Upgrade from Jira 6.4.5 to 7.13.0

Question

Hi All,

Is it possible to upgrade Jira software 6.4.5 to 7.13.0 directly? Is it necessary to upgrade in the following way: 6.4.5 -> 7.0 -> 7.5/7.6 -> 7.13

Thanks.

Radek Dostál · Accepted Answer

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver072/skipping-major-versions-when-upgrading-jira-applications-828787647.html

You should at minimum upgrade to 7.0.11 first. Otherwise you are risking that not all upgrades are done properly and your installation will fail somewhere.

See this post where Andy describes the process in better detail:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Questions/JIRA-upgrade-from-4-1-2-to-7-x/qaq-p/683601

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted Answer

Possible, yes.  But don't.  You must not skip 7.0, it will break in interesting ways later if you skip it.