What does > mean when it comes between fixVersion and latestReleasedVersion()?

[Luke Thomas Dunne]

I'm trying to find out what this means in JQL:

fixVersion > latestReleasedversion()

actually I want to understand the question being asked in simple terms.

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Luke Thomas Dunne -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

The help for JQL describes that operator with the fixVersion field as:

Note that the comparison operators (e.g. ">") use the version order that has
been set up by your project administrator, not a numeric or alphabetic order.

What this means is the versions are created in a particular order by the admin, and that order has nothing to do with the versions' Name, Release Date, or any other field users can enter.  The admin can later re-order the versions by drag-and-drop on the Release page.

And so that JQL allegedly returns any versions which are later in the order than the latest release version; again, "latest" is based on the order of the versions in the list and has nothing to do with the Release Date.

I just tried this, expecting it to return what the help says, and it returned nothing for me for Jira Cloud.

Kind regards,
Bill

[Luke Thomas Dunne]

Hi @Bill Sheboy

Thank you for your quick answer, I also then came to the same conclusion.

All the best,

Luke