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9 September 2008

The Atlassian JIRA team is proud to present JIRA 3.13.

This release fulfils some of the most popular JIRA feature requests. Dashboards can now be shared, and filter sharing has been improved — so it's easy to set up multiple 'template' dashboards, each with specific portlets and filters. New JIRA users can then simply select the dashboards most suited to them.

People using customised workflows will be pleased to learn that JIRA 3.13 provides the ability to edit active workflows — that is, workflows that are currently being used. So workflow logic, transitions, screens and post-functions can now be tweaked on the fly, and a JIRA wizard will guide decisions on how active issues should be handled.

By popular request, you can now restore individual projects from a backup, making it much easier to merge projects back into your existing JIRA instance. We are also happy to announce that personal licenses are available with this release of JIRA.

Please be aware of JIRA Security Advisory 2008-08-26, which is relevant to this release.

Upgrading to JIRA 3.13 is free for all customers with active JIRA software maintenance.

Highlights of JIRA 3.13

Thank you for your feedback
85 new feature and improvement requests implemented!
1485 votes fulfilled!
Your votes and issues help us keep improving our products, and are much appreciated.

Upgrading to JIRA 3.13

You can download JIRA 3.13 from the JIRA Download Center. Before upgrading, please refer to the JIRA 3.13 Upgrade Guide.

Highlights of JIRA 3.13

Shareable dashboards

In many organisations, different departments use different JIRA projects and so need a customised dashboard for people in each department to use. For instance, at Atlassian our HR team uses their own special 'Recruitment' project and workflow to manage the hiring process. JIRA 3.13 resolves this popular issue (434 votes!) by letting you set up dashboard pages that you can share with your user group, project or all JIRA users.

  • Read more about shareable dashboards in the dashboard pages documentation.

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Improved filter sharing

Previous versions of JIRA allowed you to share filters, but filter sharing was restricted to sharing with a single user group or sharing with all JIRA users. Filter sharing is much more flexible in this release. You can now also share your filter with multiple user groups, projects, specific project roles or any combination of these.

  • Read more about shareable filters in the issue filters documentation.

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Favourite filters and dashboards

Keep your most commonly used filters and dashboards at your fingertips by adding them as favourites. You can add your own filters and dashboards as favourites in JIRA 3.13, as well as filters and dashboards shared with you by other users. We have also added search for filters and dashboards to help you find the tools you need to manage your information.

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Restoring projects

One of the most voted for JIRA features has been included in this release — the ability to restore individual projects from a backup file (409 votes!). The project import feature allows you to select a project from a backup file and restore it into an existing JIRA instance, without losing the existing projects or data.

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Editable active workflows

We have added the ability to edit active workflows in this release. You can now change most features of your active workflow without having to edit a separate copy of it.

  • Read more about editing active workflows in the JIRA workflow documentation.


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Enhanced sub-task quick creation

The sub-task 'quick creation' form included on the issue page in JIRA has been enhanced, making it easier for you to quickly add sub-tasks to an issue without having to navigate to a new page. The sub-task quick creation form includes new fields, such as the 'Original Estimate' field and can be easily hidden to reduce clutter on your screen.

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Personal licenses

Personal Licenses are now available with JIRA 3.13. Run your own individual non-commercial instance of JIRA under this free license. You can run your fully functional instance of JIRA indefinitely under this license, but you will not be eligible for Atlassian support.


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Plugins

We are bundling a new version of the FishEye plugin for JIRA in this release, helping your JIRA instance to work even more closely with your FishEye and Crucible applications. You can now use the FishEye plugin for JIRA to integrate your JIRA instance with Perforce. In addition, we've added a bunch of cool new features to the plugin, including FishEye and Crucible specific charting portlets for JIRA, the integration of reviews and code commits into JIRA workflow and trusted applications support.

You may also be interested in integrating your JIRA instance with your Bamboo application. We have recently updated the JIRA Bamboo plugin with a host of new functionality to let you monitor your builds and issues. (Note that the JIRA Bamboo plugin is currently not bundled with JIRA.)

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Progress bar for long-running operations

We have added a progress bar to a number of long-running operations in JIRA, including workflow migration, project import and re-indexing. This simple visual cue provides you with helpful information about your task, such as the time elapsed, percentage complete and the time you started it.

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Application improvements

The version of Tomcat that is shipped with JIRA Standalone has also been upgraded to version 5.5.26 (previously Tomcat 5.5.20). Refer to the 5.5.x Release Notes on the Apache Tomcat website.

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Plus more than 200 other fixes and improvements

The top 50 most popular issues resolved in JIRA 3.13 are listed below. See all the issues here.

JIRA Issues (50 issues)
Key Type Summary Priority Status votes
JRA-2509 New Feature Save, reuse and share Dashboards (like dashboard picklist) Resolved 435
JRA-1604 New Feature Import / Export (backup / restore) individual projects Resolved 409
JRA-4817 New Feature Ability to share custom Portals Resolved 91
JRA-4139 New Feature Share filters with *multiple* groups Resolved 82
JRA-10393 New Feature Personal JIRA license Resolved 50
JRA-7887 New Feature Add saved filter types / categories - personal, favourite and all saved filters Resolved 18
JRA-5803 New Feature Global portals, configurable project portlet, project groups Resolved 13
JRA-9983 New Feature CreateOrCommentHandler - cc to watchers Resolved 4
JRA-5806 New Feature Ability to subscribe to shared filters Resolved 2
JRA-15117 New Feature Add user photos to JIRA action item headers for Studio Resolved 0
JRA-7661 Improvement Ability to Edit Active Workflow - Editing Workflows is too inflexible Resolved 177
JRA-3322 Improvement Multiple default dashboards Resolved 131
JRA-11882 Improvement Filter sharing does not currently allow you to share with a role. Resolved 41
JRA-6178 Improvement shared filters and "favorites" Resolved 16
JRA-2394 Improvement Change attachment size limit in the Web Interface / GUI Resolved 16
JRA-3021 Improvement Ability to hide a shared filter Resolved 11
JRA-10859 Improvement Create a generic mechanism within JIRA that allows a user to fire off long running tasks but still receive feedback about the progress of the task. Resolved 11
JRA-3769 Improvement Security levels should be sorted alphabetically or be orderable Resolved 9
JRA-6124 Improvement Share filter per project (or project categorie) Resolved 7
JRA-10525 Improvement Add progress bar to Workflow migration Closed 6
JRA-5615 Improvement Allow default dashboard pages to be updated when multi portlet pages are used. Resolved 5
JRA-12712 Improvement Allow users to select which filters appear in the "List ALL filters" portlet Resolved 4
JRA-10292 Improvement Filters should be hideable Resolved 2
JRA-10211 Improvement Allow specification of permissions on porlets Resolved 2
JRA-14980 Improvement Suboptimal performance for Lucene queries within JIRA instances with a large number of projects and issue security levels Resolved 2
JRA-12017 Improvement Workflow editor needs to be able to handle step="-1" for common-actions Resolved 2
JRA-14547 Improvement Bypass 1st page of Create Issue (and Sub Task) wizard when there is no "choice" for issue type and project Resolved 2
JRA-12466 Improvement Bulk Change should preserve configured columns Resolved 2
JRA-15190 Improvement Deterioration of performance due to CachingVersionStore lock Resolved 1
JRA-9524 Improvement edit name for Workflow Resolved 1
JRA-12271 Improvement Print system info to the logs on startup Resolved 1
JRA-15313 Improvement Saved Filter URLs do not respect additional parameters Resolved 1
JRA-13913 Improvement Make the banner a background image rather than an object in the cell Resolved 1
JRA-12978 Improvement Retain CVS information even if issue key changes Resolved 1
JRA-15314 Improvement Put the version of JIRA in the head element of all XML/RSS results Resolved 1
JRA-15098 Improvement Watches and Votes cannot handle users "disappearing" (ie being deleted from external user management). Resolved 1
JRA-13346 Improvement Bugzilla importer should not ask for project key and project lead for existing JIRA projects Resolved 1
JRA-15037 Improvement Avoid non wanted log out Resolved 0
JRA-15049 Improvement Add better debugging information to portlet rendering Resolved 0
JRA-14893 Improvement Do not render a hyperlink for a change history item for linking issues when the user does not have permissions to see the linked issue Resolved 0
JRA-15289 Improvement Add information logging when we trigger a Lucene Index Optimize operation. Resolved 0
JRA-14739 Improvement It would be useful to be able to manually reduce the estimated remaining time by a certain number of hours, rather than having to calculate and set the new estimate yourself. Resolved 0
JRA-20830 Improvement CLONE -Add progress bar to Workflow migration Closed 0
JRA-14070 Improvement Clickable Users in Issue Navigator table to see User's Profile Resolved 0
JRA-13434 Improvement Include base URL in environment of support requests Resolved 0
JRA-14551 Improvement Linkify the number of issues, which appear in the list on the Summary tab on the Browse Fix Version page Resolved 0
JRA-14545 Improvement Assigned Open Issues per project on Profile page should suppress rows with a zero count Resolved 0
JRA-14436 Improvement SMTP Server setup screen has text that sounds like multiple SMTP servers can be configured, but only one is available. Resolved 0
JRA-14352 Improvement Update translation for Brazilian Portuguese Resolved 0
JRA-14816 Improvement Update the text that appears on the error page when installing a JIRA build that is too new for the license Resolved 0

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