JIRA Upgrade handbook

Thousands of software development and support teams use Atlassian’s JIRA project and issue tracking software to capture and organize issues, prioritize and take action on what’s important, and stay up-to-date with their teams’ activities.
If JIRA is mission-critical to your organization, you’ll want to use the latest version, to take full advantage of its power.
Because JIRA is a powerful product, upgrading it requires some expertise.
We’re going to share some of the best practices and checklists we’ve used in hundreds of installations, to safely and effectively upgrade JIRA with rapid success and happy developers!