NPR.org moves from Bugzilla to Jira
A few months ago, Kim Bryant, NPR’s Manager of Application Operations for Digital Media, posted on Inside NPR.org about their move from Bugzilla to Jira in order to address challenges with “managing work requests, bug tracking and other operational processes.” In the second part of her blog series, Kim goes into the details about some of the frustrations of using Bugzilla for 4 1/2 years. She also drills into NPR’s top 5 reasons for switching to Jira.
Jira 4 Performance – Part 2
Originally, we had intended to write a two-part blog series on the performance improvements in Jira 4. You may have already seen the first part, where George Barnett covered Jira 4 performance compared to Jira 3.13. In the second part, Mark Lassau was going to talk about the benefits of automated performance tests and the improvements to the Jira codebase made possible by the regular performance telemetry data. Check out how we combined Bamboo, Confluence, jira.atlassian.com and JMeter to aggressively improve our caching.
Jira 4.0.1 available for download
Jira 4.0.1 is now available for download with over 70 bug fixes including that nasty little loopback problem a few folks may have experienced.
VertygoSLA: Commitment to your customers
Anyone using Jira for support or helpdesk purposes understands the importance meeting your SLAs. Earlier today, Eudes Nouvellon of Valiantys shared details of the VertygoSLA plugin for Jira, aka the November Plugin of the Month. If you want to learn more, check out the VertygoSLA Plugin webinar recording over on the Atlassian News Blog. VertygoSLA […]
Jira 4 Early Adopters – Open source projects leading the way
As part of the Jira 4 launch effort, we reached out to a handful of open source projects to see if they wanted to be the first to upgrade to Jira 4. Almost without hesitation, several projects jumped at the opportunity to try out the latest and greatest that Jira has to offer. Here is a little background on a few of the Jira 4 open source early adopters: Hibernate, Sonatype, Spring and Zend Framework.
Using IntelliJ IDEA with Jira 4?
Just in case you missed it, we released a new version of the Atlassian Connector for IntelliJ IDEA last Friday. New Jira features include filtering improvements and the ability to view and download Jira attachments without leaving IDEA. This release also contains several other Bamboo and Crucible enhancements. Check out Jesse’s post about version 2.2 […]
Jira 4 – The centre of your development team
After over 13 months of development, 4 months of beta and nearly 1000 resolved Jira issues, the biggest release in Atlassian history is finally here: Jira 4 is now available!
Jira 4 RC1 – Beta no more
The Jira 4 Beta program is now complete. This week we released Jira 4 Release Candidate 1 which means we’re closer than ever to the finish line. If you want to get started with planning your upgrade, testing your plugins, or if you simply can’t wait any longer to play around with the new UI, activity streams, dashboards, and JQL searching; you can download Jira 4 RC 1 right now.
Jira 4 – Beta 3 now available
I am happy to announce that we have just released Jira 4 Beta 3. This release continues to build upon the 450+ fixes and enhancements to Jira. Check out the full release notes for all the details.
Integrate Jira with Jama Contour
Last week, the folks over at Jama Software released the new Jira Connector for Jama Contour which is now available for download on the Atlassian Plugin Exchange. This integration is perfect for development teams using Jama Contour for requirements management and Jira for managing development tasks. Coupled with GreenHopper, a plugin for Jira, this is a great solution for agile software development all the way from user stories to release notes.
Jira 4.0 Beta 2 is now available
After launching our first beta of Jira 4.0 at Atlassian Summit last month, have had already hundreds people download the beta and provide us tons of great feedback. This week, we released Jira 4.0 Beta 2 which is the second major milestone release leading up to Jira 4.0. This release contains over 250 fixes and improvements including activity streams, dashboard gadgets, advanced searching with JQL, and a sexy new header and project browser.
Jira 3.13.5 released!
I am happy to announce that Jira 3.13.5 released this week. This latest point release of Atlassian’s bug and issue tracker includes over 30 bug fixes and improvements. Check out the Jira 3.13.5 Release Notes for all of the details. Upgrading is simple, just follow the Jira 3.13.5 upgrade instructions.
Fisheye 2 and Crucible 2 released!
I am very excited to announce the release of Fisheye 2 and Crucible 2. Both of these products have undergone a complete UI makeover with improved usability and productivity features focused on agile development. Fisheye and Crucible help you explore your source code and conduct code reviews that actually work.
Fisheye 2 Beta Insight (part 3) – Usability
So far, I have talked about the new People and Personalisation features in the Fisheye 2 beta. And these are just the tip of the iceberg.. Fisheye 2 has gone through a complete UI transformation to ensure that performance and usability is unparalleled. Working with Subversion, CVS, and Perforce (and soon Git!) has never been […]
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