Getting started with jira

Remarks#

JIRA is interesting for developers in two ways. 1) it is used to track tasks for software development (especially for agile projects) or as bug tracker (see JIRA User’s Guide). 2) JIRA provides a large support for extending functionality with plugins written in Java (see Create a HelloWorld Plugin Project)

Versions#

Version	Release Date
7.3	2017-01-03
7.2	2016-08-23
7.1	2016-02-11
7.0	2015-10-06
6.4	2015-03-31
6.3	2014-07-15
6.2	2014-02-25
6.1	2013-09-24
6.0	2013-05-21

Installation Guide

There’s an installation guide for running a JIRA Server under Windows or Linux / Mac ( see Installing JIRA applications)

For local testing there’s an SDK, which starts a JIRA test instance and can be used to develop JIRA Plugins (see Set up the Atlassian Plugin SDK and Build a Project)

Start a local JIRA instance

The easiest way to run a local JIRA instance, is to install the SDK and run

atlas-run-standalone

For further details see https://stackoverflow.com/documentation/jira/9049/starting-a-local-jira-test-instance#t=201702111911211720681

Please note that this runs a local test instance and is not meant for production.