Introducing OpenSearch for Jira

[Will Yasvoin]

What’s changing

We’re making preparations to introduce OpenSearch as an opt-in feature for our customers in a future Jira Data Center release. With OpenSearch, we’re aiming to externalize indexing processes to support large customers in improving performance for their search- and index-related functions in Jira DC. We’ve already successfully rolled out OpenSearch to Confluence.

As a first milestone, we’ll be introducing the Jira search API. This API will encapsulate Lucene’s usage so that we can swap the search platform to OpenSearch in a later release. Partners, you’ll need to move to the Jira search API to minimize disruption to customers who take advantage of the OpenSearch engine capabilities.

Starting from Jira 11, we will stop providing Lucene as a dependency, and we’ll remove all APIs exposing Lucene. We’ll announce any deprecations soon after releasing Jira 10.3.

Timeline

This project has only just begun, so we don’t yet have a timeline. We wanted to give you as much advance notice about this feature as possible, and we’ll share a guide to help you migrate and test your apps as soon as it’s ready.

We’ll keep you updated on progress.