Jira Server and Data Center 8.0 is here - and it's fast!

[Jess Seitz]

 

Hello, Atlassian community! 

We're excited to share the Jira Server and Data Center 8.0 platform release. With 8.0, teams will be able to work more productively and scale their work faster, with less administrative overhead. Head over to our blog to learn about: 

• Jira's speedy new engine and the resulting performance highlights
• Faster searches, boards, and backlogs
• Jira mobile apps (beta)
• Less chatty email notifications
• New priority icons
• Easier maintenance for admins 
• and more!

Read the blog

We want to hear what you think! What's the highlight of 8.0 for you? Any questions for the Jira team? Leave them here. We'll be back in a couple of weeks for an AMA, too!

[P SRINIVASA RAO]

Hello Ms.Jessica ,

Its good to hear that we've stepped up to one more level. I'm pretty interested in the speedy performance & faster searches ,boards &backlogs to see in jira. Its happy to hear the pain points has been fixed in our latest version.

Cheers to all our Atlassian Family..!

Regards,

Srinivasa

[Jess Seitz]

Glad to hear @P SRINIVASA RAO! 

[Gonchik Tsymzhitov]

Hi @Jess Seitz , 

Thanks for that! 

I see it is starting to be really speedy. BTW, do you know from which version Atlassian planning to provide some LTS version ? Or some changes for Enterprise support ?

Cheers,

Gonchik

[Jess Seitz]

Hi @Gonchik Tsymzhitov apologies for the delay on my response. Did you have a chance to see our announcement about our next Enterprise release, Jira Software 8.5? You can find more information in this post, we're targeting late Q3 this year: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Enterprise/Upcoming-Enterprise-releases-targeting-Q3-2019-Jira-Software-8-5/gpm-p/1063210