Recommended Jira upgrade path from 6.1.1 to 7.7

[steven_flowers3]

Hello,

We are currently running Jira 6.1.1 and would like to upgrade to 7.7.

I know we cannot skip major versions so does that mean we can go from 6.1.1 to 7.0, then to 7.7?

We plan to perform the fallback upgrade method. Can we simply clone our 6.1.1 server and perform the changes there behind our network load balancer and cutover when ready to test?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

I would plan for a 6.1 to 6.4 upgrade as well, as 6.3 and below to 7 is not recommended.  It can work ok, if your data is not complex (pretty much means "only a few simple add-ons"), but I'd allow for 6.1 to 6.4. 

On everything else, you're spot on.  Copy the 6.1.1 to a test box, and do a complete test run through to 7.7 on that.  For the production go-live, either do the upgrade run again on production, or better, clone it and upgrade a new system (then if it fails, you haven't affected production, you can just turn it back on while you analyse the failure)

[steven_flowers3]

Great, thanks for the response.