JIRA 8.0

Question

Hi !!

Good day, We are in process of Cloud migration. As part of latest upgrade , we are upgrading from 7.3.2 to 8.0. Please find our data base details and let us know any impact on database.

Any special attention is  required from DBA (any new database version/driver etc .. )at the time of upgrade to JIRA 8.0

[Database details redacted for security purposes - MvdB]

Also  latest JVM version to use or we can continue with 1.8.

Thanks in advance.

Regards

Kiran

Andy Heinzer · Answer

Starting with Jira 7.5, Atlassian started moving away from the jtds driver for MS SQL databases and instead Jira started bundling the official Microsoft driver for that database type.  As a result of this, you will need to update your dbconfig.xml that Jira is using to a different format in order to correctly reference the new database driver in use.

This is noted in the JIRA Software 7.5.x upgrade notes.

Information for administrators

New JDBC driver for Microsoft SQL Server

We've shipped a new driver for Microsoft SQL Server, which requires that you update the driver's URL in the dbconfig.xml file. In most cases, it's enough to run the JIRA configuration tool, which will update the URL automatically, but if you've customized the URL by adding some properties to it, you might need to make the changes manually. For more details on how to do this, see Updating JDBC URL.

When you start JIRA after the upgrade, you'll get an error message until you fix this issue.

It might be a good idea to also review the other release notes and upgrade notes for all the versions in between your 7.3.x and the current versions.  You can find these under: Jira Software release notes

I have also redacted your database server address from this question.

Cheers,

Andy

sai kiran_noa6so · Answer

Thank you for feed back. Since its version 8. I am going to upgrade on test server  then only will decide to go or no go

Ismael Jimoh · Answer

You can also read this document for preparing your test server for JIRA 8.

* Release note