Documentation for JIRA 4.3. Documentation for other versions of JIRA is available too.

The JIRA API docs are available online. They are most useful for:

  • users writing Plugins, Listeners and Services
  • users with commercial licenses who wish to modify JIRA
  • partners embedding JIRA as a J2EE component

The latest API docs are available at http://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/latest/. The 4.2 docs are available at http://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/4.2/. JDiff reports listing the changes to the JIRA API between releases are available here​. For previous versions, substitute the appropriate version in the URL.