which version of jira is stable in market right now?

[Surender Reddy]

Hi All,

            May i know the most stable version of JIRA Software (Server) we have in market now ?

We are planning to Upgrade from JIRA 7.3.3  and wish we Upgrade to the one which was more tested and affected with less Bugs.

I appreciate all your opinions and suggestions.

I have options of 7.12.3 or 7.11.0 or 7.6.9?

[Sloan]

The next enterprise Release will come in 2019. Enterprise Releases get support for two years.

If you can't wait, follow the suggestions given by the fellow Community members here. :)

[Peter DeWitt]

We upgrade in order to take advantage of performance improvements and bug fixes. We are on a quarterly schedule so we upgrade 4 times a year.  Sometimes there is new functionality that is nice too.  We had no issues on 7.10.x.

As far as prep, you should test the upgrade on a stage/dev/test server first.  Beyond this, you should always have a backup of your server and DB before you proceed.

[Gundlupet Sreenidhi]

The latest version of JIRA is 7.12.3. You can get it from here

I am running 7.12.2 without any problems.

[Peter DeWitt]

We're running 7.12.1 and things seem pretty good.  You're usually safe to grab anything that isn't the most recent or a x.0.  

[Rodrigo Cortez]

As of now, Jira 7.13.5 is the version to go.  Soon, however, 8.5 will be released. Stay tuned !

Please refer to @Jessica Seitz post Upcoming Enterprise releases targeting Q3 2019: Jira Software 8.5 & Jira Service Desk 4.5 for more details.

[Cristian Rosas [Tecnofor]]

If your priority is stability go to enterprise release 7.6, but I'd check the new features in the the releases notes for 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 7.10, 7.11 and 7.12. There are some interesting features that could make you change your mind

[Surender Reddy]

k good one sir.

[Surender Reddy]

7.6.x released in Jan 2018 is it a good idea to upgrade on it and also end of life also in nov 2019 ,

[Surender Reddy]

is this for different server upgradtion  but we are planning to upgrade in same server and we have a clone of dev env for first upgradation to test.

[Gundlupet Sreenidhi]

Here are the steps we usually follow: 

1. Back existing JIRA instance (in JIRA, Administration, Backup and Restore)
2. Stop existing JIRA
3. Create new DB instance for new JIRA
4. Install new JIRA
5. Create new home directory for new JIRA
6. Configure new JIRA to point to correct (new) JIRA home directory
7. Configure the server.xml, logging properties, etc.. for new JIRA
8. Start new JIRA
9. Configure new JIRA to work with new DB
10. install your plugins (also the latest compatible versions)
11. install all licenses
12. Restore data from old JIRA. (In JIRA, Administration, Backup and Restore) All plugins must be installed before you attempt a restore.
13. Modify/Update your workflows if required - usually if you have custom code with Scriptrunner.
14. Validate all data is available in the new JIRA.

Fall back process:

1. Stop new JIRA
2. Start old JIRA.

We usually have the new database created and ready before we start the upgrade process. We have about 2 hour downtime for installation, setup and validation.

[Sloan]

If you want the most stable and supported Jira release go with the current Atlassian Enterprise release. I recommend reading the page I linked. It explains what Enterprise Releases mean exactly.

Every Year Atlassian determines a New enterprise Release.

Cheers
Niklas

[Surender Reddy]

thank you for your reply helps me a lot any suggestions for organisation upgrade before starting . like backup or server space or downtime ,

[Gundlupet Sreenidhi]

If you are upgrading from different major versions (i.e: JIRA 6.x to JIRA 7.x), then you will have issues. 
In such case - you need to go from 6.x to 7.0 and then to 7.12
If you are going from 7.x to 7.12, you should not face any issues. follow the upgrade steps and you should be all good.

Look here for the info on Upgrading JIRA.

[Surender Reddy]

but 7.6 is enterprise release ,i think its first enterprise release but you shifted from 7.6 is there any problem with it . and also 7.10.x for few months any issues with it .please help me. 

[Surender Reddy]

did you face any issue in post upgradation process. like everyone says there will be some after upgradation mostly. if you have any i think it will not be that soomth.

[Peter DeWitt]

I'd try going straight to 7.12.x in a stage environment.

[Gundlupet Sreenidhi]

We went from 7.4 to 7.12

[Peter DeWitt]

i think we upgraded from from 7.6.x to 7.10.x and then 7.12.x a few months later

[Surender Reddy]

from which version you upgraded to 7.12.3

[Surender Reddy]

from which version you upgraded to 7.12.1