Unable to unarchive a Release that I see was archived in the System Log

Hi @Diane Potter  !

I'd recommend checking a couple of quick things first to pinpoint what happened:

1. Check the Audit Log for Deletion: Search the Audit Log specifically for events related to "Project version" to confirm whether the version was actually archived or if it was permanently deleted after the fact.
2. Clear Filter Restrictions: Go to your project's Releases page (or Versions view) and make sure the filter dropdown is set to All statuses. Sometimes a filtered view hides archived releases from the list.

If it was indeed only archived and hasn't been deleted, ensuring the view filter is set to All statuses should make it show up so you can unarchive it.

Hope this helps!

Hi Diane,

Adding to Jean's answer - if the filter tip doesn't turn it up, the REST API will settle it in one call, because it ignores the Releases page filtering completely.

    GET /rest/api/2/project/YOURKEY/versions

That returns every version on the project, archived ones included, each with an "archived": true/false flag. I checked this on my own instance (Jira DC 11.3) before answering rather than trusting the docs: I created a version, archived it, and the endpoint still returned it with "archived": true.

So it splits your problem in two:

If the release shows up there, it was archived and not deleted, and it's only the Releases page hiding it. You can bring it back straight from the API without touching the UI:

    PUT /rest/api/2/version/{id}

    {"archived": false}

That returned 200 for me and the version came out of the archive.

If it doesn't show up there at all, it was deleted rather than archived, and Jean's audit log check is the right next step - deleting a version writes a different event than archiving one.

One small thing: the id you need for the PUT is the numeric version id from the GET response, not the version name.

Hope that helps.