JIRA Agile 6.4 Release Notes

Customers with large scale instances: Do not upgrade to JIRA Agile 6.4.x, 6.5.x or 6.6.0. Upgrade to JIRA Agile 6.6.13 instead.

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If you have an instance with a large number of issues (300,000+), projects (100+), boards (100+), or open sprints (100+), do not upgrade to JIRA Agile 6.4.x, 6.5.x or 6.6.0, due to performance issues. Note, these issues are not pervasive and do not affect every customer. However, we still recommend not upgrading to these JIRA Agile versions.

We recommend that you upgrade to JIRA Agile 6.6.13 instead. JIRA Agile 6.6.13 includes fixes to these performance issues (implemented in JIRA Agile 6.6.11) plus a number of other non-performance related bug fixes.

If you need help or more information, please raise a support request

Visualise development

24 June 2014

JIRA Agile 6.4 (with JIRA 6.2 or later) provides more code-related information in your issues, that you can assess and action. Create a branch, see commits and pull requests, watch builds, and more! 

JIRA Agile 6.4 Upgrade Notes

(warning) Important

This is a major upgrade. We have made a number of changes under the covers that you need to be aware of before you upgrade. Please read the JIRA Agile 6.4 Upgrade Notes (linked above) and note the upgrade tasks, in particular, the changes to the Rank field.

New features in this release

New code integration features for issues

If you are using JIRA Agile with JIRA 6.2 or later, the new Development panel will be shown on every issue. This panel helps you to evaluate the development status of an issue at a glance. If you need to investigate further, click any item to display more details, or drill down into the development tool.

Connect JIRA to one of these compatible applications to enable the following:

  • Bitbucket view and create branches, view commits, view and create pull requests
  • FishEye/Crucible (Git/Subversion/Perforce/CVS): view branches, view commits, view and create reviews
  • Bamboo: view the status of builds and deployments
  • GitHub/GitHub Enterprise: view branches, view commits, view and create pull requests

Learn more (JIRA documentation): Streamlining your development with JIRA

Labs: Enhanced reports — Epic Burndown

 

We're overhauling the existing reports in JIRA Agile. Over the next few releases, we will be progressively introducing enhanced versions of a number of the reports via Labs. To opt in for these new reports, enable Enhanced Reports in Labs.

In this release, we've introduced a new chart: the Epic Burndown. This report tracks your team's progress towards the completion of the work for an epic.

The Epic Burndown is similar to the Release Burndown. It is optimised for Scrum teams that work in sprints, and has a bar chart design that helps you see exactly what is happening in each sprint, such as work completed and scope changes. The chart also predicts the number of sprints that are required to finish the remaining work in the epic, based on your team's velocity.

Learn more...

Who closed that sprint?

If you've ever wanted to find out who closed a particular sprint, you can now see this on the Burndown Chart and Sprint Report

Sprint Report

Burndown Chart (data table)

Inline issue creation (with JIRA 6.3)

If you are using JIRA Agile 6.4 with JIRA 6.3 or later, you can now create an issue from within your Scrum board during planning. Just click the Create issue link, fill in the details and hit the Enter button. The new issue will be automatically added to your backlog. 

Updates and fixes in this release

We have released a number of 6.4.x versions to fix critical issues found in JIRA Agile. Minor versions usually have additional features, however each of the versions shown below have the same set of features.

See the version history below for details on each of minor release, or view the full list of issues fixed across all 6.4.x versions.

6.4.5 — 2 September 2014

 AVAILABLE

This is the current version available for download. 6.4.5 also fixes issues affecting ranking.

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6.4.4 — 12 August 2014

 REMOVED

This version is not available for download anymore, as it is superseded by 6.4.5.  6.4.4 fixes a critical issue affecting ranking.

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6.4.3 — 23 July 2014

 REMOVED

This version is not available for download anymore, as it is superseded by 6.4.4. 6.4.3 fixes a critical issue affecting Oracle databases.

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6.4.2 — 4 July 2014

 REMOVED

This version is not available for download anymore, as it is superseded by 6.4.3. 6.4.2 was released to fix a number of critical issues affecting upgrades, issue creation and ranking issues.

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6.4.0.9 — 27 June 2014

 REMOVED

This version is not available for download anymore, as it was superseded by 6.4.2. 6.4.0.9 was released to fix a critical issue affecting Oracle databases.

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6.4.0.8 — 25 June 2014

 REMOVED

This version is not available for download anymore, as it was superseded by 6.4.0.9. 6.4.0.8 was released to fix critical issues affecting re-indexing, and SQL Server 2005 and Oracle databases. Note, 6.4.0.6 was not made available to the public — 6.4.0.8 includes fixes tagged for 6.4.0.6.

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6.4.0.3 — 2 June 2014

 REMOVED

This was the first 6.4.x version made available for download. It is not available for download anymore as it was superseded by 6.4.0.8. 6.4.0.3 includes a number of fixes to bugs present in 6.3.13.1 and earlier versions (see list below for details).

View updates and fixes...

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Notable features from the 6.3.x releases

JIRA Agile 6.4 bundles up all of the features introduced in the 6.3.x releases. If you haven't been using any of the 6.3.x releases, here's what you've missed.

Learn more...

JIRA Agile and Confluence — Better together

If you use JIRA Agile and Confluence together, you can now create and/or link Confluence pages to JIRA Agile epics, stories and sprint reports. Read our solutions guide and try doing the following in JIRA Agile.

  • From an epic: Create a new requirements document in Confluence (via the Product Requirements blueprint), or link to an existing page.
  • From a sprint: Create new meeting notes in Confluence (via the Meeting Notes blueprint), or link to an existing page.
  • From a sprint report: Create new retrospective notes in Confluence (via the Retrospectives blueprint), or link to an existing page.

Labs: Enhanced reports — New Control Chart and Release Burndown

We've redesigned the Control Chart and introduced the Release Burndown, as part of our reports overhaul. To opt in for these new reports, enable Enhanced Reports in Labs.

  • Control Chart: The new Control Chart introduces a range of design and useability improvements, such as better chart controls, issue clustering and a 'How to read this chart' section to help you understand how to use it. We've made changes under the covers as well, including an improvement to the way the rolling average is calculated, and basing the standard deviation on the rolling average instead of the overall average. Learn more...

     
  • Release Burndown: The Release Burndown helps you track your team's progress towards the completion of the work for a release (version). It is optimised for Scrum teams that work in sprints (as opposed to the Version Report). We've designed it as a bar chart that helps you see exactly what is happening in each sprint. The chart also predicts the number of sprints that are required to finish the remaining work in the release, based on your team's velocity. Learn more...

Improvements to the Sprint field

We've made two big improvements to the Sprint field in this release. Firstly, the Sprint field now shows the sprint name, not the sprint ID. When editing the field, you can also search for a sprint by name and JIRA Agile will suggest matching sprints (with sprints from boards /issues that you've recently viewed shown first).

Secondly, the Sprint field is now enabled by default and displays on the create/edit/view issue screens (users may need to show the field on the 'Create Issue'/'Edit Issue' dialog via  Configure Fields). You won't have to mess around with your screen configurations to start using this field.

Board administrators

A board can now have multiple board administrators , instead of a single owner. When you configure a board, you will be able to add multiple groups and users. Any users specified in the Board Administrators field (individually or via a group) will have all of the same permissions as the owner field in previous versions of JIRA Agile. Learn more...

Status lozenges

JIRA Agile now uses status lozenges to represent issue status rather than text/icons. The new status lozenges make it easier for you to see an issue's status at a glance, and look great! The lozenges also conform to the Atlassian Style Guidelines

You can also choose a Category when creating a status in the simplified workflow editor (board must be using the Simplified Workflow). The category sets a colour for the status lozenge.

Note, JIRA 6.2 or later is required for this feature.

"First initial" avatars

JIRA Agile now uses the first initial of your full name (not username) as your avatar, if you do not want to upload an image or photo. This makes it easier for users to identify who is associated with an issue, at a glance, when custom images are not used. You will see these avatars on your boards (Work mode) and on the Agile wallboard gadget.

Important notes
  • If you are using a character set outside of Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, the first initial will not be shown. You will only see the coloured squares.
  • If you have enabled Gravatars, they will continue to override all avatars including "first initial" avatars.
  • JIRA does not display first name and last name fields, only a username field, for the user profile. If you sync your users from an external directory, the username may be populated by last name+first name — hence, the first initial shown will be the first initial of the last name.

And more!

  • Improvements to the Sprint Health gadget — Click any of the statistics on the Sprint Health gadget to drill down to detailed information on that statistic. For example, click Blockers in the gadget and you will be shown the search for blockers for the sprint.
  • Add an issue to a sprint directly from Work mode: any issue (or issues) created during a sprint on Work mode can now be added directly to that sprint.

  • Tooltip guidance when you can't create or start a sprint — Ever wondered why a Create sprint or Start sprint button/link is disabled on your board in Plan mode? You can now hover over either of these controls and a tooltip will show you exactly why it is disabled (e.g. you are not an administrator for the project, there is an active sprint).
     
  • Quick Filters list in Plan/Work mode can be collapsed — Quick Filters are now rolled up into a single line, rather than spanning multiple lines. You can click the Show more link to show all filters and you can collapse them into a single line again via the Show less link.  
  • See board type (Scrum or Kanban) on the Manage Boards screen — You can now determine the type of each board when viewing them on Manage Boards screen.


     
  • Improved board configuration user interface — We've updated the board configuration user interface with a number of improvements. You'll notice that the tabs have been moved into a menu on the left. We've also made a number of tweaks to clean up the Columns configuration screen.



     
  • More accessible reports — Report mode now lists all available reports on the screen, instead of hiding them in a dropdown menu.




     
  • Hide/Show header control moved — The control for hiding/showing the header has been moved up next to the Plan, Work, Report and Board controls, rather than next to the Quick Filters.
  • A more discreet give feedback button — The Give feedback button won't clutter your view in JIRA Agile anymore. We still love hearing your feedback, but we've made the button a little less inconspicuous, so it doesn't get in your way.

 

The JIRA Agile 6.4 team

Development

Michael Tokar (team lead)

Michael Elias

Ivo Bosticky

David Tang

Jason Sheehy

Ian Dick

Patrick Teen

Jonathan Raoult

Product Management

Martin Jopson

Marketing

Dan Radigan

Jake Brereton

Cross-product

Design

Brendan Humphrey

Dean Hudson

QA

Kiran Shekhar

Technical Writing

Andrew Lui

Support

Michael Andreacchio (team lead)

Ahmad Danial

Ala Al-Shargabi

Andre Petry

Anna Cardino

Bejoy Jaison

Benito Picarelli

Bruna Griebeler

Clarissa Gauterio

Chung Park Chan

Daniel Leng

Danilo Conrad

Daryl Chuah

David Currie

David Mason

Dave Nicholson

Davy Sjauw Mook

Daniel Watania

Dobroslawa Wierzbicka

Gan VoonKiat

Gary Sackett

Ivan Maduro

James Giles IV

Janet Albion

Jason Worley

Jeff Curry (team lead)

Joe Wai Tye

John Chin Kim Loong

Julian Rahmadiputra

Support

Luciano Fagundes

Mauro Badii

Marcus Almeida

Matheus Fernandes

Matthew Hunter (team lead)

Melissa Klingler

Michael Thai

Mick Nassette

Muhammad Fahd

Nick Mason

Richie Gee

Ruchi Tandon

Shannon Mackie

Paul Greig

Pedro Cora

Pedro Souza

Pietro Schaff

Taiwo Akindele

Vicky Kharisma

Viet Dung

Yew Teck En

Zulfadli Noor Sazali

JIRA Agile 6.6 Release Notes

Visualise development

24 June 2014

JIRA Agile 6.4 (with JIRA 6.2 or later) provides more code-related information in your issues, that you can assess and action. Create a branch, see commits and pull requests, watch builds, and more! 

JIRA Agile 6.4 Upgrade Notes

(warning) Important

This is a major upgrade. We have made a number of changes under the covers that you need to be aware of before you upgrade. Please read the JIRA Agile 6.4 Upgrade Notes (linked above) and note the upgrade tasks, in particular, the changes to the Rank field.

New features in this release

New code integration features for issues

If you are using JIRA Agile with JIRA 6.2 or later, the new Development panel will be shown on every issue. This panel helps you to evaluate the development status of an issue at a glance. If you need to investigate further, click any item to display more details, or drill down into the development tool.

Connect JIRA to one of these compatible applications to enable the following:

  • Bitbucket view and create branches, view commits, view and create pull requests
  • FishEye/Crucible (Git/Subversion/Perforce/CVS): view branches, view commits, view and create reviews
  • Bamboo: view the status of builds and deployments
  • GitHub/GitHub Enterprise: view branches, view commits, view and create pull requests

Learn more (JIRA documentation): Streamlining your development with JIRA

Labs: Enhanced reports — Epic Burndown

 

We're overhauling the existing reports in JIRA Agile. Over the next few releases, we will be progressively introducing enhanced versions of a number of the reports via Labs. To opt in for these new reports, enable Enhanced Reports in Labs.

In this release, we've introduced a new chart: the Epic Burndown. This report tracks your team's progress towards the completion of the work for an epic.

The Epic Burndown is similar to the Release Burndown. It is optimised for Scrum teams that work in sprints, and has a bar chart design that helps you see exactly what is happening in each sprint, such as work completed and scope changes. The chart also predicts the number of sprints that are required to finish the remaining work in the epic, based on your team's velocity.

Learn more...

Who closed that sprint?

If you've ever wanted to find out who closed a particular sprint, you can now see this on the Burndown Chart and Sprint Report

Sprint Report

Burndown Chart (data table)

Inline issue creation (with JIRA 6.3)

If you are using JIRA Agile 6.4 with JIRA 6.3 or later, you can now create an issue from within your Scrum board during planning. Just click the Create issue link, fill in the details and hit the Enter button. The new issue will be automatically added to your backlog. 

Updates and fixes in this release

We have released a number of 6.4.x versions to fix critical issues found in JIRA Agile. Minor versions usually have additional features, however each of the versions shown below have the same set of features.

See the version history below for details on each of minor release, or view the full list of issues fixed across all 6.4.x versions.

6.4.5 — 2 September 2014

 AVAILABLE

This is the current version available for download. 6.4.5 also fixes issues affecting ranking.

View updates and fixes...

Key Summary T Fix Version/s
Loading...
Refresh

6.4.4 — 12 August 2014

 REMOVED

This version is not available for download anymore, as it is superseded by 6.4.5.  6.4.4 fixes a critical issue affecting ranking.

View updates and fixes...

Key Summary T Fix Version/s
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Refresh

6.4.3 — 23 July 2014

 REMOVED

This version is not available for download anymore, as it is superseded by 6.4.4. 6.4.3 fixes a critical issue affecting Oracle databases.

View updates and fixes...

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6.4.2 — 4 July 2014

 REMOVED

This version is not available for download anymore, as it is superseded by 6.4.3. 6.4.2 was released to fix a number of critical issues affecting upgrades, issue creation and ranking issues.

View updates and fixes...

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6.4.0.9 — 27 June 2014

 REMOVED

This version is not available for download anymore, as it was superseded by 6.4.2. 6.4.0.9 was released to fix a critical issue affecting Oracle databases.

View updates and fixes...

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6.4.0.8 — 25 June 2014

 REMOVED

This version is not available for download anymore, as it was superseded by 6.4.0.9. 6.4.0.8 was released to fix critical issues affecting re-indexing, and SQL Server 2005 and Oracle databases. Note, 6.4.0.6 was not made available to the public — 6.4.0.8 includes fixes tagged for 6.4.0.6.

View updates and fixes...

Key Summary T Fix Version/s
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6.4.0.3 — 2 June 2014

 REMOVED

This was the first 6.4.x version made available for download. It is not available for download anymore as it was superseded by 6.4.0.8. 6.4.0.3 includes a number of fixes to bugs present in 6.3.13.1 and earlier versions (see list below for details).

View updates and fixes...

Key Summary T Fix Version/s
Loading...
Refresh

Notable features from the 6.3.x releases

JIRA Agile 6.4 bundles up all of the features introduced in the 6.3.x releases. If you haven't been using any of the 6.3.x releases, here's what you've missed.

Learn more...

JIRA Agile and Confluence — Better together

If you use JIRA Agile and Confluence together, you can now create and/or link Confluence pages to JIRA Agile epics, stories and sprint reports. Read our solutions guide and try doing the following in JIRA Agile.

  • From an epic: Create a new requirements document in Confluence (via the Product Requirements blueprint), or link to an existing page.
  • From a sprint: Create new meeting notes in Confluence (via the Meeting Notes blueprint), or link to an existing page.
  • From a sprint report: Create new retrospective notes in Confluence (via the Retrospectives blueprint), or link to an existing page.

Labs: Enhanced reports — New Control Chart and Release Burndown

We've redesigned the Control Chart and introduced the Release Burndown, as part of our reports overhaul. To opt in for these new reports, enable Enhanced Reports in Labs.

  • Control Chart: The new Control Chart introduces a range of design and useability improvements, such as better chart controls, issue clustering and a 'How to read this chart' section to help you understand how to use it. We've made changes under the covers as well, including an improvement to the way the rolling average is calculated, and basing the standard deviation on the rolling average instead of the overall average. Learn more...

     
  • Release Burndown: The Release Burndown helps you track your team's progress towards the completion of the work for a release (version). It is optimised for Scrum teams that work in sprints (as opposed to the Version Report). We've designed it as a bar chart that helps you see exactly what is happening in each sprint. The chart also predicts the number of sprints that are required to finish the remaining work in the release, based on your team's velocity. Learn more...

Improvements to the Sprint field

We've made two big improvements to the Sprint field in this release. Firstly, the Sprint field now shows the sprint name, not the sprint ID. When editing the field, you can also search for a sprint by name and JIRA Agile will suggest matching sprints (with sprints from boards /issues that you've recently viewed shown first).

Secondly, the Sprint field is now enabled by default and displays on the create/edit/view issue screens (users may need to show the field on the 'Create Issue'/'Edit Issue' dialog via  Configure Fields). You won't have to mess around with your screen configurations to start using this field.

Board administrators

A board can now have multiple board administrators , instead of a single owner. When you configure a board, you will be able to add multiple groups and users. Any users specified in the Board Administrators field (individually or via a group) will have all of the same permissions as the owner field in previous versions of JIRA Agile. Learn more...

Status lozenges

JIRA Agile now uses status lozenges to represent issue status rather than text/icons. The new status lozenges make it easier for you to see an issue's status at a glance, and look great! The lozenges also conform to the Atlassian Style Guidelines

You can also choose a Category when creating a status in the simplified workflow editor (board must be using the Simplified Workflow). The category sets a colour for the status lozenge.

Note, JIRA 6.2 or later is required for this feature.

"First initial" avatars

JIRA Agile now uses the first initial of your full name (not username) as your avatar, if you do not want to upload an image or photo. This makes it easier for users to identify who is associated with an issue, at a glance, when custom images are not used. You will see these avatars on your boards (Work mode) and on the Agile wallboard gadget.

Important notes
  • If you are using a character set outside of Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, the first initial will not be shown. You will only see the coloured squares.
  • If you have enabled Gravatars, they will continue to override all avatars including "first initial" avatars.
  • JIRA does not display first name and last name fields, only a username field, for the user profile. If you sync your users from an external directory, the username may be populated by last name+first name — hence, the first initial shown will be the first initial of the last name.

And more!

  • Improvements to the Sprint Health gadget — Click any of the statistics on the Sprint Health gadget to drill down to detailed information on that statistic. For example, click Blockers in the gadget and you will be shown the search for blockers for the sprint.
  • Add an issue to a sprint directly from Work mode: any issue (or issues) created during a sprint on Work mode can now be added directly to that sprint.

  • Tooltip guidance when you can't create or start a sprint — Ever wondered why a Create sprint or Start sprint button/link is disabled on your board in Plan mode? You can now hover over either of these controls and a tooltip will show you exactly why it is disabled (e.g. you are not an administrator for the project, there is an active sprint).
     
  • Quick Filters list in Plan/Work mode can be collapsed — Quick Filters are now rolled up into a single line, rather than spanning multiple lines. You can click the Show more link to show all filters and you can collapse them into a single line again via the Show less link.  
  • See board type (Scrum or Kanban) on the Manage Boards screen — You can now determine the type of each board when viewing them on Manage Boards screen.


     
  • Improved board configuration user interface — We've updated the board configuration user interface with a number of improvements. You'll notice that the tabs have been moved into a menu on the left. We've also made a number of tweaks to clean up the Columns configuration screen.



     
  • More accessible reports — Report mode now lists all available reports on the screen, instead of hiding them in a dropdown menu.




     
  • Hide/Show header control moved — The control for hiding/showing the header has been moved up next to the Plan, Work, Report and Board controls, rather than next to the Quick Filters.
  • A more discreet give feedback button — The Give feedback button won't clutter your view in JIRA Agile anymore. We still love hearing your feedback, but we've made the button a little less inconspicuous, so it doesn't get in your way.

 

The JIRA Agile 6.4 team

Development

Michael Tokar (team lead)

Michael Elias

Ivo Bosticky

David Tang

Jason Sheehy

Ian Dick

Patrick Teen

Jonathan Raoult

Product Management

Martin Jopson

Marketing

Dan Radigan

Jake Brereton

Cross-product

Design

Brendan Humphrey

Dean Hudson

QA

Kiran Shekhar

Technical Writing

Andrew Lui

Support

Michael Andreacchio (team lead)

Ahmad Danial

Ala Al-Shargabi

Andre Petry

Anna Cardino

Bejoy Jaison

Benito Picarelli

Bruna Griebeler

Clarissa Gauterio

Chung Park Chan

Daniel Leng

Danilo Conrad

Daryl Chuah

David Currie

David Mason

Dave Nicholson

Davy Sjauw Mook

Daniel Watania

Dobroslawa Wierzbicka

Gan VoonKiat

Gary Sackett

Ivan Maduro

James Giles IV

Janet Albion

Jason Worley

Jeff Curry (team lead)

Joe Wai Tye

John Chin Kim Loong

Julian Rahmadiputra

Support

Luciano Fagundes

Mauro Badii

Marcus Almeida

Matheus Fernandes

Matthew Hunter (team lead)

Melissa Klingler

Michael Thai

Mick Nassette

Muhammad Fahd

Nick Mason

Richie Gee

Ruchi Tandon

Shannon Mackie

Paul Greig

Pedro Cora

Pedro Souza

Pietro Schaff

Taiwo Akindele

Vicky Kharisma

Viet Dung

Yew Teck En

Zulfadli Noor Sazali

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