Backward compatibility for JIRA 4.4.3

[Samuel Wayne]

Hi,

I see that jira on-demand version is updated from 4.4 to 5 today. I'm accessing JIRA through REST API v4.4 and the endpoint used is rest/api/2.0.alpha1/issue. Now this endpoint is not working. on-demand supports only rest/api/2/issue.

Is there any backward compatibility on REST, so I can continue using my old endpoint? Or should I update my system to support REST v5.

[Michael Knight · Accepted solution]

Hi Samuel,

You're probably best off either:

1. changing your URLs to the new version, as this will continue working through the 5.X JIRA versions; or
2. changing your URLs to use 'latest' instead of a particular version. This will keep working through 5.X and probably into future versions as well (although this isn't guaranteed). For example, https://example.atlassian.net/rest/api/latest/issue/FOO-1</li<>>

[Samuel Wayne]

Thanks Michael. I'm using the 'latest' in my URLs now. But I do see that the response of the REST URLs are also modified in v5. I had some processing done from the response returned by version 4.x URLs. So, I end up modifying the processing logic now..