Announcing Data Center Jira and Jira Service Management 11.3 as the next Long Term Support releases

[Alex Wieczorek]

The Jira Data Center team is pleased to announce the upcoming Long Term Support (LTS) releases for Jira Software Data Center and Jira Service Management Data Center, scheduled for December 2025.

These LTS releases are designed to offer you enhanced stability and extended support, so that your teams can focus on what they do best. With these versions, you'll benefit from the latest features, enhanced security investments, and performance improvements, all backed by our dedicated support.

We are committed to helping you make the transition as smooth as possible, and our team will be providing detailed upgrade guides and resources to assist you every step of the way.

Stay tuned for more updates, and thank you for choosing Jira to power your workflows.

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What you can expect

If you're upgrading from the previous LTS, the latest version will include all of our extended efforts throughout the year. Below are a few highlights, though not a comprehensive list of all the improvements in the upcoming release.

Monitoring

• Automation queue supportability improvements

• New Jira Stats logging location

• View your repo health with Sync history

• Check indexing stats in JMX

Security

• Rotate your encryption keys like clockwork

• Secure app installations with app signing

• New entry in deserialization blocklist

• Strict permission handling in Advanced Roadmaps for Jira

• Manage your integrations and automations with service accounts

• Sign SAML authentication requests

• React 18.3 and Atlaskit upgrade

• Connect securely with OAuth 2.0 for app links

• Strengthen sysadmin and OS access separation

• JSM:

  • New REST API scopes for service accounts

  • Link your Jira with Confluence through OAuth 2.0

Experience

• Customize the order of issue link types

• Save time and space with more control over data pipeline exports

• Remove deleted users marked as inactive

• New look and feel for Advanced Roadmaps for Jira

• Dates now follow profile timezone in Jira automation

• Redirect email replies for Jira notifications

• Introducing the Jira Data Center connector for Rovo

• Upgrade from ProForma Lite to ProForma Full

• Simplification of multipart handling in WebWork

• Find missing issues in Advanced Roadmaps for Jira

• Jira:

  • Jira Mobile plugin removal

Search

• New Search API now available

• New Aggregate API now available

• Welcome OpenSearch in Jira Data Center

• Indexing and snapshots improved with OpenSearch

• Implement custom query mappers for your app

Performance and scale management

• Async webhooks are now default in Jira Data Center

• Improve Jira performance with Instance optimizer

• New backend issue limit for Advanced Roadmaps for Jira

• Faster user management

• Protect your Jira nodes with JQL resilience

• Optimize your instance with safeguards

• One place to clean them all

• Jira:

  • New limit of 10,000 items on a board

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We appreciate you taking the time to read our Jira LTS announcement. Be sure to follow the Data Center roadmap, along with the Jira Software and Jira Service Management release notes, to see all the features included in the LTS. Bug fixes and security improvements coming with this LTS release can also be found in the release notes. 

Best,

The Jira Data Center team

[Jeramy]

Too bad the .exe method for upgrading is no longer supported. Makes upgrading to one last LTS more complicated than it needs to be. :(

[Andreas Ebert]

@Jeramy, the .exe is still available, if you know the URL:

1. Start downloading the .zip variant, and copy its URL.
2. In the URL replace ".zip" with "-x64.exe", and download the .exe file

[Jeramy]

That is awesome! Thank you. :)

[Charlie Misonne]

That's great! We've been looking forward to this.

[MidnightExe]

Any info for an exact date in December? 

[Sebastian B]

Once released, what would be the exact EOS dates for Jira Software and JSM?

[Normann P_ Nielsen _Netic_]

Seems many Apps from Vendors are not compliant yet - I belive I have +10 App that are not compatible with 11.3 yet, and I do fear that the ability to actually upgrade and utilize is somewhat in the future .. if ever:

Not Compatible:

Adaptavist ScriptRunner for JIRA

API Token Authentication for Jira

Clone Plus for Jira

DarkTheme

Elements Connect

Exalate

Gauge Gadget

Jira Cloud Migration Assistant

Jira Misc Custom Fields

JIRA Toolkit Plugin

JSU Automation Suite for Jira Workflows

Message field

Refined for Jira Service Management

SIL Engine

Time to SLA

Trello Connector for Jira Server

Universal gadget for JIRA

User Mentioned

I guess the reasons could be several... DC sunsetting, Cloud Focus etc etc.... 

[Normann P_ Nielsen _Netic_]

My previous comment goes pretty much for https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Data-Center-discussions/Announcing-Confluence-10-2-as-the-next-Long-Term-Support-release/td-p/3067724/jump-to/first-unread-message also...