Upgrade to newest JIRA

Question

Because of reported bugs in Tomcat we are going to upgrade our JIRA 6.3.13 system. As far as I can telle , JIRA 7.10 is the current version I found references to upgrade from 6.x to 7.1, but nothing about upgrading to 7.10. Is there a direct upgrade path? How do I find out what version of Tomcat is included with a specific JIRA Version? Any help is appreaciated.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

We also don't know if there will be a direct path from 7.0 to 8.0.  Hopefully there will, but having looked at the EAP, I would expect upgrades to be sloooooooooow.

Alexis Robert · Answer

good catch @Nic Brough -Adaptavist-, I'll edit my answer to correct this.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

No.  The recommended route is 6.3 -> 6.4 -> 7.0 -> 7.anything-higher.

You might be able to skip 6.3 -> 6.4, but do not skip 7.0, or you will end up with problems in the target version.