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This page tells you how to upgrade the Universal Plugin Manager (UPM).

Background

The UPM is itself a plugin. In order to upgrade the UPM, you need to install a new version of the UPM JAR file. Note that the tool used to install and manage plugins is the UPM itself.

The UPM is shipped with your application. In most cases, there is no need to upgrade the UPM. When you upgrade your application, you will automatically receive the relevant version of the UPM.

Sometimes, however, we do discover a problem with the UPM and we may ask you to upgrade your version of the UPM plugin.

Upgrading the UPM

Follow the steps below to upgrade the Universal Plugin Manager in JIRA, Confluence, FishEye or Crucible.

To upgrade the UPM:

  1. Download the latest version of the UPM plugin from the Atlassian Plugin Exchange.
  2. Log in to your application as a system administrator.
  3. Go to the plugins section on your application's administration screen. This is the Universal Plugin Manager.
  4. Click 'Upload Plugin'.
  5. Browse to the UPM plugin JAR that you downloaded in step 1, and upload the JAR into the application.
  6. Restart the application.
  7. If you are upgrading the UPM in Confluence 3.4.x, restart Confluence a second time. (See bug report CONF-22323. Note that this bug affects Confluence versions in the 3.4.x line only.)

Alternative Ways of Upgrading the UPM

If for some reason you cannot use the upgrade method described above, you can use the following methods instead.

Fallback method for upgrading the UPM in JIRA:

  1. Download the latest version of the UPM plugin from the Atlassian Plugin Exchange.
  2. Copy the plugin JAR file into your JIRA home directory:
    <JIRA-HOME>\plugins\installed-plugins
  3. Restart JIRA.

Fallback method for upgrading the UPM in Confluence:

  1. Download the latest version of the UPM plugin from the Atlassian Plugin Exchange.
  2. Go to this URL on your Confluence site: 
    http://<YOUR_CONFLUENCE_SITE>/admin/viewplugins.action
  3. The earlier version of the Confluence 'Plugin Manager' appears. Click 'Browse', find the UPM plugin JAR that you downloaded in step 1, and upload the JAR into Confluence.
  4. Restart Confluence.

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