JIRA 4.3 LDAP, plugins, links and more
Tuesday, 07 December 2010 22:33
Get users from LDAP and Crowd in JIRA 4.3
JIRA 4.3 introduces the direct connection to LDAP feature. In addition to other LDAP improvements, JIRA 4.3 also provides support for connecting to a Crowd Server.
For information on how to configure JIRA to connect to LDAP and/or a Crowd server please review the updated Release Notes and Upgrade Guide for this 4.3 version.
What else is new?
There are more newcomers to JIRA in this release:
- Universal Plugin Manager (aka UPM) is now bundled with JIRA. Previously the UPM needed to be downloaded from the Plugins Exchange and installed manually. Now this step is no longer required. Moving forward we will be removing the old style plugin administration pages.
- Application Links are now bundled with JIRA. Next steps for Application Links include converting plugins that integrate Atlassian products (eg the JIRA FishEye Plugin) to use Application Links. This will make installing and configuring multiple Atlassian products easier.
- Bugzilla Importer gets another rev as part of the JIRA Importers Plugin. The small importers team is moving at pace to improve the experience of importing issues into JIRA from other issue tracking applications.
Feature validation
Currently the JIRA development team is divided into 4 sub teams. The A-team is one such sub team and their Team Lead, Andreas, discusses the feature validation exercise his team conducted over the last two weeks.
More to come soon.. stay tuned!
