What's the best way to upgrade Jira from 4.4.3 to 5.2.11?

[Manohar Venkataraman]

I'm upgrading from an old version, and here is a case where the amount of information is overwhelming. Right now my plan is to perform the following actions in our development environment:

1. Backup everything

2. Upgrade to 5.0

3. Upgrade to 5.1

4. Upgrade to 5.2

5. Upgrade to 5.11

6. Upgrade Greenhopper straight to latest version 6.2.1 from 5.7.4

Does anyone have a better idea or is this the way to go? Having to review/upgrade all the intermittent versions e.g. 5.1.1 would be exhausting.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist] · Accepted solution]

You don't need to do this. You can go directly from 4.4.3 to 5.2.11.

Make sure you read all release notes and upgrade notes to understand the changes. Also, make sure the plugins, customizations are modified appropriately.

[Manohar Venkataraman]

Thanks. That's exactly what I was trying to find out.

[Cormant Systems Administrator]

Hi Manohar, thank you..

[Manohar Venkataraman]

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Upgrading+JIRA+Using+a+Rapid+Upgrade+Method

Make sure to check your admin project links as they might be broken, and we also found that IE 9 requires you to run in compatibility mode. We also found that we had never been connected to Atlassian directly in order to download plugins from the marketplace, where 6.0.1 makes it very clear as to whether you are connected or not. Still working on a few issues, but most of them are minor.

[Cormant Systems Administrator]

@Manohar, can you give me the link to your reference please, I also want to upgrade from 4.4.3 directly to 6.0.1

[Manohar Venkataraman]

Just as a follow up, I was able to migrate easily from 4.4.3 to 6.0.1 by following the upgrade notes directly. I'm having problems with the SSO/Siteminder integration due to opensymphony not being supported from 5.0 onwards but that is a separate issue.