This page shows the highlights of the major JIRA releases.
Current Release
For information about the latest release, please go to the Release Notes.
JIRA 4.4 — 2 August 2011
- User Time Zones
- Visual Workflow Designer
- Workflow Viewer on the 'View Issue' Screen
- Search (JQL) Enhancements
- Improved Setup Wizard with Database Configuration
- Improved JIRA Standalone Installer/Uninstaller and Automated Upgrade
- New-Look Administration Area
- Simplified Project Administration
- New Email Style
- Issue Linking when Resolving an Issue
- Editable Options for Custom Fields
- Multiple File Selection and Upload from the 'File Upload' Dialog Box
- New-look Activity Stream
- Graph of Vote History
- More in release notes
JIRA 4.3 — 16 March 2011
- Full Integration with LDAP and Active Directory
- New Plugin Management System
- Improved Importer
- JIRA Now Supports 'In-place Database Upgrades'
- Search for Issue Changes, Relative Dates and Relative Versions with JQL
- Quick Search Enhancements
- Revamped User Avatars
- Improvements to Issue Links
- Remembered Assignees
- Security Enhancements
- Application Links: Connecting Applications Together
- REST API Improvements
- More in release notes
JIRA 4.2 — 21 October 2010
- Keyboard Shortcuts and 'Operations Dialog'
- Editable 'Original Estimate'
- 'Log Work' Fields Available When Resolving Issues
- Labels
- User Avatars
- Viewable ZIP Files
- REST API (Alpha)
- More in release notes
JIRA 4.1 — 8 April 2010
- New-look 'View Issue'
- Streamlined Keyboard Shortcuts
- Customisable Email Subject
- Image Gallery
- ZIP Download of Attachments
- List of Logged-in Users
- JIRA Standalone ships with JIRA Configuration Tool, Database Drivers and Tomcat 6.0
- More in release notes
JIRA 4.0 — 6 October 2009
- Advanced Searching
- Dashboard Gadgets
- Activity Streams
- New-look "Browse Project"
- Charting Now Comes Standard
- New-look Header
- Issue Actions in the Issue Navigator
- Project Icons
- Default Unit for Time Tracking
- "History" is now permanent
- Engine Room
- More in release notes
JIRA 3.13 — 9 September 2008
- Shareable dashboards
- Improved filter sharing
- Favourite filters and dashboards
- Restoring projects
- Editable active workflows
- Enhanced sub-task quick creation
- Personal licenses
- New plugins
- Progress bar for long-running operations
- Application improvements
- More in release notes
JIRA 3.12 — 7 December 2007
- 'Trusted' Confluence
- 'JIRA System Administrators' permission
- FishEye plugin now bundled with JIRA
- Improvements to the Subversion plugin
- Improvements to the 'Project Statistics' and 'Filter Statistic' portlets
- New post function for workflows: 'Assign to Current User'
- Enhanced language support for searching
- Visual SourceSafe plugin
- More in release notes
JIRA 3.11 — 25 September 07
- Sub-task progress shown within issues
- Issue Navigator offers sub-task aggregates
- Time Tracking reports now include sub-tasks
- Multi-project 'Road Map' portlet
- Performance improvements
- Indexing improvements
- JIRA Labels Plugin
- More in release notes
JIRA 3.10 — 9 July 2007
- Editable Worklogs
- Start Date for Worklogs
- New way to browse Components
- New way to browse Versions
- Auto-complete 'User-picker' and 'Issue-picker'
- Auto-complete 'Issue-picker'
- More in release notes
JIRA 3.9 — 8 May 2007
- Ability to convert sub-tasks to issues (and vice versa)
- Convenient new scheduler for filter subscriptions
- Separate permissions for 'Delete Comment', 'Delete Attachment' and 'Delete Issue'
- Performance Improvements for Project Roles
- More in release notes
JIRA 3.8 — 13 March 2007
- Editable comments
- Self-installer for JIRA
- CAPTCHA for new account signup
- Integration with Crowd
- Improvements to the Bugzilla importer
- DHTML-loading of Issue screens
- More in release notes
JIRA 3.7 — 18 December 2006
- Project Roles - assign users and groups to roles on a per project basis
- Chart View - view charts in Issue Navigator using the JIRA Charting plugin
- RSS Improvements
- User Properties - record arbitrary information to the user profile (admin only)
- SVN project panel plugin - provides a summary of all commits made against a particular project or a project version
- More in release notes
JIRA 3.6 — 18 April 2006
- Custom Events - extension point for notification and workflow schemes
- Group Picker Custom Field - searchable in the issue navigator
- Per-issue Group Notifications and Permissions - based on the group picker custom field
- "I'm Feeling Lucky" Quick Search
- Collapsible Fields - control the level of detail of environment, description, individual comment fields and any textarea custom field
- Nestable Conditions - construct complex workflow conditions using nested conditions with AND or OR statements
- More in release notes
JIRA 3.5 — 01 February 2006
- Bulk Workflow Transition
- FogBugz Importer
- Charting Plugin
- MS Word Export
- JIRA Page Linker Plugin - linking a JIRA issue with a Confluence URL
- Component Lead Notification Type
- Bulk Assignment of Users to Groups
- More in release notes
JIRA 3.4 — 15 November 2005
- Issue Types Per Project
- Renderers - Confluence markup in JIRA text-based fields such as description and comments
- Issue Operation Plugin
- Announcement Banner
- RSS Support Improvements - live bookmarking with supported browsers
- Change Parent of Sub-Task
- Multi-user Custom Field
- More in release notes
JIRA 3.3 — 05 August 2005
- Multiple Project Filters - execute a search across multiple projects
- Bulk Move
- User Custom Field as Notification Target
- Extended Search Capabilities - search by date range for 'Created' and 'Updated' system fields and the custom field 'Date Time'
- JIRA Standalone ships with Tomcat 5.5
- More in release notes
JIRA 3.2 — 27 May 2005
- Field screens - configuration of field position and visibility for each issue operation and in Professional and Enterprise editions for each workflow transition screen
- Contextual custom fields - shared between projects and issue types
- Extended Bulk Edit Capabilities - Due Date, Reporter, Issue Security Level, Issue Type
- Improved internationalisation - Issue Constant Translations (Priorities, Statuses, Issue Types and Resolutions)
- Improved performace - quicker searching in the issue navigator and reports generation
- Smart Query
- Excel View
- More in release notes
JIRA 3.1 — 14 February 2005
- CSV Importer Wizard
- Add Comment on 'View Issue' field
- Webwork Plugin Type
- Assign Issues by Mail (via the CC field) using the Create Issue Handler
- More in release notes
JIRA 3.0 — 12 October 2004
- Workflow editor and configurable workflows
- Sub-tasks
- Plugin System
- Pluggable Custom Fields
- Dashboard Overhaul
- Issue cloning
- More in release notes