• Enhancements and Features
• Defect Fixes

Enhancements and Features 

Roadmaps loading enhancements

For faster loading times, and to resolve reported performance-related defects, we've made multiple enhancements to the Roadmaps page:

• Long lists of items load in batches of 25.
• Batches of items load progressively as you scroll and expand.
• All views now load with collapsed work item hierarchies by default.
• A spinning loading indicator displays at the top of the page.
• The total number of items loaded is displayed.
• Page filters and configurations are accessible during loading.
• Some actions and displays are disabled during loading:
  • Column sorting
  • Exports
  • List of milestones within the Milestones panel
  • Legend by color

API 2.0

Releases (program increments) can be updated using the PUT/PATCH method. This does not yet include updates to sync sprints.

Defect Fixes

Due to the nature of continuous software development, some changes are applied to a version after it has been released to test instances. As a result, the following changes were added directly to version 10.81, which will be released to production instances on October 24th, 2020: 

Defect Fixes

Important: Same functionality, new name! Our Business Intelligence (BI) add-on module is now called Enterprise Insights (EI) in the Help Center. We’ve updated references to the product in our past articles and release notes to account for this name change, and have also updated the Business Intelligence section of our Help Center to the name Enterprise Intelligence.

Jira Align's Enterprise Insights (EI) will be updated and deployed to test instances running version 10.81 on October 21st, 2020, and will be deployed to production instances on October 26th, 2020. The following enhancements were made:

• Release highlights
• New tables
• Updated tables

Release highlights

• Planning Method column added to Feature, Capability and Epic tables.

• Expense Savings Range and Revenue Growth Range added to Feature tables.

• Feature & Story states updated to include delivery state values (6 - In Delivery, 7 -Delivered) if enabled.

• Capability & Epic states updated to replace NULL with 1 - Not Started state text.

• Goal and Solution Foreign Keys added to Objective tables.

• Role master table added.

• Time Sheet Note Object added.

• MAP User to Time Tracking Role table added.

New tables

Updated tables

• Enhancements and Features
• Defect Fixes

Enhancements and Features 

Program Increment Progress enhancements

We’ve expanded our burndown charts on the Program Increment Progress report to include features that belong to multiple programs to present a more comprehensive view of work. We also renamed the Scope trend to Ideal Burn on all of the Program Increment Progress burnup and burndown charts, and added helpful tooltips next to the Program Increment Burnup and Burndown (by Feature) charts titles to understand how the charts are calculated.

Managing dependencies & external entities

To improve the performance of the dependency slideout and the external entity modal, we moved the creation and management of external entities to the More Actions menu on the Dependencies grid. In addition, we added a search field to the modal to improve usability.

The Maximum hours per day fields under Administration > Workday > Maximum Hours > Maximum Hours now allow values of up to 100 hours. Additionally, the Maximum hours per week fields allow values of up to 1000 hours. These changes support using a percentage of time (0 to 100%) against tasks vs. number of hours in a day.

API 2.0

For this release, we made two updates to the API 2.0:

• Releases (program increments) can be created using the POST method. This does not yet include the creation of sync sprints.

• To improve API 2.0 response time and reduce server resource utilization, we’re introducing a new API 2.0 token. We ask that all API users start using this token. The API 1.0 token will work with API 2.0 until the 10.83 release. After this time, using an API 1.0 token will result in an authorization error.

Defect Fixes

Note: Due to a previously unreported feature, this article has been deleted and then republished. This method is used to provide notification emails to users subscribed to Release Notes updates. Please see Manage user skills below for details on the additional feature. The following changes were added directly to version 10.80, which was released to production instances on October 10th, 2020: 

Enhancements and Features

Manage user skills

We've removed the restriction in Jira Align that required a user to manage their own listed skills directly. Now, you can manage other users' skills from the Skills Inventory page.

First, ensure you have the Skills Inventory > Manage Skills permission toggle enabled for your system role:

Next, navigate to Skills Inventory, where you can click on any user card. Scroll to the bottom of the resulting profile window, and click + Add Skill. A searchable dropdown displays, where you can select existing skills to apply to the user:

To create new skill groups and skills, use the Edit Skills List button in the upper-right corner of the Skills Inventory page.

Status Reports performance improvements

We optimized the SQL behind the Status Reports to reduce page load time by roughly 50%. Users loading exceedingly large amounts of data (e.g. 1000+ epics in a single portfolio) may still experience long page load times. We’re currently investigating UI optimizations to better support these data sets.

Defect Fixes

Jira Align's Enterprise Insights (EI) will be updated and deployed to test instances running version 10.79 on September 21st, 2020, and will be deployed to production instances on September 26th, 2020. The following enhancements were made:

• Release highlights
• New tables
• Updated tables

Release highlights

• Sprint Retrospective Feedback object added.

• Portfolio Foreign Key added to objectives.

• Updated incremental load logic for acceptance criteria on capabilities, epics and features. This captures some changes that were missed during intra-day load and only identified in the nightly refresh.

New tables

Updated tables

Below is our upcoming release schedule. Please note that the SaaS dates to reflect the Saturday that the release will be available in your environments (versus the Friday that our maintenance window starts on).

SaaS environments will be unavailable during our maintenance window, which starts at 11:00PM EST the day prior to what's listed below and ends at 2:00AM EST on the day listed below.

With the Jira Align 10.74 release, we will no longer be sending our release announcement email. We recently enhanced the Help Center to allow those with accounts to sign-up for release notes publication notifications. So, no longer will you have to wait until the beginning of the week after a release to review the details of new and enhanced features, performance improvements, and defect fixes. Now, you'll receive a notification the instant release notes are published on Friday of the release. 

What you need to do

To receive the real-time release notes publication notifications, you'll need to create a Help Center account and follow the Release Notes section. Please note, this will most likely be a different username and password than your Jira Align and Atlassian username and password. 

 To create an account (or reset your password if an account already exists), click the SIGN IN button on the Help Center (see the pink arrow).

Next, click the Sign up link, enter your name and email, and then click the Sign up button. You'll receive an email to finish setting up your account. If you receive a message that says a user has already signed up with the given email, click the Forgot my password link to reset your password.

Once logged in, from the Help Center home page, click the WHAT'S NEW section (bell icon).

Then click the 10X: Release Notes section header (or the link!). Finally, click the FOLLOW button and then the New articles link.

That's it! As soon as we publish new release notes, you'll receive an email notification with a link!