JIRA Agile Release Summary
This page shows the highlights of the major JIRA Agile releases since GreenHopper 4.0. Note, JIRA Agile was named GreenHopper prior to JIRA Agile 6.3. The term 'GreenHopper' will still be used in release notes for versions 6.2.x and earlier.
Current Release: JIRA Agile 6.7 — 29 April 2015
New in 6.7:
- Classic boards removed from JIRA Agile
- Version Report gadget
- Default sprint durations for new sprints
- Order JIRA search results by sprint
- Status of parent issue shown on the swimlanes
- Supported platforms changes
Bundled in 6.7 from 6.6.x releases:
- Reordering sprints
- 'Days in column' indicator option for all boards
- Move an issue to the top/bottom of a column or swimlane
- Epic-based swimlanes for Kanban boards
- Better board management
- Improvements to epic lozenges on cards
- Terminology changes: Plan, Work, Report modes
- Translations for German, Spanish, French, and Japanese
- Performance improvements for Sprint Health and Days Remaining in Sprint gadgets
More in release notes.
JIRA Agile 6.6 — 8 September 2014
New in 6.6:
- Custom cards
- Sprint workload summary
- End of life for Classic boards announced
Note, there were no new features introduced between 6.5 and 6.6.
More in release notes.
JIRA Agile 6.5 — 9 June 2014
New in 6.5:
- Enhanced reports out of Labs.
- More informative forecasts for the release burndown and epic burndown.
Note, there were no new features introduced between 6.4 and 6.5.
More in release notes.
JIRA Agile 6.4 — 2 June 2014
New in 6.4:
- new Epic Burndown report (Labs)
- "Who closed that sprint?" feature
Bundled in 6.4 from 6.3.x releases:
- New code integration features for issues
- JIRA Agile and Confluence — Better together
- Labs: Enhanced reports — New Control Chart and Release Burndown
- Improvements to the Sprint field
- Board administrators
- Status lozenges
- "First initial" avatars
More in release notes.
JIRA Agile 6.3 — 26 August 2013
New in 6.3:
- GreenHopper was renamed to JIRA Agile, aligning the add-on more closely with JIRA.
- Search for issues in upcoming sprints using JQL
- View the sprint for an issue in the Detail View of the JIRA issue navigator
- Sprints related to issues are now included when exporting search results to Excel
- Add issues to a sprint in progress
Bundled in 6.3 from GreenHopper 6.2.x releases:
- Associate a story with an epic, from within JIRA
- Move a story to a different Epic, from within JIRA
- Add a story to an empty Epic, from within JIRA
- View the name of an Epic in the Epic Link field in your JIRA Issue Navigator
- Use autocomplete for the Epic Link parameter in JQL
- Epics related to issues are now included when exporting search results to Excel
- New look and feel
- Flagging
- Sprint health gadget
More in release notes.
Older releases
GreenHopper 4.0 - 6.2: