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29 June 2017

The Atlassian JIRA Core team is proud to announce the release of JIRA Core 7.4.

The JIRA Core development team has been working closely with our product managers, researchers and designers to build what we believe will provide the most value to our customers. In this release, our top features include:

  • the ability to enable the extended project administrator permission on a per project basis,
  • extending the project administrator permission to include editing screens, and
  • an improved issue export experience.

This isn't all we've done, we've also made a few minor tweaks, listed below, and we've been busy fixing bugs to improve the overall experience with JIRA Core.

We believe we've been working on the right things to improve the JIRA Core experience for our full customer base. Of course, we can't do that without your comments and suggestions, so please feel free to send them directly to us in our JIRA instance.

Hope you enjoy JIRA Core 7.4!

Warren Thompson,

JIRA Software technical writer

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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:

Edit the project's workflow, expand to see the restrictions
  • The workflow must not be shared with any other projects, or be a system workflow.
  • To add a status, the status must already exist in the JIRA instance i.e. the project admin can't create new statuses or edit existing statuses.
  • To delete a status, the status must not be used by any of the project's issues.
  • The project admin can create, update or delete transitions, but they can't select or update a screen used by the transition, or edit or view a transition's properties, conditions, validators or post-functions.
Edit the project's screens, expand to see the restrictions
  • The screen must not be a default system screen.
  • The screen must not be shared with any other projects, or used as a transition screen in workflows.
  • The project admin can add, remove and rearrange system fields.
  • The project admin can add, remove and rearrange existing custom fields, but they cannot create custom fields.


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.

Issues resolved in 7.4.0

Released on 29 June 2017

We’ve noticed that JIRA is having problems with displaying arrows to reorder your subtasks. If you’re using this way to manage your issues, read more about the problem and a workaround here:  JRASERVER-65542 - Getting issue details... STATUS

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Issues resolved in 7.4.1

Released on 11 July 2017

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Issues resolved in 7.4.2

Released on 31 July 2017

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Issues resolved in 7.4.3

Released on 22 August 2017

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Issues resolved in 7.4.4

Released on 4 September 2017

This release also includes the following additional language packs:

  • Czech

  • Estonian

  • Danish

  • Islandic

  • Norwegian

  • Romanian

  • Slovak

  • Polish

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Issues resolved in 7.4.5

Released on 25 October 2017

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Issues resolved in 7.4.6

Released on 16 January 2018

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