JIRA 3.13 was one of the biggest releases of JIRA yet, and 4.0 is just around the corner. Dig into what you may have missed, and what to expect. This session explores the latest and greatest in everyone's favorite Issue Tracker. Atlassian Speakers: Brian Lane and Dylan Etkin Key Takeaways: * Understand key new capabilities and planned features in JIRA 4.0 * Deep-dive on query language * Highlight: JIRA 4.0

1. JIRA
State of the Union
Brian Lane - Product Manager &
Dylan Etkin - Dev Tech Lead

2. Welcome!

3. Agenda
JIRA & our market
Where have we been? - JIRA 3.13.x
Where are we now? - JIRA 4.0
What about the future? - Beyond 4.0

4. Our market...
11,000+ JIRA Customers
220 Partners
Stimulus Package
• 6,712 licenses to 86 countries in 5 days!
76% of Summit attendees use JIRA

5. Specify It
Plan &
Document It Confluence Assign
Tasks
Track Issues
JIRA
JIRA Track Progress
Build &
Release Review It FishEye
Crucible
Bamboo Code It
Clover
Test It

6. Specify It
Plan &
Document It Confluence Assign
Tasks
JIRA
Tracking
Build &
Release Review It FishEye
Crucible
Bamboo Code It
Clover
Test It

7. Specify It
Plan &
Document It Confluence Assign
Tasks
JIRA
Tracking
Build &
Release Review It FishEye
Crucible
Bamboo Code It
Clover
Test It

8. JIRA in Our Tools

9. JIRA in Our Tools

10. JIRA in Our Tools

11. JIRA in Our Tools

12. JIRA in Our Tools

13. JIRA in Our Tools

14. JIRA in Our Tools

15. Strong Ecosystem
JIRA
Clients Plugins Integrations
APIs
Center of your development world.

16. Strong Ecosystem
JIRA

17. Strong Ecosystem
JIRA
JIRA Mate iJIRA

18. Partners Rock!

19. Plugin Exchange
plugins.atlassian.com
Categories, ratings, search
102 JIRA Plugins now!

20. JIRA 3.13

21. JIRA 3.13
Released on Sept 9th, 2008
Most downloaded version ever
Focus on user requests ~ 1500 votes
85+ improvements / features
Biggest release (so far...)

22. JIRA 3.13 (Cont.)
Performance Improvements
Edit Active Workflow
Dashboard Sharing
Improved Filter Sharing
• Groups & Roles
Project Import

23. JIRA 3.13.x
Version Release Issues
3.13.1 Oct Date
29, 2008 Resolved
~35
3.13.2 Dec 9, 2008 ~45
3.13.3 April 2, 2009 ~85
3.13.4 May 5, 2009 ~20
3.13.5 TBD TBD

24. Dashboard
JQL
Project UI
JIRA 4
Center of your
Streams
Ecosystem
development world. Plugins 2

25. 4.0 - Key Areas
Best (and biggest) release EVER!
Advanced Search - JQL
• #1 Request - many issues and 1000+ votes
~ 150 other fixes and improvements
Dashboards
Platform Changes
But wait, thereʼs more...

26. JIRA Query Language
High level SQL like syntax
Core JIRA API
• Plugin Developers, Integrators, End Users
More granular filters
Autocomplete!

27. JIRA Query Language
Negation resolution != Resolved
Relational Operators affectsVersion >= “3.4”
Empty fields (350 votes!) fixVersion is empty
Lists reporter in (Dylan, Anton, Brenden)
Boolean Logic project = JIRA or (assignee = Mike and component = UI)
Nesting filter = ʻBeta Bugsʼ and assignee != mike
JQL in a Nutshell
Today 5.10

28. Powerful Functions
affectsVersion in unreleasedVersions() or
Versions
fixVersion in releasedVersion()
Voting & Watching key in votedIssues() OR key in watchedIssues()
Persistent History key in issueHistory()
Remote User assignee = currentUser()
Groups reporter in membersOf(“jira-developers”)
Pluggable! project in myPluginFunction(ʻaccessʼ, ʻmyʼ, ʻdataʼ)
JQL in a Nutshell
Today 5.10

29. Unlock JIRA Data
JIRA
JQL JQL
Clients Plugins Integrations
APIs
Center of your development world.

30. JQL Demo

31. 4.0 - Dashboards
Social APIs
Implemented as plugins
Gadgets - display
Gadgets - everywhere!
Gadgets - serve
• Legacy Portlets should work
Open Standard OAuth
REST APIs

32. 4.0 - Dashboards
Social APIs
New level of integration Gadgets - display
No Java experience required Gadgets - serve
www.atlassian.com/opensocial
OAuth
REST APIs

36. Specify It
Plan &
Document It Confluence Assign
Tasks
JIRA
Tracking
Build &
Release Review It FishEye
Crucible
Bamboo Code It
Clover
Test It

44. Center of your
development world.

45. 3.x - Add Portlet

46. 4.0 - Add Gadget

47. Streams
Placed on:
•Dashboard
•Users
•Projects
•Issues
Include:
•RSS everywhere
•Multi-product
•Inline comments

48. Streams
Placed on:
•Dashboard
•Users
•Projects
•Issues
Include:
•RSS everywhere
•Multi-product
•Inline comments

49. Streams
Placed on:
•Dashboard
•Users
•Projects
•Issues
Include:
•RSS everywhere
•Multi-product
•Inline comments

50. Streams
Placed on:
•Dashboard
•Users
•Projects
•Issues
Include:
•RSS everywhere
•Multi-product
•Inline comments

51. 4.0 - Platform Changes
Java requirements
• 1.5 min - use 1.6 for best performance
Databases
• Microsoft SQL, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL

52. 4.0 - Platform Changes
Application Servers
• Tomcat, Weblogic, Websphere, JBoss
Web Browsers
• Firefox 3.x, IE 7/8, Safari 3/4

53. More 4.0 goodness...

54. 4.0 - Still More

55. 4.0 - Still More

56. 4.0 - Still More

57. 4.0 - Still More

58. 4.0 - Still More

59. 4.0 - Issue Navigator

60. 4.0 - Extras
Indexing Improvements - Lucene
One JS Library - jQuery
Doctype update - Standard mode rendering

61. 4.0 - Beta 1
Now Available!
• www.atlassian.com/software/jira/beta
Includes everything you have seen today
• New + Old = Awesome!
Check it out and give us your feedback
• Issues? - jira.atlassian.com

62. 4.0 - Beta 2

63. 4.0 - Beta 2

64. 4.0 - Beta 2

65. Release Roadmap
Beta 1 - Now
Beta 2 - July
Release Candidate 1 - August
GA ~ September (Based upon your feedback)

66. Beyond 4.0

67. Beyond 4.0
Engine
Feature Issues Social Search Ecosystem Agile Infrastructure
Room
Performance X
Install / Upgrade X X
LDAP X
REST APIs X
Time Tracking X X
Priorities / Resolutions X X
Interface / Usability X X X X

68. Beyond 4.0 - Agile
GreenHopper + JIRA = Awesome!
www.atlassian.com/greenhopper
www.atlassian.com/agile
Agile Project Management
Today 11.00

69. DEMO - The elusive issue

70. In closing...
Continued Growth
Large (and growing larger) Ecosystem
Listening to our market
• User Feature Requests
• Innovation Leader
The center of your development world

71. Thank you!

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