Automating mass release version creation

[Jaret Van Zee]

Could I automatically create release versions for all of 2025 that starts every Wednesday and goes to the next Tuesday, with every release version's name being the due date.

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Jaret Van Zee 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

It is possible to use Automation Rules to create Versions.

https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/components-in-jira-automation/

https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/jira-automation-actions/#Create-version

Refer to this post for some ideas on how to construct a rule that would repeate an action a number of times.

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Automation-to-create-weekly-tasks-for-all-the-year/qaq-p/2646117

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Hi @Jaret Van Zee - I do not think this is possible with just out-of-the-box Jira functionality (for example by just using Jira automation rules).

My proposed alternative would be to code it yourself (e.g. through a Python script or a language of your choosing) using the Jira Cloud API and the end-point to create a version and just loop through every Wednesday for 2025 to create the release versions.

If you're not that comfortable with coding, you might be able to do it using Postman and data collections (with the Wednesday start dates and Tuesday end dates listed in a file) and feed them through as a kind of "load test" when hitting the version API.