Upgrade from Jira 6.4.5 to 7.13.0

[Srimanta Mukherjee]

Hi All,

Is it possible to upgrade Jira software 6.4.5 to 7.13.0 directly? Is it necessary to upgrade in the following way: 6.4.5 -> 7.0 -> 7.5/7.6 -> 7.13

Thanks.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Possible, yes.  But don't.  You must not skip 7.0, it will break in interesting ways later if you skip it.

[Radek Dostál · Accepted solution]

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver072/skipping-major-versions-when-upgrading-jira-applications-828787647.html

You should at minimum upgrade to 7.0.11 first. Otherwise you are risking that not all upgrades are done properly and your installation will fail somewhere.

See this post where Andy describes the process in better detail:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Questions/JIRA-upgrade-from-4-1-2-to-7-x/qaq-p/683601