Start Your Upgrade: Bitbucket Data Center 9.4 LTS is Now Available!

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Hello Community! 👋

We’re excited to announce that Bitbucket 9.4 is now live as the latest Bitbucket Data Center Long Term Support (LTS) release!

Why choose a Long Term Support release?

Upgrading to a Long Term Support release provides you with continued access to critical security, stability, data integrity and performance fixes for the full two years before this version reaches its end of life. It enables you to move quickly when a high-impact bug fix, or security fix is ported over and released for upgrading.

What’s New in Bitbucket 9.4 LTS?

Developer and Admin Experience

• Multiline Suggestions and Comments: With multiline suggestions and comments, developers can now provide detailed feedback in code review across multiple lines, ensuring clarity and precision in your communication.

• Rolling Upgrades for Mirror Farms: Simplify maintenance and minimize downtime with seamless upgrades, keeping your systems running smoothly.

• Reviewer Groups as Code Owners: Streamline code reviews by automatically assigning the right reviewers, enhancing efficiency and code quality.

• Filter Out Merge Commits: Simplify your commit history view by unchecking the new "Show merge commits" box. This feature allows end users and admins to focus solely on the team's commits, making it easier to track changes and streamline code reviews.

Security and Compliance

• Two-Step Verification: Fortify account security with an additional layer of protection, safeguarding your data and systems.

• Enhanced Database Security: Protect sensitive information with improved security measures for database-stored secrets, ensuring compliance with industry standards.

• Secure Administrator Sessions: Enhance compliance with security policies by securing admin sessions with websudo.

• Securing the bitbucket.properties File: Automatically secure sensitive properties in the bitbucket.properties file, enhancing the protection of configuration data.

• User Directory Password Encryption: Encrypt plaintext external user directory passwords, like LDAP, using AES. Ensure encryption keys in the shared home directory are part of your backup strategy.

• Branch Creation Permissions: Restrict branch creation to authorized users, applying permissions to specific patterns or models. Unauthorized attempts result in an error, ensuring secure and controlled branch management.

Performance and Scaling

• Support for Multiple Availability Zones: Increase resilience and reduce latency by distributing Bitbucket Mesh across multiple zones, ensuring optimal performance.

• Storing Git LFS Objects in S3: Optimize storage and retrieval of large files with seamless Amazon S3 integration, enhancing your workflow efficiency.

• Atlassian Data Center Platform 7: Improves the quality of our response to security changes with reduced disruption and breaking changes for Atlassian Marketplace apps.

Monitoring, Insights, and Troubleshooting

• Security Monitoring and Alerts: Stay ahead of potential threats with real-time monitoring and alerting capabilities, ensuring your systems are secure and reliable.

Plan ahead for Bitbucket 8.9 LTS support EOL

For customers currently on Bitbucket version 8.9, a quick reminder that the support end of life (EOL) date set for that version will be 12 April 2025.  Upgrading to Bitbucket Data Center 9.4 LTS is a great chance to get all the latest features and enhancements whilst ensuring the security and performance of your product.

Ready to Upgrade?

Ensure your systems are secure and efficient by upgrading to Bitbucket 9.4 LTS today! For more details, visit our Bitbucket Data Center 9.4 release notes.

Thanks for being part of our community and we hope you enjoy Bitbucket 9.4 LTS!

Bitbucket Data Center Team

[Kent Rogers]

When will Bitbucket 9.4 be added to the Long Term Support releases page (https://confluence.atlassian.com/enterprise/atlassian-enterprise-releases-948227420.html)?