Supported platforms

This page describes the supported platforms for Bamboo 4.3.x.

Key: = Supported; = Not Supported

Java Version
Oracle JDK (1, 5)	1.7 1.6 1.5
OpenJDK	1.7
Operating Systems
Microsoft Windows (2)
Linux / Solaris (2)
Apple Mac OS X (2)
Application Servers
Apache Tomcat (3)	6.0.x 5.5.x
Databases
MySQL	5.x with JDBC Connector/J 5.1 5.0.x
PostgreSQL	8.2+ with PostgreSQL Driver 8.4.x
Microsoft SQL Server	2008 with JTDS 1.2.2 2005 with JTDS 1.2.2
Oracle	11G with Oracle 11.2.x 10G
HSQLDB (4)	(for evaluation only)
Web Browsers
Microsoft Internet Explorer	9.0 8.0 7.0
Mozilla Firefox	Latest stable version supported
Safari	Latest stable version supported
Chrome	Latest stable version supported
Source Repositories
Mercurial	client: 1.6-2.1.x client: 2.1.0 NOTE: Mercurial 2.1 has a bug that makes it incompatible with Bamboo. Please use Mercurial 2.1.1 or later.
Subversion(6)	with server 1.5-1.7
Git	with client 1.7
Perforce
CVS

Notes:
1. Oracle JDK:

• For the server, it is not enough to have just the JRE. Please ensure that you have the full JDK.
• You can download the Java SE Development Kit (JDK) from the Oracle website.
• Once the JDK is installed, you will need to set the JAVA_HOME environment variable, pointing to the root directory of the JDK. Some JDK installers set this automatically (check by typing 'echo %JAVA_HOME%' in a DOS prompt, or 'echo $JAVA_HOME' in a shell). You need to do this before installing Bamboo, as Bamboo will automatically configure JDK capabilities based on the system environment variables on your machine.

2. Please note:

• Bamboo is a pure Java application and should run on any platform, provided all the JDK requirements are satisfied.
• If you are using Linux/UNIX: A dedicated user should be created to run Bamboo, as Bamboo runs as the user it is invoked under and therefore can potentially be abused. Here is an example of how to create a dedicated user to run Bamboo in Linux:
  $ sudo /usr/sbin/useradd --create-home --home-dir /usr/local/bamboo --shell /bin/bash bamboo

3. Deploying multiple Atlassian applications in a single Tomcat container is not supported. We do not test this configuration and upgrading any of the applications (even for point releases) is likely to break it. There are also a number of known issues with this configuration (see this FAQ for more information).

We also do not support deploying multiple Atlassian applications to a single Tomcat container for a number of practical reasons. Firstly, you must shut down Tomcat to upgrade any application and secondly, if one application crashes, the other applications running in that Tomcat container will be inaccessible.

Finally, we recommend not deploying any other applications to the same Tomcat container that runs Bamboo, especially if these other applications have large memory requirements or require additional libraries in Tomcat's lib subdirectory.

4. Bamboo ships with a built-in HSQL database, which is fine for evaluation purposes but is somewhat susceptible to data loss during system crashes. For production environments we recommend that you configure Bamboo to use an external database.

5. Note that your agents can build software with any JDK version. You only need to run the agent and server using a supported JDK.

6. Bamboo 4.2 supports Subversion 1.7, but uses the Subversion 1.6 Workspace Format by default to keep backwards compatibility with older Subversion working copies. You can set the bamboo.svn.wc.format system property if your Bamboo plans need to use Subversion 1.7 commands as part of your build scripts. See Setting Bamboo to Support Subversion 1.7 Workspace Format for details.