Atlassian has deprecated several Jira Platform REST API endpoints, which has impacted our current workflow, scripts, and automation rules that depend on these endpoints. Since we are using jira-steps-plugin in most of our Jenkins instances, this change has broken functionality.

Currently, jiraJqlSearch is throwing the following error:

Error Message: {"errorMessages":"The requested API has been removed. Please migrate to the /rest/api/3/search/jql API. A full migration guideline is available at [https://developer.atlassian.com/changelog/#CHANGE-2046"],"errors":{}} 

Impact:

• Existing Jenkins automation that relies on jiraJqlSearch is failing.

• Blocks multiple teams that depend on Jira-based automation for builds, deployments, and reporting.

Priority: High - This issue is critical as it disrupts CI/CD automation and impacts productivity across teams.