Bitbucket Upgrade 4.14.6 to 5.11.1

Owned by Ruben Mercado
Last updated: Jun 25, 2018
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Bitbucket Upgrade matrix

Items of interest: (click on the link for additional details)

5.0

  • Committer verification
  • Smart Mirror authentication caching
  • Add repository shortcuts
  • Support for emojis in comments
  • Changed to Spring Boot container; customizations to Bitbucket's server.xml file must be migrated to bitbucket.properties
  • Changes to supported environment variables
  • Start script changes
  • Removal of setenv.sh & setenv.bat

Read more in the Bitbucket Server 5.0 release notes and changelog.

5.1

  • Sign commits and tags with GPG keys
  • Pull request deletion
  • Search improvements
  • Project level admin: Branching models, Branch permissions, and Default reviewers
  • Smarter Mirroring: Push proxying

Read more in the Bitbucket Server 5.1 release notes.

5.2

  • Project level admin: Merge strategies, merge checks, hooks
  • Smarter Mirroring: Push proxying for SSH connections

Read more in the Bitbucket Server 5.2 release notes.

5.3

  • Create JIRA issues directly from a pull request comment
  • Support for Git 2.14 added

Read more in the Bitbucket Server 5.3 release notes.

5.4

  • Webhooks
  • Atlassian Troubleshooting and Support tool (ATST) renamed
  • Contribution guidelines added

Read more in the Bitbucket Server 5.4 release notes.

5.5

  • Rebase
  • Personal Access Tokens

Read more in the Bitbucket Server 5.5 release notes.

5.6

  • Better Repository Search
  • Fork Visibility

Read more in the Bitbucket Server 5.6 release notes.

5.7

  • Elasticsearch 5.5. upgrade
  • Punctuation aware code search

Read more in the Bitbucket Server 5.7 release notes.

5.8

  • Updates to search
  • Bitbucket Server and Data Center now supports IPv6
  • Refining the process of creating a Jira issue from a pull request
  • Improved merging with branch dependencies
  • Updates to Bitbucket Server developer documentation

Read more in the Bitbucket Server 5.8 release notes.

5.9

  • App Diagnostics

Read more in the Bitbucket Server 5.9 release notes.

5.10

  • Watch Repositories
  • ADG in Server
  • New events for Webhooks
  • Look and Feel plugin upgrade
  • Deploy and monitor Data Center article release

Read more in the Bitbucket Server 5.10 release notes.

5.11

  • Link to pull request on commit page
  • JIT fetch for Smart Mirrors

Read more in the Bitbucket Server 5.11 release notes.