Moving from 7.3 to 7.13. What is the best path?

[Basil Baluta]

So how do we upgrade this? 7.3 -> 7.4? 7.4 -> 7.5? Or can we do some major jumps to get to 7.3? 

[Taranjeet Singh]

@Basil Baluta You can upgrade to any later version of JIRA Software or JIRA Core directly, if you are using JIRA 7.0 or later currently.

See this JIRA upgrade guide: https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/upgrading-jira-applications-manually-938846939.html#UpgradingJiraapplicationsmanually-1.Determineyourupgradepath

In your case, since you are using JIRA 7.3, you can upgrade directly to 7.13, providing you meet the Supported platforms for JIRA 7.13.

[Taranjeet Singh]

@Basil Baluta If my answer was helpful for you, can you please mark it as accepted for the others in the community to follow?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Actually, so far, the whole of 7 is compatible on upgrades.  So, at the most extreme (for now) you can take a 7.0 system and go straight to 7.13, no intermediates needed at all.  Same for 7.3 - it should just go straight to 7.13 perfectly happily. 

Note, this is from the docs, not experience - so far the largest I've done is 7.0 to 7.12.  Worked fine, so I have no qualms saying 7.3 -> 7.13 should be fine too.