JIRA Studio Blog from Dec 07, 2008

Andrew Lui [Atlassian Technical Writer] posted on Dec 07, 2008
JIRA Studio 1.5 Released

8 December 2008

JIRA Studio 1.5 has been released and is available to customers.

We have made it easier for you to manage issues in this release, by integrating JIRA workflow with Subversion. Your developers will be able to resolve issues, comment on issues, and track time via SVN commit messages, without leaving their development environment. We've also provided more tools for your users to collaborate with, by adding issue and issue comment creation from email.

Searching in Studio has been greatly improved in JIRA Studio 1.5 as well. The new Search Quick Navigation (or QuickNav) suggests possible matches to you as you enter search criteria, making it even faster to find what you are looking for. Other changes include a simpler user interface for the search and speedier responses when searching your Source (FishEye).

JIRA Studio 1.5 includes the latest Confluence version — Confluence 2.10. You will have access to a number of new features and improvements for your wiki, including an improved rich text editor, enhanced macros, the popular Office connector, and a new widget connector that allows you to display videos, slide shows, twitter chats and more, on your wiki pages.

Finally, we've included a new plugin under our commercial plugin program in this release, the powerful Balsamiq for Confluence plugin for graphical mockups.

Free JIRA Studio trials

If you have always wanted to try JIRA Studio, now is the time! We are offering free 30-day trials of JIRA Studio for a limited time. Experience the benefits of our development collaboration platform immediately, without paying a cent. Try it now!

Please help us improve JIRA Studio by reporting any bugs and issues you find, in the JIRA Studio project at studio.atlassian.com.

Highlights of this release:

Highlights of JIRA Studio 1.5

Close Issues & Track Time via SVN Commit Messages

We've made it even easier for your developers to manage their issues and time tracking in this release, with the introduction of issue actions via SVN commit messages. The simple but powerful syntax allows you to log work against an issue, change the issue status and add comments.

QuickNav and Other Search Improvements

The JIRA Studio Search is a frequently used tool and we've spent some time improving it in this release. The most noticeable change is the addition of a QuickNav feature. Search results will be automatically suggested to you, as you enter your search criteria, and any of these suggestions can be clicked to navigate directly to the result.

The application selector has been removed from the JIRA Studio Search, but please don't be alarmed! The search results page will now display up to five results for all applications, instead of for just your chosen application. You can still drill down for further matches for an application.

We've also gotten into the nuts and bolts of the Source (FishEye) search to improve the performance. It's now faster than ever to find the source code that you are looking for.

Confluence Upgraded to Version 2.10

The wiki application has been upgraded to Confluence version 2.10 in this release. Confluence 2.10 is a major release that includes a number of major improvements and new features. Office documents can now be viewed, imported into and embedded in Confluence with the Office Connector. Page editing has also been made easier with major improvements to the rich text editor.

The new widgets macro allows you to embed a range of popular audiovisual and collaborative tools into Confluence pages. The JIRA issues macro has had a facelift as well. You should notice a much more flexible and user friendly interface.

  • Read more about Confluence 2.10. Please note that some of the points listed in the Confluence 2.10 release notes do not apply to this Studio upgrade, including 'New Quick Navigation Feature' (different from Studio QuickNav), '"Did You Mean" and Other Search Improvements', 'Stylesheets for Confluence Spaces', 'User and Group Management Enhanced', 'Cropping of Profile Pictures', 'Universal Wiki Converter now with SharePoint Import and More', 'Plugin Framework 2' and 'Engine Room and Developers' Community'.

Create Issues and Issue Comments via Email

We've added issue and issue comment creation via email in JIRA Studio. If you enable this feature, your users will be able to create issues and issue comments simply by sending an email to the email address for your Studio instance.

Commercial Plugin Program — Balsamiq for Confluence

The Balsamiq plugin for Confluence is now available in JIRA Studio under our commercial licenses program. This means that you can request for this plugin to be enabled in your JIRA Studio instance, if you have the appropriate license.