Bitbucket Support

19 September 2023

Bitbucket 8.14.x is the last version that supports Server licenses. Learn what this means for you

Introducing Bitbucket Data Center and Server 8.14. This release includes updates to help facilitate your transition to either a Data Center license or Bitbucket Cloud. We’ve also introduced a code owners feature to help you manage team expertise across your codebase.

Highlights include:

Bitbucket 8.14.x is the last release to support Server licenses
Introducing code owners support
Bitbucket 8.14.5 security enhancement

Bitbucket 8.14.x is the last release to support Server licenses

Bitbucket Server 8.14 is the last Bitbucket feature release available to download for Server, prior to the Server end of support date on Feb 15, 2024.

Bitbucket Server 8.14 also includes the built-in Bitbucket Cloud Migration Assistant app that will assist you in migrating repositories to Bitbucket Cloud with ease.

All feature releases after Bitbucket Server 8.14 will only support our Data Center offering. Bitbucket 8.14 will continue to receive security and bug fixes until the end of support date on Feb 15, 2024, for customers with a Server license and until Mar 19, 2024, for customers with a Data Center license.

We recommend that you migrate to the Atlassian Cloud offering or upgrade to Data Center to remain secure and supported.

Introducing code owners support

DATA CENTER

Effective code review is crucial for the success of any project, but it isn’t always clear who should review the changes. Now, you can easily define who to add as a reviewer to a pull request to review changes in specific files and directories. When a pull request is created, Bitbucket will read the CODEOWNERS file and will automatically add appropriate reviewers.

Learn more about code owners

Bitbucket 8.14.5 security enhancement: App upload through UPM and REST API disabled by default

In Bitbucket Data Center 8.18.0, two ways of app installation through UPM (the Universal Plugin Manager) became disabled by default:

with the Upload app button on the Manage apps page
with the REST API

We've also backported this change to Bitbucket 8.14.5. So in Bitbucket 8.14.5 and all the next bugfix releases of Bitbucket 8.14.x, you can install new apps only by selecting the Install button on the Find new apps page. This limitation prevents unwanted uploads of potentially malicious files to your Bitbucket instance.

If you need to enable app installation with the Upload app button on the Manage apps page or with the REST API, set the following property in the bitbucket.properties file:

upm.plugin.upload.enabled=true

If app installation from files and through the REST API is an integral part of your workflow, we strongly recommend setting the relevant property to enable it prior to the upgrade.

If you decide to enable the feature after the upgrade, make sure to restart your instance for the changes to take effect.

If you run a Bitbucket cluster, a rolling restart is enough to pick up the configuration properties you set to enable the features.

Before you upgrade to 8.14

SERVER DATA CENTER

H2 database migration requirement

The H2 database driver has been upgraded to the currently latest version 2.2.220. The upgrade has boosted data security.

For upgrades to Bitbucket 8.8 and later or Mesh 1.5 and later, manual data migration is required if any of the following applies:

you’re using a mirror
you’re using Bitbucket Server with a H2 database
you’ve set up Bitbucket Mesh

Learn how to migrate your H2 database

Updates to supported platforms

Bitbucket 8.14 now includes support for running:

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 12 - 15
Git 2.41 - 2.42 (backported to Bitbucket 8.9.5+)

The following platforms are deprecated:

PostgreSQL 10 - 11
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 10 - 11
MySQL 5.7.9+
MariaDB 10.3.7+

Get ready to upgrade

Before upgrading from an earlier version, check out our upgrade guide and upgrade matrix. Remember to renew your active software maintenance license too.

Renew now

As part of our new pull request experience from version 7.0 and higher, we have created a collection of new features for you to check out on one page, Enhancements to your code review workflow.