--- title: "Jira / Atlassian Cloud JQL user entity property searches on voter, watcher and creator are deprecated: 2026-11-16 | Harbyn" description: "Jira / Atlassian Cloud JQL user entity property searches on voter, watcher and creator are deprecated, effective Nov 16, 2026." canonical: "https://harbyn.com/changes/atlassian-jira/2026-10-07-deprecating-user-entity-property-searches-for-voters-watchers-and-creators" last-updated: 2026-10-07 --- # Jira / Atlassian Cloud JQL user entity property searches on voter, watcher and creator are deprecated Markdown version of . Deprecation - Jira / Atlassian Cloud. high severity. Announced. Upcoming. Jira is deprecating JQL searches that use user entity properties on the voter, watcher and creator fields; the stated deprecation date is November 16, 2026. After removal, JQL queries or API requests using these searches are rejected with an UnsupportedOperationException. User entity property searches on other fields such as assignee and reporter remain supported. 22 days left: the deadline is Nov 16, 2026. ## Facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Vendor | [Jira / Atlassian Cloud](https://harbyn.com/vendors/atlassian-jira.md) | | Kind | Deprecation | | Severity | high | | Status | Announced | | Announced | Oct 7, 2026 | | Effective | Nov 16, 2026 | | Added to Harbyn | Oct 7, 2026 | | Lead time | 40 days of warning | | Review | Reviewed by a person, extracted by a model | ## Find it in your code ```sh npx harbyn scan ``` This change names no identifier the scanner can match line by line, so the scan tells you whether your repository uses Jira / Atlassian Cloud, from its packages and API hosts. Nothing leaves your machine. ## Sources Where this event comes from: the page we read, when we read it, and the hash of that snapshot. - (changelog, fetched 2026-10-07 13:32 UTC, sha256 `7f66f72c662c878be25a49a9d5a764c243bcb760afbc390000010473ee68c40b`) ## Related changes ### More from Jira / Atlassian Cloud - [Atlaskit and Forge UI Kit tag, lozenge and badge use the refreshed look by default](https://harbyn.com/changes/atlassian-jira/2026-10-07-refreshed-labelling-system-available-by-default.md) (Behavior change, announced Oct 7, 2026) - [Forge client fetch permissions allow regional remote URLs](https://harbyn.com/changes/atlassian-jira/2026-10-07-regional-remote-urls-supported-in-client-fetch-permissions.md) (Behavior change, announced Oct 7, 2026) - [JQL text-field queries with =, IN and NOT IN now match the phrase anywhere in the field](https://harbyn.com/changes/atlassian-jira/2026-10-06-jira-text-queries-using-in-or-not-in-now-use-exact-phrase-search.md) (Behavior change, announced Oct 6, 2026) - [Search REST API returns 400 for invalid custom JQL function queries](https://harbyn.com/changes/atlassian-jira/2026-10-08-direct-validation-of-custom-jql-functions-in-search-rest-api.md) (Behavior change, announced Oct 8, 2026) ### Changes at other vendors - [AWS Lambda: Python 3.10 runtime deprecation](https://harbyn.com/changes/aws-lambda/2026-10-08-python-3-10-runtime-deprecation.md) (effective Oct 31, 2026) - [Google Cloud Run and Functions: .NET 8 runtime deprecation](https://harbyn.com/changes/google-cloud/2026-10-08-net-8-runtime-deprecation.md) (effective Nov 10, 2026) - [GitHub: X-GitHub-Stateless-S2S-Token header ignored from 2026-11-30](https://harbyn.com/changes/github/2026-10-02-x-github-stateless-s2s-token-header-ignored-from-2026-11-30.md) (effective Nov 30, 2026) - [Supabase: @supabase/server framework adapters are deprecated and will be removed on December 1, 2026](https://harbyn.com/changes/supabase/2026-10-05-framework-adapters-in-supabase-server-are-deprecated.md) (effective Dec 1, 2026) [All upcoming deadlines](https://harbyn.com/deadlines.md)