JIRA Agile Upgrade Hangs During Upgrading shared contexts of project

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Summary

Symptoms

JIRA Agile appears to hang during upgrade.

The following appears in the atlassian-jira.log:

1 23:03:06,560 pool-13-thread-2 INFO allyourbase 1380x2337x1 1a4z2id 96.3.161.220 /rest/plugins/1.0/ [atlassian.greenhopper.upgrade.GhUpgradeTask032] Upgrading shared contexts of project: Project: MEME

Diagnosis

JIRA Agile is being upgraded to version 6.1.4.x or higher.

Cause

This is a slow upgrade task (it took 20 minutes to complete on jira.atlassian.com).

Solution

Resolution

As this is a slow upgrade task, prepare a maintenance window during which JIRA Agile will be inaccessible (1 hour at absolute most). If it's taking longer than that, please let us know by raising an issue at support.atlassian.com.

Updated on April 2, 2025

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