Support Jira 8 beta?

[koenlek]

Jira 8 beta (8.0.0-m0030) was released on 13-12-2018, see:

• https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/download-eap
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjira/preparing-for-jira-8-0-955171967.html

From this post, it seems the final release will be sometime between now and end of January.

It would be nice to start seeing support in this docker image for it, as our company plans to soon switch to Jira 8.

Note that Jira Cloud has already switched to Jira 8 (check the footer, at this moment its on 8.0.0-m0028, slightly older than the Jira Server Beta version 8.0.0-m0030):

• https://jira.atlassian.com/secure/Dashboard.jspa (check the footer)

Any plans to start updating/testing this docker image (and docker-atlassian-jira-software) to support Jira 8?

Please note that this issue seems to relate to the closed issue #77.

[koenlek]

Just a head up, the release candidate has just been released (8.0.0-m0033), so that should be perfect to try you dockerized jira image against to see if everything still works fine.

[DRoet]

According to the Jira upgrade notes this should also make it possible to upgrade to openjdk:11-alpine

edit: oh it seems like there is no openjdk:11-alpine image yet, so nevermind

[koenlek]

Jira 8 just got officially released.

[jmerle]

The Circle CI configuration seems to automatically check for and deploy updates every night between 12:00am and 12:10am GMT+1, so the image will probably be updated to version 8 in about 70 minutes from now.

[koenlek]

Okay, nice. I'm curious if it would work straight away without any upgrades to the base img though.

[jmerle]

I can atleast confirm that cptactionhank/docker-atlassian-jira-software works fine on version 8 after a fresh installation. I am guessing upgrading from a 7.x instance would work fine too.

[gsalaberry]

I would first like to thank Martin for this contribution.

My question is about the upgrade procedure for the latest version from 7.12.
May I drop container and image and create new one from latest version image (8.1)?
The data volume persists my data and configuration and the upgrade of them will be performed on Jira startup?

Thanks.

[DRoet]

@gsalaberry you might want to look at the upgrade notes to 8.0:
https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftware/jira-software-8-0-x-upgrade-notes-957981660.html

but in short, yes the steps you described are good, just make sure you create backups beforehand and check if your plugins/add-ons are compatible with 8+

[gsalaberry]

Thanks @DRoet, it's works fine.