Am I able to create private tasks in JIRA?

[Lewis Pugsley]

I was wondering if I would be able to create a private task within JIRA?

If not, would it be better to create a project for a user and apply restrictions purely to them so that the user can only create, view and edit tasks on that project for them?

[Sorin Sbarnea (Citrix) · Accepted solution]

It may sound as advetising as I wrote this utility which is able to upgrade Atlassian instances easily, and can even be used in crontab if you want:

https://bitbucket.org/phoebian/phoebian

Note: I use it in crontab for test instances and few less critical production ones. For normal production ones, I run it manually.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Er, you can just run the installers.   Most of them now ask if you want to upgrade an existing instance.