Hey there, Data Center community!
I’m excited to announce that Jira Software and Jira Service Management Data Center 10.0 are now available! This platform release delivers significant platform-level improvements for Jira, including security and compliance enhancements, increased scalability, and new productivity capabilities for end-users.
Platform releases drive significant value by allowing us to include multiple backwards-incompatible changes (or “breaking changes”) which establish a foundation for continuous improvement and value in future Data Center releases. Read on to explore how Jira 10.0 empowers growing enterprises to remain confident in their security posture while empowering users with productivity features optimised for easy collaboration.
Jira Service Management 6.0 was renamed to Jira Service Management 10.0
To streamline Jira Software and Jira Service Management releases, we renamed Jira Service Management 6.0 to Jira Service Management 10.0. It's simply a name change; no major compatibility issues are expected. More about the name change
Security and Compliance
Jira evolves to enhance security. Release 10.0 is the most secure yet, with updates to strengthen security. Safeguard critical applications and data with these enhancements:
Upgrade to Platform 7
Upgrades to Data Center’s shared stack of third-party dependencies resolves technical debt and removes application Gray APIs.
Upgrade to Groovy 4
We’re upgrading from Groovy 2 to 4 in Jira Service Management 10.0 to improve security, functionality, and syntax support.
Allowlist Velocity files on the file system
We're enhancing installation directories for Data Center products to improve security and enable customers to verify installations.
New default endpoint security annotations
We're introducing new annotations to enhance endpoint security, providing better access control. Revised to restrict access to intended users only.
Productivity and Ease of Use
Jira 10.0 empowers users to communicate more effectively and in their preferred medium. To increase the quality of how teams can collaborate, we’ve added some highly-requested features to the 10.0 release, such as:
Turn off the lights with the dark theme beta
Users can choose between a light and dark theme as their preferred interface, which helps with improved screen focus, reduced eye strain, and increased contrast for better accessibility.
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Because this feature is a beta release, some areas aren’t supported yet.
Avoid surprises with the change calendar
By creating freeze and maintenance windows in the change calendar, you can minimize service disruptions and efficiently plan changes to critical systems.
Request Type as a setup field.
We’ve added the Request type field in the issue view to streamline the experience of submitting requests.
Scalability
Jira 10.0 enhances administrators' insight into operations, boosts data control, and improves overall performance, resulting in increased productivity due to enhanced speed and usability.
View all assets imports from one place
Now, view status, history, and schedule of imports for all object schemas in one place. Easily schedule imports without conflicts. Customize imports for notifications on status updates to take prompt action with minimal effort.
Supported third-party platforms
We updated the application's supported platforms to ensure compatibility. This expands Jira's compatibility with secure and reliable platforms in your organization.
Java 17 becomes the default
Jira Software 10.0 and Jira Service Management 10.0 have been recompiled in Java 17 which has become the default language level. This means that earlier versions of Java will no longer be supported.
Frontend API changes
We’re improving and updating the code-sharing section of the Jira Data Center front-end API.
OpenAPI Standard for REST API documentation
A modernized look and feel for our REST API documentation now on the Swagger framework, making our API docs easier to navigate, find examples, and copy snippets from.
Many of you must be eagerly anticipating an upgrade, you can head over to our downloads page for the latest version of Jira or read the Jira Software and Jira Service Management release notes to learn more.
Thanks for being part of our Data Center community and please share any questions or comments below!
Jira Data Center Team
