Update JIRA on Linux
first shutdown jira: go to your JIRA bin directory and: ./shutdown.sh create a separate directory, outside your JIRA installation dir, to store the upgrade files: mkdir upgradejira cd upgradejira wget http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/downloads/binary/atlassian-jira-6.3.12-x64.bin chmod a+x atlassian-jira-6.3.12-x64.bin ./atlassian-jira-6.3.12-x64.bin