Jira (PDK) plugin

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This plugin integrates with Atlassian Jira. It supports multiple features for Jira issues, releases, and projects. Additionally, it supports collecting issue and release data for CloudBees Analytics reports and dashboards.

This plugin uses the Jira Server platform REST API.

Differences between Jira (Legacy) and Jira (PDK) plugins

CloudBees CD/RO offers two integrations with Atlassian Jira:

The table below highlights the key similarities and differences between the two plugins:

Table 1. Jira and Jira-Extended plugin comparison
Jira (Legacy) plugin Jira (PDK) plugin

Plugin catalog name: EC-Jira

Plugin catalog name: Jira

Support tier: CloudBees

Support tier: CloudBees

CloudBees CD/RO bundled plugin: Yes

CloudBees CD/RO bundled plugin: Yes

Supports new plugin configuration. For more information, refer to Configuration differences.

Supports new plugin configuration. For more information, refer to Configuration differences.

Plugin Wizard-based: The Plugin Wizard is a legacy plugin development framework used by CloudBees CD/RO plugins. It is no longer actively supported, except specifically for CloudBees CD/RO plugins listed with the CloudBees support level.

PDK-based: PDK is the plugin development framework supported by CloudBees CD/RO. The PDK framework is actively supported, with full feature development and releases.

All legacy plugin procedures, and additional procedures supported by PDK, such as Create Project and Update project.

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Supported versions

The following Jira versions are supported:

  • 9.x

  • 8.x

  • 7.x

  • 6.x

Prerequisites

This plugin uses an updated version of Perl, cb-perl shell (Perl v5.32), and requires CloudBees CD/RO agents v10.11 or later to work.