JFrog Bintray Migration Guide

Overview

JFrog is sunsetting JFrog Bintray during 2021 and provides separate migration schemes for the two main licensing plans - the Open Source plan and the Premium plan that umbrellas the Pro and Premium offerings dedicated to enterprise users.

The purpose of this guide is to provide you as a Premium Enterprise user with the information required to determine which of the JFrog solutions best meets your needs together with a migration process from JFrog Bintray to the JFrog solution.

JFrog Bintray Sunset Timeline

As of July 4th, 2021, JFrog Bintray Premium will no longer be supported and will be replaced with a set of advanced JFrog Cloud hosting solutions that are based on Artifactory's enhanced capabilities that include a set of dedicated features for managing, controlling and distributing your software packages.

As of May 1st,2021, the JFrog Community Centers were sunset.

To streamline the productivity of the JFrog Platform we will be sunsetting Bintray (including JCenter), GoCenter, and ChartCenter services. Users of these services will need to migrate to the respective canonical repository, and we will continue to offer both free and paid JFrog Platform cloud subscriptions that can serve other binary distribution needs. Additionally, JFrog is partnering with hubs like Docker to help ensure that infrastructure our customers and community depend upon is well maintained. To learn more, click here.

JCenter

To clarify, JFrog will keep JCenter as a read-only repository indefinitely. Our customers and the community can continue to rely on JCenter as a reliable mirror for Java packages.

Update: JCenter has been kept as a read-only repository since the sunset of Bintray, but JCenter will officially sunset on August 15th, 2024. From then on, all requests for JCenter will be redirected to Maven Central.

JFrog Software Distribution Solutions

The following solutions are an alternative offering to Bintray Premium and support key functionality for distributing software.

JFrog Cloud with CDN Distribution: Supports distributing your software packages from JFrog Cloud via Amazon's CloudFront CDN. Read More >>JFrog Cloud with CDN Distribution
JFrog Distribution: Supports distributing your software packages hosted in Artifactory to your Edge nodes using Release Bundles. Read More >>JFrog Distribution

Using the advanced JFrog distribution solutions, you will gain:

Extended universal package supporting all major package formats including Docker, Maven, NPM, Conan, RPM (Yum), Generic, Vagrant, Helm, and more. For a full list, see the Supported Package Table.
Advanced security options including support for SAML, LDAP, OAuth, CNAME/SSL, and Access Tokens.
A fine-grained permission model allowing you to assign role-based or user-based permissions to areas in your repositories.
A set of dedicated Developer tools including a REST API, CLI, and JFrog's propriety AQL (Artifactory Query Language).

JFrog Bintray Migration Matrix

The following table lists the similarities and differences between JFrog Bintray, JFrog Cloud, and JFrog Distribution.

Note

The majority of the Bintray features have corresponding capabilities in JFrog Cloud but they do not provide 100 percent coverage.

Feature/Functionality	JFrog Bintray	JFrog Cloud with CDN Distribution	JFrog Distribution
Signed URLs
Geo Restrictions
IP Restrictions
Fine-grained permissions model Permissions
Dedicated developer tools - JFrog REST APIs, CLIJFrog REST APIs
CNAME SSL		MyJFrog	MyJFrog
Premium Dashboard		MyJFrog Customer Portal	MyJFrog Customer Portal
Universal Package Management	9 package types	Over 23 package types. (See Supported Package table to check for CDN Support)	Over 23 package types
Repository support	Local repositories only	Local, remote and virtual repositoriesRepository Management Overview	Local, remote and virtual repositoriesRepository Management Overview
Dedicated and isolated environments
Authentication using SAML SSOSAML SSO
Multiple cloud providers		AWS Only
Additional authentication options including OAuth SSO or LDAP with the ability to use LDAP integration for group syncing.OAuth SSOLDAP
A single CI/CD platform
Supports hybrid technologies
Control download access on the repository level
Artifactory Query Language (AQL)Artifactory Query Language
Package Reviews
Content Update Restrictions
Reporting Usage Statistics Download Trends Geo Consumption		Log AnalyticsLog Analytics or Artifactory Access LogsAccess Log	Log AnalyticsLog Analytics or Artifactory Access LogsAccess Log
Github Integration		Partial	Partial
Business units and charge back (Bintray Enterprise Feature)
Firehose API (Bintray Enterprise Feature)
Product Model and Eula (Bintray Enterprise Feature)
ReadMe and Release Notes		Partial	Partial
Webhooks		Coming Soon	Coming Soon

Supported Package Types

Package Type	JFrog Bintray	JFrog Cloud with CDN Distribution	JFrog Distribution
Generic
Conan
Debian
Docker
Maven
npm
NuGet		Direct Download (CDN Not Available)
Opkg		No CDN Support
rpm
Vagrant
Bower
Cargo
Chef		Direct Download (CDN Not Available)
CocoaPods		Direct Download (CDN Not Available)
Composer
Conda
CRAN
Go		Direct Download (CDN Not Available)
Git LFS
Gradle
Helm
P2		Direct Download (CDN Not Available)
PHP
PyPI

To get started with the migration process, see Migrating Bintray Premium Settings to JFrog Artifactory.

Performing Bintray Tasks in JFrog Cloud

The following table is a quick reference to common functionalities in the JFrog Cloud, including their new locations and any functional changes.

Bintray Feature	Functionality	Location in the New UI	Comments
Entitlements	PermissionsPermissions	Admin\| Identity and Access \| Permissions
Watches	FollowersBrowsing Artifacts	Application \| Artifacts Repository Browser \| <Package_Name> \| Followers tab	The Followers feature allows you to monitor selected artifacts, folders or repositories for storage events (create/delete/modify) and receive detailed email notifications on repository changes that are of interest to you. For more information, see View Artifact Information.View Artifact Information
Logs	Viewing Live LogsLog Analytics	Admin \| Artifactory \| Advanced \| Log Analytics	The SAAS based environment does not provide direct access to the log files via a log agent or via API. We recommended monitoring your logs in real time by using Sumo Logic integration. For more information, see Log Analytics.Log Analytics Live logs can be checked out via the System Logs Viewer. For more information, see System Logs ViewerLogging
Read Me and Release Notes	Adding a Readme text file to Packages and/or VersionsPackage Management	Application \| Artifactory \| Artifact Browser \| Package Type \| ReadMe	Applies to npm packages versions The ReadMe tab is available for Npm Package versions. If the readme file is embedded in your software archive, you can view in the the Artifact Browser.
Licenses	Assigning Software Licensing to Packages in Bintray	Admin \| Artifactory \| General \| Property Sets	You can assign a license as a property set in the JFrog Platform. For more information, see Property Sets.Property Sets