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The Remote 'Issue Links' feature provides a powerful way to link JIRA issues to items external to your JIRA installation, residing on external applications.

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Screenshot: Sharing an issue with other users

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Screenshot: Mentioning a user in an issue comment

Want to let others know about a JIRA issue or a list of search results quickly? Simply visit a JIRA issue or a list of issues on the issue navigator and then do either of the following:

• Click the new 'Share' button at the top-right (or type 's') and specify JIRA users (based on their names or user names) or any email address of people you want to share the page with. Add an optional note and then click 'Share'. 
  
  JIRA users specified in the 'User name or email' field will receive details of the issue or a link to a list of issues in an email message (sent to the addresses registered with their JIRA user accounts). The message's subject line will indicate that the person who used this feature 'shared' the issue(s) with them.
  
  
• In an issue comment or the issue's description field (new in Beta 3), type the '@' symbol and begin typing the name or username of a JIRA user. Select the appropriate user from the dropdown. You can do this with multiple users and after submitting the form, those users will be notified that you mentioned them in the comment or the issue's description field.
  
  Users will receive details of the issue in an email message (sent to the addresses registered with their JIRA user accounts). The message's subject line will indicate that the person who used this feature 'mentioned' them on that issue.

Users required the 'Browser User' global permission to access the 'Share' button or the autocomplete feature when 'mentioning' a user. However, if you know the username of a JIRA user, you can still mention them

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JIRA 5.0 provides a rapid and customisable dialog box for creating and editing JIRA issues and sub-tasks (new in Beta 3). This feature replaces the Create and Edit Issue forms.

The Create/Edit Issue dialog boxes show all available fields by default. However, you can quickly remove or re-add fields via the 'Configure Fields' button at the top-right of the dialog box. JIRA remembers your last set of field choices, giving you a personally customised dialog box that presents you with your most commonly edited fields whenever you create or edit an issue.

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Enhancements were introduced in JIRA 4.4 that allowed you to search the history of an issue's Assignee and Reporter fields.

In JIRA 5.0, JQL supports the new "CHANGED" operator, which can accept the optional predicates "FROM", "TO", "ON", "DURING", "BEFORE", "AFTER" and "BY".

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Screenshot: Activity stream gadget showing activity
from other Atlassian applications

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Screenshot: Activity stream gadget showing activity
from non-Atlassian applications

We are expanding the Activity Stream features introduced in JIRA 4.4 with:

• The ability to show external activity from another Atlassian application (such as Confluence, FishEye/Crucible and Bamboo) via an Application Link.
• The ability to combine this external activity into an Activity Stream gadget on a JIRA dashboard.
• An API for creating entries in activity streams from remote applications via the REST API or locally via Java.

Refer to the Preparing for JIRA 5.0 section of our developer documentation site for more details.

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JIRA administrators have the ability to change the ownership of or delete other user's shared filters and dashboards. A shared filter or dashboard is a filter/dashboard created (and hence, owned) by a user, which the user has then shared with others.

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Following on with improvements to the Administration User Interface (UI) in JIRA 4.4, JIRA 5.0 will provide further improvements to the Administration UI by converting various forms and pages in this area to convenient dialog boxes.

In addition to the dialog box for adding a new user, the 'Attachments' and 'Workflows' pages (the latter of which is improved in Beta 3) have been redesigned and the forms associated with these pages have been converted into convenient dialog boxes too.

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JIRA 5.0 incorporates a new email handler wizard that greatly simplifies the process of configuring incoming mail handlers for creating issues or comments from email messages.

You no longer have to configure a JIRA service and enter in a complex string of Handler parameters for your email handler. Instead you configure your email handler through a convenient wizard.

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This new JIRA 5.0-compatible feature currently under development as a plugin, allows you to copy issues from one JIRA site to another.

After establishing an Application Link between your JIRA site and another, a new 'Remote Copy' action will become available when viewing an issue.

While this action is available to everyone by default, it can be restricted to a particular group.

You will be prompted to map field values by field names for JIRA's built-in (system) fields and/or to configure default values for required fields.

You will require the appropriate permissions to set the field value on the target site.

Custom fields are generally supported, although so far, we have only provided a mapper for the SelectCFType custom field type. Supporting more custom fields is a matter of writing more mappers (which we intend to make pluggable for the final JIRA 5.0 release).