2021 Releases

This document contains the ActionableAgile for Jira - Agile Metrics release notes for a past year. In the interest of brevity - the change log is limited to the main features and major issues that are released. Minor bugs and minor improvements may not be listed.

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Dec 8, 2021

Today’s deployment addresses some issues found with the new data loader:

  • We now catch all of the historical workflow changes regardless of how many changes have been made to the work item (AFJ-930)

  • If you use the “only items resolved after” option during data set creation, your data will now include items that are in progress and not started. The date limitation will only apply to resolved items. (AFJ-919)

Nov 22, 2021

  • Dashboard Gadget: This changes to searching from named statuses (To Do, Done etc) to the numerical ones (10001, 10002, 10100) in order to support Team managed projects. This workaround is necessary due to a long-standing Jira bug: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-76118. When configuring the gadget you’ll still see status names. However if you click on the icon to pull up the issue filter, the JQL statement will have status IDs and not names.

Oct 7, 2021

  • Dashboard Gadget: Fixed issue with board id’s not being pulled properly when selecting a board.

Oct 5, 2021

ActionableAgile:

  • Resolved a bug in which uploading a CSV without a non-date column after the workflow stages resulted in a fatal error.

Cycle Time Summary Dashboard Gadget:

  • You can now control when we start the Cycle Time clock for work items by setting Not Started statuses in the gadget configuration.

  • When you download the CSV from gadget, it is now formatted so that it can be imported into ActionableAgile

  • When you open up the filter from the gadget to look at the issues in the Issue Navigator the date range in the JQL query is now relative. This allows you to use it going forward and even import the filter into ActionableAgile.

  • We resolved some corner case issues in which start and/or finish dates were being improperly calculated (for the gadget only)

Sep 21, 2021

  • Fixed a bug in the Cycle Time Dashboard gadget where items that moved started and finished in the same day weren’t being properly calculated.

  • Added the ability to download a CSV of the start and end date for each item used to calculate the cycle time for the dashboard gadget in order to facilitate better troubleshooting when there are questions about the calculations.

Sep 14, 2021

Sep 8, 2021

  • Deployed a number of bug fixes in the beta Data Loader in preparation to move out of Beta.

  • Added anonymous usage analytics to new data loader (see our Data Security and Privacy Statement for more details)

Jul 26, 2021

  • Bug fixes:

    • Resolved JS errors showing up in logs generated by the Cumulative Flow Diagram

    • AFJ-572 Tooltips/hover on Heat Map did not show the correct column name

    • AFJ-582 Dot color settings were not being saved in localStorage

  • Auto-generating the copyright year

Jul 12, 2021

  • Fixed bug in new data loader in which loading a new data set erased one of your 10 starred data sets

  • Added more console logging to the new data loader to assist in troubleshooting of customer issues.

Jun 28, 2021

  • Adding alphabetical sort to list of data sources in the beta data loader

Jun 10, 2021

  • Temporarily removed pace percentile for individual items on the Aging WIP chart as the data would not update if the data selection for the chart changed.

  • Resolved issue that could cause Cycle Time Scatterplot and Throughput Run Chart not to render when changing time units.

  • Resolved issue that caused you to have to reload your data each time you come to ActionableAgile

  • Fixed issue where commas and other special characters in board column headers were breaking both the current board loader and the new data loader

Mar 26, 2021

  • Released bug fixes for new data loading beta feature

Mar 22, 2021

  • Released a new data loading experience as Beta and removed it from EAP

  • Fixed bug in which commas and other special characters in board column cause issues loading data (all problematic characters are now stripped out during data load)

Feb 25, 2021

Dec 8, 2021 - 3.10.4

The following items were addressed in this release:

  • Cumulative Flow Diagram now renders properly when stages are no longer available

  • The links in the menu bar have been updated to point to the new 55 Degrees support site

  • Fixed an issue that blocked your CSV file from being imported if it didn’t have a non-date column after the workflow columns.

Sep 9, 2021 - 3.10.3

This release resolves issues related to the new beta data loader (Load Jira Issues (beta)):

  • In some cases the retrieval of the change history was not returned in the manner that the data loader expected. This cause data to be displayed incorrectly.

  • On systems with more than 50 boards, not all boards were retrieved and so you could not load the missing boards via the new board loader.

The main loading utilities (Load board, Load Project, Load Filter) are not affected by this.

Aug 26, 2021 - 3.10.2

This release resolves an issue where loading ActionableAgile would cause errors to appear in the JavaScript console. These were caused by Jira’s Web resource manager attempting to load resources that were already loaded.

Aug 24, 2021 - 3.10.1

This resolves some ui issues related to the new beta data loader where items were being rendered off-screen in certain conditions.

Aug 4, 2021 - 3.10.0

This new version brings the new data loading experience from Cloud to Server. The new experience is still in beta and has to be enabled by the administrator. (For more details - please visit our documentation).

We are also bundling the Portfolio Forecaster into ActionableAgile for Jira Server. In order to enable Portfolio Forecaster the administrator will need to configure access. For more details, please see our documentation.

In addition to all of that, the following bugs were resolved:

  • Various JS errors showing up in logs generated by the Cumulative Flow Diagram

  • AFJ-313  -  Dots’ Pace not affected by Done Items Selection in Aging WIP chart

  • AFJ-329  -  Issue changing time unit on CT Scatterplot and Throughput run chart

  • AFJ-460  -  Data not staying in localStorage in browser - having to reload every time

  • AFJ-572  -  Tooltips/hover on Heat Map does not show the correct column name

  • AFJ-582  -  Saved filters - Dot colours not being saved - Cloud and Server

May 10, 2021 - 3.9.4

This release resolves a security vulnerability and removes no longer needed content that is bundled into the app.

Mar 30, 2021 - 3.9.3.1

  • Fixed bug in which commas and other special characters in board column cause issues loading data (all problematic characters are now stripped out during data load)

  • Resolved issue where trend line setting was blocking data load when no done items exist.

Jan 18, 2021 - 3.9.2

This release resolves an issue where in some instances using a non-english language the Flagged field wasn't identified properly.

Dec 13, 2021 - 3.10.4-dc

This release resolves: 

  • AFJ-307 & AFJ-309 - Cumulative Flow Diagram not rendering properly when stages are no longer available 

  • AFJ-736 - Updates the links in the menu bar to point to the new 55 Degrees support site 

  • AFJ-780 - If a CSV file did not have a non-date column as the column, it was not importable.

  • The internal libraries utilized by ActionableAgile for Jira were adjusted and updated to the latest versions

Sep 30, 2021 - 3.10.2-dc

This new version brings the new data loading experience from Cloud to Server. The new experience is still in beta and has to be enabled by the administrator. (For more details - please visit our documentation).

We are also bundling the Portfolio Forecaster into ActionableAgile for Jira Server. In order to enable Portfolio Forecaster the administrator will need to configure access. For more details, please see our documentation.

In addition to all of that, the following bugs were resolved:

  • Various JS errors showing up in logs generated by the Cumulative Flow Diagram

  • AFJ-313  -  Dots’ Pace not affected by Done Items Selection in Aging WIP chart

  • AFJ-329  -  Issue changing time unit on CT Scatterplot and Throughput run chart

  • AFJ-460  -  Data not staying in localStorage in browser - having to reload every time

  • AFJ-572  -  Tooltips/hover on Heat Map does not show the correct column name

  • AFJ-582  -  Saved filters - Dot colours not being saved - Cloud and Server

May 10, 2021 - 3.9.4-dc

This release resolves a security vulnerability and removes no longer needed content that is bundled into the app.

Apr 19, 2021 - 3.9.3.1-dc

  • Fixed bug in which commas and other special characters in board column cause issues loading data (all problematic characters are now stripped out during data load)

  • Resolved issue where trend line setting was blocking data load when no done items exist.

Jan 25, 2021- 3.9.2-dc

This release resolves an issue where in some instances using a non-english language the Flagged field wasn't identified properly.