JIRA 6.4 EAP 9 (m09)

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7 November 2014

Atlassian is proud to present JIRA 6.4 EAP 9 (m09). This public development release is part of our Early Access Program (EAP) leading up to the official JIRA 6.4 release. We are making these EAP milestones publicly available so that developers can start assessing the impact of the changes that we are making.

If you are a JIRA developer, please see Preparing for JIRA 6.4 as well as our Java API policy for JIRA.

JIRA 6.4 Upgrade Notes

(minus) Read before you install/upgrade: Atlassian does not support upgrades both 'from' and 'to' EAP releases. EAP releases should not be used in production environments as they are not officially supported. For all production use and testing of JIRA, please use the latest official release instead.

We want your feedback!

In this release:

Key Features

Redesigned Status Page

The Status administration page has been streamlined and is now much easier to read and use. As an added bonus, we've implemented a highly-voted feature request: the ability to define the order of statuses.

Go to Issues > Statuses in your administration console to try it out.

Updated priorities and resolutions

JIRA will now ship with a new set of priorities, and a new resolution. The old default priorities of Blocker, Critical, Major, Minor and Trivial will be replaced with Highest, High, Medium, Low and Lowest. If you are upgrading an installation of JIRA, or importing existing data, JIRA will respect your original priorities and they will continue to be available instead of the new priorities. The new priorities will only become available and therefore the default in new installations. And remember, if you want to change your priorities, JIRA admins are able to edit, add and delete priorities in JIRA by accessing the JIRA Administration menu > Issues > Priorities. We're also shipping with a new resolution of Won't do. This resolution will only become available when you create a software development project in JIRA and is exactly the same as the current Won't fix resolution, apart from the name! JIRA admins can also edit, add and delete resolutions through the JIRA Administration menu > Issues > Resolutions.

Change to project creation in JIRA

Creating a new project now creates a project-specific issue type scheme, workflow scheme, screen scheme and issue type screen scheme for that project. This change applies to all project types, except for the 'JIRA Classic' project type, which still uses the shared default JIRA schemes when used to create a new project. This change is to enable more flexibility around editing JIRA schemes on a per project basis.

Users can create issues in bulk

Previously, creating issues in bulk was only available to JIRA administrators. Now, we've given users the power and flexibility to import data to create issues in bulk via a Comma-Separated Value (CSV) file import. This gives users the ability to create issues using manually created files in a CSV format, as well as using exported CSV data from a variety of systems and databases. Simply click the Issues drop-down and select Import issues from CSV, and then follow the steps in the import wizard. Your new issues will be available shortly!

To use the CSV importer, a user must have both the Create Issue project permission and the Bulk Change global permission. This gives JIRA Administrators some degree of control as to who can use the CSV importer.

A leaner JIRA

We're constantly trying to improve our customer experience and we remove functionality if we feel it doesn't add value for our users. In this release of JIRA Server we've removed Scheme Tools, which were originally designed to assist administrators in moving users from groups (used in JIRA versions prior to 3.7) to project roles (from JIRA 3.7 forward). We've also removed the News Gadget.

To improve performance, we're in the process of reworking a lot of the dashboard gadgets, improving their efficiency and load times. You may notice some of the gadgets look slightly different too, we've given them a cosmetic make-over to align them with JIRA and our design principles.

Last modified on Dec 16, 2014

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