The Latest and Greatest JIRA Features
Connecting People, Activity & Applications
JIRA 5 is chock full of features connecting software development to the rest of the org. It's quick and easy to keep the teams you work with every day involved and stay updated on exactly the information you need with JIRA 5. Here's a short demo of the exciting new features.
Keep Others in the Loop
JIRA already has email notifications to keep people updated on everything going on in a project. But you work indirectly with lots of other teams. The new Share button lets you give a broadcast-style 'heads up' to other users, or even to team aliases or email addresses outside of JIRA!
Bring People into the Conversation
Mention another user in a comment to request their participation and let everyone else on the issue know who should be involved.
Stay Connected
Activity stream enhancements not only give you real-time updates on issues, people and projects, but they also show relevant activity from all Atlassian applications – like Confluence – and from other third party applications – like Zephyr, Tempo, Box, and more.
Remote Issue Links
Link relevant, dynamic information to the JIRA issues - like Confluence pages, issues in other JIRA instances, and items in the other applications including Salesforce.com, Zendesk, New Relic, and more.
Search Change History
JIRA's Query Language, JQL, has powerful new operators to let you search on the ways issues have changed: by assignee, priority, status, and a number of other attributes, giving you new insight into the movement of work between versions, escalations in priority, and the hand-off between teams.
Quick Create & Edit
Create similar issues quickly, one after another, with the new Create and Edit dialogs - JIRA 5 remembers your set of fields, field selections, and even the issue description!
Your Development Platform
JIRA 5 makes it easier to consume and develop plugins. Plugins built on the new stable Java API will be forwards compatible with future versions of JIRA 5.x. The new REST API lets you create and search for issues, insert links to remote applications and add custom events to JIRA activity streams. Integrate anything!
Did you know?
Current JIRA customers can always try a new version with a free developer license.
What's New in JIRA 4.4?
This release is our largest yet in terms of new features and customer votes satisfied.
Visual Workflow Designer
Use the new visual workflow designer to design workflows on the fly. Allow users to see a visual representation of the workflow and the current status of any particular issue.
Search Issue Change History
The ability to search issue change history is extended to additional fields including the assignee and the reporter. You can also search for changes by a particular user before, on, after, or during a particular time period.
User Timezones
View all time fields in your local timezone and view each user's time zone in their hover profile.
Setup & Administration
A dedicated 'administration' mode and simplified, project-centric view help streamline administrative tasks.
The new upgrade wizard automates database configuration and move modified files for you.
What's New in JIRA 4.3?
Search for elusive issues and power your reports using the latest enhancements to JIRA Query Language. Connect JIRA and Confluence to easily create and link issues with wiki content and to centralise user management across systems.
Search Improvements
Search issue status history using JIRA Query Language to find out where your issues have been. New JQL functions and enhanced Quick Search capabilities make it a snap to find elusive issues.
LDAP and Active Directory Support
Manage users and groups from any number of directories, including LDAP and Active Directory, using the new User Directory manager in JIRA.
Centralise User Management
Share users and groups from JIRA with other applications, like Confluence or other JIRA instances, for simplified user management and authentication.
What's New in JIRA 4.2?
New issue operation dialogs and keyboard shortcuts allow you to take action on your issues faster, all without touching the mouse.
Dialogs & Keyboard Shortcuts
Edit issues faster than ever with operation specific pop-up dialogs for common actions and workflow transitions. Plus, every issue operation is now keyboard enabled, just hit '.' and start typing from either the search results or issue details page.
Issue Search Improvements
Quickly run and refine issue searches with the simplified issue search page. Ditch your mouse and triage issues using keyboard shortcuts to move up / down and perform every issue operation directly from the search results.
Labels with Auto-Complete
Issue Labels are now part of JIRA out-of-the-box and have an intuitive auto-complete entry field to ensure you apply the correct labels quickly.
What's New in JIRA 4.1?
JIRA 4.1 continues to build on many of the usability improvements made in JIRA 4. Take action on your JIRA issues faster with the Operations Bar.
Clean and Simple UI
Building on the UI improvements in JIRA 4, the revamped issue and user profile pages make it easier to view issue details and take action on your issues. Key information, like people and dates, is grouped in collapsible sections. Manage attachment with the new and image gallerybulk download features.
The Operations Bar
The new operations bar ensures that all issue actions are available to you at all times. No more scrolling to get to operations, plus you can now view other people's comments while commenting.
Customisable Emails
At 224 votes, the most voted on improvement in this release is the ability to customise the subject lines for JIRA notification emails.
What's New in JIRA 4?
This release introduces countless new features including a fresh new UI, completely overhauled dashboards with OpenSocial gadgets, and JQL -- which is, simply put, the best way to search in an issue tracker.
Smart UI
Browse projects to see what's going on. Subscribe to activity streams for any issue, project or user. Use recent issue and project history to navigate quickly and perform issue actions directly from the issue navigator.
JIRA Query Language (JQL)
Use new advanced search to find elusive issues and power your reports and notifications. Learning the query language is simple with convenient auto-complete functionality.
OpenSocial Dashboards
Built on OpenSocial, new dashboards add features like drag-and-drop, Gadgets, flexible layout templates, customisable gadget colors, and lots more.
User-based Pricing
Every edition of JIRA is now full-featured with user-based licensing starting at $10 for 10 users. Already an existing customer? Check out the licensing changes FAQ for more details.
