JIRA - Migration Server > Cloud

[Smita Kelkar]

We are migrating from Server to Cloud soon for one of our business unit and I have tried to study aspects for migration. I am creating this discussion to have your experiences on few of the concerns I realized.

To get better me can you help me on below topics

1. I am on version 7.4.3 and Atlassian recommends to upgrade to latest version before migrating . What are your experiences here?

• Do you think I need to go compulsorily to 7.11.0 ?
• Atlassian -> What is your recommendation?
• Do we have to change JVM time to UTC? What if we dont change?

I will update this discussion with more , hoping to come up with some knowledge that can help me as well as community

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Atlassian's recommendation is to go to the latest version of Jira before upgrade.

Sometimes, you can get away with a little bit lower.  For example, at the time of writing where 7.11 is new and on a 0 point release, you could probably get away with 7.10.  But I wouldn't recommend risking going lower.