Highlights of this release:

New collaboration platform

Google Apps and JIRA Studio are now tightly integrated. This effectively creates a brand new platform for development team workflow collaboration. JIRA Studio with Google Apps integration offers email, calendar, issue tracking, wiki, code reviews, continuous integration and source control, all rolled into a cohesive package. The following features are now available with a single click:

• Chat with multiple users from inside Studio,
• See all recent activities from JIRA Studio,
• See all recent issues from JIRA Studio,
• See favourite pages from JIRA Studio,
• See outstanding reviews from JIRA Studio,
• See recent build activities from JIRA Studio,
• See unread Google Gmail messages,
• See upcoming events from Google Calendar,
• See recently edited Google Docs files,
• Access Google Sites with one click.

Activity Bar interface

The new Activity Bar forms a single persistent control panel for effortlessly loading information from the integrated applications and launching them inline. It also provides integrated chat via Google Talk.

Screenshot: The JIRA Studio Activity Bar for Google integration

To learn more about the Activity Bar, see the documentation.

Google Docs in Confluence wiki pages

With the new ability to attach Google Docs to wiki pages in JIRA Studio, the following exciting features become available:

• Attach any Google document, presentation, or spreadsheet to a wiki page,
• Set document size and other constraints from macro parameters,
• Launch Google doc editor with one click,
• List Google Docs in a Wiki page,
• Macro will display all Google docs or filter by a doc type, folder, or label,
• View doc title, creator, created date, and last modified date,
• Edit or preview a document with one click.

Screenshot: Google Docs in a Confluence wiki page

To learn more about Google Docs in JIRA Studio, see the documentation.

Google Docs in JIRA issues

With the ability to attach Google Docs to issues in JIRA Studio, these exciting features become available:

• Browse Google Docs, preview and attach them,
• Only view those docs to which you have access,
• Attached docs are always up to date with most recent edits.

Screenshot: Google Docs attached to a JIRA issue

To learn more about Google Docs in JIRA Studio, see the documentation.

Advanced user management and single sign on

Easily import your user base from Google Apps, then manage them in bulk with new JIRA Studio administrator functions. When users sign into JIRA Studio, they are signed on to all the Atlassian applications and the Google Apps suite in one action.

Confluence 3.1

Confluence 3.1 is a significant upgrade and it's now available to you in JIRA Studio. With the Confluence 3.1 wiki, you can embed OpenSocial gadgets into pages, use drag-&-drop to quickly add attachments to a wiki page and enjoy full Office 2007 support. There are also a raft of small improvements to the user experience including smart fields in the Macro Browser and Rich Text Editor performance enhancements.

• Read the Confluence 3.1 Release Notes for more details. Please also read the upgrade notes at the bottom of these release notes for important information about the upgrade tasks for your JIRA Studio instance.

JIRA 4.0.1

With the release of JIRA Studio 2.1, the team has incorporated JIRA 4.0.1. A point release of the award-winning issue tracker, JIRA 4.0.1 adds over 60 updates and improvements. These include performance and memory fixes. JIRA 4.0.1 is a generally faster and more resilient version of the product, which now powers JIRA Studio 2.1.

• Read the JIRA 4.0.1 Release Notes for more details.

Updates to review permission schemes

With the release of JIRA Studio 2.1, administrators have more control over code review access. This is controlled via repository permissions:

• If a user has read access to the repository, then they will have permissions to view code reviews in the respective Crucible project.
• If they have write access to the repository, then they have 'create review' permissions in Crucible.
• If anonymous read access is set in the repository, then all users will be able to view Crucible reviews.

The default repository permissions affect the default Crucible permissions.

• Read the JIRA Issue for more information.

JIRA comments from email functionality restored

A bug that had inconvenienced a number of users has been solved with the release of JIRA Studio 2.1. The comments via email function, which had been unavailable, has now been fully restored.