Does JIRA 5.2.11 supports Windows 2016 operating platform

[MikeA]

We're currently using JIRA 5.2.11 on a Windows 2008 server.  Our company is asking us to upgrade to a newer OS version.  Will JIRA 5.2.11 run on Windows Server 2016 ?  Or is 2012 the highest we can go?

Thanks

[Vickey Palzor Lepcha]

I'd actually look for upgrading JIRA as well - that seems to be a pretty old version.

[MikeA]

we're actually hoping to decommission JIRA in the next  6-months to a year as we move to  Team Foundation Server.  

[Vickey Palzor Lepcha]

6 months to a year is a pretty big time - I'm sure your OS upgrade is a pressing for you, but I would also advise you use a newer version of JIRA with Win2016.

One year of new JIRA experience wouldn't be bad and JIRA upgrade is a pretty smooth and easy practice.

[MikeA]

Thanks for the reply.  We'll look into upgrading JIRA and the OS to version 2016.

[Daniel Eads]

We maintain a Supported Platforms page for each version of Jira - check out the one for Jira 5.2 here.

The short answer is that since Jira is a Java application, it will run on pretty much any XP/Server 2003 flavor or newer. The important piece is to have the correct version of Java for the version of Jira you're hoping to install. For Jira 5.2, this would be Java 7. Since Java 1.7.0_141 supports Windows Server 2016, you should be good to go.

I would recommend trying to upgrade to at least Jira 7 however - we offer official support for Jira versions two years since their initial release date. This would bring you up to Jira 7.2 if you wanted to stay on a supported release. Only caveat here is that you need to upgrade to Jira 7.0 before continuing to any later Jira versions, as the 7.0 upgrade contains some migration tasks that aren't included in later versions. (So your upgrade path might be 5.2 -> 7.0 -> 7.2).

Cheers,
Daniel