Documentation for GreenHopper 6.2.x. Documentation for earlier versions of GreenHopper is [available too].

Upgrading from GreenHopper 6.0.x or 5.10.x or 5.9.x or 5.8.x to GreenHopper 6.1.1

Please follow the upgrade instructions in the GreenHopper Installation and Upgrade Guide, plus note the following:

Compatible with JIRA 5.0.x and 5.1.x

GreenHopper 6.1.1 is only compatible with JIRA 5.0.x and higher. Please note that GreenHopper Simplified Workflow is only available for JIRA versions 5.0.4 and onwards, due to a bug in one of the libraries that JIRA uses.

Re-index recommended if using Epics

A JIRA re-index is recommended before you start using epics.

Re-index required if upgrading from 5.9.7 or older

A JIRA re-index is required for anyone upgrading from a GreenHopper version older than 5.9.7.

If upgrading from 5.8.3, manual upgrade is required

If you are upgrading from GreenHopper 5.8.3, please:

  1. Download GreenHopper manually from the Atlassian Marketplace.
  2. Install it using the instructions for 'Installing your own plugin' — see Managing JIRA's Plugins.

Other known issues

Before you begin the upgrade, please check for known issues. Sometimes we find out about a problem with the latest version of GreenHopper after we have released the software. In such cases we publish information about the known issues in the GreenHopper Knowledge Base. Please check for known issues and follow the instructions as necessary.

If you encounter a problem during the upgrade and cannot solve it, please create a support ticket and one of our support engineers will help you.

Upgrading from GreenHopper 5.7.x or earlier

In addition to the above, please read the GreenHopper 5.8 Upgrade Notes and the Upgrade Notes for every version you are skipping during the upgrade. The complete list of Upgrade Guides is available here.

Re-index and restart required

Please re-index and restart JIRA after ugrading to GreenHopper 6.1.1 from GreenHopper 5.7.x or earlier.

1 Comment

  1. Andrew Morin

    Jan 05, 2013

    Just want to note because I didn't see it above that I am running JIRA 5.2.2 and upgraded GH from 6.0 to 6.1.1 and I had to restart JIRA. See attached image from when I tried the enable button after it failed to start after initial upgrade. I am on Windows 2008 R2 server with SQL 2008 db.The capthca stinks...rs



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