Last updated Mar 28, 2024

Change notice - JQL filters applied to comment webhooks in Jira Cloud

From 19 December 2017 JQL filters defined in Jira Cloud webhooks will be applied for comment events.

The following webhooks will respect the JQL filter defined, and will be fired only for issue comments that meet the JQL criteria:

  • comment_created
  • comment_deleted
  • comment_updated

This change fixes the following bug JRACLOUD-68235: JQL filter for webhooks is not applied to "comment" events.

This change will be rolled out gradually, starting from 19 December 2017 and it may take up to 3 weeks until it reaches all Jira Cloud instances. Note, that after this change is fully rolled out, comment objects will be removed from jira:issue_* webhooks, as announced in the deprecation notice.

What will happen if I do nothing?

For every webhook that is registered with a JQL filter and comment events, your app will start receiving fewer webhooks with comment events, because they will be restricted to only the ones that respect the JQL filter.

If your app expected that the comment webhooks were only fired for issue comments that match the JQL - great news, as you don't need to do anything.

And if your app contains some logic that filters out the irrelevant comment events, you may consider removing it, because the client will now receive filtered webhooks.

Replacement

If your app should receive all comment related events, register a separate webhook for desired comment events without setting a JQL filter for them.

Learn more about Jira Cloud webhooks.

Report feature requests and bugs for Jira Cloud and webhooks in the ACJIRA project on ecosystem.atlassian.net.

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