JIRA Core 7.4.x release notes
Compatible applications
If you're looking for compatible JIRA applications, look no further:
- JIRA Software 7.4 release notes
- JIRA Service Desk 3.6 release notes
- JIRA Service Desk 3.7 release notes
Project level administration
In JIRA Core 7.3, we allowed project administrators to edit their project's workflows under specific conditions. Now, we've added more fine-grained control to the Administer Projects permission, and added a few more perks for the project administrator. When granted, the Extended project administration permission will allow project administrators for the associated projects to:
The Extended project administration option is enabled by default. If you're a JIRA administrator, you can disable it by selecting 
> Issues > Permission schemes, and then choosing the relevant permission scheme to edit. Project and JIRA administrators can also view the Extended project administration setting when they're viewing their project by selecting Project settings > Permissions, however the JIRA administrator can't edit the setting here.
Improvements to issue export
We've implemented an exporter which exports JIRA issues in an HTML format. When viewing a list of issues, select 
> HTML (All fields) or > HTML (Current fields) . If required, a JIRA administrator can disable the HTML export option by setting the jira.export.html.enabled property to false at > System > Advanced Settings .
Given that the HTML export can be quite memory intensive in large JIRA Core instances, we've also added two additional properties to the Advanced Settings page. These properties allow a JIRA administrator to control the default number of search results allowed to be exported by a user (jira.search.views.default.max) and the absolute maximum number of search results allowed (jira.search.views.max.limit). This allows an admin to prevent users from attempting to export a large number of results, which could result in performance problems with your instance.
In-app notifications
We've implemented a system add-on which provides targeted notifications within your JIRA Software instance, predominantly to JIRA administrators. These notifications will alert you when new JIRA versions are available, and of upcoming license renewals. The in-app notifications are delivered by a system add-on, and can be controlled by selecting > Add-ons > Manage add-ons, and then filtering for Atlassian Notifications. We actually shipped this in JIRA Core 7.3.8, but we're just making sure you know about it. You may even be reading these release notes because you've been directed here by an in-app notification.
More improvements
We've added a few smaller enhancements, all designed to make the user and admin experiences a little easier and more efficient:
- The "Shared by" lozenge
has now been replaced with a "Used by" lozenge 
. We’ve improved navigation around editing workflows and introduced the draft mode that allows you to easily quit editing if you don’t want to publish your changes. Also, you can now edit your workflows in the Workflows section of the Projects settings instead of going to each issue type.
- We've added more events to the audit log that allow admins to view changes to their project's workflows and screens, so they'll know who changed what, and where, if they ever need to roll back a project's settings.
- We've improved the garbage collection logs, and they're now generated automatically, you'll be able to find them in your logs at
<installation-directory>/logs. - We've improved our error reporting for installations and upgrades to make it more informational, added details on possible resolutions, and links to more information.
Resolved issues
Performance issues
We’ve noticed that versions 7.4.0, 7.4.1, and 7.4.2 have performance issues and show errors while opening pages or finishing some actions. This applies only if you’re using postgreSQL and have more than 500k users. To work around it, increase the heap size by 1GB per million users. We’ll release a fix for this in the next bugfix release.