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JIRA 5.0 RC3 has just been released.

As always, we gladly invite you to test it out and provide us with any feedback you may have about it.
Again the primary focus of the RC3 release is to stabilise the JIRA code base. This will help plugin authors who wish to make their plugins compatibile with JIRA 5.0. 

Highlights of 5.0 RC3:

• Remote 'Issue Links' 
• Sharing Issues and 'Mentions'
• Create and Edit Issues Rapidly  
• More Enhancements to JQL
• Activity Streams Now Show External Content
• Manage Other Users Shared Filters and Dashboards 
• Administration User Interface Improvements
• REST API Improvements
• Java API Improvements 
• Performance Improvements 
• New Troubleshooting and Debugging Tools 
• New Email Handler Wizard
• JIRA to JIRA Issue Copying

For more details, check out the JIRA 5.0 RC 3 Release Notes.

Please note that this is for testing purposes only and should not be used for production. The JIRA 5.0 RC3 download is here.

Regards,
Roy Krishna
JIRA Product Management

The Atlassian JIRA team announces the release of JIRA 4.4.4.

This point release contains several updates and fixes, plus an important bug fix (JRA-26172). This bug lead to a database lock, which typically occurred when custom plugins create issues in a high-load environment (specifically inside the same thread where another issue is being updated).

JIRA 4.4.4 is of course free to all customers with active JIRA software maintenance.
The release notes are here. 

JIRA 5.0 RC2 has just been released.

As always, we gladly invite you to test it out and provide us with any feedback you may have about it.
Again the primary focus of the RC2 release is to stabilise the JIRA code base. This will help plugin authors who wish to make their plugins compatibile with JIRA 5.0. 

Highlights of 5.0 RC2:

• Remote 'Issue Links' 
• Sharing Issues and 'Mentions'
• Create and Edit Issues Rapidly  
• More Enhancements to JQL
• Activity Streams Now Show External Content
• Manage Other Users Shared Filters and Dashboards 
• Administration User Interface Improvements
• REST API Improvements
• Java API Improvements 
• Performance Improvements 
• New Troubleshooting and Debugging Tools 
• New Email Handler Wizard
• JIRA to JIRA Issue Copying

For more details, check out the JIRA 5.0 RC 2 Release Notes.

Please note that this is for testing purposes only and should not be used for production. The JIRA 5.0 RC2 download is here.

Regards,
Roy Krishna
JIRA Product Management

JIRA 5.0 RC1 has just been released.

As always, we gladly invite you to test it out and provide us with any feedback you may have about it.
The primary focus of the RC1 release is to stabilise the JIRA code base. This will help plugin authors who wish to make their plugins compatibile with JIRA 5.0. 

Highlights of 5.0 RC1:

• Remote 'Issue Links' 
• Sharing Issues and 'Mentions'
• Create and Edit Issues Rapidly  
• More Enhancements to JQL
• Activity Streams Now Show External Content
• Manage Other Users Shared Filters and Dashboards 
• Administration User Interface Improvements
• REST API Improvements
• Java API Improvements 
• Performance Improvements 
• New Troubleshooting and Debugging Tools 
• New Email Handler Wizard
• JIRA to JIRA Issue Copying

For more details, check out the JIRA 5.0 RC1 release notes.

Please note that this is for testing purposes only and should not be used for production. The JIRA 5.0 RC1 download is here.

Regards,
Roy Krishna
JIRA Product Management

Customers who use the trackbacks functionality in JIRA should be aware that trackbacks will no longer be a supported feature in JIRA 5.0.

Trackbacks are being replaced with a Remote Issue Links
Remote Issue Links allow users to add a link to any URL from a JIRA issue. For external applications, there is a simple REST API for Remote Issue Links to add a link to a JIRA issue, and JIRA plugins can use the Remote Issue Links Java API.  

For customers who used trackbacks to link from a Confluence Page to a JIRA Issue, this will be supported by Confluence 4.1 and JIRA 5.0 using Remote Issue Links:  adding a JIRA issue key to a Confluence page will automatically create a Remote Issue Link from the JIRA Issue back to the Confluence page.  As a part of the upgrade to JIRA 5.0, any trackback URLs will be migrated to Remote Issue Links.

In addition, Remote Issue Links will support links from one JIRA instance to another JIRA instance, so an issue on a JIRA instance can be linked as a duplicate of an issue on another JIRA instance, making the use of multiple JIRA instances much more valuable. End Users can also now more easily add links from a JIRA issue to any external URL.

Remote Issue Links also provides a greater level of security. Both in the UI as well as via the API, links can only be created by users who have the Link Issue permission, which prevents the anonymous spam that often occurs with trackbacks.

Bryan Rollins
JIRA Product Management