Vivid Trace 1.3 Release Notes

Highlights

Customizable information display for issues in issue relation graphs.

Selecting from a palette of built-in and custom fields, design the field layout of graphed issues by deciding what information is displayed and where, however you want. More information

Update Notes

The latest release of Vivid Trace 1.3 is recommended for general production including as an update to Vivid Trace 1.2 and prior versions. The update can be validated on a test instance of JIRA before updating the add-on on your production systems. Points of caution associated with this release:

• When installing or updating to Vivid Trace version 1.3, your JIRA instance will need to be re-indexed before Vivid Trace can be used. The JIRA administration section will display a reminder until the reindex is performed. JIRA version 5.1 instances will be unavailable while re-indexing is taking place, but with JIRA instances whose version is 5.2 or newer you can choose Background Indexing with no disruption to availability.
• Note that JIRA Server version 5.1.0 is no longer supported. If you are considering updating to Vivid Trace version 1.3, your JIRA system first needs to be updated to at least version 5.1.1.
• The JQL function linkPartition(), deprecated in version 1.2, has been removed. All use of linkPartition() can be safely replaced with its functional equivalent relations(), a far more flexible and comprehensive JQL function.
• The pathology highlighting feature has been removed.

Change List

Issue	Status	Version	Summary
TRACE-347	Changed	1.3.1	Minimum supported version of JIRA incremented to JIRA version 5.1.1
TRACE-267	Fixed	1.3	Operating graph menu items jumps window location back to original tab
TRACE-297	Fixed	1.3	"Show relationship labels" menu item is available to anonymous users
TRACE-298	Fixed	1.3	Issue relation graph is not visible to anonymous users
TRACE-338	Fixed	1.3.1	Issue field text content overflows when viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer 8
TRACE-344	Fixed	1.3.1	Vivid Trace icon is not highlighted when active in JIRA 6.4 project-centric view
TRACE-377	Fixed	1.3.2	JavaScript resources incomplete in JIRA Software RapidView
TRACE-154	Improved	1.3.1	Issue relation graph layout algorithm has scope for improvement
TRACE-295	Improved	1.3	Pan the Issue Relation Graph view to place the current issue in the center
TRACE-313	Improved	1.3	Support JIRA 6.4 project-centric view
TRACE-13	New	1.3	Customizable information display for issues in issue relation graphs
TRACE-161	New	1.3	Show issue relation graph in JIRA Agile rapid views
TRACE-308	New	1.3	Provide means to manually refresh issue relation graphs
TRACE-268	Removed	1.3	Remove deprecated linkPartition() JQL function
TRACE-306	Removed	1.3	Remove pathology highlighting feature

Known Issues

• TRACE-393: Creating a new issue while viewing an issue causes the trace to display a graph for the wrong issue

  Note: This issue was fixed in Vivid Trace version 1.4

  JIRA issue detail screens and the Issue Navigator provide the ability to quickly create new issues. While viewing such an issue detail page and its issue relation graph, making use of the quick issue creation feature to successful completion causes the issue relation graph to refresh itself. The refreshed graph contents might be for an issue other than the issue currently being viewed.

  Workaround: If the graph appears to be incorrect, refresh the graph, or refresh the issue page in your web browser.

End-of-Support Statements

The minimum supported version of JIRA Server and JIRA Data Center has changed from JIRA 5.1.0 to JIRA 5.1.1. With this release and all newer releases, versions of JIRA prior to version 5.1.1 are no longer supported by the add-on software.