Updating from the v.4.3.4 of JIRA to the latest version of JIRA

Question

What's the latest version of JIRA?

Which way would you prefer ? By uninstalling the old version and installing the latest version of JIRA or by just upgrading to the latest version of JIRA. I want to prevent the data loss and ı want to upgrade without error.

My system is mysql database and windows 2003 server.

Thanks.

Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist] · Answer

Did you read the above notes? Unless you change the server or DB or indexs/attachments path, upgrade utility can be used for 4.3+ to 5.0.

Kerim Öztürk · Answer

Thanks for answers.

If I uninstall whole v.4.3.4 and connect to data base after install v.5.0.6, is it right ?

Norman Abramovitz · Answer

5.0;.6

You just need to follow the upgrade guide.   Just make sure you make all the backups,  I have run into unknnown file/directory locking issues where I needed to restore and try again at a later date on our windows 2003 server.

Also make sure you read the all the upgrade release notes to see if there will be any issues.