Upgrade & migrate 6.4 to 7.0

Question

Hello,

I'm planning to upgrade AND migrate my current JIRA 6.4 to a new server where i want to run 7.0. Can i do this in one go or should i first perform an upgrade to 7.0 on my current server? For example: when i export my database in 6.4, will a clean 7.0 install be able to import this format?

Thanks!

Jasper

Support Access 2 networks · Answer

Hi Daniel,

Currently my JIRA server is running on 6.4.12 and it's soon will be EOL. I want to upgrade to 7.0 and can't find the upgrade path from 6.4.12 to 7.0.0. Can I upgrade directly from 6.4.12 to 7.0 or do I need to do minor upgrades first?

Thanks in advance.

lukman abdul fa · Answer

Hi daniel ,

currently right now we had enterprise JIRA we had 100 users license,  the version of JIRA is 6.4.4

we are gonna planning to upgrade our JIRA to version 7 , our JIRA installed on ec2 servers amazon web services so the step that im gonna do is

* create image from the existing instance ec2 JIRA 
* load the image into new instance / new server 
* download new JIRA version 7 and install it untill finish
* running JIRA configuration tool.  to change the path / directory

so the question that im asking is ? 
 whats the impact for the licensed on the existing JIRA servers

Daniel Santos_157bm4 · Answer

Hello Jasper,

Yes, you can perform the migration and upgrade at same time as described in this document: Migrating JIRA to Another Server

Please be aware that there are many significant changes between 6.4 and 7.0, so I strongly recommend you to read all sections related to your product configuration at Atlassian Migration Hub before performing any tasks. It will be better to set a test instance, perform the upgrade there and study the changes before actually changing your production environment to it. Actually this is good practice for any upgrade.