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Last updated Oct 15, 2025

JIRA Developer Documentation : JIRA-Specific Atlassian Events

The Atlassian Event library is available to all plugins, allowing them to listen to events occurring within JIRA.

Here are some events available in JIRA:

Event Type

Description. Source

ApplicationPropertyChangeEvent

Description: Thrown when changes occur in the application properties.

Source: JIRA

IssueEvent

Description: Thrown when changes occur in issues.

Source: JIRA

UserEvent

Description: Thrown when changes occur in users.

Source: JIRA

ClearCacheEvent

Description: Thrown when JIRA should clear and reinitialise all of its caches.

Source: JIRA

ClearHttpCacheEvent

Description: Event that a host application can throw to clear Shindig's cache.

Source: Gadgets

XMLRestoreFinishedEvent

Description: Thrown when an XML backup is finished being restored.

Source: Crowd

Version events (all of these extend AbstractVersionEvent):

Description: Thrown when changes are made to project versions.

Source: JIRA

Project events (all of these extend AbstractProjectEvent):

Description: Thrown when changes are made to a project.

 Source: JIRA

 

Issue link events:

Description: Thrown when issue links are created or deleted.

 Source: JIRA

 

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