Jira 7 features enabled by major version

The most important features for Jira Server for us (MrAddon) are marked in bold (in blue only for Datacenter Jiras)

(info extracted from Atlassian)

7.13

• Support for OpenJDK 8
• (Important note of MrAddon for Administrators, there are changes in the Tomcat conf. See more)

7.12

• Custom fields optimizer (Data Center)
• Sharing edit rights for filters and dashboards
• New events in the audit log (filters and dashboards)
• New look and feel of the custom fields page
• Disabling Days in column time indicator to improve performance
• New compression method (Google’s Snappy) when copying the index between the nodes (Data Center)

7.11

• Support for IPv6
• New columns on the Projects page (Issues, Last issue update)
• Development information available in Basic Search
• Apache Tomcat 8.5.29

7.10

• New look and feel for Jira, including the first wave of changes to the most frequently used pages.
• Archiving inactive or completed projects (Data Center).
• New events in the audit log.
• Case-insensitive labels.
• Quick start guide for Jira Data Center.
• Sending Jira notifications to Stride rooms and conversations.

7.9

• Improved Kanban boards showing only recently modified issues in the Done column.
• Searching through versions with a wildcard.
• Choosing delimiters when exporting your issues to CSV.
• Disabling empty JQL queries to avoid performance issues with empty filters.
• New events in the audit log.
• Asynchronous cache replication in Jira Data Center.
• IPv6 support for MySQL databases.

7.8

• Quick search that shows instant results, and displays your recent work if you’re not searching.
• Dutch language pack.

7.7

• REST API to manage priority schemes outside of the user interface
• Italian and Finnish language packs

7.6

• Project-specific priorities.
• Live monitoring of your Jira instance with JMX.
• Subtasks drag ‘n’ drop.
• X-Frame-Options to prevent clickjacking.

7.5

• Improved Kanban backlog: versions and epics panels to let you better manage your releases.
• Sprint goals: add goals to your sprints to let your team know what you want to achieve.
• Renaming and deleting inactive or closed sprints.
• Jira Software Data Center on Microsoft Azure.
• Events for creating and deleting issue links.
• Syntax highlighting for additional 25 languages.

• New Czech, Estonian, Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovak, and Polish language packs.

7.4

• Extended project-level administration.
  Project-level admins get more privileges when editing workflows and can also edit project’s screens. You can also disable this feature.
• Backlog for your Kanban projects.
• Exporting issues to HTML.
• In-app notifications to help you stay up-to-date with license renewals, new versions, and critical changes.
• Garbage collection logs enabled by default to help you and our Support teams troubleshoot your issues.

7.3

• Project-level administration.
  Delegate some admin responsibilities to project-level admins, allowing them to edit workflows.
• Rich text editing, or ‘what you see is what you get’.
• Single sign-on for Data Center, enabled by default.
• Zero downtime upgrades for Data Center.

 

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