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13 August 2012

The Atlassian team announces the release of GreenHopper 6.0, bringing you the ability to plan multiple sprints at the same time.

Highlights of this release:

 

This release also includes a number of fixes.

Thank you for your feedback:

Over 90 fixes and improvements implemented since GreenHopper 5.0
Over 900 votes fulfilled since GreenHopper 5.0

Your votes and issues help us keep improving our products, and are greatly appreciated.

Please keep logging your votes and issues. They help us decide what needs doing!

Upgrading to GreenHopper 6.0 is free for all customers with an active GreenHopper license.

You can upgrade GreenHopper via the JIRA Plugin Manager. Before upgrading, please read the GreenHopper 6.0 Upgrade Notes.


New menu structure

In GreenHopper 6.0, the new board (formerly known as the Rapid Board) is now promoted in the menu structure. The previous boards are now known as the Classic Planning Board, the Classic Task Board, the Classic Released Board and the Classic Charts Board, and are available via Classic in the menu:

Please note that the keyboard shortcuts have also been updated. Type "?" for the latest list.

 

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Future sprint planning

You can now create multiple upcoming sprints, allowing you to plan several iterations ahead. Simply click Add Sprint at the top of the backlog:

 

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iPad aware

You can now view your GreenHopper board on your iPad, e.g. during your standups you can now:

  • view the current status of all your stories in Work mode and drag them from column to column
  • view your Burndown Chart
  • and more

We hope you enjoy the convenience of being able to perform many of your most common GreenHopper tasks on the iPad (we do!)



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Simple workflow editing in GreenHopper

You can now edit your project's workflow from within GreenHopper. Just click Add Status on your board's Column Configuration page:

For details (and caveats), please see Using GreenHopper Simplified Workflow.

 

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No longer Rapid by name – but still rapid by nature

In GreenHopper 6.0 the new board is no longer known as the "Rapid Board" — we figure everyone knows by now that it is vastly faster than the Classic boards. The new board has been built from the ground up on newer technology that enables us to provide optimum performance, making the most of your valuable time.

Enjoy!

 

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Updates and Fixes in this Release

GreenHopper 6.0 & 6.0.1 include the following updates and bug fixes:

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18 Comments

  1. Anonymous

    Aug 13, 2012

    Can I configure the cards' fields that will be visible, in the work board? Today, only the issue, the description, the priority and the assignee are visible, but I want to see the original estimate and the remaining estimate.

    1. Anonymous

      Aug 13, 2012

      There's always the Classic Boards. (smile)

    2. Rosie Jameson [Atlassian]

      Aug 15, 2012

      Please watch/vote/comment on GHS-3474 - Getting issue details... STATUS  – many thanks

       

  2. Anonymous

    Aug 14, 2012

    Does iPad support include Android tablets too?

    1. Rosie Jameson [Atlassian]

      Aug 15, 2012

      We haven't tested it in this release, but it should be at least partially compatibile (screen width may be an issue).

      Support for touch devices will be more fully implemented in the very near future.

  3. Anonymous

    Aug 23, 2012

    The new menu structure is great, but the majority of our users are still using the Classic boards.  We only have a couple of groups using the Rapid Board.  They would like to use the new functionality, but it would disrupt the whole company if the menu structure changed when we upgraded.

    Is there a configuration setting that would allow us to upgrade to Greenhopper 6.0 while still keeping the old menu structure?

    1. Nicholas Muldoon [Atlassian]

      Aug 23, 2012

      No, there is no setting for this. However, when existing users click Agile they will be taken to their last board - be that a new Scrum / Kanban board or one of the Classic boards (Plan, Task, Chart, Report). They can then change the board they are on via the dropdown within Classic:

      Thanks,

      Nicholas

      1. John Freund

        Aug 29, 2012

        Could there be a setting for this?  I have the same issue though in my case I upgrade the plugin without knowing about, and thus announcing to my customers, the menu change and have angry customers wanting the old menu options. 

  4. Svein Are Grønsund

    Aug 28, 2012

    Would be great to see a document explaining how drag&drop i boards (sprints) works compared to "fix version". Before the drag&drop i "Planning Board" changed the "fix version", but do we have to administer this field manually from now on?

    1. Nicholas Muldoon [Atlassian]

      Aug 29, 2012

      Hi Svein,

      I'm not sure I follow unfortunately. We have a webinar here which walks through GreenHopper 6, perhaps that covers what you are looking for.

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-_qCly1vog

      Alternatively, could you please provide more information.

      Thanks,
      Nicholas Muldoon
      @GreenHopperTeam 

      1. Svein Are Grønsund

        Aug 29, 2012

        I found the answer to my question here: Ending a Sprint

        (wanted to delete my comment afterwards, but not possible)

  5. Anas Fattahi

    Aug 29, 2012

    Is there a way to have two sprints active at the same time? It seems the planning board does not allow starting a new sprint before closing the currently active one. 

  6. Anonymous

    Sept 05, 2012

    I have a couple of questions about these new rapid boards:

    1. Can the planning board show subtasks? Currently all I see are stories and defects, not the subtasks
    2. Can the burndown chart show ALL tasks as well (stories, defects, subtasks) as they burn down, not just the main "parent" stories?
    3. Can the planning board show story points AND time estimates? I have a need to track both of these items for different purposes. Without using fix versions, this becomes difficult as the Time Tracking Report requires you to select a fix version. 

  7. Anonymous

    Sept 10, 2012

    You really should not have removed the board selection drop-down like this... we are using it all the time. Now to switch from one board to another this is a real pain as we have to navigate to the "Manage board" and then select the board we want.

    Can we please have an option to enable it back ? we do not care that the page load is reduced, as long as we keep the functionality we had before. Thanks

    Ps : is there a way to rollback to the previous version ? without this users are lost. Thanks

  8. Anonymous

    Sept 20, 2012

    Can we have the ability to filter the burndown charts as we could on the "Classic" boards

    Thanks,

    Mark

  9. Zach Leber

    Oct 12, 2012

    How can I turn off the Release... link on the top of my Done column in GH 6.0?  We're using a Kanban Rapid Board to track help tickets.

     

  10. Anonymous

    Nov 13, 2012

    Where can I find a list of API calls for GH 6.0?

    1. Rosie Jameson [Atlassian]

      Nov 13, 2012

      Please use 6.0.2 (which immediately superceded 6.0): http://docs.atlassian.com/greenhopper/



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