JIRA Core 7.6.x upgrade notes
Here are some important notes on upgrading to JIRA Core 7.6. For details of the new features and improvements in this release, see the JIRA Core 7.6 release notes.
Upgrade notes
Priority schemes (UI changes)
Although we've made significant changes to how priorities are managed in JIRA, these changes won't affect your current configuration. Currently, your JIRA instance is using a global list of priorities. After the upgrade, all these priorities will be moved to the default priority scheme, which works in the same way. Until you create new schemes and make use of them (by associating with some projects), everything stays the same.
Priority schemes (API changes)
We encourage everybody to get familiar with these changes, but they're more important for plugin developers rather than JIRA admins. The APIs that would allow JIRA admins to manage priority schemes outside of the user interface will not be available in JIRA 7.6.
If you're a plugin developer and want your plugin to manage priority schemes, take a look at this list of API changes. We've not only added new APIs that allow plugins to manage priority schemes, but we also changed the existing ones, which will most likely make your plugins incompatible. This is for priority schemes, the APIs for managing priorities don't change, but bear in mind that the current global list of priorities now becomes the default priority scheme, so your plugins might retrieve inaccurate data regarding priorities themselves.
What's new?
We're adding these APIs to allow plugins to manage priority schemes.
What's changing?
Some APIs also receive additional options, so that priorities are added or removed from priority schemes.
What's deprecated?
These APIs are deprecated, and replaced by the new PrioritySchemeManager class.
Content-Security-Policy and X-Frame-Options headers
To prevent clickjacking, JIRA will add the X-Frame-Options and Content-Security-Policy security headers to each HTTP response. The headers will block the content from being embedded in iframes, which might also affect pages that you actually wanted to be displayed this way. If you embed any resources from JIRA on other sites (e.g. dashboards), they might not work after the upgrade. To fix this, you can either disable this feature, or choose resources to be excluded from receiving the security headers. Learn more
Upgrade procedure
Note: Upgrade to a test environment first. Test your upgrades in your test environment before rolling them into production.
If you're already running a version of JIRA, please follow these instructions to upgrade to the latest version:
- Before you upgrade, we strongly recommend that you back up your installation directory, home directory, and database.
- Read the release notes and upgrade notes for all releases between your version and the latest version.
- Download the latest version of JIRA.
- Follow the instructions in the Upgrade Guide.
Upgrading from earlier versions?
- 7.0, or later
Take a look at the upgrade matrix. It lists known issues you should be aware of when upgrading between multiple versions. - Earlier than 7.0
Consult the Migration hub. The JIRA 7.0 release introduced significant changes. You must first upgrade to JIRA 7.0 before upgrading to later versions.