Jira Core 8.6.x release notes
17 December 2019
We're pleased to present Jira Core 8.6.
Highlights
- Jira copies over changes files on upgrade
- New JVM code cache check
- Replying to Jira notifications in Outlook made way better
- Users and roles made better
- PostgreSQL 10 comes to Jira
- Some older platforms get deprecated
- Prefix and suffix search
- Accessible drop-down menus
- Configurable scheme parameters in Jira REST API for projects creation
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Compatible applications
If you're looking for compatible Jira applications, look no further:
Good to know
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Jira copies over changes files on upgrade
We are ironing out upgrade hurdles for you. Now, you do not need to copy over the files you changed to keep your customizations after your upgrade . Jira detect s the files you have altered in your old version and copies them to your new Jira instance. And in the meantime , you can just sit back and play around new features. See our upgrade guide for more info.
New JVM code cache check
This new check verifies that you’re using the recommended JVM configuration for code cache memory. Insufficient code cache memory can impact performance. This check is already available to customers who manually update the ATST app to 1.30.0. It will run automatically. Learn more
Replying to Jira notifications in Outlook is now way easier
In response to many requests, we have found a solution for customers who want to enable their users to reply to Jira notifications and leave comments in tickets using Outlook. In the wake of the changes, we have decided to deprecate two email handlers ( ”Add a comment from the non-quoted email body” and ”Create a new issue or add a comment to an existing issue”). For more information on how to set up replying to Jira notifications in Outlook, see Jira KB.
Users and roles made better
We rolled up our sleeves and improved the Users and roles page within project settings. This should allow project admins to easily add people to a project and give them all the roles they need, in a blink of an eye.
Now, it’s more about assigning roles to a user than the other way round. You can also search for users, view and select roles from a drop-down menu, and have everybody shown on a single list, with nice columns explaining what’s what. You can check this out in Project settings > Users and roles.
PostgreSQL 10 comes to Jira
We’re welcoming a new database among our supported platforms — PostgreSQL 10. Learn more
…and some older platforms get deprecated
Adding new and shiny databases requires that we shift our efforts and stop supporting some of the old ones. Here’s a list of platforms that we’re deprecating:
SQL Server 2012
PostgreSQL 9.4
Solaris
Oracle 12c R1
PostgreSQL 9.5
MySQL 5.6
SQL Server 2014
We’ll stop supporting these in Jira 8.8 with the exception of MySQL 5.6 and SQL Server 2014 which will still be around until Jira 8.10. Learn more
Prefix and suffix search
Stuck when searching for an issue because you can't remember its exact name? As of Jira 8.0 we enabled prefix search:
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and now we're adding suffix search to the bunch so that you can find exactly what you need in no time at all:
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Accessible dropdown menus
To improve the user-friendliness of the More menu on the issue view and the context menu that displays in the backlog after you right-click, we added a scroll functionality that lets you see all the items on the list.
Configurable scheme parameters in Jira REST API for projects creation
Now you can fully automate creating new projects with specific workflowSchemes. We have extended Jira REST API and added a new endpoint and a new parameter:
POST
/rest/api/2/projectwith a new optionalworkflowSchemeIdfield to create a project and assign a worflowSchemeGET
/rest/api/2/project/{projectKeyOrId}/workflowschemeto get info about workflowScheme configured for a project