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🚀 Exploring the World of Atlassian Jira Software 🚀

Hey fellow techies and project management enthusiasts! 👋 Let's talk about Atlassian Jira Software - the superhero of project tracking and team collaboration! 🦸‍♂️💻

🌟 First off, can we just appreciate how Jira streamlines our workflows? It's like having a personal assistant that keeps everything organized and on track! From planning sprints to tracking bugs, it's got us covered! 📊✨

💡 And the best part? Customization galore! With endless options for configuring boards, workflows, and issue types, Jira adapts to YOUR team's unique needs. Say goodbye to one-size-fits-all solutions! 🛠️💬

🌐 Plus, let's give a shoutout to its integrations! Whether you're syncing with Confluence for seamless documentation or hooking up with Bitbucket for streamlined development, Jira plays nice with all your favorite tools! 🔄🔗

🔍 And don't even get me started on its reporting capabilities! 📈 From burndown charts to velocity trackers, Jira serves up insightful analytics faster than you can say "agile." It's like having a crystal ball for project success! 🔮📊

🌈 So, whether you're a seasoned Scrum master or a newbie developer, Atlassian Jira Software is your trusty sidekick in the world of project management! Let's raise a toast to efficiency, collaboration, and all things Jira! 🥂🎉

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Cloud Pipeline: Jira Software

Next-gen projects: Roadmap hierarchy

Expand epics to see child issues and their statuses in your next-gen roadmap.

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Jira is a robust and agile project management software tool used extensively by agile teams. It empowers the team members to collaborate effectively and track and resolve issues with ease. It offers a variety of reports through dedicated dashboards, charts, Scrum Boards, and Kanban Boards.

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No one in this world can deny that product management is something really tough and time taking job. It is one of the most complicated works that involves people from different levels.

To ease the work and enable digital teams to manage, report, track, and resolve bugs, JIRA, a cloud- and subscription-based issue tracking tool, is here to rescue.

Before jumping into how JIRA can be beneficial to businesses, let’s first understand it from the basics.

What is JIRA?

JIRA is a workflow management tool mainly catered towards Agile development projects. Developed by Atlassian in 2002, JIRA was an issue-tracking tool for software companies. With technological advancement, JIRA has now evolved into a one-stop solution for businesses where it directs the team to work towards a common goal, facilitates planning, tracking, and so much more. It also helps in outlining the project headway and secures collaboration with a multitude of tools.

How to use JIRA:

After knowing what JIRA really is, let’s get started by setting it up for you.

1. Open JIRA software

2. Select -Create project

3. Choose a template from the library

4. Set up the columns as per your need from Board settings

5. Create an issue6. Invite your team members and start working

Seems easy, right?

The JIRA dashboard consists of many useful functions and features which make handling of issues easy.

Benefits of using JIRA in Agile:

1. Easy and friendly end-user interface and experience: JIRA makes the project management process easy for users with its simple interface. With just a few clicks, one can manage their work seamlessly.

2. Flexibility: JIRA is highly flexible and can be used in various operating systems. It is hassle-free to maintain Jira, and it is a favorite option for software deployment.

3. More visibility: Jira supports transparency for better results. It helps team members to track progress, identify the loopholes and ensure that everyone is on the same page.

4. Customizable: This project management tool is highly customizable and can be businesses are allowed to add and remove features as per their need thus, providing more freedom of choice to the organizations.

The bottom line:

Jira is a new-age tool highly recommended for managing projects and handling multi-tasking without hindrances. It supports clarity, productivity, collaboration, and excellence that marks them out from the clutter.

Source: What is JIRA used for in agile?

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Jira Software 8.3.0 Release Notes

We're pleased to present Jira Software 8.3.

Highlights

Jira Server mobile app

Content Delivery Network (CDN) for Jira Data Center

AdoptOpenJDK bundled with JIRA

List of custom changes after upgrade

New filters to search for custom fields

Browsing projects is faster now

Improvements to batching emails

Cluster lock mechanism improved in Data Center

Re-indexing made better

Get the latest version

Interested in trying a shiny new version? Don't forget to renew your active software maintenance! Renew now.

The DVCS connector plugin, which allows Jira Software to connect o development tools such as Bamboo and Bitbucket, has been upgraded in this release. If you connect Jira Software to Bitbucket Cloud, then you must read the upgrade notes for important info about this release and upgrading, and to see the full list of issues resolved.

Also, see Jira in action. Check out our performance report for 8.3.

Compatible applications

If you're looking for compatible Jira applications, look no further:

Jira Core 8.3 release notes

Jira Service Desk 4.3 release notes

Good to know

If you want to know when our next Enterprise release is coming, see: Next Jira Enterprise release.

If you're thinking to move to Data Center, check our recommendations first. See: Infrastructure recommendations for Jira.

Jira Server mobile app

The official mobile app for Jira Server is up for grabs! You can use the app to view your work on the go and stay up-to-date with anything that’s going on in your projects. Creating and editing issues, moving them on your board, commenting away, and getting notifications when you get distracted — all this, and much more, straight from your device.

We’re not encouraging anybody to do their work on the train home, but there’s nothing like closing this last bug and just chilling away with your headphones on. Learn more about the app

Oh, and to save you time advertising the app among your team, you can use our email template to tell them about it.

Content Delivery Network (CDN) for Jira Data Center

Geographical distance has a measurable impact on page load times, so it's essential to reduce this overhead as much as possible when you have teams in multiple timezones. Don't let geography slow your team down. A Content Delivery Network (CDN) can help ease the frustration for distributed teams.

Our new CDN for Data Center feature allows you to serve static assets (such as JavaScript, CSS, and fonts) from servers closer to your users, resulting in faster page load times. For example, if your Jira Data Center server (known as the origin) is located in Germany, a CDN can improve page load times for users located in Rio de Janeiro by as much as 50%, as static assets will be served from an edge server in Brazil.

It's very straight forward to set up:

Use our template to spin up an AWS CloudFront distribution, or create an account with the CDN vendor of your choice.

Update your load balancer and firewall to allow the CDN to reach your site.

In your Jira application, provide the CDN URL and enable CDN support.

Only static assets are cached. Issues, attached files, and personal data like avatars, are still served form your origin server.

Don't want to open your site to the public internet?  No problem, you can deploy your own caching servers, instead of using a third-party CDN.

See Use a CDN with Atlassian Data Center applications for more info on how using a CDN might help your team.

AdoptOpenJDK bundled with Jira

As you may know, Oracle stopped providing public updates for Oracle JDK 8, which means that only Oracle customers with a paid subscription are eligible for updates. To give you an option for a free JDK, we first added support for OpenJDK in Jira 7.13, and now it’s time to tighten the relations with OpenJDK even more!

Jira is no longer bundled with Oracle JDK and comes with AdoptOpenJDK JRE 8 instead. This applies only to Jira installers, as the archives don’t include any Java. If you’re an Oracle fan, Oracle JDK is still supported, so feel free to use it.

List of custom changes after upgrade

To preserve your custom changes after upgrade, you need to re-apply the changes made to your old Jira files to the same files in the upgraded version. Until 8.3 we weren't able to tell you exactly which files you'd modified. However, as of 8.3 we can. When you start your Jira after upgrade, you'll see a list of files which have been modified so that you can easily transfer the changes.

This change is a part of a bigger project to help you plan and speed up your upgrade. In the planning phase, you can already see the changed files in the Pre-upgrade planning page in the Jira administration > Applications > Plan your upgrade. This can help you estimate the time required to transfer the changes and make sure none have been lost. When you transfer the changes from the old to the new files, remember to only copy these exact changed parts not the entire files.

New filters to search for custom fields

Now, you can find a custom field even if you do not know its exact name. You can use one or a collection of the additional three multi-select filters and search through your custom fields based on

projects using custom field

custom field types

screens connected to a custom field.

Browsing projects is now faster

We've upgraded the Browse projects page to the latest version of Marionette (1.4.1), which gave it a significant performance boost.

Improvements to batching emails

Now you can configure the notification frequency at which you want users to receive the batched updates instance wide.  If your users like to always stay on top of things, they can receive batched notifications every few minutes, and if you’d rather just read a summary every now and then, you can choose to receive a summary of what happened in the last hour. For details see Configuring email notifications.

Cluster lock mechanism improved in Data Center

We improved the cluster lock mechanism in Jira Data Center by introducing lock timeouts. Now, when a node loses a cluster lock it will be automatically recoverable without any actions from administrator. Previously this situation could only be resolved by restarting the node. You can read more about this issue here.

Re-indexing made better

We’ve improved the user experience around re-indexing, which will be especially visible for our Data Center users. Some of the changes include more context around the re-indexing options so you can choose more easily, confirmation modals with extra warnings to prevent you from re-indexing by mistake, and a new field that shows the node that will be used for re-indexing. You will also see your current node and the “re-indexing” node when re-indexing is in progress, just to give you more details on what’s going on in your Data Center cluster. Learn more.

Issues in Release

Fixed: Board displaying incorrect name for "Other Issues" and "Everything Else"

Fixed: Drag'n'drop zones in agile boards do not cover full column height

Fixed: Browser search function does not find issues after supplying a dash.

Fixed: Click ">" under Version Panel in Backlog page throw "Cannot read property 'doneEstimate' of undefined" error

Fixed: Error upon navigating through boards

Fixed: Kanban Board: Multiple statuses in one column do not all appear when transitioning to it.

Fixed: Clicking an issue in the Active sprints board causes an exception to be thrown while rendering the Issue Detail View

Fixed: CVE-2019-11581 - Template injection in various resources

Fixed: Users cannot be removed from the Project Roles if the user is renamed in JIRA 8.2.0

Fixed: Frequent lucene-stats in logs triggered when closing temporary index (RAMDirectory)

Fixed: Some Jira entities created when installing applications show i18n keys instead of translated values.

Suggestion: The new customfields admin page is missing fonctionnalities

Suggestion: Allow admins adjust delay for email notifications batching

Fixed: Incorrect results for custom field quick search

Suggestion: Ability to to limit the search only to custom field name in custom fields management view

Fixed: Atlassian Diagnostics bundled plugin high memory usage

Suggestion: Do not send batch notification when a user mentioned on comment is part of the ticket (Assignee, Reporter or Watcher)

Suggestion: Add filtered view for Custom Fields page

Suggestion: Add background reindex warning for large data center environment

Suggestion: Custom Fields page search feature should include type information

Fixed: Import from Cloud to Server fails: value too long for type character varying (60)

Fixed: /status url returns ERROR instead of MAINTENANCE during foreground reindexing

Suggestion: Oracle 12c Release 2

Suggestion: Discourage Background Indexing for Datacenter instances in Indexing Page

Suggestion: As a JIRA Administrator I want to be able to deploy Jira behind CDN

Fixed: JIRA DC might lose Cluster lock due database connectivity problems

Fixed: In Jira Data Center, when a node executing reindexing is abruptly stopped other nodes will continue indicating that re-indexing is in progress

Fixed: Deleting an attachment does not remove its thumbnail from the filesystem

Suggestion: JIRA API disabling users

Suggestion: Encrypt Database Password in dbconfig.xml or use integrated authentication

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Jira Software 8.1.0 Release Notes

We're pleased to present Jira Software 8.1.

Highlights

Issue archiving (Jira Data Center)

Managing old components

Development info on issue cards

Flexible boards

More performance improvements

Jira Data Center on Microsoft Azure

New JMX metrics

Small improvements to make your day

Resolved issues

Get the latest version

Interested in trying a shiny new version? Don't forget to renew your active software maintenance! Renew now.

Read the upgrade notes for important info about this release and see the full list of issues resolved.

Compatible applications

If you're looking for compatible Jira applications, look no further:

Jira Core 8.1 release notes

Jira Service Desk 4.1 release notes

Issue archiving (Jira Data Center)

You can now keep your Jira instance neat and tidy by archiving issues that have not been updated for months. This is the first milestone of issue archiving, and we’re working hard to bring you more in the next releases, so stay tuned!

At this point, you can use API to archive and restore individual issues, export the list of archived issues, or use the basic UI toolset to archive up to a thousand issues at once and restore them individually whenever they’re needed again. Learn more

Managing old components

To help you manage the data you use more efficiently, we've introduced component archiving. Now, whenever admins decide a component is no longer needed, they can archive it. It will be tagged as "Archived" and as such will disappear from selection options. For the issues in which the component has been selected, it will become read-only. Learn more

Development info on issue cards

Tired of having to click on each issue on your board to see the information from your development tools? Now you can add the development tool info directly to your cards by adding the Development field to your Card layout. Navigate to your board, select Board > Configure > Card layout, and then select Development from the relevant Field name dropdown to add it to your cards.

Next time you visit that board, the development information for each issue will be displayed on the cards. You can add or remove the development information for your cards on an individual board basis.

Flexible boards

You can now resize the ‘Issue details’ panel as you see fit! This was already available on Scrum and Kanban backlogs, but since boards are just a click away... we’ve brought these changes there, too. We’ve also added horizontal scrolling to boards with many columns, just so everything fits nicely, even on small screens.

More performance improvements

The board picker effect

The board picker is this little thing at the top of the side navigation, where you can quickly switch between the boards. Although our data shows that only 4% of visitors interact with the board picker, Jira loads the list of boards every time you open the page. Simplicity is king, so we’ve shaved off a few tasks needed to put the list of boards together, and made Jira do the math only when you interact with the picker icon.

You won’t see a difference when using the board picker, but you will see it everywhere else! This change does wonders to Jira performance, improving the speed of boards, backlogs, issue view, and every other page that displays the side nav, as Jira no longer needs to do the unneeded calculations.

Speed of color

To make your issues more visible, you can assign colors to issue cards based on various JQL queries. Calculating all these JQLs and showing them as colors put a lot of effort on Jira, so we’ve decided to change it, also bringing more speed to your boards and backlogs. To let you in on some details here, we first load and display the content of the page, and then apply colors only to visible issue cards. This change reduces the number of JQL queries loaded at once, and improves the loading time of boards and backlogs.

As always, you can check the performance results in Performance and scale testing.

Jira Data Center on Microsoft Azure

We’ve improved our Microsoft Azure deployment templates for Jira Data Center on Microsoft Azure. Check them out on the Azure Marketplace (for beginners) or from our Bitbucket repo (for advanced users).

These new templates address many known issues, improve disaster recovery, add support for Application Insights and analytics, and make it easier to configure both SSL and Custom Domain Names. We also made some under-the-hood changes that fix many architectural changes.

Oh, and the new templates apply to all Jira versions, not just 8.1.

New JMX metrics for more insights into Jira performance

We have added additional indexing instrumentation that is exposed through JMX so that you can diagnose performance issues related to indexing. The new metrics available over JMX expose more details than the old ones and there are more of them so that the data is more accurate.

For more information, see Live monitoring using the JMX interface.

We've also made changes to Atlassian profiling. Now profiling traces merge identical sibling frames so logs are easier to parse and traces report time spent in tenths of milliseconds. Additionally, we have moved profiling information from the standard log to a separate log file: atlassian-jira-profiler.log.

For more information, see Logging and profiling.

Small improvements to make your day

Sorting projects by columns

To browse your projects more easily, you can now sort the list of projects by columns. Whether it’s specific project type, category, or even project lead you’re looking for, just click the column name and have the projects roll out right at your feet.

Additional custom fields in batched email notifications

You can now add additional custom fields to your email notifications to describe them more precisely. Such custom fields will be included in every email notification for an issue, unlike other fields that are included only if their value has changed (notifications are all about diff). Some of our users use custom fields in this way to add security levels to an issue and have them displayed in every notification related to an issue. By doing so, they can properly categorize or hide important notifications. Learn more

Something off with the activity on your account?

To let you better sleep at night, we’ve added information about your recent login attempts to your user profile. You can now check when was the last successful or failed login, to determine if somebody tried messing with your account. Until now, this was only available to Jira admins, so go ahead and flex your admin muscles! To find this info, click your avatar at the top-right in Jira, and select Profile.

Shiny new avatars

In the past few months, we did a lot of big UI changes to bring Jira closer to our new Design direction. Following on this, we’ve updated the user and project avatars, changing the color palette and shapes, and bringing a bit more variety so everybody can choose something for themselves.

Issues in Release

Fixed: Moving issues across kanban backlog throws an error

Fixed: Title & Description overlapping in backlog view

Suggestion: Make it possible to find selected board without loading all boards in jira agile

Fixed: REST call lastVisited executes board-scope-filter which leads to performance overhead

Fixed: board-scope-filter executed too many time which leads to performance overhead

Fixed: Performance of findRapidViewsByProject degrades with number of Boards

Fixed: Roadmap gadget doesn't work when added as external gadget in another instance

Suggestion: As a user I would like to resize the Detail View in Work mode

Fixed: Supported platforms page for Server 8.0 references Jira 8.1

Fixed: In the Atlassian Village there are people with missing names.

Fixed: Batched notification in Romanian language causes Velocity template error which is also included into notification

Suggestion: Remove the stale indexing Job associated with current node on startup

Fixed: Using filter picker in gadgets logs JS error 'Object doesn't support property or method includes' in IE 11

Suggestion: As an JIRA Datacenter Administrator I want to delete reindexing task from offline node

Fixed: Associating a Prioriy Scheme with a large number of projects never completes

Suggestion: Allow Non-JIRA admins to be able to see the Last Login Time and Login Count for their accounts

Suggestion: Archive project components

Suggestion: Archiving Old Issues

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Jira Software 8.0.0 Release Notes

We’re pleased to present Jira Software 8.0.

Highlights

Look and feel: Scrum and Kanban

Better email notifications

Significant backlogs load faster

Dropping Linked pages count to boost performance

New priority icons

New options in advanced search

Massive performance improvements

Faster indexing

REST API for issue type schemes

Smaller improvements to make your day

Bonus resources

Jira mobile app

Pre-upgrade planning page

Resolved issues

Interested in trying a shiny new version? Don't forget to renew your active software maintenance! Renew now.

Read the upgrade notes for important info about this release and see the full list of issues resolved.

Compatible applications

If you're looking for compatible Jira applications, look no further:

Jira Core 8.0 release notes

Jira Service Desk 4.0 release notes

Look and feel: Scrum and Kanban

We’ve started refreshing Jira’s UI some time ago, and Jira 8.0 brings another wave of changes in this area. This time, we’ve focused on improving the Scrum and Kanban boards and backlogs - these are one of the most commonly used views, and we always aim at making your time spent with Jira more enjoyable and productive.

At the same time, we’ve made sure that these changes don’t disrupt existing workflows or apps, or anything that you’re already accustomed to. Go ahead and try Jira 8.0 to see the changes for yourself, we’re pretty sure you'll enjoy them, just as we do!

Better email notifications

With every issue update sent in a separate email, email notifications can get overwhelming. Digging through a pile of emails first thing in the morning is never a good idea, that’s why we’ve embarked on a mission to make notifications smarter, and less chatty.

In Jira 8.0, you can batch events that occur close together, and receive them in a single summary email. Every email like that groups events that occurred in a single issue within the 10-minute window, and is very helpful when you’re doing any bulk updates, or when your teammates create issues and fill them in in one go. Here’s how a summary email looks:

Your Jira admin can enable this feature by going to (cogwheel) > System > Batching email notifications. Learn more

Significant backlogs load faster

Big backlogs can take time to load, and teams usually work with a small chunk of the issues at a time. Knowing this and striving to make backlogs render faster, we've changed the default to display only 100 issues (90 from the top and 10 from the bottom) from your backlog. The remaining issues can be displayed if you click Show all issues.

On top of this change, we've introduced a number of backend changes that resulted in faster initial loading. For example, when we tested a backlog of 10K issues, it loaded in 4 secs as opposed to 85 secs in earlier versions of Jira.

Dropping Linked pages count to boost performance

To significantly improve Jira performance, we've decided to drop the count of pages linked to epics and sprints. You can still track linked pages and see if there are multiple pages linked but the exact count in numbers is no longer there.  

This change does wonders to Jira performance, so no count no cry in this case.

New priority icons

We’ve got a lot of feedback about our priority icons not being distinctive or accessible, and we have to agree with that. Finally, after countless hours of designing, user testing, and even looking for inspiration in Egyptian hieroglyphs, we’ve decided on a set of simple and clear icons that will make it easier to distinguish what needs to be done first. Here’s a comparison of old and new icons that you’ll be seeing around Jira:

New options in advanced search

Here are some new options that you can use when searching for issues with advanced search:

Find authors (updatedBy)

Search for issues that were updated by a specific user, within a specified time range. Whether you’re looking for issues updated in the last 8 hours, two months, or between June and September 2017 - we’ve got you covered. Learn more

Find link types (issueLinkType)

Search for issues that are linked with other issues by particular link types, like blocks or is duplicated by. This will help you quickly find any related blockers, duplicates, and other issues that affect your work. Learn more

Massive performance improvements

Because of the changes and improvements we’ve introduced, Jira 8.0 is significantly faster than the previous versions. It’s not only about faster indexing that you can read about below, but also the most commonly used views, like boards and backlogs.

Here are some sample results that we’ve observed when comparing Jira 8.0 to Jira 7.13 (2 million issues):

Viewing boards improved by 62% (Data Center: 60%)

Viewing backlogs improved by 87% (Data Center: 87%)

Searching with JQL improved by 33% (Data Center: 31%)

Browsing boards improved by 16% (Data Center: 22%)

We’ve also observed significant improvements (30 - 50%) when testing a typical action (mean of all actions that we run in our tests) in Jira containing different data sets (increased number of projects, issues, boards, workflows, and so on).

To see all results, go to Performance and scale testing.

Faster indexing

One of the big changes coming in Jira 8.0 is the upgrade of Lucene, Jira’s search-based subsystem engine. Though not visible at first glance like other user features, this change brings significant improvements to indexing, which makes it easier to administer and maintain your Jira instance. Here’s an overview of how this change affects indexing:

All of the following performance improvements are based on the Jira 8.0 vs Jira 7.6 comparison.

Reindexing Jira takes much less time Reindex duration is 71% faster (in our tests, a 3h reindex dropped to 53 minutes.) This means less time spent on reindexing after major configuration changes, and quicker upgrades.

Jira indexes are smaller, and easier to maintain Index size has shrunk by 48% (in our tests, the index size dropped from 19GB to 9.9GB.) This means a faster, more stable Jira that is easier to maintain and troubleshoot.

Jira performance is stable over time No need to reindex often, as performance stays consistent and doesn’t degrade with time.

Jira is more stable and predictable Memory issues that occurred with intensive search functions, like very complex JQLs, are nonexistent in our 8.0 tests.

For more detailed performance results, see Performance and scale testing.

REST API for issue type schemes

Jira 8.0 brings REST APIs to let you manage issue type schemes outside of the user interface. As a Jira admin, you can perform the following actions:

Create an issue type scheme and associate it with projects

Retrieve individual or all issue type schemes, together with the associated projects

Change or remove projects associated with a scheme

Delete issue type schemes

For more info, see Issue type schemes in Jira REST API docs.

Small improvements to make your day

4-byte characters

Jira now supports 4-byte characters with MySQL 5.7 and later. This means you can finally use all these emojis you’ve dreamed about! Here’s a guide that will help you connect Jira to a MySQL 5.7 database. You can find more details about this change in this suggestion.

Add-ons are now apps

We’re renaming add-ons to apps. This has already changed in our Universal Plugin Manager some time ago, and now Jira follows suit. This change shouldn’t really affect you, but we’re letting you know so you’re not surprised when seeing this new naming in the Jira administration and other pages.

Using sprints when your backlog isn't sorted by rank

The easiest way to move your issues from backlog to one of the sprints is by using drag & drop. This, however, doesn’t work for backlogs that aren’t sorted by rank, effectively making such backlogs very difficult to use. We’ve heard your feedback, and added a way to move your issues to a sprint by right-clicking them, and sending to any sprint you want. More details in this suggestion.

Bonus resources

Performance and scale testing

With every Jira release, we’re publishing a performance and scaling report that compares performance of the current Jira version with the previous one. The report also contains results of how various data dimensions (number of custom fields, issues, projects, and so on) affect Jira, so you can check which of these data dimensions should be limited to give best results when scaling Jira. You can get the report for Jira 8.0 here.

Security overview and advisories

We’ve created a document for system administrators who want to evaluate the security of the Jira application. The document answers a number of questions that commonly come up when customers ask us about the security of our product. It will also list any security advisories published for Jira 8.0. You can view it here.

Jira Software mobile app - soon to follow the 8.0 release

We’re excited to share that Jira 8.0 will come together with the Jira mobile app, currently in beta. You will be able to use the app to view your work on the go and stay up-to-date with anything that’s going on in your projects.

The app will be available for iOS and Android.

Look out for the app on Google Play and App Store.

Pre-upgrade planning page

Now you can plan your next upgrades with a tailored upgrade plan recommended for your instance. It will help you get upgrade-ready by highlighting the important steps you need to follow, populated with up-to-date information that’s specific to your instance and upgrade path.

The pre-upgrade planning page is available not only for Jira 8.0, but also earlier versions (7.4.3+). When you upgrade the Atlassian Troubleshooting and Support Tools app (you can do it from within Jira), this page will appear under (cogwheel)  > Applications > Plan your upgrade.

Issues in Release

Fixed: Arrow toggle in issue detail view does not work

Fixed: Remove unnecessary check permission for project in findRapidViewsByProject

Suggestion: Boards - Unnecessary permission checks for issues

Suggestion: Backlog - Epic linked pages trigger extra DB queries

Suggestion: Boards - Subtasks trigger many extra DB queries

Suggestion: Kanban board - IssueIdCallback loads documents to get only id

Fixed: IE11: Kanplan backlog view fails to load due to JS error in EpicsInlineDialog

Fixed: Jira development panel goes out of sync with fecru

Fixed: More > Agile Board will not load ( spinning )

Suggestion: Allow Priority field to display the actual value rather than a colored arrow

Fixed: Scrollbar and its slider are being hidden by backlog and/or sprint header in JIRA 7.4.x

Fixed: Misaligned header on Kanban board

Suggestion: Allow the creation of a sprint when the backlog is sorted by something else than rank

Suggestion: Ability to use sprints when backlog not sorted by rank

Suggestion: Improve the way the Backlog is loaded for better performance and/or rendering of a large number of items

Fixed: Asynchronous cache replication queue - leaking file descriptor when queue file corrupted

Fixed: New line character in issue summary can break issue search detailed view

Fixed: Jira incorrectly sorts options from Select List custom fields with multiple contexts

Fixed: DefaultShareManager.isSharedWith performs user search 2x times

Fixed: Unknown RPC service: update_security_token

Fixed: Copying of SearchRequest performs user search

Fixed: Data Center - Reindex snapshot file fails to create if greater than 8GB

Fixed: The VerifyPopServerConnection resource was vulnerable to SSRF - CVE-2018-13404

Fixed: XSS in the two-dimensional filter statistics gadget on a Jira dashboard - CVE-2018-13403

Fixed: DC index copy does not clean up old files when Snappy archiver is used

Fixed: SQL for checking usages of version in custom fields is slow even if no version picker custom fields exist

Suggestion: Improve FieldCache memory utilisation for Jira instances with large Lucene

Fixed: Search via REST API might fail due to ClassCastException

Fixed: Upgrade Tomcat to the version 8.5.32

Suggestion: Webhook for Project Archive on JIRA Software

Fixed: Deprecate support for authenticating using os_username, os_password as url query parameters

Fixed: JQL input missing from saved filter

Fixed: CachingFieldScreenStore unnecessary flushes fieldScreenCache for create/remove operation

Suggestion: Favourite filters missing in Mobile browser view

Fixed: DC node reindex is run in 5s intervals instead of load-dependent intervals

Suggestion: Don’t log Jira events to STDOUT - catalina.out

Fixed: Adding .trigger-dialog class to dropdown item doesn’t open a dialog

Fixed: Issue view/create page freeze

Suggestion: Add Additional Logging Related to Index Snapshot Backup

Suggestion: Add additional logging related to index copy between nodes

Fixed: JIRA performance is impacted by slow queries pulling data from the customfieldvalue table

Fixed: Projects may be reverted to the default issue type scheme during the change due to race condition

Suggestion: As an JIRA Datacenter Administrator I want use default ehcache RMI port

Fixed: Two dimensional filter statistics gadget does not show empty values

Suggestion: Embed latest java critical security update (1.8.0.171 or higher) into the next JIRA (sub)version

Fixed: JIRA inefficiently populates fieldLayoutCache due to slow loading of FieldLayoutItems

Suggestion: Provide New look Of Atlassian Product For Server Hosting As Well

Fixed: Startup Parameter “upgrade.reindex.allowed” Not Taking Effect

Fixed: Remote Linking of Issues doesn’t reindex issues

Fixed: Index stops functioning because org.apache.lucene.store.AlreadyClosedException is not handled correctly

Suggestion: Add Multi-Column Index to JIRA Tables

Fixed: ‘entity_property’ table is slow with high number of rows and under high load

Fixed: JIRA Data Center will skip replication operations in case of index exception

Fixed: Improve database indexes for changeitem and changegroup tables.

Suggestion: CSV export should also include SLA field values

Fixed: Priority icons on new projects are not accessible for red-green colour blind users

Fixed: Two Dimensional Filter Statistics Gadget fails when YAxis is a Custom Field restricted to certain issue types

Fixed: Unable to remove user from Project Roles in project administration when the username starts with 0

Suggestion: The jQuery version used in JIRA needs to be updated

Fixed: MSSQL Selection in config.sh Broken (CLI)

Suggestion: Upgrade Lucene to version 7.3

Fixed: User Directory filter throws a 'value too long’ error when Filter exceeds 255 chars

Suggestion: Add support for 4 byte characters in MySQL connection

Fixed: xml view of custom field of multiversion picker type display version ID instead of version text

Fixed: Filter gadgets take several minutes to load after a field configuration context change

Suggestion: Ship JIRA with defaults that enable log rotation

Fixed: The xml for version picker customfield provides the version id instead of the version name

Suggestion: JQL function for showing all issues linked to any issue by a given issue link type

Suggestion: Ability to search for issues with blockers linked to them

Suggestion: Reduce JIRA email chatiness

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Cloud Pipeline: JIRA Software

These changes have just landed on your site, or will be there in the next few days:

Kanban boards now display epic names as lozenges on epic issue cards — pretty much like how epic links currently appear as lozenges on issues that are assigned to epics.

You can now search for sub-tasks that are part of an epic! Use the new parentEpic function with one or more epics, and the function will return both issues in that epic and their sub-tasks.

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Jira Software 8.3.3 Release Notes

The Atlassian Jira team is pleased to announce the release of Jira Software 8.3.3.

Don't have Jira Software 8.3.x yet?

Check out the new features and other highlights in the Jira Software 8.3.x release notes.

Get the latest version

Issues in Release

Fixed: Missing Jira Software REST API docs since version 7.3.2

Fixed: 8.3.0+: Pre-seeding cluster.properties causes Jira Software to fail to start

Fixed: CachingOfBizPropertyEntryStore cache failed to start after Restore System

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