As announced in Announcing project/fields association improvements for company-managed projects, the overrideScreenSecurity flag is being removed from the Jira REST APIs in early 2026.
To minimise disruption caused by this breaking changes and to assist with migration away from the flag we’ve released changes to the issue create and issue edit APIs. They no longer require fields to be on a screen to be set including when not providing the overrideScreenSecurity flag, the fields do still need to be associated with the requested project + issue type.
| Change | Date |
|---|---|
| Issue create and issue edit APIs no longer require fields to be on screen to be set | From October 2025 |
overrideScreenSecurity will have no effect on API requests |
From January 2026 |