Upgrading and Versioning

Owned by Daniel Roller
Last updated: Sept 18, 2024 by Susanne Sitzler
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General

We regularly roll out new features, improvements, bug fixes, and security updates for Agile Hive Cloud. Our team aims to deliver completed tasks at a minimum frequency of once a week, typically on Thursdays.

Information on new releases

Whenever a new release is available for Agile Hive Cloud, Atlassian Marketplace sends out an email notification to all watchers of the app. You can watch Agile Hive Cloud by scrolling to the bottom of https://seibert.biz/ahc-marketplace and clicking “Watch App” in the sidebar on the right.

Unfortunately, as of Oct 12, 2023 it is not possible to only watch the Cloud deployment for an app, so you’ll get notified on new releases for Agile Hive for Jira Data Center as well.

For every new version, we’ll provide extended release notes at https://seibert.biz/ahc-changelog.

Upgrading and Versioning

As of Oct 12, 2023, Atlassian takes care of upgrading and versioning new releases for Cloud apps distributed via Atlassian Marketplace. More information is available directly in Atlassian documentation: https://developer.atlassian.com/platform/marketplace/upgrading-and-versioning-cloud-apps/.

Information in info panels below are excerpts of Atlassian documentation as of Oct 12, 2023

Version definitions for Cloud apps built on Atlassian Forge

New releases for Agile Hive Cloud are automatically classified by Atlassian Marketplace according to the following rule:

Atlassian documentation

  • The major version is incremented (e.g., from 1.2.0 to 2.0.0) when you specify increase/changed scopes, and/or when you update licensing from free to paid. Customers automatically receive major version updates via the UPM within 24 hours and must manually approve these updates.

  • The minor version is incremented (e.g., from 1.2.0 to 1.3.0) when you make any other changes not included above that do not require manual approval. These changes are instantly available to the customers.

Update definitions for Cloud apps built on Atlassian Forge

Depending on the classification of a new release as either major or minor version, a Jira administrator needs to approve (or not) of the update to be installed to the customer’s site:

Atlassian documentation

  • If the changes do not require manual customer approval, they are automatically deployed to all customer instances within a few minutes.

  • If the changes require manual approval, each customer instance would poll the Atlassian Marketplace periodically (currently every 24 hours) and show that an update is available to the latest version of your app.

What this means for new releases of Agile Hive Cloud

Although many releases of Agile Hive Cloud are classified as minor version update by Atlassian, it is still important to regularly check if a major update is available for the installed apps, including Agile Hive Cloud. These updates must be approved by a Jira administrator.

 

Link to this page: https://seibert.biz/ahc-releasemanagement