thanks for your patience,
              Rosie

              1. Feb 02, 2012

                Bozena G. Haslund

                Hi Rosie,

                It seems like it's still a dead link (sad) - any news on that?

                Thanks,

                Bozena

                1. Feb 02, 2012

                  Andrew Lui [Atlassian Technical Writer]

                  Hi Bonzena,

                  Apologies for the delay. It looks like a URL redirect we previously set up has been broken, however you should still be able to access the source file. Simply copy the URL for the XML download and replace the "www.atlassian.com " part with "downloads.atlassian.com".

                  For example, the link for the 3.13 xml file is http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/downloads/docs/jira-docs-3.13.3.zip Just change this to http://downloads.atlassian.com/software/jira/downloads/docs/jira-docs-3.13.3.zip and it will work.

                  We'll hopefully have the broken redirect fixed soon.

                  Kind Regards,
                  Andrew

                  1. Feb 03, 2012

                    Bozena G. Haslund

                    Perfect, that worked!

                    Thanks a lot!

                  2. Feb 03, 2012

                    Bozena G. Haslund

                    Hi again,

                     

                    There is an issue with the zip file (version 3.3) - when I try to uplod it to Confluence to create local help I get:

                    The zip file did not contain an entry 'exportDescriptor.properties'

                    How do I get a complete xml file?

                     

                    Thanks,

                    Bozena

                     

  5. Nov 22, 2011

    Anonymous

    When will the importable download for Confluence 4.0.4 be available?

  6. Dec 29, 2011

    Anonymous

    I have installed atlassian-confluence-4.0.5-x64.exe and am trying to upload the Confluence and Jira documentation XML zip archives. The archive Confluence+4.0+Complete+Documentation+(XML)+DOC-20110922.zip is failing at 42% and the JIRA-4-0-20091006-XML.zip is giving the error "The following error(s) occurred:

    • Restore denied. You can only restore space backups exported from the same major version (e.g. 2.2.x or 2.3.x)."

    Unfortunately, I can't remove the space that was created with the upload that failed at 42% for mr to retry the upload.

    Please help.

    1. Dec 29, 2011

      Rosie Jameson [Atlassian Technical Writer]

      I am sorry for the inconvenience you have experienced. We are currently working on generating XML exports which will be compatible with Confluence 4.1; I regret that we will be unable to provide 4.0-compatible exports at this time.

      Regarding deletion of the failed space, please contact our Support team for assistance: http://support.atlassian.com