Changelog for Jira Cloud REST API v3 beta

Is there anywhere we can see a changelog/diff for the new v3 REST API endpoints so we know at a high level what’s different between them and the v2 endpoints?

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From my understanding currently there is no one place where this information is held however this is something that we are looking into.

You can diff these documents.
https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/swagger.v3.json (Jira Cloud v2 Open API spec)
https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/swagger-v3.v3.json (Jira Cloud v3 Open API spec)

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@jbevan I dug a bit deeper and you can try requests with expand parameter equals changelog . You can check it e.g. here: https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/#api-api-3-issue-issueIdOrKey-get

Thanks @scallahan - I just saw on an PSCLOUD support ticket the following quote:

…I highly recommend swapping to REST API Version 3. There have been significant architectural changes to the system that Version 2 does not account for. You can find more details on Version 3 of the Jira Cloud REST API here:

Can you (or anyone else at Atlassian) speak more about that? I was only aware of the introduction of support for ADF in v3 of the API.

Isn’t API 3 doing all the accountId stuff, I’m assuming it is not in API 2

No, the “accountId stuff” can be used in both API versions 2 and 3. See also here for more migration information:

Note that both version 2 and version 3 of the Jira Cloud REST API will be updated according to this document. Version 3 was introduced to support the Atlassian Document Format (ADF). With respect to GDPR, there is no difference between these versions.

Is v3 still in beta? it’s been. a few years.

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Hi @aidin.mahmoodi ,

Unfortunately it is still in beta and I’m not aware of the timeline to make it GA.

Regards,
Dugald