Upgrade from 6.3.13 to 8.0

[ICT Deutschland]

Hello everybody,

we are currently running Jira 6.3.13 and we want to upgrade to 8.0. Can I do this upgrade directly? Has someone already tried this and can share his experience? Or would you recommend to do a stepped upgrade?

Any hint is highly appreciated.

regards

Michael

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

You cannot go direct, there are known problems if you skip upgrade steps.

You must go from 6.1 to 6.4, then to 7.0.  I am not sure if there is a minimum recommended 7.x version to take to 8.0 yet - it's not been around long enough!  (It took quite a while to find out that if you went from 6.4 to 7.10+ direct, you ended up with scheme problems).  I would therefore strongly recommend going from 7.0 to 7.13, then to 8.

[Mark Ahnell]

@ICT Deutschland , anything you can share with us on the approach Nic recommended?

• 6.4 to 7.0
• 7.0 to 7.13
• 7.13 to 8.0

[ICT Deutschland]

Hi @Sid,

Hi @Nic Brough -Adaptavist-,

thank you both for the help. I think I will try the upgrade steps recommended by Nic. I will report if it has worked.

kind regards

Michael

[Dimitri Sedich]

Hi @ICT Deutschland ,

You wanted to give a report...

[Sid]

Hi @ICT Deutschland,

check out this - https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftware/jira-software-8-0-x-upgrade-notes-957981660.html?_ga=2.62780590.361085737.1550034770-970347695.1543609376

We have performed from 7.10.2 to 8.0. So I cannot answer to your specific question. I guess you can directly upgrade to 8.0 (highly recommended to test). There are still few plugins that are unsupported

[Sid]

@ICT Deutschland, I didn't any article that showing direct upgrade from 6 to 8. But from the old documents I can say it is better to go to 7.X and then to 8 as Nic mentioned.

This article might help you to choose the correct version to upgrade (7.X)

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver073/upgrading-jira-applications-861253088.html