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This month... JIRA 3.13, Confluence 2.9, Bamboo 2.1, Plugins 2.0, FishEye 1.6, Crucible 1.6, upcoming events, the Atlassian Integration Guide, and much more. Happy reading!

 

 

Announcing JIRA 3.13

Atlassian is happy to announce the release of JIRA 3.13!

With this release, we've gone back to basics, and took a long look at jira.atlassian.com, a.k.a. JAC, our public Issue Tracker. We picked some of the most popular requested features, and put them into JIRA 3.13. Those features include:

  • Shareable Dashboards (JRA-2509) - Our top vote-getter, with over 430 votes. JIRA dashboards can now be shared with your user group, project or all JIRA users.
  • Single Project Restore (JRA-1604) - Next up, with over 400 votes, the ability to restore a single project . Prior to 3.13, restore was an all or nothing process. Now you can restore a single project from a previous JIRA backup into an existing JIRA instance.
  • Edit Active Workflow (JRA-7661) - Another popular request, with over 170 votes, is the ability to change an active workflow . Now, instead of making a copy of an active workflow prior to editing, you can edit in place.
  • Better Filter Sharing (JRA-4139) - Another popular request, with more than 80 votes.! With 3.13, you can share your filters with multiple groups, projects, users, roles, or any combination.
  • JIRA Personal Licenses (JRA-10393) - Free ([as in beer|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_Libre]) JIRA! A JIRA Personal License will allow you to create a single instance of JIRA with three registered users with full access and unlimited anonymous visitors. As with our other Personal Licenses, support is not provided, and the JIRA instance must be for personal, non-commercial use. More details and instructions for getting your personal license are on the JIRA Personal Licensing page.
  • And lots more!

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FishEye & Crucible Updates: Let's get ready to rumble!

FishEye 1.6 and Crucible 1.6 will be available on September 23rd. Both releases include substantial user generated feature requests and enhancements. To learn more about these releases and the new IDE Connector, please sign up for one of our webinars on September 23rd:

Hope to see you there!

 

New Confluence Shizzle - 2.9, Office and SharePoint Connectors

Confluence 2.9 is out in the wild, with a gaggle of new features, 140 resolved issues and two wickedly cool plug-ins: the Office Connector, which lets users edit Confluence pages with Microsoft Office and OpenOffice clients (free for all customers), and the SharePoint Connector, which allows SharePoint and Confluence to share content and generally get cozy with each other.

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Upcoming Atlassian Events

Atlassian has various exciting events coming up! Feel free to attend any of the following:

 

Bamboo + JIRA, when builds meet issues

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If you are anything like us with your development processes, then you would probably track all your development work - be they bugs, improvements, or features - in an issue tracker like JIRA. You would also use a CI tool too, like Bamboo, to run builds constantly to make sure that your code base remains in good health - at least most of the time.

What we wanted is a nice way to bring our issues and builds together so we have one consolidated view of issues and builds. This is where Bamboo 2.1 and JIRA comes in.

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Introducing the Atlassian Integration Guide

Introducing the Atlassian Integration Guide.

  • Do you have JIRA and Confluence, and you want to make them play together?
  • Did you know that JIRA, Confluence, FishEye and Crucible can get intimate with each other, and Subversion can join the party too?
  • Do you ask yourself, what else do the Atlassian applications get up to when they're all together?

You just may find the answers in the Atlassian Integration Guide.

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Plugins 2.0: a heads-up

Confluence third-party developers are likely to start running into mentions of "Plugins 2.0" in existing code and in future milestone releases. As such, I thought it might be a good idea to give you a quick heads-up on what is happening in Atlassian HQ, and how this is going to affect plugin authors.

The short version:

1. We are moving to an OSGi-based plugin system.
2. You don't have to know OSGi to write a plugin, and
3. existing plugins will continue to work fine, but
4. if you want to leverage OSGi, you can.

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AppLinks connects your Atlassian applications

A few months ago we announced the availability of JIRA Studio, which combines JIRA, Confluence, Subversion, FishEye, and Crucible in a single integrated hosted suite. A big part of what makes JIRA Studio work is Atlassian's AppLinks, a series of plugins which tie the applications together and allow for a number of new integration points. We've now released this plugin for free for our JIRA and Confluence customers - if you're running a combination of JIRA, Confluence, and/or FishEye/Crucible, please check out the plugins at the links below:

AppLinks documentation
Confluence AppLinks Plugin
JIRA AppLinks Plugin

Amongst other things, AppLinks gives you inter-application hyperlinking with a common link syntax:

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Our Reading List

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