Documentation for JIRA 4.4. Documentation for other versions of JIRA is available too.
This page contains announcements of the end of support for various platforms and browsers used with JIRA. These are summarised for upcoming JIRA releases in the table below. Please see the following sections for the full announcements.
The table below summarises the end of support announcements for upcoming JIRA releases. If a platform is not (or no longer) supported by JIRA 4.4.x, it is not listed in this table.
Platform |
JIRA End of Support |
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Internet Explorer 7 web browser |
After the last version of JIRA 4.4.x (announcement) |
Oracle 10.1 & 10.2 databases |
After the last version of JIRA 4.4.x (announcement) |
MySQL 5.0 database |
After the last version of JIRA 4.4.x (announcement) |
Why is Atlassian ending support for these platforms?
Atlassian is committed to delivering improvements and bug fixes as fast as possible. We are also committed to providing world class support for all the platforms our customers run our software on. However, as the complexity of our applications grows, the cost of supporting multiple platforms increases exponentially. Each new feature has to be tested on several combinations of application servers, databases, web browsers, etc, with setup and ongoing maintenance of automated tests. Moving forward, we want to reduce the time spent there to increase Confluence development speed significantly.
On this page (most recent announcements first):
This section announces the end of Atlassian support for certain web browsers for JIRA.
We will be ending support for older versions of web browsers as follows:
The details are below. Please refer to the Supported Platforms for more details regarding platform support for JIRA. If you have questions or concerns regarding this announcement, please email eol-announcement at atlassian dot com
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Internet Explorer 7 End of Support Notes:
This section announces the end of Atlassian support for certain databases for JIRA.
We will be ending support for older versions of databases as follows:
The details are below. Please refer to the Supported Platforms for more details regarding platform support for JIRA. If you have questions or concerns regarding this announcement, please email eol-announcement at atlassian dot com
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Oracle 10.1 & 10.2 End of Support Notes:
MySQL 5.0 End of Support Notes:
This section announces the end of Atlassian support for certain web browsers for JIRA.
We will stop supporting older versions of web browsers as follows:
The details are below. Please refer to the Supported Platforms for more details regarding platform support for JIRA. If you have questions or concerns regarding this announcement, please email eol-announcement at atlassian dot com
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Web Browsers |
Support End Date |
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Safari 4 |
When JIRA 4.3 releases (due in Quarter 1 2011) |
Firefox 3.0.x |
When JIRA 4.3 releases (due in Quarter 1 2011) |
This section confirms that Atlassian support for DB2 for JIRA ended in JIRA 4.0. End of support means that Atlassian will no longer fix bugs related to DB2.
We do not support the following databases:
We made this decision in order to reduce our database support, to reduce testing time and help us speed up our ability to deliver market-driven features. We are committed to helping our customers understand this decision and assist them in migrating to a supported database, if needed.
Please refer to the Supported Platforms for more details regarding platform support for JIRA. If you have questions or concerns regarding this announcement, please email eol-announcement at atlassian dot com
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This section announces the end of Atlassian support for certain application server platforms for JIRA WAR/EAR. End of support means that Atlassian will not fix bugs in certain application servers past the support end date.
We will stop supporting the following application servers:
We are reducing our application server platform support to reduce the amount of testing time and help us speed up our ability to deliver market-driven features. We are committed to helping our customers understand this decision and assisting them in migrating to Tomcat, our supported Application Server. You have the option of installing the JIRA Standalone version which includes our supported Tomcat application server. For instructions, please see Switching Application Servers to Apache Tomcat.
Please refer to the Supported Platforms for more details regarding platform support for JIRA. If you have questions or concerns regarding this announcement, please email eol-announcement at atlassian dot com
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Application Servers |
Support End Date |
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JBoss 4.2.2 |
When JIRA 4.1 releases, due late Q1 2010 |
Oracle WebLogic 9.2 |
When JIRA 4.2 releases, due Q3 2010 |
IBM WebSphere 6.1 |
When JIRA 4.2 releases, due Q3 2010 |
eol-announcement at atlassian dot com
.Atlassian is committed to delivering improvements and bug fixes as fast as possible. We are also committed to providing world class support for all the platforms our customers run our software on. However, as the complexity of our applications grows, the cost of supporting multiple platforms increases exponentially. Each new feature has to be tested on several combinations of application servers, with setup and ongoing maintenance of automated tests. At times, 30% of the development team is busy coding solutions for edge cases in various application servers. Moving forward, we want to reduce the time spent there in order to increase JIRA development speed significantly.
We have chosen to standardise on Tomcat, because it is the most widely used application server in our user population. It is fast, robust, secure, well-documented, easy to operate, open source, and has a huge community driving improvements. It is the de facto industry standard, with several companies available that specialise in providing enterprise grade support contracts for it, ranging from customisations to 24/7 support.
This section announces the end of Atlassian support for certain Java Platforms for JIRA.
We will stop supporting the following Java Platforms:
We are ending support for Java Platform 5, in line with Sun's Java SE Support Road Map (i.e. "End of Service Life" for Java Platform 5 dated October 30, 2009). We are committed to helping our customers understand this decision and assisting them in updating to Java Platform 6, our supported Java Platform.
The details are below. Please refer to the Supported Platforms for more details regarding platform support for JIRA. If you have questions or concerns regarding this announcement, please email eol-announcement at atlassian dot com
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Java Platform |
Support End Date |
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Java Platform 5 (JDK/JRE 1.5) |
When JIRA 4.2 releases, due Q3 2010 |
eol-announcement at atlassian dot com
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This section announces the end of Atlassian support for certain web browsers for JIRA.
We will stop supporting older versions of web browsers as follows:
The details are below. Please refer to the Supported Platforms for more details regarding platform support for JIRA. If you have questions or concerns regarding this announcement, please email eol-announcement at atlassian dot com
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Web Browsers |
Support End Date |
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Internet Explorer 6 |
When JIRA 4.2 releases (target Q3 2010) |