Jira Core 8.16.x release notes
23 March 2021
We're pleased to present Jira Core 8.16.
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Compatible applications
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Good to know
If you're thinking to move to Data Center, check our recommendations first. See: Infrastructure recommendations for Jira.
Keep Jira safe by disabling basic authentication
While working on adding multiple identity providers, we’ve also included a way to disable basic authentication on the login page and in API calls. Since basic authentication is less secure than single sign-on, we advise that you switch to SSO, and disable basic authentication completely. Learn more
Indexing improvements
We’ve made some changes to indexing that should make it both better and faster:
Better performance, the same high consistency
In Jira 8.10, we’ve decreased indexing performance so we could introduce higher index consistency—an improvement worth the cost. Now, we’ve made additional changes to index searchers and cache to bring the performance back up to speed again. The reindexing tasks, like background reindexing, SLA recalculation, and DVCS reindexing should be at least 10% faster, with full index consistency retained. Learn more
Priority queues for user indexing requests
We’ve also improved the way we handle different types of indexing requests so they no longer affect user actions. In previous versions, background reindexing tasks used a single queue and could overflow it when many indexing operations were requested at once. Now, we’ve separated this queue into two—one for handling indexing requests created by users, and the other for all other requests. Thanks to that, users requests get a priority, and everything stays fast and well organized. Learn more