JIRA 4.4 available today: Visual Workflow and More!
Tuesday, 02 August 2011 23:14
Atlassian is thrilled to announce the release of JIRA 4.4 - our biggest JIRA release in years satisfying over 1,400 votes! The JIRA dev team has been working hard to get time-saving and productivity features in for JIRA admins and end users alike.- Visual Workflow Designer
- Project-centric administration
- New installer & upgrader
- More power in search
Check out all the features in the What's New video! Stay tuned here in the coming weeks for deep dives and technical details about the highlights of JIRA 4.4.
Admin just got so much better
Visual Workflow Designer
Project administration has a new, simple interface. All the specifics of a project are available at-a-glance, making it easy to get a handle on an existing project - which issue types, fields, and permissions are associated - and make changes on the fly. Workflow editing is the most exciting part - JIRA 4.4 includes the new built-in visual workflow designer.
New Upgrader, Installer
Upgrades, installation and setup each have a new wizard. The new upgrader- checks plugin compatibility
- provides a file 'customization report'
- migrates commonly modified files
More Power in JQL
Everyone using JIRA will love the new search enhancements, with the 'WAS' operator extended to the Assignee and Reporter fields. Add in dynamic date searching - for changes made before, after, on, or during a date range - and there are dozens of new searches available to get specific information out of JIRA. A few examples:
- issues assigned to Ken during June
- issues that were assigned to John by Kyle
- status was resolved before endOfWeek() by cbang
- how many issues were resolved by Steve
- assignee was in QA group during May
- assignee was in QA group BY pslade
- reporter was in QA group during June
Heaps more to check out
User Time Zones
Setting a user time zone will display all times in your zone, and indicate if other users are currently in night or day - helping with real-time activity, decisions about who to assign an issue to, and expectations around how soon a user might respond.Email & Streams
Email templates and Activity Streams have had a productivity makeover. Emails offer more information at a glance in HTML and on mobile, and activity streams offer a slew of new useful features:
- presents more valuable information in more easily consumable ways
- lets you filter down to just the items you care about
- lets you take action directly from the Stream
There's way too much to fit in a single blog post, so check out the details and screenshots in the release notes for the full list. If you're running JIRA locally, upgrade today! GreenHopper 5.7 is compatible with JIRA 4.4 and bundled, so you won't need to download it separately. If you're on JIRA Hosted, request an upgrade.
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