Documentation for JIRA 4.1. Documentation for other versions of JIRA is available too.

End of Support Announcements

Please read End of Support Announcements for JIRA for important information regarding the end of support for various platforms and browsers when used with JIRA.

This page describes the supported platforms for JIRA 4.1.x.

Key: (tick) = Supported; (error) = Not Supported

Java Version


JRE / JDK

(tick) 1.5
(tick) 1.6 (update 10 or higher if using the Sun JDK)

Operating Systems

 

Microsoft Windows (1)

(tick)

Linux / Solaris (1,2)

(tick)

Apple Mac OS X (1)

(tick)

Application Servers

 

Apache Tomcat (3)

(tick) Tomcat 5.5.27, 5.5.28, 5.5.29
(error) Tomcat 6.0.0 – 6.0.19
(tick) Tomcat 6.0.20 (bundled with JIRA Standalone)

Oracle WebLogic

(tick) WebLogic 9.2
(error) WebLogic 10.x is not supported with JIRA.

IBM WebSphere

(tick) WebSphere 6.1.0.27 and later
(error) WebSphere 7.x is not supported with JIRA.

JBoss

(error) Not supported. For more information, please refer to the End of Support Announcements for JIRA.

Databases

 

MySQL

(tick) MySQL 5.x with JDBC Connector/J 5.1
(error) MySQL 4.1 and later, prior to 5.x, do not support modern SQL (subselects)
(error) MySQL 4.0 and earlier have known issues with Unicode

PostgreSQL

(tick) PostgreSQL 8.2 and later with PostgreSQL Driver 8.4.x

Microsoft SQL Server

(tick) SQL Server 2008 with the JTDS 1.2.3 driver
(tick) SQL Server 2005 with the JTDS 1.2.3 driver
(error) SQL Server 2000
(error) SQL Server Express

Oracle

(tick) Oracle 11G with Oracle 11.2.x drivers
(tick) Oracle 10G with Oracle 11.2.x drivers
(error) Oracle 9i (incompatible with the latest Oracle drivers)

HSQLDB (4)

(tick) (bundled with JIRA Standalone; supported for evaluation use only)

Web Browsers

 

Microsoft Internet Explorer (5)

(tick) 8.0
(tick) 7.0
(tick) 6.x (all of the main functionality will work in IE 6; however, some of the visual effects will be missing)

Mozilla Firefox (5)

(tick) 3.0, 3.5, 3.6 (6)

Safari (5)

(tick) 4

Notes:

  1. JIRA is a pure Java application and should run on any platform, provided all the JDK requirements are satisfied.
  2. A dedicated user should be created to run JIRA, as JIRA 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 JIRA in Linux/UNIX:

    $ sudo /usr/sbin/useradd --create-home --home-dir /usr/local/jira --shell /bin/bash jira

  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 strongly recommend that you do not deploy multiple Atlassian applications in a single Tomcat container for a number of practical reasons. Firstly, you will need to shut down Tomcat to upgrade any application and secondly, if one application crashes, the other applications running in the Tomcat container will be inaccessible.
  4. JIRA 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 JIRA to use an external database.
  5. Minimum screen resolution of 1024 x 768 (when these browsers are maximised).
  6. Firefox version 3.6.0 possesses a bug that could result in data loss when used with JIRA. If you use this version of Firefox, please either upgrade your version of Firefox to 3.6.2 or refer to our Firefox 3.6.0 caveats document for more details about this issue and how to avoid it.
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