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There are several different ways to upgrade JIRA, and the method you choose to use depends on which version of JIRA you use and the type of environment you use it in. Use this table to determine which steps to follow to complete your JIRA upgrade:
If you need to move JIRA to a new server or use it in a new environment that has a different operating system, different database type or different location of attachment or index files, follow the instructions for Migrating JIRA to Another Server.
|Required Uptime (SLA)
|Hardware/Software Change
|Operating System
|JIRA Package
|Current JIRA Version
|Upgrade Process
High / Mission Critical
This method is recommended for enterprise environments where extended or unplanned downtime might negatively impact the business.
For information on upgrading to JIRA Data Center, please see Installing JIRA Data Center.
|Upgrading JIRA with a Fallback Method
Low – Medium
If you use JIRA in a non-mission critical environment, depending on your specific installation details, you use either the safe (no downtime) or manual method to upgrade.
If you are upgrading from JIRA 4.3.0 or later, you also have the option to use the upgrade capabilities built into the installer to perform a rapid upgrade of your existing JIRA installation - this method is the fastest way to upgrade - however due to its in-place upgrade method, having recent backups is crucial for this option.
|Neither operating system, database or home directory will be changed.
|MS Windows / Linux
|4.3.0 or later
|Upgrading JIRA Using a Rapid Upgrade Method
|4.2.x or earlier
|Upgrading JIRA Manually
|Upgrading JIRA Manually
|Upgrading JIRA Manually
If you plan to skip multiple major versions of JIRA when you upgrade, please review the Skipping Major Versions when Upgrading JIRA for important information on the recommended way to skip versions.
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I wanted to let you all know that we acknowledge the difficulties with the install and upgrade process and have a project underway to provide an improvement to the existing procedures. The scope includes both JIRA and Confluence, with the goal of reducing many of the pain points and simplifying the steps. We hope to have something new for you in the first half of 2011.
One further note is if you have some constructive feedback/thoughts/ideas you'd like to share during for this project, I'd invite you to participate in our User Task Force.
To make this process easier for me to complete and to make sure I do not miss anything i had to make up a script to give me a report of all the changes made to the existing Jira install from the released version.
So to use this you will need perl and a GNU compatible diff, and get the same version of jira you are currently running from the old version archive on atlassian's jira site.
perl jiradiff.pl /path/current-jira /path/dist-copy > diff-report.txt
This will produce a diff report of all the modifications that have been made to your current jira from the base version.
With this information I can upgrade a jira instance in less than 2 hrs and be ready to re-import the DB.
I could also add checks in the script to also scan the future jira version for files that I can just cleanly copy over then that would save some time and editing files.
So that leaves the majority of the time: checking existing plugins against the future version of jira for compatibility.
Un outil de mise à jour s'impose!
Update Tool FTW !!
Merci :)
I agree with all what's said here about the upgrades. I am writing a document describing the process just to remind myself of all the steps, which are a few. I am continuously upgrading our evaluation copy of JIRA to see the last features and that's a lot of work.
I am a bit reluctant to upgrade our licensed production copy precisely because of this. I would understand that being a pain as it is people will minimize the number of upgrades, specially in production.
BTW, I got an error upgrading from 4.2.3 to 4.3
ERROR: column "protocol" does not exist
I fixed it by manually adding (from the definition in entitymodel.xml) these three fields to the mailserver table.
protocol | character varying(60) |
istlsrequired | character varying(60) |
timeout | numeric(18,0)
Are you sure that you haven't reused
entitymodel.xmlfrom your 4.2.3 system? MailServer table has been just introduced in the 4.3 release the protocol is defined in there.
<entity entity-name="MailServer" table-name="mailserver" package-name=""> <field name="id" type="numeric"/> <field name="name" type="long-varchar"/> <field name="description" type="very-long"/> <field name="from" col-name="mailfrom" type="long-varchar"/> <field name="prefix" type="short-varchar"/> <field name="smtpPort" col-name="smtp_port" type="short-varchar"/> <field name="protocol" col-name="protocol" type="short-varchar" /> <field name="type" col-name="server_type" type="short-varchar"/> <field name="servername" type="long-varchar"/> <field name="jndilocation" type="long-varchar"/> <field name="username" col-name="mailusername" type="long-varchar"/> <field name="password" col-name="mailpassword" type="long-varchar"/> <field name="istlsrequired" type="short-varchar"/> <field name="timeout" type="numeric" />
Yes, I'm quite sure of that. The funny thing is that the MailServer table was there, but was missing "protocol","istlsrequired" and "timout". SELECT statements during the migration were failing because these fields were included in the statement but not present in the table.
That sounds very strange. Is there any chance you could share with us your log file covering the upgrade phase, so we can learn a bit more about the problem?
If possible, can you create a support request and mention our conversation in here.
Yes, sure. Thanks a lot for your interest Bogdan.
Created a support issue
From info provided by Daniel we were able to reproduce this problem locally and find the cause of the provided error.
entitiengine.xmlis missing the required scheme parameter when integrating with Postgres, during the ugprade process JIRA is unable to create its tables correctly.
We have described this problem in more details in our KB page - Missing 'protocol' Column Error After Upgrade.
There were a million errors like this in the logs too, for many entities. A problem with mixed/lower case perhaps?
2011-03-17 15:20:00,843 main WARN [core.entity.jdbc.DatabaseUtil] Entity "FavouriteAssociations" has no table in the database
2011-03-17 15:20:00,843 main ERROR [core.entity.jdbc.DatabaseUtil] Could not create table "favouriteassociations"
2011-03-17 15:20:00,843 main ERROR [core.entity.jdbc.DatabaseUtil] SQL Exception while executing the following:
CREATE TABLE favouriteassociations (ID NUMERIC(18,0) NOT NULL, USERNAME VARCHAR(255), entitytype VARCHAR(60), entityid NUMERIC(18,0), SEQUENCE NUMERIC(18,0), CONSTRAINT PK_favouriteassociations PRIMARY KEY (ID))
Error was: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: relation "favouriteassociations" already exists
If you still experience this problem, can you please create a support request at http://support.atlassian.com and provide us with some more details on the problem:
- log file covering the upgrade process,
- entityengine.xml,
- any other modified configuration files
Incidentally, the so-called "Console Wizard" binary download (1) was not executable - why not? (2) Errored with "The architecture or bitness (32/64)
of the bundled JVM might not match your machine". You test this stuff, right? You spin up an image and go through an upgrade yourselves before writing the documentation?
Hi Patrick,
I'm sorry to hear you encountered issues with the EAP 4. A number of other early access customers have had positive experiences. We've tested the Linux console installer on Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu (amongst others) which are the most common platforms used by most of our user base.
What would be helpful in understanding the issues you encountered is if you could you either comment or reply to me via email some information on your OS and environment. Additionally what the mod/own permissions are on the .bin file you downloaded.
Thanks in advance.
THis fixed it for me on Ubuntu: sudo aptitude install ia32-libs.
Seems to be an issue with the 64bit arc vs the 32bit. The installer calls for 'bin/unpack200"' which is not in that location in 64bit JRE. If you install the 32bits package as well it all works fine :)
The architecture or bitness (32/64)
Starting from the next milestone we will ship both 32 and 64 bit packages.
I am having the same issue as Patrick with the "Error unpacking jar files. The architecture or bitness (32/64)"
Here is my server info:
Ubuntu 10.10 (maverick - 64bit)
I will go ahead and just run it on a CentOS instance instead for now. The Ubuntu just has a little less overhead.
of the bundled JVM might not match your machine."Error unpacking jar files. The architecture or bitness (32/64)
of the bundled JVM might not match your machine.
Trying to upgrade to 4.4 from JIRA 4.3.4 Standalone on Linux, I've run the upgrade feature without complications. However, when trying to access the new JIRA installation, the JIRA setup is displayed, asking me for a database configuration (even though the JIRA_HOME/dbconfig.xml file was created with the correct configuration data). When I enter the configuration details for my existing JIRA database and test the connection, the setup wizard tells me "The database specified is not empty. Please specify an empty database for your JIRA installation."
Well yes, of course it's not empty - I'm upgrading an existing system. What are the proper steps going from here? I don't see this covered in the above section "Upgrading JIRA on Linux".
ETA: I've created a new database to see what happens. After the tables are added, the setup wizard is asking for further details (license key etc.). Comparing the new database to my existing JIRA database, the two databases are almost identical, except for an additional table, "votehistory", in the new database. This leads me to believe, that my database wasn't migrated at all during the upgrade process. I've now restored my previous 4.3.4 installation and so far it seems to be working, even though I did not restore the database from the backup made before I started the upgrade.
Hi Juerg,
The fact that you're being prompted with the JIRA Setup Wizard after upgrading to JIRA 4.4 implies that your upgraded JIRA 4.4 installation was unable to access the
dbconfig.xmlfile in your JIRA Home Directory. If JIRA 4.4 detects a
dbconfig.xmlfile in your JIRA Home Directory, you should not see the JIRA Setup Wizard (or at least the DB Configuration step of this wizard) upon starting your upgraded JIRA installation for the first time.
Is it possible that your upgraded JIRA 4.4 installation is not correctly accessing your JIRA Home Directory?
- Please check the value of the
jira.homeproperty in either:
- your
jira-application.propertiesfile (in your JIRA Installation Directory), or
- the
conf/server.xmlfile in your JIRA Installation Directory (if you have defined the value of this property specifically in the Tomcat app server running JIRA).
- your
- Also, please check if the location of
JIRA_HOME(as an environment variable on your OS) has been defined correctly (and points to the JIRA Home Directory used by your upgraded JIRA 4.4 installation). Be aware (as we've now clarified in our documentation), the value of a
JIRA_HOMEenvironment variable overrides any definition of a
jira.homeproperty defined in (1) above.
Kind regards,
P.S. If you're certain that your upgraded JIRA 4.4 installation is correctly accessing your JIRA Home Directory, then please submit a support request using the button at the end of this page. I'd also recommend attaching the following files:
- Please check the value of the
I noticed that on 25 May 2011 a note was added to the JIRA 4.3 Mac OS X Installation Guide saying:
Mac OS is not a supported operating system for the JIRA server […] because Oracle JDK and JRE (formerly Sun JDK and JRE), which are the only supported Java platforms for JIRA, are not available for this operating system […] we do not test JIRA with unsupported Java platforms.
It seems that any reference to running JIRA 4.4 on Mac OS X Server has been completely removed in the new version also. Just wondering if you had published any warning about this change more widely (e.g. in your email notifications) that we weren't aware of?
We are a Mac shop and have been running JIRA on our Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server (10.6.8) quite comfortably, but aren't particularly thrilled with the general "not supported" line/direction that seems to have crept in over the last couple of months.
Another related question: since Apple is not shipping Java with Lion or Lion Server, and getting Oracle to build it instead, will you "support" and "test" JIRA on Mac OS X Lion once that's released… or are you basically saying to your userbase "don't install JIRA on a Mac Server, even if it runs the latest official version of Oracle JDK and JRE" moving forward?
Some clear guidance here would definitely be appreciated---we'd rather not have to migrate off JIRA to another task/issues manager but obviously we'll plan for that if we need to.
Xander Plooy
Technical Team Leader, XCOM Media
A couple of other customers have had the same question - I just posted some information here on when we removed support.
To your point, we could have been more vocal about the end of support - we posted the change and made the update to our documentation, but it clearly didn't get broad enough distribution because a few customers were surprised by the note when they looked at the JIRA 4.4 download page today. We don't have any explicit plans to reintroduce support for Mac OS X, but we continue to have a large number of customers like yourselves who run JIRA successfully.
Apologies again for any confusion caused,
Bryan Rollins
JIRA Product Management
Thanks for the reply Bryan, but confusion is probably putting it mildly. From the page history it appears that note was added two days prior to the release of version 4.3.4, where no such notice existed when we installed version 4.3.2 (our current version). It's also since been added to the "Download JIRA" page itself, where it wasn't previously (i.e. when we installed it). So then…
- Are you saying that the version we purchased (which had no mention of Mac OS X Server being "unsupported") is now treated as an at-risk product for some reason?
- Are we any more "supported" by you if we simply stick with our current version, which we understood at the time to be "supported"?
- Are you also still saying that even if/when Oracle JDK and JRE are released for Mac OS X Lion Server, that will still likely be "unsupported" anyway? (i.e. in effect, to be honest you just don't intend "supporting" Mac OS X Server at all regardless?)
If that's the case, it puts us squarely up the creek with our installation, and looking for alternatives… and having to pay up for a hosted JIRA instance won't be one of them. I've been advocating JIRA due to its many benefits, and was responsible for getting it implemented in our workplace, but am left feeling pretty unimpressed right now.
Clear to me. Out the door with Jira and Greenhopper. Thanks for everything. My opinion... not very professional to just stop supporting a product on a platform that you've supported for a long time, without notifying your customers properly. You know... you have our email addresses. You might as well have used it to send important information.
I promoted Atlassian several years. That will stop now. Not that you care now that you have more customers than ever, since you changed your licenses to 10 bucks for small teams.
I have been using Jira@Greenhopper on Mac OSX for some time now. Will just migrate my data to some other tool that will run on Mac OSX.
I tried to upgrade my Jira Beta installation (v4.4-beta1#644-r153810) to the release version 4.4 but I have this error message : "An error occurred when parsing your installation directory"
Any Idea ? Thxs, Clément.
Hi Clément,
Unfortunately we never intended/tested the upgrade path from the beta versions to the final release, but there is a workaround for the problem you are seeing.
When installer runs it first works out if it upgrades from a version earlier than 4.4 (eg. 4.3.2 or 4.3.1) it needs to perform certain migration tasks. One of the task is to transfer the db configuration from the old way (config defined inside
<install-dir>/atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes/entityengine.xml)to the new way (config defined inside
<home-dir>/dbconfig.xml) .
In your case installer rightly thinks that this version is earlier than 4.4 and assumes that the db would be configured in the old way and when it does not find the old way(because rc uses the new way already) it doesn't know what to do and exits.
As a workaround you can trick the installer by modifying
<install-dir>/atlassian-jira/META-INF/maven/com.atlassian.jira/jira-webapp-dist/pom.propertiesfile and change the version from 4.4-beta1 to just 4.4 then the upgrade will work.
We are getting ready to upgrade from 4.4-rc1 to 4.4.1, should I make this change as well?
Yep, you should make this change.
Exactly the same problem for me - running JIRA 4.4-beta1-#638.
When choosing the upgrade option in the installer it correctly detects the path of the existing jira installation and then as soon as you confirm this it fails with:
nice spelling of 'upgrade' too :)
Any suggestions?
See the workaround I have described for the problem.
Thanks for catching the spelling mistake, we'll fix it.
After the update, from 4.3 to 4.4, I get this exception when I run Jira.
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/atlassian/jira/startup/ApplicationPropertiesJiraHomePathLocator$1
at com.atlassian.jira.startup.SystemTenantJiraHomeLocator.<init>(SystemTenantJiraHomeLocator.java:12)
at com.atlassian.jira.startup.JiraHomeStartupCheck.<clinit>(JiraHomeStartupCheck.java:37)
at com.atlassian.jira.logging.MultiTenantJiraHomeAppender.<init>(MultiTenantJiraHomeAppender.java:27)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.instantiateByClassName(OptionConverter.java:330)
at org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.instantiateByKey(OptionConverter.java:121)
at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseAppender(PropertyConfigurator.java:664)
at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:647)
at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.configureRootCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:544)
at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:440)
at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:476)
at org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.selectAndConfigure(OptionConverter.java:471)
at org.apache.log4j.LogManager.<clinit>(LogManager.java:125)
at org.apache.log4j.Logger.getLogger(Logger.java:118)
at com.atlassian.jira.startup.LauncherContextListener.<clinit>(LauncherContextListener.java:34)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
I fix the problem. I have jira-home directory inside jira installation directory.
I'm glad you found the cause of the issue and just to reiterate, locating your JIRA Home Directory inside your JIRA Installation Directory is not recommended.
I have the same problem after running the upgrade script (on Linux). I've tried changing the JIRA home directory, but that didn't work.
The class is there:
What's the deal?
I've tried moving the JIRA Home and Installation directories, but that didn't work. I still get this NoClassDefFoundError on start up.
ApplicationPropertiesJiraHomePathLocatormust be referring to something that is not in the classpath, because as I posted below (anonymously), the class exists.
I performed an upgrade from JIRA 4.3.4 today to JIRA 4.4 on my Ubuntu Linux 10.04 system. This JIRA instance is hosted behind my Apache web server and uses SSL (I access JIRA using https://www.mydomain.com/jira).
The installation wizard is "nice", but it didn't migrate the following settings from my existing conf/server.xml in the <Connector> section under <Service name="Catalina">
- scheme
- proxyName
- proxyPort
The installation wizard also didn't migrate the additional setting from my existing conf/server.xml in <Engine>, <Host>, <Context>
- path
Hi Troy, thanks for mentioning your problems it will definitely help us to improve the upgrader.
The issues you described are discussed under https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-25277.
Just an FYI, if you change the name of the <JIRA Install Directory>/atlassian-jira directory, the upgrader will fail saying that the directory is "not a valid existing JIRA installation directory". Don't think this was specifically stated anywhere, but the sub-directory has to be named "atlassian-jira" to get it to work.
Just ran the 64-bit Linux installer to upgrade a small instance on an Ubuntu server from 4.3 to 4.4. I answered a few questions and upgraded JIRA successfully in 1-2 minutes. Nice!
The only thing that surprised me was that the installation went into the same directory – i.e., 4.4 was installed into
/usr/local/jira-4.3/where my previous installation was located. It would be nice to have the option to install into a new directory. For example, upgrade from
/usr/local/jira-4.3/ }}into {{/usr/local/jira-4.4/. Maybe other folks use a single directory, but I prefer to use versioned directories and keep
/usr/local/jiraas a symlink to the current version.
+1 ... I had a similar experience with the directory names. (I had, after all, followed Atlassian's guidance on naming directories after the JIRA version).
Burke, Michael,
It was quite tough for us to decide if we wanted to install the new version on-top of the old one or create a new version-named directory. On one hand if the old directory has the version number in its name then upgrading on-top will mean the new version will sit in the directory named after an old version. On the other hand customers may have existing scripts, services, custom created menu shortcuts on windows or other environment settings that depend on the existing name of the directory. At the end we decided that preserving the environment and not breaking the existing scripts is more important and we went with the on-top upgrade option. We have also changed the suggested installation directory name for the installer - now it doesn't include a version number.
How about a separate question? e.g., if JIRA was detected in
/usr/local/jira-4.3/, then you'd get these two questions:
Location of existing installation to upgrade [/usr/local/jira-4.3/]?
Destination for upgraded version? [/usr/local/jira-4.3/]?
Subsequent versions of the installer could try to be smarter and, if a version number detected in the current location, would suggest a folder with the new version in that case.
People who want to install directly over the existing location just need to press Enter one extra time. Those of us who use versioned installs & symlinks won't be surprised where the new version ends up.
I ran the installer to upgrade from 4.3.4 to 4.4. The upgrade process is perfect Now, having version 4.4 installed in /home/jira/atlassian-jira-4.3.4-standalone/ is awkward. I know where I live (for now), but this is definitely confusing. I finally renamed the installation directory to /home/jira/atlassian-jira-standalone as follows:
- Stop JIRA
- Rename the installation directory
- Edit
bin/permgen.shand adjust JAVA_HOME to the new directory name
- Edit
/etc/init.d/jiraand adjust BASE to the new directory name
- Cross fingers
- Start JIRA
This worked for me. I hope I didn't miss anything. Comments are welcome!
etc/init.d/jirais one of a reason why we decided not to change the name of the installation directory . We just don't have control over non-atlassian scripts that might point to the installation directory and therefore would break if we change its name.
Your steps will work fine. If you have some other scripts that point to the old installation dir you will have to change them too.
Thank you very much for posting this change.
Atlassian Support - It would be nice in the future if the upgrade script would just rename the directory for us
I've tried to update from 4.3.4 to 4.4 in Test Environment, but the update fails immediately with the already seen message:
An error occurred when parsing your installation directory. Unfortuantely the installer will be unable to continue with the automated updgrade.
My installation folder is:
C:\Program Files\Atlassian\JIRA 4.3.4
What could I do to bypass the problem? If possible I would not try to reinstall Jira by scratch and then reimport, copy files, etc.
Marco Barbaro
it is definitely possible to do the upgrade the old way i.e. export data from the old version install a new version of JIRA and import the data into it.
You might want to contact support to figure out why the new upgrader didn't work for you.
Hi Marco,
Try either the Upgrading JIRA Manually (which involves an 'in-place' upgrade of your JIRA database) or Migrating JIRA to Another Server (which involves lengthier XML exports and imports of your JIRA database).
Having said that, I'd also recommend contacting support to work out why the upgrade wizard didn't work for you.
Thanks to both Anatoli and Giles,
however I've opened an issue to the support (code 88141)
I've also filed a support incident: https://support.atlassian.com/browse/JSP-88240 Trying the manual upgrade tonight, after hours.
Can I find instruction for upgrading from JIRA 3.13.5 to 4.4? Can i do this action from one step? Or I need upgrade to 4.0, and later to 4.4?
Hi Max,
Since you're upgrading from JIRA 3.13, please follow the Migrating JIRA to Another Server procedure to upgrade to JIRA 4.4.
There's no need to upgrade to an interim JIRA version before upgrading to JIRA 4.4, although the Migrating JIRA to Another Server procedure is more involved than the one described above.
Once you're on JIRA 4.4, however, upgrades to future versions of JIRA should be faster and relatively straightforward — i.e. based on the procedure above. (This is assuming you haven't customised your JIRA installation too much and you're using the JIRA Standalone distribution.)
There are several caveats with the new upgrade application:
- if you run the JIRA Upgrade Check before upgrading, it will tell you to disable certain plugins, upgrade JIRA and enable those plugins after the upgrade. However, if you make the mistake to disable Fisheye as recommended (e.g. from JIRA 4.3 to 4.4) then the new JIRA will "start" in a locked state, complaining that it needs Fisheye. See How to Enable the FishEye Plugin from the Plugin Administration Screen if you are stuck with this one (but you'll have to update one record manually in the database as explained in the comments, the URL trick won't work).
- The installer deletes the original directory before checking if there's enough space to perform the upgrade. It should check this before making any deletion.
- If the installer tells you that files have been added/modified/removed, get them before it deletes the original directory (otherwise you'll have to unzip them from the backup).
- If you were using the previously recommended stable symlink to the current JIRA installation directory, the new installer breaks that in installing everything in the old directory.
The Fisheye problem is a real UX bug, because if you follow the instructions provided within JIRA, you end up in a very difficult situation (having to delete records manually in the database isn't pleasant).
As for the directory name issue, I perfectly understand the reason for not changing it. It's a one time issue, once you understand how it works it's a matter of changing your habits (which might be more difficult than renaming things on the server ). I've just updated from 4.4 to 4.4.1 and it was a much more pleasant experience, so this one's going to be soon forgotten.
There remains one caveat that I faced again today: the upgrade does not properly pass through the proxy details in conf/server.xml which forces to stop and restart JIRA after carrying the modifications. Ideally you should allow the admin to copy the modifications during the update (may be showing diffs between the old and the new file), or at a minimum suspend the upgrade process and let the admin modify some key files before starting the upgraded JIRA instance.
More bugs in the new upgrade installer:
- If your existing JIRA 4.3 application lives in a symlinked location, and you specify the symlink when asked for its location (instead of the script-assumed default of /opt/JIRA), then the ZIP process to archive your old install creates a .zip file with nothing in it but the symlink. Fortunately for me, I don't trust installers and I had made my own backup copy of my 4.3 install. Otherwise, it would be long gone, and the changed or added files I need for 4.4 (e.g. Crowd integration, Tomcat config) would be hassle to redo.
- The script notifies you about modified and added files, and tells you it will update other modified files itself. But it does not correctly tell you it will not fully update your Tomcat configuration (e.g. HTTPS-only mode on port 443), and so you lose that piece of configuration with no notification. You will have to go back and fix conf/server.xml yourself by hand.
As I just completed the upgrade on Linux a few remarks regarding the upgrade-tool:
- Filesystem ownerships are not preserved. After completing the upgrade all files were chowned 403:root (I fixed it by issuing
"chown -R jira: /opt/atlassian-jira-*-standalone/logs && chown -R jira: /opt/atlassian-jira-*-standalone/temp && chown -R jira: /opt/atlassian-jira-*-standalone/work")
- Jira is started as root? That certainly resolves the wrong permissions, but it's certainly not what's considered to be best practice..
- The context path (./conf/server.xml) is not preserved - this is really annoying if you have more than just Jira running on the host ore are using AJP to put the bundled Tomcat "behind" Apache
- AJP config is not preserved
Maybe this could be adressed for future versions of the upgrade tool?
(Also the "reusing of the old directory" is quite annoying if one did include the version in the path.. but that was already commented above)
Jira is started as root?
Sounds like a bug. When upgrading from 4.3 to 4.0 we actually try to preserve the ownership of the files and then start the process as the user who owns the files. Obviously id didn't work for you as "all files were chowned 403:root" . After changing the permissions you might want to set the username in the
user.shfile if you start it as a service (i.e. if you run the start command as
root), it will just switch to
jirabefore launching the process.
re: modifications of the
We actually do warn in the documentation that only port numbers get migrated over from
server.xml. Obviously, it is not the ideal behavior - this issue tracks the possible solutions and elaborates on why the current approach was chosen.
- Filesystem ownerships are not preserved. After completing the upgrade all files were chowned 403:root (I fixed it by issuing
Hey guys, how about detailed upgrade instructions for OSX as well?
Hi there,
Just so that you're aware, we don't focus on writing documentation for platforms or configurations that we don't support. Our Supported Platforms page indicates that Mac OS X is not a platform supported by JIRA and our Java section on the JIRA Requirements page indicates why we don't support this operating system.
If you do want to follow upgrade instructions for Mac OS X, the Upgrading JIRA Manually or Migrating JIRA to Another Server procedures might suit your requirements.
What's the recommended upgrade path from JIRA 4.4.3 32-bit to JIRA 5.0 64-bit (on a Windows 2008 R2 x64 OS)? I assume the path has to change, so the manual method would be required. But would it be better to upgrade to 5.0 32-bit first, then install a new 5.0 64-bit and move the contents of the 32-bit installation folder? Seems like that would be easier (if it works).
I upgraded from JIRA 4.4.5 to JIRA 5.0 32bit on the same machine, then moved it over to the new 64bit server. No problem at all.
Going directly from JIRA 4.4.5 32bit to JIRA 5.0 64bit should work as well.
What's the process for this? Install to new folder (Program Files instead of Program Files (x86)), then move all contents of the old JIRA folder? Or upgrade existing and leave it in the x86 folder?
I went ahead and tried this (it's a vm not in production yet). First I upgraded to JIRA 5.0 32 bit successfully. Then I stopped the old instance and installed the 64bit version to the new path. I copied all of the data from the old data home directory (program files (x86)\atlassian\application data\jira) to the new path (same but without x86). replaced the server.xml, web.xml, and cacerts files (because i configured ssl). start the new instance. That's all I had to do.
I am wondering what the advantage of upgrading to 64bit would be. I belive the 64bit VM mainly alows you to assign more memory to Jira. As Jira does not seam to need more than 1 or 2 GB of memory I do not see the point.
Can any of you tell me why you wanted to upgrade to 64bit? What are the advantages?
It could happen that after an upgrade, the administration section is completely blank other then the page header menus, every single link on the menu returns a blank page. The following solution has proven to resolve this particular issue: Error Creating New Ticket or Accessing Administration Section After JIRA Upgrade
We are planning an upgrade from Jira 4.4.3 to version 5.x,
ánd a migration to a new server.
If I understand this correctly, the best way to handle would be:
- upgrade 4.4.3 -> 5.x on the old machine
- install 5.x on the new server
- backup (upgraded) version on the old server + restore on the new machine
Is this correct? Any feedback would be much appreciated.
I would say this depends on the number of projects and isssues you have. If it is possible to perform the jira-XML-export in acceptable time I would just create an export on the old server and import this data on the new server. Upgrading the old server should not be nessesary.
An other way might be just connecting the new 5.x server to the old 4.4.3 database. I think this should trigger the db update skripts.
Both alternative should be simpel enough to test before performing the upgrade.
Is there a way to initialize just MySQL DB upgrade procedure for JIRA 4.3 -> 5.0 migration? I remember it was exist in 3.x -> 4.x migration.
Why I need this? I successfuly upgraded and tested my JIRA to 5.0 on test server. Now I want to finish Jira migration, i.e. sync MySQL DB and attachments from the old server and redirect users to the new Jira.
Hi Vitaly,
not quite sure what you mean by
initialize just MySQL DB upgrade procedure
Can you please create an issue for support and we will help you out.
Two issues here that stick out for the installer:
- If the upgrade does not carry over changed or installed files for customisations, it's not really an upgrade, but a fresh install that happens to do a backup before hand. Ideally, there should at least be an option for these files to be copied back in after the upgrade. They should, at least, be tarballed up so that they're not clobbered by the upgrade.
- Starting the Jira instance immediately after the upgrade is also non-optimal, especially if there are other server config issues to tweak, and certainly if (as above) the config tweaks, custom plugins, etc have not yet been copied back into place. There should at least be an option to not restart immediately after the upgrade.
Hi Rob,
Thanks for your comment. During the upgrade we do transfer over some modifications (e.g. port numbers), however in general case we cannot migrate all the customisations. Simply copying those customised files can potentially lead to problems as the old files may not be compatible with the new version. Here is the discussion of why some particular files cannot be migrated.
Starting the Jira instance immediately...
This came up several times, please vote on CONF-24414 - On upgrade if we found there are modz in the system we cannot handle we should give the customer an option not to start confluence Open and we will try to implement this in the future.
Oh, if only server.xml was an XML file designed to be machine-modifiable with a stylesheet or similar. O WAIT
Having read that discussion, colour me unconvinced. This is something that needs a little effort put in. The installer/upgrader as it is creates as much work as it saves.
i just did an upgrade form 5.0 to 5.0.3 and he upgrade somehow messed with all of my notifications.
now everyone gets notifications about everything that goes on for any ticket. it's a little annoying especially since i don't really know how all the notifications were set.
Sorry to hear that.
It could be the new Autowatch feature, and not a change in your notification settings.
If it is not autowatch, we'd love to get down to the bottom of this problem, and so would you please raise a support ticket? If you have not used our support services before please sign up for a new account.
Upgraded from 4.4 to 5.0.5 ..
Using the automated updates, I have to say I'm extremely impressed. Everything was upgraded smoothly, including our custom html templates.
Only thing that didn't make it was conf/server.xml
Every previous upgrades had always been a pain in the arse, not this time.
Trying to upgrade Jira standalone 4.4 (4.4#649-r158309) to Jira 5.0.5 using atlassian-jira-5.0.5-x64.bin.
O/S is linux
complete output of upgrade process is:
[jira@servername tmp]$ ./atlassian-jira-5.0.5-x64.bin
Unpacking JRE ...
Starting Installer ...
You do not have administrator rights to this machine and as such, some installation options will not be available. Are you sure you want to continue?
Yes [y, Enter], No [n]
This will install JIRA 5.0.5 on your computer.
OK [o, Enter], Cancel [c]
Choose the appropriate installation or upgrade option.
Please choose one of the following:
Express Install (use default settings) [1], Custom Install (recommended for advanced users) [2], Upgrade an existing JIRA installation [3, Enter]
Existing installation directory:
An error occurred when parsing your installation directory. Unfortuantely the installer will be unable to continue with the automated upgrade.
Finishing installation ...
Help please - there are no log files or anything that give any clues where to start. I've successfully upgrade this instance from a 3.x release to its current 4.4 version with no issues.
Hi, can you please contact support and we will help you.
I have now - would have done that yesterday but the site was down.
I am a trainee. I must upgrade the JIRA with Terminal on Linux. But i know nothing about JIRA.
How can i do ? Can you help me ?
Hi, if you follow the instructions on this page you would be able to upgrade JIRA (with terminal on Linux). If you encounter any problems you can contact atlassian support.
I'm in it. Someone could help me? I need to upgrade JIRA JIRA 4 to 5
How come this documentation relates to 5.2 when the download is 5.1.1 ?
Apologies for that - it looks like the links from the JIRA download page (for JIRA 5.1.1) have erroneously lead you to the documentation for 'JIRA 5.2 Latest'.
We'll be addressing this issue soon. Please check out the following pages in the documentation for JIRA 5.1.x versions:
I need to upgrade JIRA 4 to JIRA 5. Someone could help me?
Hi Rodrigo, please contact support and we will help you with the upgrade.
I've got JIRA version 4.4.1 which is installed on my Windows Server 2008 32 bit, so if I'm upgrading my OS into 64 bit Windows Server 2008 R2 Web Server edition, what is the benefits of going with JIRA 5.1.4 (Windows 64 Bit Installer) ?
Our amazon instance of JIRA crashed and all we have is JIRA 4.4.3 database.
Can I upgrade JIRA with just the old database and no JIRA_HOME?
You need the database or a backup (xml export) of your instance for a restore. If your instance was configured for automatic backups (and it should be be default I believe) then you can look in:
If this wasn't set, then I would suggest reading through the Automating JIRA Backups guide for when you get your instance back up and running again.
Sorry, wasn't logged in - Also, you might want to find out if there were backups of your database taken by whoever hosts your database.
After upgrade from 5.1.8, JIRA can't start, log show:"./bin/catalina.sh: 1: eval: localhost: not found".
My server is ubuntu 12.04.
Horizon, can you please contact support and we will help you out (would need some more info about the problem).
In topic 3. Performing the Upgrade, would be great if you remove this deprecated note:
Note: Please note that for JIRA 5.2 Installer, there is a known bug: JIRA 5.2 Installer Service is using Tomcat 6 instead of Tomcat 7. Please refer to JRA-30518 - Authenticate to see issue details and workaround. This will be fixed in JIRA 5.2.1
Updated. Thank you.
Kind Regards,
For the standalone installer, can you disable it automatically starting JIRA after the upgrade completes?
If we can, I could have the db backup run while the installation completes, copy back in my configurations and then manually start the service when I am ready.
+1 but I think it should be a question in the installer setup:
Would you like JIRA to start after the installation completes? (y/n):
For me, I install JIRA as a fresh new install for my upgrades since I find that the upgrade part of the installer doesn't work right for us. Then I manually added our plugins to the plugin folder, make my customizations to the setenv.sh file and others. Then I start JIRA and run through the OOB wizard and choose to restore a previous xml backup.
My $0.02.
JRA-31371 - As an Administrator I Would Like Not to Start the JIRA Service After Installer Completes Closed
I have a general query regarding an Upgrade of JIRA from 5.15 to latest version (v6)
A general rule when proposing to upgrade is to ensure the version is stable and that major bugs have been identified and rectified, what I am asking is what version of JIRA 6 would be a good time to upgrade? I have stated to my development team that we should wait until a certain amount of bugs have been fixed, but I wanted a comment from Atlassian.
"If you are upgrading from JIRA 4.3.0 or earlier, you also have the option"
Maybe JIRA 4.3.0 or later?
Good catch. Fixed.
Hi, How is the correct way to upgrade JIRA from 3.13 to 6.1 version?
Hi Ricardo, please see Skipping Major Versions When Upgrading JIRA.
We have two JIRA instances (5.2.5 and 5.2.6), and I hope to upgrade shortly to 6.1.
Are there any issues to take into account if one of the instances remains at the 5.2.x version, and the other upgrades to 6.1? For instance, we use the "JIRA to JIRA Issue Copy" plugin to make remote copies from one instance to the other, and ran into problems under 5.2.x, where one instance had more (or fewer) custom fields than the other (due to the JIRA instances being at separate company departments, each with its own workflow - it is a no-go to try and fit everything into one JIRA configuration).
I have a system Jira 4.4.5 + Confl 4.1 + Crowd 2.3.6 onDemand.
For how many steps I (effective) upgrade system to Jira 6.3, Confl 5.5.3, Crowd 2.7.2 and move to another server (the cloud)?
At first move to another server and update there?
Or updated first, and then transfer?
Update - I can update all applications immediately to the latest version?
Or should each application step by step to upgrade to the next version, until we arrive at the last?
Hi Ilya,
Upgrading all applications in one step should work. Is you target to move to our hosted offering? Can you please contact support and we will help you out.
Thanks for the quick reply!
We now expect our ability may try to move the decision on their own, in our Russian supplier Jira - company TeamLead.
What are your terms?
We need hosting. migration and upgrade solutions.
Hi Ilya, everything we offer is described on our website. https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/try/ - you will be able to add Confluence+JIRA+... when you set it up. If you are planning to migrate or have specific needs please talk to our support and they will help you out.
I've tried to upgrade from 5.2 to 6.3.4. At the end the installer says "Your installation of JIRA 6.3.4 is now ready and can be accessed via your browser. But in the browser I see the following:
An error occurred performing JIRA upgrade
The data before the upgrade has been exported to /data/atlassian/application-data/jira/export/jira_autoexport_20140821_083236.zip
2014-08-21 08:32:42 error
Exception thrown during upgrade: java.lang.RuntimeException: com.opensymphony.workflow.FactoryException: Error converting XML to workflow descriptor.: root cause: action with id 1 already exists for this step. com.atlassian.cache.CacheException: java.lang.RuntimeException: com.opensymphony.workflow.FactoryException: Error converting XML to workflow descriptor.: root cause: action with id 1 already exists for this step. at com.atlassian.cache.memory.DelegatingCache$DelegatingLoadingCache.get(DelegatingCache.java:270) at com.atlassian.jira.workflow.CachingWorkflowDescriptorStore.getWorkflow(CachingWorkflowDescriptorStore.java:68) at com.atlassian.jira.workflow.JiraWorkflowFactory.getWorkflow(JiraWorkflowFactory.java:37) at com.opensymphony.workflow.config.DefaultConfiguration.getWorkflow(DefaultConfiguration.java:89) at com.atlassian.jira.workflow.OSWorkflowManager.getWorkflow(OSWorkflowManager.java:197) at com.atlassian.jira.workflow.OSWorkflowManager.getWorkflows(OSWorkflowManager.java:116) at com.atlassian.jira.upgrade.tasks.UpgradeTask_Build813.doUpgrade(UpgradeTask_Build813.java:38) at com.atlassian.jira.upgrade.UpgradeManagerImpl.doUpgradeTaskSuccess(UpgradeManagerImpl.java:693) at com.atlassian.jira.upgrade.UpgradeManagerImpl.runUpgradeTasks(UpgradeManagerImpl.java:542) at com.atlassian.jira.upgrade.UpgradeManagerImpl.doUpgrade(UpgradeManagerImpl.java:471) at com.atlassian.jira.upgrade.UpgradeManagerImpl.doUpgradeIfNeeded(UpgradeManagerImpl.java:413) at com.atlassian.jira.upgrade.UpgradeManagerImpl.doUpgradeIfNeededAndAllowed(UpgradeManagerImpl.java:348) at com.atlassian.jira.upgrade.UpgradeLauncher.checkIfUpgradeNeeded(UpgradeLauncher.java:106) at com.atlassian.jira.upgrade.UpgradeLauncher.start(UpgradeLauncher.java:54) at com.atlassian.jira.startup.ActiveServicesLauncher.start(ActiveServicesLauncher.java:42) at com.atlassian.jira.startup.DefaultJiraLauncher$3.run(DefaultJiraLauncher.java:133) at com.atlassian.jira.config.database.DatabaseConfigurationManagerImpl.doNowOrEnqueue(DatabaseConfigurationManagerImpl.java:324) at com.atlassian.jira.config.database.DatabaseConfigurationManagerImpl.doNowOrWhenDatabaseActivated(DatabaseConfigurationManagerImpl.java:214) at com.atlassian.jira.startup.DefaultJiraLauncher.postDbLaunch(DefaultJiraLauncher.java:115) at com.atlassian.jira.startup.DefaultJiraLauncher.access$100(DefaultJiraLauncher.java:31) at com.atlassian.jira.startup.DefaultJiraLauncher$1.run(DefaultJiraLauncher.java:78) at com.atlassian.jira.util.devspeed.JiraDevSpeedTimer.run(JiraDevSpeedTimer.java:34) at com.atlassian.jira.startup.DefaultJiraLauncher.start(DefaultJiraLauncher.java:73) at com.atlassian.jira.startup.LauncherContextListener.contextInitialized(LauncherContextListener.java:71) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4992) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5490) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1575) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1565) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: com.opensymphony.workflow.FactoryException: Error converting XML to workflow descriptor.: root cause: action with id 1 already exists for this step. at com.atlassian.jira.workflow.CachingWorkflowDescriptorStore$WorkflowCacheLoader.load(CachingWorkflowDescriptorStore.java:143) at com.atlassian.jira.workflow.CachingWorkflowDescriptorStore$WorkflowCacheLoader.load(CachingWorkflowDescriptorStore.java:132) at com.atlassian.cache.memory.MemoryCacheManager$3$1.load(MemoryCacheManager.java:132) at com.google.common.cache.LocalCache$LoadingValueReference.loadFuture(LocalCache.java:3573) at com.google.common.cache.LocalCache$Segment.loadSync(LocalCache.java:2350) at com.google.common.cache.LocalCache$Segment.lockedGetOrLoad(LocalCache.java:2313) at com.google.common.cache.LocalCache$Segment.get(LocalCache.java:2228) at com.google.common.cache.LocalCache.get(LocalCache.java:3970) at com.google.common.cache.LocalCache.getOrLoad(LocalCache.java:3974) at com.google.common.cache.LocalCache$LocalManualCache.get(LocalCache.java:4834) at com.atlassian.cache.memory.DelegatingCache$DelegatingLoadingCache.get(DelegatingCache.java:264) ... 32 more Caused by: com.opensymphony.workflow.FactoryException: Error converting XML to workflow descriptor.: root cause: action with id 1 already exists for this step. at com.atlassian.jira.workflow.WorkflowUtil.convertXMLtoWorkflowDescriptor(WorkflowUtil.java:437) at com.atlassian.jira.workflow.OfBizWorkflowDescriptorStore.convertGVToDescriptor(OfBizWorkflowDescriptorStore.java:170) at com.atlassian.jira.workflow.OfBizWorkflowDescriptorStore.getWorkflow(OfBizWorkflowDescriptorStore.java:49) at com.atlassian.jira.workflow.CachingWorkflowDescriptorStore$WorkflowCacheLoader.load(CachingWorkflowDescriptorStore.java:139) ... 42 more Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: action with id 1 already exists for this step. at com.opensymphony.workflow.loader.WorkflowDescriptor.addAction(WorkflowDescriptor.java:681) at com.opensymphony.workflow.loader.WorkflowDescriptor.addCommonAction(WorkflowDescriptor.java:247) at com.opensymphony.workflow.loader.WorkflowDescriptor.init(WorkflowDescriptor.java:620) at com.opensymphony.workflow.loader.WorkflowDescriptor.(WorkflowDescriptor.java:65) at com.opensymphony.workflow.loader.DescriptorFactory.createWorkflowDescriptor(DescriptorFactory.java:135) at com.opensymphony.workflow.loader.WorkflowLoader.load(WorkflowLoader.java:79) at com.opensymphony.workflow.loader.WorkflowLoader.load(WorkflowLoader.java:47) at com.atlassian.jira.workflow.WorkflowUtil.convertXMLtoWorkflowDescriptor(WorkflowUtil.java:433) ... 45 more
Under "Custom modifications" the installer tells I have to manually transfer the customisations.
Where to begin?
Burkhard from Germany
I'm going to do an upgrade from 6.1.2 to 6.3.10: Does JIRA check add-on compatibility and warn me if my target version will have incompatible add-ons?
You can check this in JIRA by going into Administration -> Add-ons -> Manage add-ons and choosing "JIRA Update Check" at the bottom.
The installation script for the standard installer (atlassian-jira-6.3.10-x64.bin) needs one thing changed at the end.
If you have Custom Modifications to server.xml, then the installer should NOT automatically start up Jira. If you have "customisations (eg server.xml) that must be manually transferred." then of course you would rather not have JIRA start up before you can manually transfer those customizations back into the server.xml file. In order to do that, you first have to SHUT DOWN JIRA after the installation script has just started it up. This is annoying because I have to give it a good 2 to 3 minutes before I shut it down so that I don't create a race condition.
Should be a simple check to see if custom modifications are detected, in which case, DO NOT automatically start JIRA.
I couldn't agree more. I keep forgetting to mention this or raise a ticket every time I perform an install. I essentially have to wait for the upgrade to fail, shut down JIRA (and Confluence), make my changes, then start it up again. A simple "Would you like to start the Jira/Confluence/etc... service now?" would be a great addition.
This page is referenced in JIRA upgrade as a page which should have information on migration customisations. I don't see a thing about that here.
Your previous JIRA installation contains customisations (eg server.xml) that
must be manually transferred. Refer to our documentation more information:
So do I just run the new installer to upgrade from 6.3.x?
same here:
Your previous JIRA installation contains customisations (eg server.xml) that
must be manually transferred. Refer to our documentation more information:
JIRA 6.4.8 can be accessed at http://localhost:8080


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Hopefully, the S.C. House's face is feeling properly spited. We'd hate to think that members cut off their nose this week in vain.
House members were offered two choices on Medicaid, the federal program that provides health care to the poor. They could choose between a three-year expansion of the program, insuring hundreds of thousands of previously uninsured South Carolinians, with the federal government picking up the whole tab. Or they could vote to let South Carolina residents continue to pay the billions in federal taxes earmarked for the expansion, but refuse to actually allow the expansion to go through, saving no money and insuring no new patients.
Despite hours of pleading by expansion proponents, the vote ended up the way observers had been expecting for months: 73 Republicans voted against it, and 45 Democrats voted for it. Next it's the state Senate's turn to weigh in.
Was the vote's outcome because that was the best decision for the state? Did it make good financial sense? No.
"It was more political than it was financial reality," said Rep. Tracy Edge of North Myrtle Beach, who voted against the expansion with all of his GOP colleagues.
The background is a bit more complicated, of course.
The growth of Medicaid was designed in phases. The federal budget pledged to pick up the entire bill for the first three years of expansion, and then states would slowly take on more responsibility for funding until 2020, when they would be expected to pay for 10 percent of the cost of the new enrollees.
The program begins in 2014, but states can opt in or out at any time. South Carolina expansion proponents – most health care providers among them – proposed taking advantage of at least those first three years, when the federal government was paying the whole bill, then reassessing whether the program worked and whether South Carolina could afford to continue before dedicating any state dollars to the expansion.
That compromise approach appeals in two ways: It lets the state test the expansion to see how many people really sign up and take advantage of services, giving us a better estimate of what the cost to the state would be later. It also allows us to take advantage of a federal program that taxpayers will be funding anyway, whether South Carolina joins in or not. In other words, it would bring more taxes paid by South Carolina residents back to the state. The alternative is not paying less; it's handing our money to our neighbors.
But when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that expanding Medicaid could not be mandated as part of the Affordable Care Act – better known as ObamaCare – Republicans across the nation jumped on it as a concrete way to show their opposition to the health care program and the president.
Gov. Nikki Haley vowed last year not to allow an expansion and has stood firm behind her veto threat, even as other Republican governors – Florida's Rick Scott and New Jersey's Chris Christie, for example – have softened their stances.
Whatever your views on ObamaCare – and there are certainly plenty of issues to address within the massive government program – the defeat this week was folly. Refusing to allow better health care for the least of our South Carolina brethren not because of the cost, which would be picked up by the federal government, but simply because of qualms about who proposed the idea is a particularly craven brand of politics.
Yes, there is a valid concern that our leaders won't have the will if necessary to remove hundreds of thousands of people from the rolls if they determine in three years that the state can't afford to pay its share.
Nobody will want to be tagged as the politician who kept poor Johnny from getting his needed operation three years from now. But that reality could be avoided by including an automatic sunset provision that would kick in unless overridden, at least partly shielding politicians from political fallout.
The Senate, which takes up the state budget in the next few weeks, is expected to have a better chance of passing the expansion, and we hope they do, at least for the next three years. If they can manage to, there are signs that some Republican House members would be willing to change their own stances.
Edge, a former chairman of the health care subcommittee that oversaw the state's Medicaid spending, said this week that he doesn't necessarily oppose the expansion and, in fact, thinks it would probably be better than the $83 million alternative that Republicans offered – money that would insure no new patients but would pay hospitals to encourage poor residents to get more care at free health care clinics rather than emergency rooms. Both parties agree that that money would be well spent on worthy programs, but that wasn't really the point, Edge said. Those voting for the money are "spending $83 million just so you can say you're not doing ObamaCare."
Other GOP House members have also expressed doubts about turning down the expansion.
Rep. Kris Crawford, a doctor from Florence, has voiced support for the expansion, and said that opposition can be traced only to politics.
And Rep. B.R. Skelton told The State newspaper last week that "There are some people in the Republican Caucus who believe we should take the money."
The big issue of course continues to be Gov. Haley and her veto threat.
"We were handcuffed early on by Nikki Haley," said Edge.
If the governor does not change her mind, finding the two-thirds majority needed to overcome any veto may prove impossible. But we fervently hope there still remain enough politicians with the courage to do what's right for our state rather than what's right for their own re-election campaigns.
Otherwise, sorry, uninsured poor. Your health care has been held hostage for political reasons. Better luck next time.
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Last week in the series, we discussed your earliest school work. Less 'things', more 'people' from our lives this week…..
I have met an awful lot of people in my life and there are only a handful that I would put in the definite 'not friends' category (thankfully), but there are an equally small number that sit firmly in the 'Without Question – Friend' category. True, lasting friends, with longevity and support for each other through thick and thin.
I can remember being told by my mother, when I was a teenager (possibly following a bust-up with some other surly girly teen) that I would "find out who your real friends are". She said it as if she could almost be tapping the side of her nose knowingly. Like some kind of secret masonic code would reveal itself to me over time. She turned out, rather irritatingly, to be right as usual.
Friends have come and gone. Those that have lastest longest are not necessarily the best. Life has put distance between some of us – but it has not dulled real friendships.
Let me introduce you to Julie. She is my bestest friend. I met her in 1985 when I was a naive 18 year old, fresh from A levels. She was a worldly 22, in a steady relationship and running a pub. She also had a dog. A really big dog. I thought her terribly grown up.
I am brunette. She is blonde. I am tall. She is short. I was a bit 'girls' Grammar schoolish'. She was chirpy and bubbly. I played netball. She rode a Harley Davidson.
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I have suffered loss. So has she. I have been through divorce. She has had cancer. I live in North Yorkshire. She lives in the West Midlands. I have 2 kids. She does not.
We are so vastly different, and yet so compatible.
I love her with all my heart, and hope to be her pal 'til the day we die.
We don't see each other often, or even speak on the phone regularly these days, but it really doesn't matter.
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Mount Pleasant's Brooke Mosteller used her moment on the national stage during Sunday night's Miss America pageant to raise awareness of our great state's ... mobile home population.
"From the state where 20 percent of our homes are mobile, because that's how we roll, I'm Brooke Mosteller, Miss South Carolina," she said.
Although hers was not the only snarky comment made by contestants, her remark caused some head shaking and head scratching in her home state.
The Twitterverse responded with comments ranging from "just weird" to "Nothing wrong with mobile homes" to "Brooke Mosteller, please move to Georgia. Your South Carolina citizenship is revoked."
Mosteller, who did not make it past the pageant's preliminaries, could not be reached for comment Monday. She is a student at the University of South Carolina School of Law.
For some, her comment was an unwelcome reminder that South Carolina is one of the nation's poorest states. For others, it was a teachable moment.
Mark Dillard, director of the state's Manufactured Housing Institute, alerted his members about how to respond if they hear negative comments.
"Nine out of 10 are placed permanently on the home site. All are built to a stringent national building code," he said. "Yep, 17 percent of South Carolina families live in manufactured homes. They are getting more home for the dollar and can spend more of their income on food, medical bills, everything else a family needs."
Others may see Mosteller's remarks as yet another instance of Southerners feeling comfortable enough to poke fun at themselves.
"Jeff Foxworthy and his 'you might be a redneck' jokes"are good examples," says College of Charleston political science professor Gibbs Knotts. "The word 'redneck,' which has been used to describe political supporters of conservative politicians like James Vardaman and George C. Wallace, has even been embraced and become more positive recently. Charlie Daniels even has a song 'What the world needs now is a few more rednecks.'"
It seems unlikely that Mosteller's remark will draw the kind of lingering media attention that Miss South Carolina Teen USA Lauren Caitlin Upton stirred up in 2007.
For one thing, there's some truth to Mosteller's quip: South Carolina does rank near the top in the nation in terms of the percentage of its population that lives in mobile homes.
For another thing, she was coherent. When Upton was asked why 20 percent of Americans can't locate their own country on a world map, she replied:
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ALFRED, NY – After jumping out in front and holding onto the lead for the first seven minutes of the game, Hilbert went cold from the floor and surrendered 20 points to Alfred University over the next eight minutes en route to a 74-48 women's basketball non-conference loss November 24. Jenah Labuski finished with 13 points as the only Hawk to break into double figure scoring. Alfred's Rachael Stedman chipped in 15 points off the bench to lead the Saxons who improved to 2-2 overall.
All five Hawk starters put points on the boards to start the game. Senior Amber Grosch netted the first Hawk points, followed by a Sarah Lorusso jumper. Sophomore Jessica Jamison followed up her offensive rebound with a put-back score to give Hilbert their largest lead (6-2) at 17:24. Alfred's Sarah Federicco netted her second layup in the paint cutting into Hilbert's hold, but Natalie Whitman hit both her foul shots stretching the lead back to three. The hosts ran their offensive pattern and built a three-point lead before Labuski hit her first 3-pointer of the game knotting the game for the last time (12-12) at 9:12. Alfred went on a 20-5 run scoring on eight of their next nine possessions putting the game out of reach for Hilbert by 4:36. The twenty-point half time deficit (41-21) grew to 30 points by 11:20 before the final horn sounded.
Hilbert had nine players contribute in the scoring column and they outrebounded Alfred by three (55-52). Both squads were credited with 19 offensive boards, but Hilbert only converted 15 made baskets for the contest (28.3%). Hilbert went to the foul line more than Alfred but shot only 43.8% (15-35) giving up freebies which could have cut into the Saxon lead.
Alfred's Harley Cleary (11 points ) and Heather Hebert (10 points) carried the Saxons offensively. Frederico pulled down a game-high 13 rebounds while Hebert was credited with eight steals.
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SANFORD, Fla. — The mothers of Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman listened Friday to the same 911 recording of someone screaming for help, and each was convinced the voice was that of her own son.
The starkly conflicting testimony over the potentially crucial piece of evidence came midway through Zimmerman's murder trial in the 2012 shooting of the unarmed 17-year-old.
"I heard my son screaming," Sybrina Fulton, the teenager's mother, said firmly after she was played a recording in which distant, high-pitched wails could be heard in the background as a Zimmerman neighbor asked a dispatcher to send police. Moments later on the call, there was a gunshot and the crying stopped.
Gladys Zimmerman, though, testified she recognized the voice all too well: "My son." Asked how she could be certain, she said: "Because it's my son."
The testimony came on a dramatic, action-packed day in which the prosecution rested its case and the judge rejected a defense request to acquit Zimmerman on the second-degree murder charge.
The question of whose voice is on the recording could be crucial to the jury in deciding who was the aggressor in the confrontation between the neighborhood watch volunteer and the teenager.
The identity of the person sharply divided the two families: Martin's half brother, 22-year-old Jahvaris Fulton, testified that the cries came from the teen. And Zimmerman's uncle, Jose Meza, said he knew it was Zimmerman's voice from "the moment I heard it. ... I thought, that is George."
The prosecution rested after calling 38 witnesses over two weeks.
Defense attorney Mark O'Mara promptly asked the judge to acquit Zimmerman, arguing that the prosecution had failed to prove its case.
After listening to an hour and a half of arguments from both sides, Judge Debra Nelson refused to throw out the murder charge, saying the prosecution had presented sufficient evidence for the case to go on.
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Installed in and around the 8-acre baseball campus of Fifth Third Field are works of art and artistic components that give the ballpark its "unique distinction," in the words of Marc Folk, executive director of The Arts Commission. The inclusion of this public art — from home plate gate flourishes and manhole cover designs to freestanding sculptures — anchors forever the populist sensibility of Toledo's county-owned and corporate-named ballpark.
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Nowhere is that link to the common man (and child) more evident than behind section 101 where, just steps inside the Third Base Gate, a bronze sculpture depicts three boys reaching high in the sky for a home run ball. That artwork is titled "I Got It!"
"It captures the youthful exuberance of so many kids," said Folk, who added that the sculpture "really connects" with just about everybody who has ever played around with a bat and ball. So many times has Folk seen people posing with that sculpture that, in his estimation, "I Got It!" is the ballpark's No. 1 photo op. (Sorry, Muddy.)
When the ballpark was being built back in 2002, Folk was in charge of The Arts Commission's Art in Public Spaces initiative. The Arts Commission set up a partnership between the city, the county and private donors with the goal of incorporating public art into the ballpark, Folk said. With funding in place, a national call to artists went out. Folk does not recall the exact number of entries but said there were about 80 submissions from around the country.
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Vermont sculptor Frank C. Gaylord II was one artist whose design, the aforementioned sculpture of the three boys, garnered approval by a review board comprised of area stakeholders.
"The 'I Got It!' sculpture is a tribute to your fine city and its rich baseball history," Gaylord told Toledo Free Press in an email sent by his son-in-law, John Triano. Gaylord, now 89 years old, is renowned for such public artworks as the national Little League monument in Williamsport, Pa., a policeman's memorial in Jacksonville, Fla., a fireman's memorial in Eugene, Ore., and the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
After the "I Got It!" sculpture was complete, it was decided in Toledo to install the work on a rotatable mount.
"I thought it was a great idea to put the artwork on a turntable," Gaylord said. "I create all my sculptures on a turntable but never before has it been displayed on one."
For years the piece was swiveled to face the sidewalk and street outside the gate when the Hens were not on the field. However, the mechanism has since broken and, for now, the sculpture always faces the field.
The artist also had kind words for Toledo's Arts Commission when recalling his efforts from more than a decade ago.
"Everyone was fair and polite. They let me create," Gaylord said. "That was not the case in some of my other commissions."
Folk, who earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts from the University of Toledo, shrugged off any praise, saying merely that handling artists is integral to the nature of the The Arts Commission's business.
It's the commission's job to "empower their design," he said.
Gaylord explained his own evolution as an artist by saying he is "a big fan" of French sculptor Auguste Rodin "and of course Michelangelo. That led me into sculpture."
Now approaching 90, Gaylord continues to create art.
"I am working on abstract drawings and enjoying every bit of the creative process," he said. "Art to me means leaving the world a little nicer than when I found it."
Folk echoed that sentiment in a separate interview.
"I'm very lucky," he said. "I can work to make my city a better place."
Folk credits the success of the public art at Fifth Third Field with helping to subsequently bring art to the Huntington Center. But Folk knows introducing art to Fifth Third Field was only a qualified success. Originally, five initiatives were slated for inclusion. The fifth, a mural, never came to fruition. Funding for it dried up in the economic downturn following 9/11, Folk said.
As for one of the designs that did get funded, Gaylord calls his Mud Hens sculpture "one of my best works. Better than Washington, D.C."
Today, with the ballpark nearly paid off and expansion plans on the drawing board — perhaps the county will decide to re-commission that mural.
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