Documentation for JIRA 5.2. Documentation for other versions of JIRA is available too.

In order to rename the "Priorities" text in the issue navigator, you may need to edit the following properties file in the language pack:

com/atlassian/jira/web/action/issue/IssueNavigator_en.properties

The following property value in the Issuenavigator_en.properties:

issue.column.heading.priority

(warning) Note that this has been changed in 4.3 and later.

(info) Also note that this does not change Advanced search. See  JRA-27414 - Getting issue details... STATUS .

The language pack is a JAR file located in <jira-install>/atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/lib. For more information about Customizing Text in JIRA, please refer to Customizing Text.

(warning)  For more information for JIRA 4.4+ please refer to the Rename system fields in Jira server JIRA Knowledge base article.