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Jira Datacenter supports archiving of issues and projects since v8.1. By archiving issues, Jira will remove them from the indexes. The archived issues will still be accessible in read-only mode, however, they will not appear in Jira searchessearch results. This enhances Jira performance because it stores less data in the indexes.
As many of the Xray entities are normal Jira issue objects, archiving its issues has the same effect of archiving any other Jira issue type. Xray also additionally extends this feature by archiving some of its data.
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