How are you tracking EOL & new LTS releases?

[m93]

Just curious how you keep yourself notified about EOL and LTS releases. My experience is that it's not rare to have one or the other app outdated. But looking at few pages is ... meh.

Open to hear about your more or less nerdy solutions :) 

[Phill Fox · Accepted solution]

I personally watch this page for EOL changes https://confluence.atlassian.com/support/atlassian-support-end-of-life-policy-201851003.html.

With LTS the other responses given earlier around subscribing to releases are about as good as it gets.  

Although one place not yet mentioned is the information available on developer early access program at https://developer.atlassian.com/platform/marketplace/early-access-program/

[m93]

Hi @Phill Fox early access page is great finding due to rss links ( https://my.atlassian.com/download/feeds/jira-software.rss ) I can add them to dedicated channel to get information directly.

[Kevin Lange · Accepted solution]

For the last few years, I compare the versions we have running in test and production against the available versions published in the marketplace (via REST API query) as well as a hacked scrape of the LTS versions page.  All in a medium bash script (on Linux)

where detected_appname="jira" or "confluence" ,etc
and detected_svc_major_minor_version=8.20 

ATLASSIAN_MARKETPLACE_URL="https://marketplace.atlassian.com/rest/1.0"
ATLASSIAN_LTS_URL="https://confluence.atlassian.com/enterprise/long-term-support-releases-948227420.html"

latest_available_patch_version=$( curl --silent "${ATLASSIAN_MARKETPLACE_URL}/applications/${detected_appname}" | \
jq -jr --arg detected_svc_major_minor_version "${detected_svc_major_minor_version}" \
'.versions[] | select(.version|startswith($detected_svc_major_minor_version)) | .version,"\n"' | \
head -1 | sed 's/T.*$//g')

 Scraping the LTS versions from the HTML page is horrible but all I can do....

where svc_name_propercase = "Jira" or "Confluence" or "Bamboo"

# A hack to obtain current LTS versions. Atlassian does not document or
# offer a programmatic means of obtaining this information, so it must
# be scraped from their LTS page
latest_available_lts_version=$( curl --silent "${ATLASSIAN_LTS_URL}" | \
awk '/Latest Long Term Support releases/, /Previous Long Term Support releases/' | \
grep -oP "(?<=${svc_name_propercase} ).*(?=\ release notes)" | \
head -1 | \
awk '{ print $NF }' | \
awk -F. '{ printf "%s.%s\n", $1, $2 }' )

 This has been working pretty well and I run and check the output daily.

[m93]

Nice automation @Kevin Lange !

I assume this is part of some pipeline notifying about new release. Interesting approach.

[Dave Liao · Accepted solution]

@m93 - to keep track of releases in general for Jira and Confluence (on-premise), I "watch" each application's release notes page:

• Confluence (as of right now) - https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftware/jira-software-release-notes-776821069.html
• Jira (as of right now) - https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftware/jira-software-release-notes-776821069.html

Click Log In in the upper right and log in with your Atlassian ID.

Once logged in, click Watch.

Of course, you get notified for every release, not just LTS ones.

[Dave Liao]

My answer will no longer apply as of February 15th, because Atlassian is removing the ability to watch those pages on that date.

I have no idea why, either. 🤷 

[Max Deland · Accepted solution]

Hi @m93 ,

I'd suggest you subscribe to the Data Center community in order to get notified every time a new LTS (EOL is also part of these posts) is announced : https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Data-Center/gh-p/datacenter . 

Hope it help!

[m93]

Hi @Max Deland 

On it! Thanks for recommendation.

Anyone has different source/way?