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4 January 2011

The Atlassian JIRA team announces the release of JIRA 4.2.2. This point release contains several updates and fixes, plus a Beta release of the JIRA Importers Plugin, providing improved support for Bugzilla. Please see the documentation: Importing Data from Bugzilla.

This point release is a highly recommended upgrade as it contains important fixes to security vulnerabilities — please refer to the JIRA Security Advisory 2011-02-21 for details.

JIRA 4.2.2 is of course free to all customers with active JIRA software maintenance.

Don't have JIRA 4.2 yet?
Take a look at all the new features in the JIRA 4.2 Release Notes and see what you are missing out on!

Upgrading from a Previous Version of JIRA

If you are upgrading, please read the JIRA 4.2.2 Upgrade Guide.

Updates and Fixes in this Release

JIRA 4.2.2 includes the following updates and bug fixes:

JIRA Issues (23 issues)
Type Key Summary Priority Status
Bug JRA-22448 Comment Query Performance: Please Change CommentClauseQueryFactory.generateIssueIdFromCommentQuery from for loop to HitCollector Resolved
Bug JRA-23196 Renaming Priority, Resolution, Status, Issue Type does not get reflected until a system restart Blocker Resolved
Bug JRA-23265 AJP port is a bad default in JIRA 4.2 Critical Resolved
Bug JRA-22618 Excel Export adds the issue key to the Project column & an extra blank row between records Critical Resolved
Bug JRA-23188 Basic auth authentication does not allow files to be attached in 4.2 Major Resolved
Bug JRA-23124 Bug in seraph breaks custom authenticators Major Resolved
Bug JRA-23024 JIRA data anonymiser doesn't anonymise non-English characters Major Resolved
Bug JRA-22673 Non-secure content warning in IE8 on the Dashboards screen caused by the wiki renderer Major Resolved
Bug JRA-22623 Watched Issues gadget gives error when profiling is enabled. Major Resolved
Bug JRA-22207 Add warning to Shared Filter explaining consequence of 'everyone' Major Resolved
Bug JRA-21670 Upgrading to Jira 4.1.2 breaks PrepareAction functionality in plugins Major Resolved
Bug JRA-21582 SimpleSearch turns Complex when searching on Fix Version options Major Resolved
Bug JRA-19918 Cannot select some filters from filters/project picker in gadgets Major Resolved
Bug JRA-23405 Issue keys are not hyperlinked when exporting to Excel Minor Resolved
Bug JRA-23268 Wrong link after attaching screenshot Minor Resolved
Bug JRA-23167 Date picker format incorrect when using Dutch(Belgium) language Minor Resolved
Bug JRA-23154 Forget Password link appear after enable"External password management" Minor Resolved
Bug JRA-23140 JiRA Calander - years listed alternative Minor Resolved
Bug JRA-23132 Required field asterisks and error messages not aligned correctly for some fields Minor Resolved
Bug JRA-23085 Increase the web session timeout from 60 minutes to 300 minutes Minor Resolved
Bug JRA-22885 The 'Date Started' field is compulsory on the Log Work field but there is no compulsory '*' Minor Resolved
Bug JRA-22823 Permalink icon on issue nav has a busted "outline focus" thing Minor Resolved
Bug JRA-23126 Typo in DEBUG log output Trivial Resolved


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