JIRA 6.2 Release Notes

Visualize development

Unify issues and source like never before

In JIRA 6.1, we started the journey towards seamless integration with your coding tools. We're continuing this in JIRA 6.2, by providing 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!

This release also includes an improved workflow designer, simpler issue type configuration, new status lozenges, auditing, and more!


 
 
JIRA 6.2 Upgrade Notes

25 February 2014

New code integration features for issues

The new Development panel, which is shown on every issue, 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 to one of these compatible applications to enable the following:

  • Bitbucket or Stash: 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: Integrating with a development tool and Using the Development panel



 

Enhanced workflow designer

The workflow designer is faster and easier to use in this release. We've added a range of new features and made the user interface cleaner and less cluttered. You can now click to create transitions, reuse existing transitions, zoom (with the 'alt' key or the +/- controls), drag and drop to retarget the destination of a transition, and more!

In fact, the workflow designer can do everything that we supported in the old 'classic' workflow designer, so we've given the 'classic' designer a well earned retirement and removed it from JIRA.

Learn more...

Simple issue type configuration

We've simplified issue type configuration in this release. Don't hunt around in JIRA administration to find the workflow or screen for an issue type. The issue types associated with a project are now tabs on the project's administration screen.

This approach makes it easier to understand how your projects are set up. Each tab also provides access to the workflow designer and screen designer (JIRA administrators only), so you can configure an issue type without leaving the project.

Learn more...

 

 

New status lozenges

This release introduces new "lozenges" to represent statuses in JIRA. We've switched from the old icon+text representation to make it easier for users to locate and identify statuses. The new status lozenges also conform to the Atlassian Design Guidelines (ADG). This blog post explains the background behind this change.

We no longer support custom images for status icons. However, you will be able to configure statuses to use any one of the slick new status colors (categories) in JIRA. 

Learn more...

Auditing

JIRA now tracks and records a range of configuration changes in an audit log. This can help you diagnose problems in JIRA or can be used for security purposes. Find out when a user was added or removed, when a workflow scheme was modified, and more. Note, auditing is disabled by default — you will need to enable it to start tracking changes in JIRA.

This is the initial release of auditing. We're still working on a number of improvements that you'll see in future JIRA releases.

Learn more...

 


 

And more!

Of course, there's more! You can read about the other JIRA 6.2 features below. A noteworthy one is that the creator of an issue is now automatically recorded for every issue. This is particularly useful, if you need to know the creator of an issue for compliance reasons. The creator is distinct from the reporter (which can still be configured to be an optional field). On upgrade to this release, JIRA will set the creator to the appropriate reporter in the change history, for existing issues.

The creator can be seen in the issue history. If the creator is the same as the reporter, the name of the creator will be shown in the Reporter field on the issue.

Click to view the other features and improvements in this release:

Learn more...
  • Back up and recover indexes — Configure JIRA to take snapshots of indexes. Recover an index from a snapshot instead of rebuilding the index, if there is a failure. Learn more...

  • Re-index individual projects — Re-index a single project, rather than re-indexing your entire JIRA instance. Learn more...

  • New 'creator' JQL field — Find issues by their creator by using the new 'creator' JQL field. Learn more...

  • New 'attachments' JQL field Find issues that have attachments or issues that do not have attachments with the new 'attachments' JQL field. Just add the clause "attachments IS EMPTY" or "attachments IS NOT EMPTY" to your advanced search query. Learn more...

  • Filtering for User Picker custom field  — You can now limit the users that can be selected in a user picker custom field, to specified groups and/or project roles. Just configure your user picker custom field and choose the new Edit User Filtering link. Learn more...

  • Inline editing can now be disabled — Inline editing, i.e. clicking to edit a field, can now be disabled for your JIRA site in the General Configuration options. It is still enabled by default.

  • Internet Explorer 11 is now supported
       

The JIRA 6.2 team

Development

Adam Jakubowski
Aleksander Mierzwicki
Andreas Knecht
Andrew Swan
Antoine Büsch
Arkadiusz Głowacki
Ben Sayers
Ben Wong
Bradley Ayers
Brenden Bain
Brydie McCoy
Charles O'Farrell
Chris Darroch
Chris Doble
Chris Fuller
Chris Mountford
David Tang
Edward Zhang
Eric Dalgliesh
Filip Rogaczewski
Gilmore Davidson

Graham Carrick
Grzegorz Tańczyk
Ian Grunert
Ignat Alexeyenko
Jaiden Ashmore
James Hatherly
James Hazelwood
James Winters
Jason Sheehy
Jeroen De Raedt
Jeshua Morrissey
Jimmy Kurniawan
Jonathan Raoult
Jonathon Creenaune
Joshua Ali
Julius Hocman
Kayne Barclay

Krystian Brazulewicz
Luis Miranda
Lukasz Wlodarczyk
Łukasz Pater
Maciej Nowakowski
Maciej Opala

Marcin Gardias
Markus Kramer
Martin Henderson
Martin Jopson
Martin Meinhold
Michael Elias
Michael Tokar
Michal Orzechowski
Mike Sharp
Miroslav Stencel
Nick Menere
Nikolay Petrov
Oliver Wessels
Oswaldo Hernandez
Patrick Teen
Pawel Bugalski
Pawel Niewiadomski
Pawel Skierczynski
Pierre-Etienne Poirot
Przemek Borkowski
Robert Smart
Roman Tekhov
Sean Curtis
Sergio Cinos
Stanislav Dvorscak
Sunny Kalsi
Trevor Campbell
Wojciech Urbanski
Zehua Liu

Architecture

Mark Lassau
Matt Quail
Slawek Ginter

Support

Sydney support
Bejoy Jaison
David Currie
David Mason
Matthew Hunter
Mauro Badii
Michael Andreacchio
Michael Knight
Nick Mason
Paul Greig

Amsterdam support
Alex Conde
Bastiaan Jansen
Dora Wierzbicka
Ivan Maduro
John Inder
Mick Nassette
Miranda Rawson
Peter Koczan
Ruchi Tandon
Theodore Tzidamis
Yilin Mo

Brazil support
Andre Quadros Petry
Benito Picarelli
Bruno Rosa
Clarissa Gauterio
Danilo Conrad
Eric Kieling
Felipe Willig
Jorge Dias
Lucas Lima
Luciano Fagundes
Marcus Silveira
Matheus Fernandes
Ricardo Carracedo
Pedro Cora
Pedro Souza
Pietro Schaff
Tiago Kolling Comasseto

Kuala Lumpur support

Abdoulaye Kindy Diallo
Ahmad Danial
Ahmad Faisal
Ala Al-Shargabi
Amanda Wei Sai Nan Wei
Azwandi Mohd Aris
Chung Park Chan
Daryl Chuah
Daniel Leng
Daniel Watania
Immanuel Siagian
Janet Albion
Joe Wai Tye
John Chin Kim Loong
Kumar Ramajillu
Muhammad Fahd
Razaq Omar
Richie Gee
Steven Trung Tran
Vicky Kharisma
Voon Kiat Gan
Yew Teck En
Zulfadli Noor Sazali

San Francisco support
Boris Berenberg
David Chan
David Maye
David Nicholson
Gary Sackett
Ivan Tse
Jason Worley
Jeff Curry
John Garcia
Mary Avalos
Osman Afridi
Pelle Kirkeby
Rick Bal
Turner Benard

Service Enablement
Chris Le Petit
Patrick Hill

Management

Product management
Anu Bharadwaj
Bartek Gatz
Iwona Stankiewicz
Josh Devenny
Megan Cook
Nick Strybosch
Roy Krishna 
Tom Kotecki

Product marketing management
Caroline Nyce
Dan Chuparkoff
Dan Radigan
Jake Brereton

Program manager
Simone Houghton 

Development manager
Paul Slade
Wojciech Seliga

General manager
Bryan J. Rollins

Cross-product team

Design
Becc Roach

Benjamin Humphrey
Jay Rogers
Krzysztof Piwowar
Ross Chaldecott 

Quality assistance  
Kiran Shekhar
Michal Kujalowicz
Penny Wyatt
Peter Obara
 
Veenu Bharara
Sergio Cia

Technical writing  
Andrew Lui
Paul Watson

Last modified on Jul 14, 2014

Was this helpful?

Yes
No
Provide feedback about this article
Powered by Confluence and Scroll Viewport.