JIRA 5.0 EAP 2 (m2) Release notes

Atlassian - JIRA

Highlights of JIRA 5.0 EAP 2

 

Manage Other Users' Shared Filters

JIRA 5.0 will give administrators the ability to manage other people's shared filters. This is especially helpful in situations where a user has left an organisation, but the shared filters they owned continue to be used by others within the organisation.

As the first step toward this, EAP 2 provides the ability for JIRA administrators to search for any shared filters:

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JIRA 5.0 API Improvements

For plugin developers, JIRA's API is undergoing a significant number of changes and improvements to provide the following:

  • More stability and reliability with future versions of JIRA.
  • A more functional REST API with the ability to create new issues in JIRA 5.0 EAP 2.
  • Removal of deprecated OSUser classes.
  • Removal of deprecated portlets (replaced by gadgets in JIRA 4.0) and their related APIs.

Please see the Plugin Developer Notes for JIRA 5.0 for more details.

Please also be aware that JIRA's API is likely to undergo a rapid number of changes from one JIRA 5.0 EAP release to the next.

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Performance Improvements

Lucene 3.2 is now fully integrated into JIRA. Initial benchmarking shows performance improvements across a number of JIRA features.

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Other Enhancements and Fixes

For a list of more issues resolved in JIRA 5.0 so far, click here.

PLEASE BE AWARE β€” JIRA 5.0 introduces several changes that may break existing plugins which are not bundled with JIRA.

If you have a developed a plugin, then please read the Plugin Developer Notes for JIRA 5.0 guide. This guide describes changes in JIRA 5.0 which may affect the compatibility of your plugin with JIRA 5.0.

If you are using a plugin developed by a third party, please check with the plugin's author to see if the plugin has been tested with JIRA 5.0.