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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-14423 Bug Can not browse issue on IE 7 Blocker Resolved 0
JRA-5803 New Feature Global portals, configurable project portlet, project groups Critical Resolved 13
JRA-14980 Improvement Suboptimal performance for Lucene queries within JIRA instances with a large number of projects and issue security levels Critical Resolved 2
JRA-14070 Improvement Clickable Users in Issue Navigator table to see User's Profile Critical Resolved 0
JRA-14074 Bug Viewing subscriptions under standard does not render correctly. Critical Resolved 0
JRA-14057 Bug Using the AJAX User Picker within the "Add New Permission" section of the admin panel causes the page to become unusable Critical Resolved 0
JRA-11634 Bug Directory listing enabled on Tomcat Critical Resolved 0
JRA-14760 Bug Cannot configure dashboard which contains a portlet which is now disabled / not on classpath Critical Resolved 0
JRA-13479 Bug Permission denied when viewing issue moved from project with security scheme to project with none Critical Resolved 0
JRA-15412 Bug NullPointerException when useragent does not exist Critical Resolved 0
JRA-2509 New Feature Save, reuse and share Dashboards (like dashboard picklist) Major Resolved 435
JRA-1604 New Feature Import / Export (backup / restore) individual projects Major Resolved 409
JRA-4817 New Feature Ability to share custom Portals Major Resolved 91
JRA-4139 New Feature Share filters with *multiple* groups Major Resolved 82
JRA-7887 New Feature Add saved filter types / categories - personal, favourite and all saved filters Major Resolved 18
JRA-5806 New Feature Ability to subscribe to shared filters Major Resolved 2
JRA-15117 New Feature Add user photos to JIRA action item headers for Studio Major Resolved 0
JRA-7661 Improvement Ability to Edit Active Workflow - Editing Workflows is too inflexible Major Resolved 177
JRA-11882 Improvement Filter sharing does not currently allow you to share with a role. Major Resolved 41
JRA-6178 Improvement shared filters and "favorites" Major Resolved 16
JRA-2394 Improvement Change attachment size limit in the Web Interface / GUI Major Resolved 16
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. Major Resolved 11
JRA-3769 Improvement Security levels should be sorted alphabetically or be orderable Major Resolved 9
JRA-6124 Improvement Share filter per project (or project categorie) Major Resolved 7
JRA-10525 Improvement Add progress bar to Workflow migration Major Resolved 6
JRA-12271 Improvement Print system info to the logs on startup Major Resolved 1
JRA-15098 Improvement Watches and Votes cannot handle users "disappearing" (ie being deleted from external user management). Major Resolved 1
JRA-15190 Improvement Deterioration of performance due to CachingVersionStore lock Major Resolved 1
JRA-15314 Improvement Put the version of JIRA in the head element of all XML/RSS results Major Resolved 1
JRA-15313 Improvement Saved Filter URLs do not respect additional parameters Major Resolved 1
JRA-14364 Improvement JIRA Header Filter and History Links are to be inline divs Major Closed 0
JRA-15011 Improvement Fix ordering of versions and components values on the View Issue screen Major Resolved 0
JRA-15163 Improvement HTML format changes caused a blank line beneath the logo/banner Major Resolved 0
JRA-14668 Improvement 'Resolve Issue' screen should display brief Issue Summary at top. Major Resolved 0
JRA-14855 Improvement Change the message on the Add Project page for the Key input field Major Resolved 0
JRA-14491 Improvement Change "Locale" to "Language" in the JIRA preferences pages Major Resolved 0
JRA-14157 Improvement JIRA Web Test - Need to allocate time to merge in new func test framework Major Resolved 0
JRA-14283 Improvement More advanced resampling algorithm for generation of thumbnails Major Resolved 0
JRA-14818 Improvement Update text that appears on the first Setup page for the License input box Major Resolved 0
JRA-15049 Improvement Add better debugging information to portlet rendering Major 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 Major Resolved 0
JRA-13439 Improvement Smart querying : use syntax 'c:' to search for components Major Resolved 0
JRA-13886 Improvement Filter Statistics Portlet: Options "Sort By" and "Sort Direction" same as in "Two Dimensional Filter Statistics" portlet Major Resolved 0
JRA-14466 Improvement Place Extra JIRA system Info into exported XML Major Resolved 0
JRA-15347 Improvement Skip issue type choose Major Resolved 0
JRA-15127 Improvement RSS/XML issue filters must have the total number of results included Major Resolved 0
JRA-13918 Improvement Add a help icon for issue security levels Major Resolved 0
JRA-15226 Improvement add instruction for IIS7 to Integrating Tomcat (JIRA) with IIS Major Resolved 0
JRA-14000 Improvement Unify icons of controls which do the same but look very different Major Resolved 0
JRA-15394 Improvement a new dangerous Tomcat caching property - tomcat.util.buf.StringCache.byte.enabled=true Major Resolved 0

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