Announcing: New search API for Jira Data Centre 10.4

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What’s changing

The new search API is now available as a replacement to the current Lucene search and index API which is now deprecated with the Jira 10.4 release.

The search API provides a comprehensive, agnostic and efficient index and search access method, addressing the limitations of the current access methods. This change additionally enables us to swap the underlying search platform with OpenSearch in future milestones.

Read the Jira search API upgrade notes for important info on the new search and index access methods.

What’s expected

As customers upgrade to Jira Data Center 10.4 we expect all apps to switch to the new search API because the older Lucene-specific methods are now deprecated and will be removed in future.

Timeline

Release of the search API is the first milestone in our larger program to replace the Lucene indexing process with OpenSearch for customers who choose to do so for Jira releases before Jira 11.0, as announced last year. From Jira 11.0, we'll stop providing Lucene as a dependency, and we’ll remove all APIs exposing Lucene.

We'll keep you posted as we progress further.

[Morten Stensgaard]

@Anubhav Dutt A bit confused on the latest news around the search engine within Jira - Personally thought OpenSearch was an Opt-In offering in DC? But now i read Lucene is being decommed - Is this change only for the API side for vendors/apps or will the search functionality within Jira change?

So how does this eventually impact the End-users experience on Jira DC?

Will they get?

• Better/More accurate search results?
• Better filtering/configurations options for searching?
• Faster searches?

Kind regards

Morten Stensgaard