Jira Software 9.4 Long Term Support release change log

Important notes:

• OAuth 2.0 integration for Microsoft Exchange Online will be introduced in 8.13.1
• Document-based replication for Data Center

Important notes:

• We've improved email templates that control your notifications
• We've improved the performance of the connector
• The project API can now show information on whether a project is archived
• We've changed the format of logs produced by Jira running on Java 11
• We've blocked logging in to Jira by passing credentials via URL parameters

Important notes:

• We've made Advanced Roadmaps part of Jira Software Data Center
• The Asset Management and Insight Discovery apps are also available in Jira Data Center
• We've made changes to the web.xml file related to improvements for image attachments

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• Data pipeline API responses include request details

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• User-generated custom fields and fields provided by apps are included in the data pipeline export by default
• We've removed obsolete importers

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• Bundled JRE disables secure connections to MySQL Community Edition 5.7.27 or older over TLS versions 1 and 1.1
• We've upgraded the embedded H2 database

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• Improved user assignment and mentioning performance
• Jira Software binary installers bundled with Java 11
• We've changed the data pipeline by adding disk space checks, export schema versioning, and improving exporting user details
• We've added a configurable throttling mechanism to Activity Streams

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• We've introduced a limit of 1000 on the number of issue-related entities that will be indexed after the full issue reindex is triggered

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• Restricted anonymous access to multiple API endpoints to fix security vulnerabilities

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• When you’re starting multiple nodes, Jira will ensure that each of them ends up with a healthy index, which makes the start-up more resilient

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• Instead of loading all the available items for a particular picker, we only display 100 items on the list
• We’ve enabled OAuth 2.0 authorization for outgoing mail servers: Google and Microsoft are still supported as providers along with the SMTP protocol available for connection

Important notes:

• Index catch-up is performed in multiple threads to increase scalability and speed up the node start-up on your Jira instance
• We’ve added two new system properties into the Jira Diagnostics plugin to improve the db.core.executionTime metric and to increase the accuracy of app attribution for database usage
• The new database connectivity metrics allow efficient instance diagnostics and timely resolution of performance issues. The metrics are available through JMX and a new log file atlassian-jira-ipd-monitoring.log.

This release doesn't introduce new features.