Bitbucket Data Center 8.19 Long Term Support Release Change Log

Bitbucket Data Center 8.19 release notes

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This Long Term Support (LTS) release change log sets out to give you an overview of what's changed between Bitbucket 8.9 and 8.19 LTS releases.

About Long Term Support releases

We recommend upgrading Bitbucket regularly. However, if your organization's process means you only upgrade about once a year, upgrading to a Long Term Support (LTS) release may be a good option. An LTS release provides continued access to critical security, stability, data integrity, and performance issues until this version reaches its end of life.

Top features

Here's a summary of the new features that are in store for developers and admins.

8.19

Bitbucket Data Center 8.19 is a Long Term Support release.

Release notes
8.18
  • Comprehensive security enhancements

  • Draft pull requests

  • Add reviewers to pull requests with quick adds

  • Paste links right into the text of your comments

  • Add a table to your comment with one click

Release notes
8.17
  • System commits get auto-signed with GPG

  • Download patch and diff files from a pull request view

  • Copy code blocks with one click

Release notes
8.16
  • Dark theme for the user interface

  • Encrypt secrets with HashiCorp Vault

  • The Reviewer suggester app bundled with Bitbucket

Release notes
8.15

Bitbucket 8.15.0 is the first Data Center only release.

  • Pull requests auto-merge

  • Sign your commits and tags with SSH keys

  • Use X.509 (S/MIME) certificates to sign commits and tags

  • Embed videos from Loom, YouTube, and Vimeo to your pull requests

  • Enforce trusted build status

Release notes
8.14

Bitbucket 8.14 is the last release to support Server licenses until February 15, 2024.

  • Code owners support

Release notes
8.13
  • Identify signed and unsigned commits

  • Support of security keys for Git over SSH

  • Search for projects quickly by their names

  • Stream video files with a built-in video player

  • Use AWS Secrets Manager to manage Bitbucket configuration

  • Improvements to the support zip creation

Release notes
8.12
  • Find and manage licensed users

  • Create a custom template for a commit message in your pull requests

Release notes
8.11
  • Mark files as unread in pull requests

  • The announcement banner is displayed in the terminal window for git push operations

  • Support of .webp and .avif images

  • Encryption of properties in the Bitbucket configuration file

Release notes
8.10
  • Added controls for hooks, merge checks, merge strategies, and branch settings

  • New SSH, HTTP, and SCM ticket metrics via JMX monitoring and log file

  • Automatic merge renamed to cascading merge

  • The Needs work status renamed to Changes requested

Release notes
8.9

Bitbucket Server 8.9 is a Long Term Support release.

  • Bitbucket Mesh changes and improvements
  • Focus on important discussions with resolvable comments
Release notes

Critical bug fixes

Check out the lists of bug fixes with critical severity that have been implemented since Bitbucket 8.9.

8.19

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8.18

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8.17

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8.16

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8.15

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8.14

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8.13

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8.12

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8.11

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8.10

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8.9

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Supported platform changes

In the majority of releases, we add or end support for a platform. Here is a summary of the changes since Bitbucket 8.9.  

8.19

Added support for:

  • Git 2.43 (backported to Bitbucket 8.9.11)
  • Git 2.44 (backported to Bitbucket 8.9.12+)
  • Git 2.45 (backported to Bitbucket 8.9.17+)

Git 2.43.x, 2.44.x, and 2.45.x may contain a performance regression. That's why we don't recommend using them until Git maintainers provide a fix. Bitbucket will release an additional announcement about the fix.

Deprecated support for:

  • Elasticsearch (In Bitbucket 9.0, support for Elasticsearch will be removed, and OpenSearch will be the only search server distribution.)
  • Git 2.33 and before

Supported platforms
8.18

Added support for:

  • OpenSearch 2.11

Deprecated support for:

  • OpenSearch 1

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2014 and 2016

Supported platforms
8.17

Deprecated support for:

  • PostgreSQL 12

  • Aurora PostgreSQL 12

  • Oracle 12c R2 and 18c

  • Java 8 and 11

Supported platforms
8.16

Added support for:

  • SQL Server 2022

Supported platforms
8.15

Added support for:

  • Postgres 16

Deprecated support for:

  • Elasticsearch

Ended support for:

  • MySQL

  • MariaDB

Supported platforms
8.14

Added support for:

  • Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 12 - 15

  • Git 2.41 - 2.42 (backported to Bitbucket 8.9.5+)

Deprecated support for:

  • PostgreSQL 10 - 11

  • Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 10 - 11

  • MySQL 5.7.9+

  • MariaDB 10.3.7+

Supported platforms
8.13

N/A

Supported platforms
8.12

N/A

Supported platforms
8.11

Added support for:

  • Elasticsearch 7.17.10

Supported platforms
8.10

Added support for:

  • Maria DB 10.10 and 10.11

Supported platforms
8.9

Added support for:

  • Git 2.40
  • Git 2.43 (Bitbucket 8.9.11)
  • Git 2.44 (Bitbucket 8.9.12 and the following 8.9.x bugfix releases)
  • Git 2.45 (Bitbucket 8.9.17 and the following 8.9.x bugfix releases)

Git 2.43.x, 2.44.x, and 2.45.x may contain a performance regression. That's why we don't recommend using them until Git maintainers provide a fix. Bitbucket will release an additional announcement about the fix.

Supported platforms

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Before upgrading, visit the Bitbucket Data Center upgrade guide for a high-level summary, along with instructions on how to upgrade your installation to the latest version of Bitbucket Data Center.

If you're upgrading from Bitbucket Server to Bitbucket Data Center, check out the guidelines in Upgrade from Bitbucket Server to Bitbucket Data Center.

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Last modified on Jul 10, 2024

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