Jira 2 – Release Candidate 1
We have finally stopped adding features to Jira 2 and today we’re shipping the first Release Candidate! It’s an exciting day! No more features will be added to 2.0 now, we’re focussing purely testing and fixing for the next fortnight. Although we didn’t manage to finish all of the prospective 2.0 features, a huge majority […]
Jira 2 – EAP Release 6
Today we put up Release 6, the next release in the Jira 2 Early Access Program. This release contains bug fixes and minor improvements from past EAP releases. Your feedback and bug reports on the notification schemes would be especially appreciated. For more details, see the full planned feature list for Jira 2 to track […]
Jira 2 – EAP Release 4
Today we put up Release 4, the next release in the Jira 2 Early Access Program. This is a very exciting release for us, people have long been asking for configurable notifications – and with this release we have it! It’s not perfect yet, but I already think it’s another feature unique to Jira. Your […]
Jira 2 – EAP Release 2
Announcing Release 2, the next release in the Jira 2 Early Access Program. What’s New? Release 2 includes a number of bug fixes over Release 1, mainly in the areas of importing Jira 1.x data and creating issues. The major new features in this release are shareable / global filters, much improved filtering and searching […]
Jira 2 Early Access Program and Release 1
Today sees the launch of the Jira 2 Early Access Program. This will give our users access to successive Jira 2 builds over the next month as we add more features. WHY should I test it? The early access program is a chance for you to see the next generation of Jira before it is […]
Jira 2 Early Access Program
Jira 2 is a revolutionary release, and the EAP gives users the chance to give feedback on Jira 2 during the development process. EAP | Download | Features
XDoclet starts using Jira and more Jira blog references
The XDoclet project has started using Jira to track their issues and project development. Also, a few other bloggers have been talking about Jira – all linked from my blog post here.
New and update documentation items
We spent some time today cleaning up and improving some of the documentation on the website, I thought I’d flag it here in case anyone is having trouble in those areas. All of the server setup guides have been overhauled and tightened for Jira 1.4 release, and there is now a more comprehensive comparison of […]
Blog posts about Jira
There have been a few nice blog entries about Jira recently. Scott Johnson talked about Jira in his post entitled “How you know a really, really good product: Jira”. Matt Mower, a new Jira user, blogged about one of the best Jira features, the roadmap: One of the really cool features in Jira is the […]
Running Jira on Tomcat 4.1
There is a new server setup guide for running Jira on Tomcat 4.1. From our initial tests, Tomcat 4.1 is a significantly faster platform to run on than Tomcat 4.0.x. Any feedback on this guide from Tomcat 4.1 users would be most appreciated.
Jira 1.4.1 released
Jira 1.4.1 is now online. It’s mainly a bug fix release, clearing up a few outstanding issues from the 1.4 release.
Jira 1.4 API docs online
For those developing against the Jira API, the 1.4 API docs are now online.
Jira 1.4 released
The latest release of Jira, version 1.4, is now officially released. For details (with pics) of all the exciting changes, see our What’s New in 1.4 document. You can also have fun playing with Jira 1.4 at http://jira.atlassian.com or any of our hosted Open Source installations. Thank you to our dedicated users for all their […]
Jira 1.4 – i18n, issue linking and much more
For more details, see <a href="/software/jira/whatsnew14.jsp”>what’s new in 1.4.
Jira 1.4 beta 2
Jira 1.4 beta 2 is now available. It contains mainly fixes to bugs reported in 1.4b1, as well as one or two minor UI improvements.

