My people are spending time on f**cking what?!
I must admit that while Charles was very excited to hear the announcement of the 20% time trial at Atlassian, I received it with mixed feelings. The first thought that popped into my head was that we are giving people one day a week to slack off. Hence, the features that we think will benefit […]
Jira 3.9 Released
Dear Jira Users, We are happy to deliver Jira 3.9 only eight weeks after 3.8. The Jira Team have been making as many improvements as we possibly can in this time-frame. We really hope you enjoy this release. Jira 3.9 includes two very popular features: – The ability to convert an issue to a sub-task […]
Jira 3.8 Released
Dear Jira Users, We are happy to deliver Jira 3.8 only 3 months after Jira 3.7. In Jira 3.8 we have implemented one of the most popular features, Editable Comments; made Jira much easier to install and run on Windows via a Windows Installer; built a more robust integration with Atlassian Crowd (our identity management […]
Bamboo Saves Jira a Headache
Last Friday a code check-in was made that made Jira functional tests fail only in Standard and Professional editions. If it was not for Bamboo, we would not have picked that up until midnight on Friday (for a while we have had a nightly build that does a lot of automated testing). Which means that […]
Jira 3.7 Released
I am happy to say that it’s finally out there. I would like to thank everyone who has downloaded and tested 3.7 Beta 2, and extend special thanks to Neal Applebaum and Alexander Weiss for all their help. As mentioned in the announcement of the beta release, a lot of effort in Jira 3.7 has […]
Jira 3.7 Beta 2 Released
Wow, it has been quite a while since we have made a Jira release, and the Jira team have been hard at work. This release we are proud to deliver over 100 bug fixes and more than 60 improvements and new features. A lot of effort this release has been dedicated to developing Project Roles, […]
Fighting Comment spam in Jira
Recently there has been a surge of comment spam on public Jira instances. Spammers are registering themselves as Jira users, in order to spam issues. Atlassian is evaluating solutions to this problem. In the meantime, we have written up a JSP that can be deployed in an existing Jira instance (versions 3.3 – 3.6.5), that […]
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