Atlassian Releases JIRA 3.7 Professional Issue Tracker, Now With Project Roles

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Tuesday, December 19, 2006; 04:53 AM

Atlassian Software Systems today announced the release of JIRA 3.7, the latest version of their professional issue and bug tracker. This major release introduces a project roles feature and includes over 100 bug fixes and 60 improvements. A free, fully functional 30-day evaluation of JIRA is available at http://www.atlassian.com/c/PR-J/11833.

Project roles in 3.7 make it very easy to set precise permissions and notification schemes according to a person's role, so that each user receives appropriate access and notifications. From the administrator's standpoint, project roles significantly lessen time-consuming configuration work, particularly within instances of multiple, project-specific groups. Existing JIRA customers can elect when/if to migrate from user groups to project roles by way of a free converter.

"After much hard work, we're very happy to offer project roles in JIRA," said Scott Farquhar, co-founder and CEO at Atlassian. "I think customers are going to be really pleased with the improved precision and ease of defining notifications and permission schemes. This is a huge deal for larger organisations, a relief to the admin, and a big detail that makes JIRA even more scalable and accessible for every organisation."

Additional improvements to JIRA 3.7 include reader-friendly personalised RSS feeds for issues and comments; an SVN Project Panel plugin that displays a new tab with all issue-related commits; 'user properties' that allow administrators to capture specified user attributes (e.g. phone, location, cost centre); an HSQL database upgrade; AJAX-loading of dashboard portlets; instant chart views in the issue navigator; and more. Complete release notes can be viewed at http://www.atlassian.com/c/PR-J/11926.

JIRA 3.7 is available now for evaluation and purchase at http://www.atlassian.com/c/PR-J/11833.

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