Jira Upgradation from v7.11.1 to v8.5.3

[Manjunath R]

Hi Team,

We are using jira version 7.11.1 and we are planning to upgrade our instance to 8.5.3.
Should we do it in 2 hope 7.11.1 >> 7.13.11 >> 8.5.3 or we can do it in one hop directly from 7.11.1 to 8.5.3.
Kindly help us on this.

Regards,

Manjunath

[Andreas Lorz]

Hi @Manjunath R ,

we just updated our instance from 7.5.1 to 8.5.1 in one hop. The update worked quite well and our installation running fine so far with no big issues. 

I suggest you to simply give it a try on a non production environment installation. In this way you will see best what problems will occur.

Here is the Atlassian doc about what Vickey wrote: https://confluence.atlassian.com/enterprise/atlassian-enterprise-releases-948227420.html

[Manjunath R]

Thanks Andreas,
I think we can do it two ways
will test it in UAT and let you guys know my findings

[Vickey Palzor Lepcha]

I'd suggest 7.13 and then over to 8.5   - two hops.

[Manjunath R]

Hi Vickey,

Thanks for the response

Is there a technical reason/Purpose for doing it in two hopes.

[Vickey Palzor Lepcha]

Both 7.13 and 8.5 are Long Term Support Release.

An Atlassian Long Term Support release is a feature release that gets backported critical security updates and critical bug fixes during its entire two-year support window. If you can only upgrade once a year, consider upgrading to an LTS release