Can I upgrade JIRA from 4.2 to 5.2 without upgrading the installed Confluence?

[Munteanu Mihai-Ovidiu]

Can I upgrade JIRA from 4.2 to 5.2 without upgrading the installed Confluence?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Ok, good, then yes, you should be able to upgrade Jira quite a bit, while leaving Confluence as it is.

My worry was that you might be using Jira's user database for Confluence users - if you take Jira higher than 4.2, you have to upgrade Confluence to 3.5 first (or do a really dodgy hack in the Confluence code...)

Be sure to check your target version of Crowd supports Confluence 3.4 AND your target version of Jira.

[Munteanu Mihai-Ovidiu]

OK, Nic... Thank you very much! The version of Crowd should be supported because it has just been upgraded! Thanks again, it was very helpfull!

[Munteanu Mihai-Ovidiu]

3.4.9 is my Confluence version! And user access is done with Crowd!

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Possibly. What exactly is your version of Confluence, and how are you doing user access? (Crowd/LDAP/Jira database/other)

[Munteanu Mihai-Ovidiu]

I am trying an upgrade of JIRA. My actual version is 4.2.4 and I want a newer version (newer than 5.2). But I want to use the same version of Confluence (3.x - as it is now), because I don't want to pay again the plugins for confluence (they are more expensive than the ones for JIRA).