Highlights
Share your trace configurations with teammates.
You've designed a good trace configuration, now you can share it with the whole team.
Sharing in Vivid Trace uses a simple access control model: Delegate ownership to project leads, spread edit permission amongst team members to help keep the trace configuration up-to-date over time, or maybe share it with everyone in view-only mode. It's up to you. More information
Find and favorite trace configurations shared by others.
If a trace configuration has been shared with you, you can find it here. Your favorites are kept close at hand in the Trace Studio dock for instant recall. More information
Improve signal-to-noise with the new Artifact Types tracing parameter.
With the new Artifact Types tracing parameter, you can select which issue types are followed during tracing. More information
Qualified for Jira Data Center
Vivid Trace is now qualified by Atlassian for Jira Data Center. With Vivid Trace's bounded processing-time guarantees, Data Center customers can confidently deploy Vivid Trace with backing from Vivid and Atlassian.
Update Notes
The latest release of Vivid Trace 2021.1 is recommended for general production including as an update to Vivid Trace 2021.1 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 2021.1, your Jira instance might need to be re-indexed before Vivid Trace can be used. In this case, the Jira administration section will display a reminder until the re-index is performed. Vivid Trace will not operate correctly until this re-index has been completed. You can choose Background Indexing to perform the re-index with no disruption to Jira availability.
- Note that the minimum supported version of Confluence Server is now 7.4, and Jira Server and Jira Data Center is now 9.4. If you are considering updating to Vivid Trace version 2021.1, your Confluence or Jira host system must meet these minimum version requirements.
Change List
| Issue | Status | Version | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
 TRACE-826 | Fix | 2021.1.13 | Improved isolation of compiled JavaScript symbols. |
 TRACE-825 | Change | 2021.1.12 | Jira 9.15 compatibility. |
| TRACE-818 | Change | 2021.1.9 | Support for Java 17. |
| TRACE-819 | Change | 2021.1.9 | Jira 9.5 compatibility. |
| TRACE-813 | Change | 2021.1.8 | Jira 9 compatibility. |
| TRACE-800 | Fix | 2021.1.7 | Incomplete user comparison in the ACL algorithm. |
 TRACE-801 | Improvement | 2021.1.7 | Delete Trace Configuration confirmation dialog: Ensure Delete button is not the default. |
| TRACE-802 | Change | 2021.1.7 | Performance: Change default Issue Context Trace Display Format to Issue Tab Panel. |
| TRACE-803 | Fix | 2021.1.7 | Potential login redirect loop on admin pages requiring elevated privileges. |
| TRACE-805 | Fix | 2021.1.7 | Issue Field Layout "Add row" button can mis-operate. |
| TRACE-795 | Fix | 2021.1.6 | Version 2021.1 ActiveObjects upgrade task fails on blank values. |
| TRACE-796 | Fix | 2021.1.6 | Disparity between add-on settings and default project settings. |
| TRACE-789 | Fix | 2021.1.5 | Graceful handling of inactive user accounts. |
| TRACE-791 | Fix | 2021.1.5 | ACL of preset trace configurations cannot be modified. |
| TRACE-793 | Fix | 2021.1.5 | Attempt to GET Vivid Trace OpenAPI definition JSON document met with error. |
| TRACE-788 | Improvement | 2021.1.5 | Optimize performance of member selector with Data Center -sized quantity of items. |
| TRACE-776 | Fix | 2021.1.4 | Cannot disable all artifact types or all relation types in project configurations. |
| TRACE-778 | Fix | 2021.1.4 | Degraded performance of user-group-role selector on large instances. |
| TRACE-779 | Fix | 2021.1.4 | Horizontal scroll bars not displaying appropriately in Google Chrome. |
| TRACE-752 | Improvement | 2021.1.3 | Further isolate JavaScript from global namespace with self-invoking function and prefixes. |
| TRACE-745 | Fix | 2021.1.2 | Trace Studio Tools menu items disabled immediately after navigating to a trace in the browser. |
| TRACE-746 | Fix | 2021.1.2 | Deleting an issue type from Jira causes an impassable error in the Issue Context Trace. |
| TRACE-747 | Fix | 2021.1.2 | Deleting an issue link type from Jira causes an impassable error in the Issue Context Trace. |
| TRACE-750 | Fix | 2021.1.2 | Add-on configuration "Enter a decimal number" field validation error message is missing a quantity. |
| TRACE-717 | Change | 2021.1.1 | Qualify Vivid Trace for Atlassian Jira Data Center. |
| TRACE-738 | Fix | 2021.1.1 | Security principal selector is mostly obstructed from view in Trace Studio trace configuration details panel. |
| TRACE-711 | Fix | 2021.1.1 | Issue link type with multiple identical description strings erroneously treated as ambiguous. |
| TRACE-672 | Change | 2021.1 | Support for 1.8 and 11 releases of HotSpot and OpenJDK Java platforms. |
| TRACE-681 | Change | 2021.1 | Removed the Jira agile quick view panel. |
| TRACE-687 | Change | 2021.1 | Rename the Jira home menu entry & description to "Trace Studio". |
| TRACE-505 | Fix | 2021.1 | Firefox doesn't properly highlight issues and relations in the graphs. |
| TRACE-541 | Fix | 2021.1 | Drop-down menu lingers after actuating unrelated UI widget. |
| TRACE-557 | Fix | 2021.1 | License key label on add-on licensing page is incorrect at 150% zoom on narrow window. |
| TRACE-562 | Fix | 2021.1 | Tooltip in +n case doesn't have a newline between 1st and 2nd entries. |
| TRACE-566 | Fix | 2021.1 | Security principal selector elements are incorrectly rendered on Firefox. |
| TRACE-579 | Fix | 2021.1 | Disabling all but the parent/sub-task directions in the Trace Studio causes VTW-5. |
| TRACE-582 | Fix | 2021.1 | Text attributes in exported PNG and SVG differs from appearance in Jira. |
| TRACE-585 | Fix | 2021.1 | Issue field layout changes not reflected when IRG is refreshed in Trace Studio. |
| TRACE-589 | Fix | 2021.1 | Error not produced when graph refreshed after authenticated user logs out. |
| TRACE-603 | Fix | 2021.1 | Right-justify numeric field contents in in-context Distance setting. |
| TRACE-606 | Fix | 2021.1 | Exported graph files incorrectly include hover highlighting. |
| TRACE-615 | Fix | 2021.1 | Trace Studio: Sole enabled direction checkbox can be actuated. |
| TRACE-630 | Fix | 2021.1 | Custom fields missing from Issue Field Layout. |
| TRACE-684 | Fix | 2021.1 | Trace SVG export with HTML entity & in issue titles exported as-is fails to render in browser. |
| TRACE-679 | Fix | 2021.1 | Catch-all error dialog fails to produce error information. |
| TRACE-708 | Fix | 2021.1 | "List Issues" doesn't escape quotes for JQL component arg. |
| TRACE-337 | Improvement | 2021.1 | Allow date/time fields to reflect user's timezone. |
| TRACE-487 | Improvement | 2021.1 | Confirm license removal when user attempts to delete Vivid-issued license key and apply an empty license. |
| TRACE-616 | Improvement | 2021.1 | Open issues from Trace Studio in separate tab to avoid disrupting the current tracing session. |
 TRACE-319 | New feature | 2021.1 | Add "Configure Vivid Trace add-on" global navigation menu item for Jira system administrators. |
| TRACE-453 | New feature | 2021.1 | "Artifact Types" Relations parameter. |
| TRACE-466 | New feature | 2021.1 | "Recent Traces" global navigation menu section. |
| TRACE-468 | New feature | 2021.1 | Site-wide configuration setting for visibility of contextual traces. |
| TRACE-540 | New feature | 2021.1 | Set system default for project trace visibility, allow project-level override. |
| TRACE-595 | New feature | 2021.1 | Modify sharing settings for a trace configuration. |
| TRACE-703 | New feature | 2021.1 | Toggle the favorite status of a trace configuration. |
| TRACE-704 | New feature | 2021.1 | "Find traces" dialog where you can find new traces. |
| TRACE-705 | New feature | 2021.1 | Add-on Trace configurations management UI. |
Known Issues
Some inline dialogs, drop-down menus, and help might appear clipped or incorrectly positioned in your specific version of Jira and its bundled version of the Atlassian User Interface (AUI). In some cases it is possible to scroll or drag some part of your view to better expose such elements.
The Trace Studio is in the midst of a transition to newer technology. After changing the active trace configuration or editing your own sharing permissions, changes might not be reflected in the UI until the browser page is refreshed.
End-of-Support Statements
With Atlassian ending support for Server platforms and older versions, and the release of Vivid Trace for Jira 2021.1.12, the minimum supported version of Jira Data Center has changed to 9.4.0 LTS, and support for Jira Server has been dropped. Likewise, the minimum compatible version of Confluence has changed to Confluence Server 7.4 while Server support has ended.
Earlier releases of this version 2021.1 release line are the last to support versions prior to Jira 9.4, namely Jira 7 and Jira 8.
Versions prior to Vivid Trace version 2021.1 reach sunset status (no further patch updates) on 2021 July 1.
Please see Vivid Trace lifecycle for more information.