Updating apps
We recommend keeping your apps (also known as add-ons or plugins) up to date. Marketplace vendors can release updates to their apps, independent of application updates.
If UPM can connect to the Marketplace, it will notify you when a new version of an installed app is available. Only versions that are compatible with your current application version will be displayed.
You can update apps individually, or all at once.
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This page describes updating user-installed apps (also known as add-ons or plugins), not the process for updating your Atlassian host application. When planning to upgrade your host application itself, you can check the compatibility of your installed apps against the target version. See Checking Add-on Compatibility for Application Upgrades for more information.
Updating an app
To update an app:
- Log into your Atlassian application as a user with administrative privileges.
- From the top navigation bar in your application, choose
> Add-ons or Manage apps. - Choose Action required from the drop-down menu.
- Locate the app you want to update.
- Click the Update button next to the app you want to update.
The UPM downloads and applies the latest version of the app. When finished, a success message appears.
Updating all apps
To apply updates to all apps at once:
- Log into your Atlassian application as a user with administrative privileges.
- From the top navigation bar in your application, choose > Add-ons or Manage apps
- Choose Action required from the drop-down menu.
- Click the Update All button to update every app to the latest version.
- UPM updates all eligible apps.
- the app was free, but has changed to paid
- your current app license doesn't allow upgrades to that particular version.
Updating apps by file upload
Instead of updating an app automatically (that is, by using the Update button), you can update it by manually loading the updated JAR file to the application. The update procedure is identical to the one for installing by file upload. When you perform this procedure for an existing app, the old app version is removed from the file system, and the new one is added.
You don't normally need to remove the out-of-date app JAR from the system, as long as the app developer has incremented the version identifier within the app descriptor. If you have problems with the update that you think are related to version issue conflicts, contact the app developer.
To update an app by file upload:
- Log into your Atlassian application as a user with administrative privileges.
- From the top navigation bar in your application, choose > Add-ons or Manage apps.
- Choose Upload add-on or Upload app.
- Locate the file then click Upload.
The app uploads and installs, and the latest version of the JAR or OBR replaces the outdated version.
You can also specify a URL to your JAR or OBR file, instead of downloading the file, and re-uploading it.
For more information see Installing Marketplace apps.
Enabling automatic updates
Administrators can choose to enable automatic updates. Automatic updates are disabled by default, and not all apps are able to be updated automatically.
To enable automatic updates:
- Log into your Atlassian application as a user with administrative privileges.
- From the top navigation bar in your application, choose > Add-ons or Manage apps.
- Click the Settings link at the bottom of the page.
- Enable the Automatically Update Atlassian-Selected Apps option.
- Click Apply.
When UPM applies an update automatically, it logs the event in the audit log and generates a notification.