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Introducing Jira 4.3 – Integration Made Easy

I’m excited to announce the general availability of Jira 4.3. Combined with today’s release of Confluence 3.5, it’s never been easier to connect Jira with your enterprise wiki.  Jira 4.3 is packed with search and usability improvements, plus loads of features guaranteed to make every Jira administrator smile. GreenHopper 5.5 is also available today with compatibility to […]

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Making Toast with Jira at SXSW

If you’re heading to SXSW 2011, be sure to drop by the Praecipio booth to get the scoop on how to make toast using Jira.  Yes, you read that correctly.. I think Chris Pepe is taking information radiators to a whole new level with this one. Check it out: Looks like that setup has room for […]

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Free Visual Workflow Designer for Jira

With today’s release of Bamboo 3.0, we also announced the acquisition of two great plugins from Sysbliss, Inc. In addition to the Bamboo Release Management plugin – which automatically labels builds based on Jira versions (more to come on that shortly) – we also added the Jira Workflow Designer to the Atlassian family. This means, […]

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Jira Importers Plugin 1.5 adds Mantis & CSV support

Updated: Check out the Top 5 Reasons to GO Jira! There is little rest for the team working on the Jira Importers Plugin. Subsequent to enhancing the Bugzilla support in version 1.4, Pawel and Wojtek have helped get the plugin bundled with Jira 4.2.2. In the latest release of version 1.5, they have also added support […]

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The Best of Jira 2010

The Year in Review Similar to the GreenHopper and Confluence teams, 2010 was a very exciting year for the Jira team.  We doubled the size of the dev team – forcing us to move into a new building across the street – adding a new skillsets and evolving new roles. The team adopted Scrum, with […]

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Jira 4.2 Deep Dive – Keyboard Shortcuts

This post is the third in a series of “deep dives” into the latest version of Jira. The first posts talked about the Jira experience and operation dialogs.  Stay tuned to the Jira Blog for more details on Jira 4.2. Jira keyboard shortcuts were introduced for global navigation and issue actions in Jira 4 and […]

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GreenHopper 5.4 – Agile Time-Tracking Analysis

I’m happy to announce the release of GreenHopper 5.4.  The latest version of our agile planning tool for Jira address several issues around time tracking and includes a new analysis report to assist with understanding the work log and estimates reporting in GreenHopper. This release also includes several context-relative improvements for teams using GreenHopper for […]

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Announcing the Ultimate Wallboard Winner

After announcing the Community Favourite Wallboard and Best “Old School” Wallboard, we are now ready for the moment you have all been wait for… Winner: The Ultimate Wallboard Congratulations to Ole Højriis Kristensen from the Vodafone Web Team in Denmark. Ole’s submission impressed our panel of wallboard experts with the effective combination of an “old […]

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Announcing the Best “Old School” Wallboard Winner

Winner: The Best “Old School” Wallboard Congratulations to Sarah Park from GLiNTECH for submitting the Best “Old School” Wallboard in the Ultimate Wallboard contest.  Similar to the Community Favourite Wallboard competition, this battle was fierce.  The first round of voting by our panel of wallboard experts came down to a four-way tie between the entries […]

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Jira 4.3 Milestone 2 – LDAP, plugins, links and more

Jira 4.3 EAP 1 is so old news.. we have already released 4.3 Early Access Preview (EAP) 2  and it just keeps getting better. Get users from LDAP and Crowd With EAP 2, we continue to evolve the direct connection to LDAP feature we introduced in the first EAP. In addition to LDAP improvements, EAP […]

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The Ultimate Wallboard – the Community Fav

Winner: The Community Favourite Wallboard Congratulations to Gert-Jan van de Streek from Avisi for being voted the Community Favourite Wallboard winner in the Ultimate Wallboard contest. Despite entering the contest late, Gert-Jan’s wallboard racked up 305 votes.  His wallboard is definitely impressive, boasting a slick design for real-time stats and status across all teams and […]

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Jira 4.3 Milestone 1 – Early Access Preview

Frequent releases are a characteristic of how we do things here at Atlassian. These milestones releases are available via the Early Access Program (EAP) and they come thick and fast for most of our products. The Jira team has been a little hit and miss with releasing regular milestone builds, but we are determined to […]

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Jira 4.2 Deep Dive – using operation dialogs

This post is the second in a series of “deep dives” into the latest version of Jira. The first post talked about issue search and the Jira experience.  Stay tuned to the Jira Blog for more details on Jira 4.2. Operation dialogs Initially, the addition of dialogs for nearly all common operations may not seem […]

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Last chance to vote for the Ultimate Wallboard

With only three days left to vote for the Community Favourite in the Ultimate Wallboard contest, the competition is heating up. Several “HOT” entries have caught up quickly passed the early favourites and the race will definitely go down to the wire. As I write this, only 7 votes separate the top two wallboards and […]

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New Bugzilla importer plugin for Jira

Updated: Check out Top 5 Reasons to GO Jira! After a successful Jira 4.2 release the Jira team is excited to announce a smaller, yet significant, beta release: The Jira Importers Plugin Importing your existing bug tracker into Jira As you may know, the current importer feature in Jira, aka the external system importer, allows […]