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The Atlassian Jira Align team is pleased to announce Jira Align v.11.8.
Last updated: Feb 7, 2025 to include bug fixes delivered during the week
Coming soon
Updates to release calendar
To account for our break in deployments during the holiday season and keep internal sprints aligned with our release cadence, we’re pushing out our release schedule by one week.
Version 11.9.0 will be deployed to environments on the continuous release track on February 28, 2025, instead of the originally planned date of February 21, 2025. Releases will then follow on their normal cadence.
Review our release calendar for the latest schedule of upcoming deployments.
Update on OKR Hub enablement
To update our previous announcement, we will be delaying the OKR Hub rollout to version 11.9 so that we can include clear messaging in the product about the general availability of the OKR Hub and the eventual removal of the legacy objectives tree.
In version 11.9, the sidebar navigation link will be renamed from Objective tree to OKR Hub. Selecting OKR Hub will land users in the OKR Hub with a spotlight tour to introduce the Tier filter, which selects the goal or objective tier, and the Go to objectives tree button, which will allow you to view the legacy objective tree page (until version 11.13).
We welcome feedback on the OKR hub as we roll out the transition from the legacy objectives tree.
Removal of WIP by step board
The WIP by step board, also known as the work in progress by step report, will be removed in version 11.9. This report was previously designated with end-of-support (EOS) status in version 11.5.
Enhancements and features
These features for 11.8 were released to environments on the continuous release track on January 24, 2025, in version 11.8.0. The features will be released to environments on the bundled release track on February 7, 2025, in version 11.8.1.
Continuous deployments are here!
With the 11.8 release cycle, we will begin deploying bug fix releases outside of our standard release window, as soon as new fixes are tested and implemented. These releases will be zero-downtime deployments (ZDD), meaning your access to Jira Align will not be impacted while a new version is applied.
Check the current release notes article on Fridays for a recap of any bug fixes delivered throughout the week. Review our full announcement for more details on this enhancement.
Jira connector setting naming updates
We’ve changed the name of the Allow Jira Align to assign stories to sprints Jira connector setting to Story sprint assignment sync direction to provide more clarity about the setting’s functionality.
Values inside the setting have also been renamed:
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Yes has been changed to Bidirectional
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No has been changed to Jira to Jira Align
No changes have been made to the functionality of either option. In an upcoming release, we will look to re-introduce the sprint assignment logic changes that we had previously rolled back.
Azure DevOps connector mapping improvements
We’ve made a couple of improvements to the program mapping experience when using the Azure DevOps connector:
The program mapping limit of 200 has been removed from a connector’s settings slide-out panel, allowing more mappings for extensive configurations. We’ve also added pagination to the program mapping section, making it easier to navigate through large lists of mappings.
Removal of Jira Align pages and functions
Following up on our end-of-support announcement from last year and previous notices in past release notes, we’ve continued to remove functionality that is no longer supported in Jira Align.
The following items have been removed:
- Import / export for tasks only
- Brainstorming
- Lean process
- Mind maps
- Multi-bottom-up forecast
- Object promote
- Resource planning
- Specifications
- Surveys
- UX/UI landing page
- Design components
- Experience maps
- Lean use cases
Enterprise Insights settings accessibility improvements
We’ve enhanced the accessibility of the new Enterprise Insights settings page and wizard to provide compatibility with screen readers, along with improved settings for contrast and color.
Performance improvements
More improvements when loading accepted spend panel
Building on the enhancements provided in version 11.6, we’ve improved the performance of accepted spend panels across all access points in Jira Align. By implementing new stored procedures, we’ve been able to reduce the panel’s loading time for large datasets by up to 90%.
Bug fixes
Last updated: Feb 7, 2025 to include bug fixes delivered during the week
This list of resolved bugs will be updated weekly to reflect changes from maintenance and bug fix releases.
Key |
Summary |
Release Version |
JIRAALIGN-3524 |
Themes with different programs and process flows vanish from board when moved |
11.8.0 |
JIRAALIGN-5260 |
Export Features: Additional Toggle Permission needed to export features |
11.8.0 |
JIRAALIGN-5984 |
Recycle/Cancel bin: any user with access to the bin can see all the items on it |
11.8.0 |
JIRAALIGN-6253 |
Truncation of Feature Plural Name on the Feature Backlog page |
11.8.0 |
JIRAALIGN-6374 |
Backlog: when filtering by Owner with special chars in the name, no results are found |
11.8.0 |
JIRAALIGN-6590 |
Custom Room > Backlog - can't filter on Process Step as dropdown is not populated |
11.8.0 |
JIRAALIGN-6609 |
Themes: Additional Program dropdown becomes unresponsive with 400+ items |
11.8.0 |
JIRAALIGN-6891 |
User Stories JIRA Cloud ID Line Wrapping in JIRA Align Feature Backlog Lis |
11.8.0 |
JIRAALIGN-7014 |
Add Tag/Label Filter to Program Board in New Navigation |
11.8.0 |
JIRAALIGN-7038 |
Jira Connector Logs not recording "Jira Board Added" events. |
11.8.0 |
JIRAALIGN-7047 |
Backlog - Solution filter available v10.133.1, even Solution layer is disabled |
11.8.0 |
JIRAALIGN-7288 |
Epic backlog - Story points column at solution level displays zeros |
11.8.0 |
JIRAALIGN-7576 |
Epic Backlog - Status color of accepted items is incorrect |
11.8.0 |
JIRAALIGN-7791 |
Solution > Capability Backlog fails to display child Feature's 'Story Point Progress' column value |
11.8.0 |
JIRAALIGN-7849 |
In a custom room, the share link button does not include Program Filters |
11.8.0 |
JIRAALIGN-7924 |
Extra character is appended at the end of custom field label for 'Objective' work item |
11.8.0 |
JIRAALIGN-7529 |
Risk ROAM report access fails from Portfolio Level Status Report Health Section |
11.8.0.0131 |
Internally-found issues
We’ve corrected the following bugs that were discovered while investigating related issues, building new enhancements, and performing maintenance:
11.8.0
- On work item grid pages, applied filters with lengthy titles would not display.
- On the OKR hub, sticky columns headers would not move when scrolling horizontally.
- When editing themes, the list of available program increments would be blank after changing program associations.
- Platform terminology selections were not respected for features on the Field Management tab of Jira connector settings.
- On the program increment scope change report, points were not converted to team weeks correctly.
- On the program increment cleanup report, team impediments were not displayed.
- On the theme backlog, move to position settings would not load after opening a theme's details panel.
- On the capability backlog, cards would not display in the kanban state view for some roles.
- On the feature backlog, no error message would display in the kanban column view when no program increment was selected in the sidebar.
- On the feature backlog, features in the unassigned backlog could be incorrectly ranked when filters were applied.
- On the feature backlog, some features would not display correctly after selecting the View Features by Team option.
- On backlogs, column selections made when viewing epics would display when viewing capabilities.
- On the epic backlog, stand-alone features would not move to the parking lot via drag-and-drop.
- On the features grid page, filtering by multiple portfolios would return inconsistent results.
- On kanban boards, roles without the correct permissions could access audit logs.
- On kanban boards, mass adding dependencies would not work.
- Identified and closed vulnerabilities related to creating sprints.
- Identified and closed vulnerabilities related to importing work items.
- Identified and closed vulnerabilities related to committing dependencies.
- Identified and closed vulnerabilities related to editing defects.
11.8.1
- Deleted sprints could display as results when performing a global search.