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5 November 2009

With pleasure, Atlassian presents version 1.3 of the Atlassian Connector for Eclipse.

You can now perform pre-commit Crucible reviews from within your Eclipse IDE, as well as the post-commit reviews that were already available. Crucible's web interface lets you do reviews on patches, but you must make and upload the patch. Now it is easier and simpler to do a pre-commit review from within Eclipse.

The connector's Bamboo component now displays builds that are in progress or in the queue, as well as the completed builds.

We are delighted to announce that the connector's JIRA component is now much faster. The team has been working with Tasktop on a number of improvements, now available with the latest Eclipse Mylyn release 3.3. In particular, you will notice a marked reduction in the time it takes to load your JIRA issues into the IDE.

There are a number of smaller improvements and bug fixes, listed below. Please note also that, effective from this release, the connector no longer supports Eclipse 3.3 (Europa).

Don't have the Atlassian Connector for Eclipse yet?

You can install the connector directly from the Eclipse software updates manager or from a zipped archive. Follow our installation guide.

Highlights of this Release:

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This is an open source project. You can get the source code from our SVN repository.

Using Bamboo 2.3?

Unfortunately due to a bug with the REST API, this release of the Atlassian Connector for Eclipse will not work with Bamboo 2.3. We are working on a fix for this. As a workaround, please consider upgrading to the latest Bamboo release.

Highlights of this Release

Crucible Pre-Commit Reviews

Would you like your team members to review your code before you commit it to the repository? Although Crucible's web interface lets you do reviews on patches, you need to make and upload the patch before you can do the review. Now you can use the connector to do a pre-commit review from within Eclipse. The review gathers your local working copies of the files and makes them available to all reviewers for comment.




You and your reviewers can then open the changed files in Eclipse and add review comments, even though the changes have not yet been committed to the source repository. (Note: Currently the connector supports pre-commit reviews with Subclipse and Subversive only. You cannot yet do pre-commit reviews using CVS.)

Bamboo Builds in Progress or in Queue

The connector now displays builds that are in progress or in the queue, as well as all completed builds. Note that you need Bamboo 2.4 or later to make use of this feature.

JIRA Much Faster

Thanks to lazy and smarter fetching and generally improved RPC handling, the connector's JIRA component is now much faster. Now available with the latest Eclipse Mylyn download, the efficiency and other improvements are the result of our work with the Tasktop team. See the Mylyn release notes for Mylyn version 3.3. Here is a summary:

  • Improved performance: The connector now employs lazy loading, so that it fetches only the data it requires instead of loading all JIRA issue metadata at once. You will notice a marked improvement in the loading time when:
    • Adding a JIRA task repository.
    • Creating a JIRA issue filter.
    • Adding a JIRA issue.
  • Progress monitor: There is now a better indication of progress when adding a JIRA repository.
  • Filtering of version and component: You can now select versions and components from a filtered list.

Other Things Worth Mentioning

This release brings a number of bug fixes and improvements. The following items are worth a special mention:

  • When you create a new task from a failed Bamboo build, the task will include links to the relevant JIRA issues.
  • In the Bamboo build window, the related JIRA issue keys are now hyperlinked so that you can click through to the issue.
  • We have fixed a number of bugs in Crucible reviews and improved the related error messages to give more information about the problem encountered.
  • The Crucible component now includes review navigation, allowing you to navigate between comments and files in the review.
  • Eclipse 3.3 (Europa) is no longer supported. Please note that, effective from version 1.3 of the Atlassian Connector for Eclipse, the connector will no longer support Eclipse 3.3 (Europa). We recommend that you upgrade your Eclipse platform to get the best benefit from Eclipse Mylyn and the Atlassian Connector for Eclipse.

Complete List of Fixes in this Release

JIRA Issues (55 issues)
Key Summary Priority Status
PLE-743 installed plugin appears to block update of Mylyn to 3.3.0.v20091015-0500-e3x Major Closed
PLE-735 cannot open review files Major Resolved
PLE-734 Plugin should remember last selected SCM provider when creating pre-commit review Major Resolved
PLE-731 Direct Click Through should not show a dialog if it fails to bind to the port Major Resolved
PLE-729 Problem when opening binary files for post commit review Major Resolved
PLE-727 Outdated annotation displayed in the editor Major Resolved
PLE-726 Cannot install onto latest SpringSource Tool Suite (2.2.0) Minor Closed
PLE-725 Clicking Favourites in Bamboo Task Repository does nothing Major Resolved
PLE-718 Remember what review type user usually creates Major Resolved
PLE-716 Direct Click Through on Linux-Gtk creates multiple gray windows Major Closed
PLE-714 Pictures (and probably other binary files) are displayed in text editor (as of course rubbish) when clicked on file hyperlink in review editor for pre-commit review Major Resolved
PLE-707 Show Repositories View from Bamboo View toolbar shows Task List view instead Minor Closed
PLE-706 I get strange message when opening editor for annotated ADDED file Major Resolved
PLE-704 Error removing file comment (line or general) which has associated reply Major Resolved
PLE-702 Disconnecting Bamboo Task Repository does not remove its plans from Bamboo View Major Closed
PLE-701 When a build is in progress while auto-refresh of Bamboo View, I get notification suggesting that the plan is disabled Major Resolved
PLE-699 NPE when refreshing Bamboo View and empty plan is selected Minor Closed
PLE-696 When build is in progress (throbber icon in State column is displayed) then I cannot actually scroll my Bamboo View Major Resolved
PLE-691 Drop eclipse 3.3 support Major Closed
PLE-689 Provide a meaningful message when Crucible server has Remote API turned off Major Resolved
PLE-687 Building a release should be a one click operation (was: fix build system) Blocker Resolved
PLE-686 bug #255430 - more informative progress monitor when adding repository Blocker Resolved
PLE-685 "update task attributes" button only fetches data for single project Blocker Resolved
PLE-679 lots of Editor is not an ITextEditor or editor inputs... errors in log Major Resolved
PLE-676 Update Repository Data does not work for recently changed (added/removed) Crucible projects Major Resolved
PLE-675 Confusing message when opening editor for reviewed file and there is no active issue Trivial Resolved
PLE-665 Better support for assign issue operation: should respect assign issue permission rather than edit issue (used now) Blocker Closed
PLE-658 Ability to create a pre-commit review from local files (for Subversive) Major Closed
PLE-656 JIRA task editor should not update the task if only comment changed Major Closed
PLE-651 Fix usage reports on EAC Major Closed
PLE-650 Edit Repository Query - filter list should grab horizontal space Major Closed
PLE-649 Reverse version list (present them the same order as JIRA does) Minor Resolved
PLE-648 JIRA issue editor should show versions as a coma separated value list Major Resolved
PLE-646 Restore build selection after refresh in build view Major Resolved
PLE-639 [Collection] JIRA Bugs for M7 Major Closed
PLE-635 JIRA Connector should set User-Agent HTTP header to something more meaningful and consistent Minor Closed
PLE-616 Indicate a build is in progress Major Resolved
PLE-615 Ability to work on a pre-commit review created from Eclipse Major Closed
PLE-614 Ability to create a pre-commit review from local files (for Subclipse) Major Closed
PLE-610 Direct Click Through suport for Bamboo Major Resolved
PLE-580 Default selection of Crucible Project in New Review wizard is remembered per-repository Major Resolved
PLE-570 confusing errors when creating a review with incomplete Subclipse install Major Resolved
PLE-511 validation error not very helpful Major Resolved
PLE-508 combo boxes are empty when no fisheye repositories are defined Trivial Resolved
PLE-493 Review activation settings do not work per-server but rather globally Major Closed
PLE-491 Initial metadata fetch is very slow for JIRA Major Closed
PLE-461 Incomplete scroll bars appearing in CRU Editor Major Resolved
PLE-457 Make SVN-crucible repository mappings a repositorySetting Major Resolved
PLE-445 If review creation fails, wizard should stay open to allow user to react Major Closed
PLE-423 [refactoring] Bucket for refactoring work that needs to or should be done Major Closed
PLE-418 Emptiness under Statement of Objectives in review editor Major Closed
PLE-417 Poor error handling while refreshing Crucible editor Major Resolved
PLE-345 Add comment dialog does not use dialog font Major Resolved
PLE-258 Bamboo UI Tweaks Major Closed
PLE-225 Periodically refresh last build time in Bamboo view Major Resolved


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