1.6 Release Notes

New Features

• This release adds compatibility with JIRA 6.2, including the new Creator field.

Fixes

• fixed additional permission problems that prevented users in a mixed-case user group from being able to access a report shared with that group.
• fixed a startup error that prevented Dataplane from installing itself when SQL Server was not configured to use a specific schema name.
• added graceful handling if the user attempts to click a drilldown link when not authenticated to JIRA.
• fixed an integration issue when using Dataplane gadgets with Confluence 5.2 or higher, which would could cause unnecessary OAuth permission dialogs to appear when showing the gadget
• fixed an issue that could cause the title of a Dataplane dashboard gadget to momentarily render using escaped characters while minimizing or maximizing the gadget.

New Features

• Chart Drill Through (beta)
  • Hover over any chart segment and click the issue count in the popup tooltip to display all underlying issues in the JIRA Issue Navigator.
  • Note: Chart drill through is in beta release and disabled by default.  To enable this feature, go to Dataplane Reports->Administration->Dataplane Labs.
• Dashboard Gadgets
  • Gadgets have graduated from Dataplane Labs and are now fully supported.
  • Gadget editing now uses auto-complete for faster report selection.
  • For reports with long names, it's now easier to distinguish between and select reports.
  • Cancel long-running Dataplane reports in gadgets by hovering over the spinner bar and clicking the Cancel button.
• Configurable Chart Types
  • Configurable chart types have graduated from Dataplane Labs and are now fully supported.
  • Added the following new chart types:
    • vertical bar chart (in Current reports only)
    • normalized horizontal bar chart (in Current reports only), permitting users to see the relative difference between segmentations in different categories
    • normalized vertical bar charts (in Current and date-based reports), permitting users to see the relative difference between segmentations in different periods
  • Can now select a simple line chart in Time from Status to Status and Time to Next Status reports to omit the default min/max value shading.
• Support for additional custom field types
  • The following new custom field types are supported:
    • radio button fields (both current and historical values)
    • multi-select fields (current values only)
    • checkbox fields (current values only)
• Drag-and-drop reordering of segmentations and fields
  • When configuring a report, the order of chart segmentations or table report columns can now be easily changed with drag-and-drop.
• Automatic selection of End Date when configuring reports
  • If the End Date field is left blank, a report will default to the end of the current reporting time period (either today or this week/month/quarter/year, based on the Time Period setting)
• New Dataplane menu
  • The top-level Dataplane menu has been renamed from "Dataplane Analytics" to "Dataplane Reports".
  • The menu now displays a list of the 10 most-recently-used reports, permitting users quick access to frequently-used reports.
• Major indexer performance improvements
  • For many system configurations the Dataplane indexer is now 50-200% faster, and the database index size up to 60% smaller.
  • More verbose indexer progress and statistics are now shown on the Administration page.
• Improved management of database connection pools
  • Dataplane now uses up to 1/3rd of the JIRA database connection pool size (as defined in JIRA's dbconfig.xml), compared to the previous fixed limit of 8 connections.
  • Manual tuning of Dataplane's connection usage can be performed by setting the JVM parameter "com.arsenalesystems.dataplane.db.maxConnections" to manually override the above calculation to set the maximum number of connections.
• Redesigned Administration page
  • The application administration page has been renamed from "Configuration" to "Administration".
  • Separate tabs have been added for application Configuration, Support and Dataplane Labs features.

Fixes

• Fixed alignment of labels on the date axis for daily and weekly charts.
• Added proper locale-based sorting of accented characters in chart legends and tables.
• Indexer Improvements
  • The indexer can now better process legacy data that was originally created with JIRA 1.x, 2.x and 3.x.
  • Fixed the processing of work started, work stopped and work logged events.
  • Fixed errors when indexing data for issues that were moved from one project to another.
  • Fixed errors when processing events that had no changelog date attached.
• Fixed date basis default
  • When creating a new report that supports a configurable Date Basis, the default value is now always "Created Date" rather than the alphabetically-first date field.
• Better temporary file management and expiration
  • Implemented the cleanup of temporary files in the JIRA directory to conserve disk space.
  • After running reports, the resulting charts, PDF, XLS and CSV exports will be cached for up to 24 hours, and drill-through results will be available for up to three hours. To access the resulting data after it has expired, users must re-run the report.
  • We recommend deleting the contents of $JIRA_PROGRAM/temp before upgrading, in order to start with a clean slate.
• On SQL Server systems only, the Time from Status to Status now correctly includes decimal precision for "hours" fields. This feature was already available for other databases.
• Fixed an issue in the Issue Values by Date report where a time period of Weekly would sometimes plot the 53rd week of the year in the incorrect year.
• When setting sharing permissions for a report, Dataplane now correctly handles group names that contain uppercase letters.