Summary

When a Bamboo license expires, what happens to the Bamboo server? Will users still be able to log in and reference old builds, download old artifacts and trigger builds? Are any parts of the product disabled?

Environment

Bamboo Server and Data Center

Solution

It depends on what license you have:

Bamboo Server license

If running Bamboo 6 or 7 and possibly earlier releases of Bamboo 8, you may still have a Server license. When a "Server license" expires, you will not be able to upgrade Bamboo to a version of Bamboo that was released after the license expired nor be entitled to support.

You will still be able to use Bamboo past the expiry date as the Bamboo Server licenses are "Perpetual", meaning they are yours forever. This is documented under the How is Bamboo Server licensed FAQ. It is highly recommended that you understand Atlassian's Journey to the Cloud and plan ahead for your migration to a Data Center license. Once you upgrade a Server license to Data Center, maintenance on the server license will no longer be renewed. If you wish, you can manually renew your server maintenance to the maximum end date of February 2, 2024.

Bamboo Data Center license

Released in July 2021, Bamboo Data Center has an annual subscription model. Once the license expires, Bamboo 8+ will switch part of its operations to read-only mode and request a new license key. You will also not have access to support. 

Here is a list of components whose behavior is changed when a Bamboo Date Center license expires:

• Trigger handling is disabled/deactivated. The same place where “concurrent builds limit” is checked
• Adding builds and deployments to the queue is disabled
• Run, Run customized, Run deployments are disabled
• Shows a warning to Administrators about expired licenses with a link to the Update license page
• Shows a Read-only mode banner for other users so they’re not confused