JIRA, Atlassian's leading issue tracking product, is commonly used for bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management. This week our partners released the latest version of the JIRA platform.
There's a number of reasons we're jazzed about JIRA 5.1.
Performance enhancements for large JIRA instances
Atlassian knew this was a big one for many of our enterprise customers. In JIRA 5.1 they have dedicated two teams to performance: a JIRA performance improvements team and a company wide Atlassian Performance Engineering team specifically focused on JIRA performance for large instances above 200,000 issues. We're cheering the fact the company's repealed the 200,000 issue limit as a result of the improvements, including a 40% improvement in throughput. CEO's Scott and Mike spoke in-depth about this at Atlassian Summit last month.
Inline Editing for JIRA Issues
The Create and Edit dialogs from 5.0 made JIRA faster and easier than ever for end users. In JIRA 5.1, field edits, transitions, comments, Atlassian took these actions to the next level. With inline edit, any JIRA field can be edited from the View Issue Page. This has dramatically changed the speed at which users work in JIRA on a daily basis.
Issue Collector
Need to capture feedback on your website or web application? The JIRA Issue Collector lets you embed pre-configured or custom feedback forms into any web application or web site, so you can collect feedback from any customer, and use JIRA to assign feedback items, or put them through workflow. If you're looking for a great demo for JIRA to show your prospects, the Issue Collector is a great one: how they can expose the power of JIRA in a simple manner to people even outside their organization.
Lots More
And 5.1 comes with a whole lot of other enhancements: Disabling users, automatic time zone detection, improved search for JIRA to JIRA Remote Issue Links, and more than 42 new feature requests implemented and over 840 votes fulfilled.
We hope you're as excited as we are for this development!
As a reminder, we offer a variety of training courses to help your company get the most out of any generation of JIRA and our services team can help you upgrade your system. A few hours is all it takes for you and your team to be using JIRA more effectively. Be sure to check out our offerings:
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