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Jira Core 8.0.0 Release Notes

We're pleased to present Jira Core 8.0.

Highlights

Better email notifications

New priority icons

New options in advanced search

Faster indexing

REST API for issue type schemes

Smaller improvements to make your day

Bonus resources

Resolved issues

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Read the upgrade notes for important info about this release and see the full list of issues resolved.

Compatible applications

If you're looking for compatible Jira applications, look no further:

Jira Software 8.0 release notes

Jira Service Desk 4.0 release notes

Better email notifications

With every issue update sent in a separate email, email notifications can get overwhelming. Digging through a pile of emails first thing in the morning is never a good idea, that’s why we’ve embarked on a mission to make notifications smarter, and less chatty.

In Jira 8.0, you can batch events that occur close together, and receive them in a single summary email. Every email like that groups events that occurred in a single issue within the 10-minute window, and is very helpful when you're doing any bulk updates, or when your teammates create issues and fill them in in one go. Here’s how a summary email looks:

Your Jira admin can enable this feature by going to (cogwheel) > System > Batching email notifications. Learn more

New priority icons

We’ve got a lot of feedback about our priority icons not being distinctive or accessible, and we have to agree with that. Finally, after countless hours of designing, user testing, and even looking for inspiration in Egyptian hieroglyphs, we’ve decided on a set of simple and clear icons that will make it easier to distinguish what needs to be done first. Here’s a comparison of old and new icons that you'll be seeing around Jira:

New options in advanced search

Here are some new options that you can use when searching for issues with advanced search:

Find authors (updatedBy)

Search for issues that were updated by a specific user, within a specified time range. Whether you're looking for issues updated in the last 8 hours, two months, or between June and September 2017 - we've got you covered. Learn more

Find link types (issueLinkType)

Search for issues that are linked with other issues by particular link types, like blocks or is duplicated by. This will help you quickly find any related blockers, duplicates, and other issues that affect your work. Learn more

Faster indexing

One of the big changes coming in Jira 8.0 is the upgrade of Lucene, Jira’s search-based subsystem engine. Though not visible at first glance like other user features, this change brings significant improvements to indexing, which makes it easier to administer and maintain your Jira instance. Here’s an overview of how this change affects indexing:

All of the following performance improvements are based on the Jira 8.0 vs Jira 7.6 comparison.

Reindexing Jira takes much less time Reindex duration is 71% faster (in our tests, a 3h reindex dropped to 53 minutes.) This means less time spent on reindexing after major configuration changes, and quicker upgrades.

Jira indexes are smaller, and easier to maintain Index size has shrunk by 48% (in our tests, the index size dropped from 19GB to 9.9GB.) This means a faster, more stable Jira that is easier to maintain and troubleshoot.

Jira performance is stable over time No need to reindex often, as performance stays consistent and doesn’t degrade with time.

Jira is more stable and predictable Memory issues that occurred with intensive search functions, like very complex JQLs, are nonexistent in our 8.0 tests.

For more detailed performance results, see Performance and scale testing.

REST API for issue type schemes

Jira 8.0 brings REST APIs to let you manage issue type schemes outside of the user interface. As a Jira admin, you can perform the following actions:

Create an issue type scheme and associate it with projects

Retrieve individual or all issue type schemes, together with the associated projects

Change or remove projects associated with a scheme

Delete issue type schemes

For more info, see Issue type schemes in Jira REST API docs.

Small improvements to make your day

4-byte characters

Jira now supports 4-byte characters with MySQL 5.7 and later. This means you can finally use all these emojis you've dreamed about! Here's a guide that will help you connect Jira to a MySQL 5.7 database. You can find more details about this change in this suggestion.

Add-ons are now apps

We're renaming add-ons to apps. This has already changed in our Universal Plugin Manager some time ago, and now Jira follows suit. This change shouldn't really affect you, but we're letting you know so you're not surprised when seeing this new naming in the Jira administration and other pages.

Bonus resources

Performance and scale testing

With every Jira release, we’re publishing a performance and scaling report that compares performance of the current Jira version with the previous one. The report also contains results of how various data dimensions (number of custom fields, issues, projects, and so on) affect Jira, so you can check which of these data dimensions should be limited to give best results when scaling Jira. You can get the report for Jira 8.0 here.

Security overview and advisories

We’ve created a document for system administrators who want to evaluate the security of the Jira application. The document answers a number of questions that commonly come up when customers ask us about the security of our product. It will also list any security advisories published for Jira 8.0. You can view it here.

Issues in Release

Fixed: Asynchronous cache replication queue - leaking file descriptor when queue file corrupted

Fixed: New line character in issue summary can break issue search detailed view

Fixed: Jira incorrectly sorts options from Select List custom fields with multiple contexts

Fixed: DefaultShareManager.isSharedWith performs user search 2x times

Fixed: Unknown RPC service: update_security_token

Fixed: Copying of SearchRequest performs user search

Fixed: Data Center - Reindex snapshot file fails to create if greater than 8GB

Fixed: The VerifyPopServerConnection resource was vulnerable to SSRF - CVE-2018-13404

Fixed: XSS in the two-dimensional filter statistics gadget on a Jira dashboard - CVE-2018-13403

Fixed: DC index copy does not clean up old files when Snappy archiver is used

Fixed: SQL for checking usages of version in custom fields is slow even if no version picker custom fields exist

Suggestion: Improve FieldCache memory utilisation for Jira instances with large Lucene

Fixed: Search via REST API might fail due to ClassCastException

Fixed: Upgrade Tomcat to the version 8.5.32

Suggestion: Webhook for Project Archive on JIRA Software

Fixed: Deprecate support for authenticating using os_username, os_password as url query parameters

Fixed: JQL input missing from saved filter

Fixed: CachingFieldScreenStore unnecessary flushes fieldScreenCache for create/remove operation

Suggestion: Favourite filters missing in Mobile browser view

Fixed: DC node reindex is run in 5s intervals instead of load-dependent intervals

Suggestion: Don't log Jira events to STDOUT - catalina.out

Fixed: Adding .trigger-dialog class to dropdown item doesn't open a dialog

Fixed: Issue view/create page freeze

Suggestion: Add Additional Logging Related to Index Snapshot Backup

Suggestion: Add additional logging related to index copy between nodes

Fixed: JIRA performance is impacted by slow queries pulling data from the customfieldvalue table

Fixed: Projects may be reverted to the default issue type scheme during the change due to race condition

Suggestion: As an JIRA Datacenter Administrator I want use default ehcache RMI port

Fixed: Two dimensional filter statistics gadget does not show empty values

Suggestion: Embed latest java critical security update (1.8.0.171 or higher) into the next JIRA (sub)version

Fixed: JIRA inefficiently populates fieldLayoutCache due to slow loading of FieldLayoutItems

Suggestion: Provide New look Of Atlassian Product For Server Hosting As Well

Fixed: Startup Parameter "upgrade.reindex.allowed" Not Taking Effect

Fixed: Remote Linking of Issues doesn't reindex issues

Fixed: Index stops functioning because org.apache.lucene.store.AlreadyClosedException is not handled correctly

Suggestion: Add Multi-Column Index to JIRA Tables

Fixed: 'entity_property' table is slow with high number of rows and under high load

Fixed: JIRA Data Center will skip replication operations in case of index exception

Fixed: Improve database indexes for changeitem and changegroup tables.

Suggestion: CSV export should also include SLA field values

Fixed: Priority icons on new projects are not accessible for red-green colour blind users

Fixed: Two Dimensional Filter Statistics Gadget fails when YAxis is a Custom Field restricted to certain issue types

Fixed: Unable to remove user from Project Roles in project administration when the username starts with 0

Suggestion: The jQuery version used in JIRA needs to be updated

Fixed: MSSQL Selection in config.sh Broken (CLI)

Suggestion: Upgrade Lucene to version 7.3

Fixed: User Directory filter throws a 'value too long' error when Filter exceeds 255 chars

Suggestion: Add support for 4 byte characters in MySQL connection

Fixed: xml view of custom field of multiversion picker type display version ID instead of version text

Fixed: Filter gadgets take several minutes to load after a field configuration context change

Suggestion: Ship JIRA with defaults that enable log rotation

Fixed: The xml for version picker customfield provides the version id instead of the version name

Suggestion: JQL function for showing all issues linked to any issue by a given issue link type

Suggestion: Ability to search for issues with blockers linked to them

Suggestion: Reduce JIRA email chatiness

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