Jira release notes

Below are the release notes for the Jira part of Microsoft 365 for Jira. Release notes for the Outlook add-in can be found here.

Please note: We roll out our Jira Cloud changes in batches, delayed by up to a week, based on instance size. The update might not be available immediately for you. Jira Datacenter releases will contain all cloud changes since the latest DC release.

November 18, 2024 - Cloud

Features & Improvements

• Support replying to emails when you are part of “To”/”CC” within Jira

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where the recent used templates suggestions weren’t visible anymore

• Fixed a bug where the received channel message automation trigger didn’t work under certain circumstances

• Fixed some minor bugs of chats created by the schedule meeting action

November 11, 2024 - Cloud

Features & Improvements

• Support of Issue Tabs within create issue screen from Teams message extension

• Allow creating JSM requests from message extension

• Add Email Read/delivery receipt option when sending emails from Jira

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where the bot posts duplicates in jsm personal notifications when an issue has been created

• Fixed some missing translations in Teams and Meetings UI

November 4, 2024 - Cloud

Features & Improvements

• Email Templates: Integrate images within your templates by using smart values. This also applies to the “send email” automation action.

Bugfixes

• Approval notifications in Teams are now also sent, if the issue is in approval state is immediately after creation

October 21, 2024 - Cloud

Bugfixes

• Sending an email from a shared mailbox was not possible anymore, if not configured centrally (it’s now possible again using the “From” button inside the dialog)

• Fixed a bug that email addresses would sometimes be cut off when containing uppercase characters

• Fixed that preset chooser was incorrectly visible and applied when replying to an email

• Fixed a bug that would incorrectly match issue keys too aggressively for the auto-linking functionality

October 2, 2024 - DC v7.0.0

Support for Jira 10

With this release we are adding support for Jira 10. Please note that the v7 releases of our app will only be compatible with Jira 10 and later versions, due to the many changes introduced in the Jira platform. We will be continuing to release v6 versions for Jira 8 & Jira 9 as long as these versions are supported by Atlassian.

Other features & improvements

• Full support for Jira dark mode

September 30, 2024 - Cloud

Features & Improvements

• E-Mail received automation trigger

• New automation for chat presets: Automatically hide chats after an issue is resolved

• New automation for chat presets: Automatically remove reporter and JSM request participants from the chat after an issue is resolved

September 23, 2024 - Cloud

Features & Improvements

• Translations of forms in JSM projects are now displayed in the Teams client language of the customer submitting the form via the Teams customer portal.

• AI features are coming. Turn on AI features in the global settings to enable them. For now, you can summarize chats when creating a chat backup (Manually in the issue, via automation, or via a presets built-in automation)

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue that no approval notification was sent in Teams when the approvers where set during a status transition to the approval required status

September 13, 2024 - Cloud

Features & improvements

• Presets are now in early preview. You can already start configuring the new presets and experiment with it, until it goes live for all users in a few weeks. Presets allow Jira admins to fine-tune Microsoft 365 for Jira settings for specific use-cases. This ensures a smoother and more guided user experience, e.g. by prefilling attendees from Jira fields. You can create individual Presets for Microsoft Teams, Outlook emails and meetings, that will be available in your Jira or JSM projects. 

  • Teams Presets: Create Presets for starting Microsoft Teams chats or channel conversations within Jira issues, prefilled for with certain channels, attendees and more (e.g., Triage channel post, Customer chat).

  • Email Presets: Set up email Presets for sending Outlook emails from issues, prefilled with attendees and more (e.g., Project update, External input request). 

  • Meetings Presets: Create Presets for scheduling Outlook or Teams meetings from Jira, prefilled with attendees, response options and more (e.g., Project briefing, Triage meeting).

Bugfixes

• Fixed Teams app login for Jira DC systems would request too many Microsoft scopes

• Fixed reply/reply all buttons would not fill recipients / subject correctly

• Fixed a high priority security issue reported to us via Bugcrowd (details below)

August 26, 2024 - Cloud

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where approve notification screen of JSM Portal notifications showed no confirmation anymore

• Fixed a bug where transitioning for non-jira users in certain JSM boards didn’t work anymore

August 19, 2024 - Cloud

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug when clicking "create backup" in Teams dropdown does not close the dropdown

• Fixed a bug using multiple start channel conversation automation actions caused to link only 1 conversation to the issue

• Fixed a bug when creating a new Office Calendar in your personal Calendar it always throws an error

August 12, 2024 - Cloud & DC v6.10.2

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug that inline images were not sent correctly in emails

• Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause XSRF issues in Jira DC JSM portal when deployed on a multi-node Kubernetes cluster / loadbalancer

• Fixed a bug that fully internal Jira DC systems would not load the Outlook addin settings UI

August 5, 2024

Bugfixes

• Added better error message handling during login process

• Fixed a bug where inline images when sending emails from Jira where not displayed accordingly anymore

• When using images/attachments in comments for customers, they couldn’t be opened using Customer Portal in Teams under certain conditions

August 1, 2024 - Data Center v6.10.1

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug when clicking "Open in Outlook" when email dialog in Jira is opened is blocking response

• Fixed a bug displaying that edit issue permissions are missing when scheduling a meeting even if they exist

July 29, 2024

Features & improvements

• Add requester/reporter as column within my request tab + verbalized request type on hover

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where the Automation trigger queue was temporarily not working

July 18, 2024 - Data Center v6.10.0

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where the Button of Teams didn’t work anymore when transitioning issues

• Asset fields won’t populating due to failing Call from Outlook add-in

• When scheduling meetings sometimes user where displayed multiple times at the issue context

• Fixed a bug where scheduling a meeting not auto-populating the default template

July 8, 2024 - Cloud

Features & improvements

• Support of Tempo Account field in Create issue screen in Teams

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where some Customer Portal Forms linked Jira issue fields weren’t displayed accordingly

• Outlook Calendar for Confluence default live filtering didn't worked on space calendar

• Fixed a bug when creating an issue via shared mailbox won't display the email beneath related emails in Jira

July 1, 2024 - Cloud

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where the date-field within the my request tab in Customer Portal in Teams is not displaying accordingly to Jira date

• Added better message handling + redirect when in some cases transitioning a service request from one project to another would not load data within Customer Portal in Teams

June 24, 2024 - Cloud

Bugfixes,

• Userpickerfield in Team-managed service project "people" not handled correctly in Teams

• Fixed bug where certain project calendars in Jira didn’t load

June 17, 2024 - Cloud

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug causing replies from a shared mailbox to fail when trying to reply from message detail dialog

• Fixed a bug causing clipboard content from an Excel table to be pasted as an image in the Send email dialog instead of a table

June 10, 2024 - Cloud

Features & improvements

• Added support for granular auto-linking configuration for Teams

Open

• Added support for granular personal notification settings in JSM projects

Open

Bugfixes

• Various calendar & meeting bugfixes

June 4, 2024 - Cloud & DC v6.9.0

Features & improvements

• Teams Users can be displayed with their presence status

• New create and edit meeting dialog for calendar DC

• When the creation of a chat from Jira failed it printed partially meaningless error messaged - Improved user facing error messages where possible

• Possibility to use Jira fields in create meeting action for the field category

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug that project admins (that do not have global admin permissions) could not access project admin pages

• Fixed a bug that the Smart Connect app would not save the last used project / issue type in 1:1 and group chats

• Fixed a bug where replies to shared mailboxes within Jira using the Send email feature results in an error that there are permissions missing

June 3, 2024 - Cloud

Features & improvements

• Support of asset fields in templates

Bugfixes

• Meeting automation field "category" is not clearable

• Emails in dark mode in Jira are dark text

• When sending Emails images will always be left bound in send email dialog

May 20, 2024 - Cloud

Features & improvements

• We are now offering an audit log for global admins to see which features/templates/automations had been configured/edited/deleted:

• Allow to add optional participants when using meeting automation

May 6, 2024 - Cloud

Features & improvements

• When the creation of a chat from Jira failed it printed partially meaningless error messaged - Improved user facing error messages where possible

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where looking for request types was possible without relevant portal has been selected

• General improvements of the usage of Forms in Teams Customer Portal

• Fixed a bug where userpicker field displays "no results" but additionally the right result in Customer Portal Teams

• Fixed a bug when moving an issue between projects results in duplicated tasks in to do

April 15, 2024 - Cloud

Bugfixes

• Optimize issue picker behavior when creating meetings from Jira Calendar

• General improvements regarding the interface of Customer Portal in Teams

April 8, 2024 - Cloud

Features & improvements

• Respond from “Create Jira issue” dialog in Teams Chats with adaptive cards

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where fields were not cleared in create meeting dialog in Jira Calendar

• Fixed a bug when using certain Forms fields (conditional mandatory fields)

March 25, 2024 - Cloud

Features & improvements

• Forms for Customer Portal in Teams are now supported!

• Customized JSM boards can now be inserted in Teams via the relevant URL

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug when scheduling a meeting directly with a person no meeting suggestions are displayed

March 11, 2024 - Cloud

Features & improvements

• Add option to disable Teams Channel Conversation Autolink to Jira Issue

• Project and Personal calendars have new create meetings UI

  • New calendar events can now be linked with issues

March 4, 2024 - Cloud & DC v6.8.0

Features & improvements

• Add a field picker in the templates editor to find customfields and systemfields easier

• Personal customer notifications in JSM projects Requires approval

Bugfixes

• Fix unexpected error in people overview if bot user created an issue

• Fix special character in email suggestion when sending email to JSM project

• Fix formatting in meetings body

• Fix backup for email doesn’t work for many/larger files

February 26, 2024 - Cloud

Features & improvements

• Chat notifications in software & business projects via Smart Connect requires approval

Bugfixes

• Fix duplicate email suggestion when uppercase email set as default in send on behalf of

• Fix accidental navigation from template editor. Show browser warning in case of navigation while working in the template editor

• Fix a bug where reactions where possible if not member of the chat

February 19, 2024 - Cloud

Features & improvements

• Reactions in teams chats and conversations from Jira

Bugfixes

• Fixed images disappearing after edited message from teams

• Fixed login on safari when popup is used

February 5, 2024 - Cloud

Features & improvements

• Locations in meetings dialog are sorted now and always searchable

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where meeting editor toolbar overlaps other selection elements

• Location picker improvements: limited requests made to boost performance

January 29, 2024 - Cloud

Features & improvements

• Add functionality to send teams emojis from Jira teams chat

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where scheduling a meeting from the three-dots-menu only didn’t work

• Several bugfixes for issue context view

January 22, 2024 - Cloud

Features & improvements

• Added Ctrl+Enter shortcut to submit dialogs (Teams, Email, Meetings)

• Added a new action button that creates a new comment in Jira based on a Teams message (Chat) of a user

• Added a compact mode for Teams chats

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where clicking on “This message has additional content you can view in Teams” redirects to an access forbidden error

• Fixed a bug causing inline images in emails sent from an issue in Jira to not be displayed in the new Outlook and OWA

• Fixed a bug with dark mode causing the sidebar to be darker than intended

January 15, 2024 - Cloud

Features & improvements

• Chat is marked as read in Teams when read from Jira

• Released improved Templates-functionality with ADF handling

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug causing projects to change order when a toggle is used

January 5, 2024 - Cloud

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug causing duplicate drafts to be created when sending an email

• Fixed a bug preventing the sending of emails from a distribution group

• Fixed a bug causing the default "On behalf of" mailbox to not be unselectable

• Fixed a bug causing the send email dialog to not initialize fully when using the Send email functionality in the ... menu

December 21, 2023 - Cloud

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug that non latin characters (Umlaute, Japanese / Chinese characters) would not be taken over correctly for attachment names

December 12, 2023 - Cloud & DC v6.7.0

Features & improvements

• Added triggers for Jira Automation jira dc

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug that emails shared to an issue would not show up

• Fixed lots of bugs for the new issue context module (People, meetings & chats)

• Fixed a bug that would prevent creating issues in JSM projects jira dc

• Fixed a bug that would ignore activated/deactivated features in projects for our standalone apps jira dc

• Fixed a bug that migrations to Jira Cloud would fail if the system has not been using cloud features before jira dc

• Fixed a bug that would always display the chat in the middle of the issue, regardless of the configured appearance setting jira dc

• Fixed regression quick action buttons not loading jira dc

November 27, 2023 - Cloud

Features & improvements

• You now can attach a backup .pdf file of a single email to the or all conversations, as a zip file. We are working on supporting this kind of backup via Automation soon

• Switched Teams chat backup to use .pdf files instead of HTML, making previews much more accessible

• Support for new issue context view, replacing the old glance vie in the issues for showing people, chats & emails

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug causing comments created by initiating a chat backup containing inline images be extremely long due to base64 representations of the inline images

• Fixed that deep links were not working correctly with the new Teams

November 20, 2023 - Cloud

Features & improvements

• It’s now possible to remove members from a Teams chat

• Chat backup files are now pdf instead of html as Jira has no proper preview mode for html files

Bugfixes

• Fixed that project admin settings would only load for dedicated project admins, but not global admins

• Fixed issue with missing scope for meetings integration, where the attendee list would fail to load

November 6, 2023 - Cloud

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug causing the event timezone in the calendar not being correct

October 31, 2023 - Cloud & DC 6.6.0

Features & improvements

• Scheduled email drafts are now deletable by users able to view the issue

• The request type field can now be used when creating issues from Microsoft Teams

• Select fields in Teams apps are now a bit easier to open with a single click

• [DC only] Rollout of the new meeting experience

Bugfixes

• In some cases, when promoting a JSM customer to a full agent user, the JSM portal will not pick up the right Jira user. We have introduced a “Refresh login” option in the user avatar to allow the user to switch to the correct user

• Fixed that some Jira boards would not load correctly in Microsoft Teams

• Fixed a bug that allowed invalid templates to be saved

• Show info in JSM portal in case of unsupported fields

• Fixed broken redirects & images in new Teams client for JSM portal app

October 10, 2023 - Cloud & DC 6.5.0

Features

• It’s now possible to use the “Send bot message” automation action with the JSM portal bot cloud

• Enabling the “Native look and feel” for the JSM portal now respects linked knowledge bases for article suggestions cloud

Bugfixes

• Improved initial loading performance of the “Send email dialog”

• Disabled to send attachments > 25mb as it fails too often

• Todo Simple Sync: Setting to close Jira issue when todo is completed did not work

• Improved Jira board in Teams load performance

• Fixed that Teams channel notification settings were not respected

• Fixed that line breaks in Teams chats would look different in Teams / Jira

September 18, 2023 - Cloud

Changes

Technical change for Outlook Meetings for Jira. The Azure Enterprise app will be switched to the general Microsoft 365 for Jira app. All users will need to login again.

Bugfixes

• Todo Sync: Fixed a bug that may lead to recursive issue transitions if mutliple users created a sync for the same issue

September 11, 2023 - Cloud

Features

• Automation: New meeting request action that can be used to send out meeting requests

• Automation: New meeting created trigger which can be used to write meeting detail to issue custom fields

• JSM portal app now supports Outlook as well - Microsoft rollout of the feature is still ongoing and might not be available in your tenant yet

Bugfixes

• Various bugfixes in the new meeting experience

• Fixed that the user picker in the JSM portal would not respect filters correctly

• Fixed that connectivity check would incorrectly show a warning if us-east-1 connection (which is unused for now) does not work JIRA DC

• Made the create issue dialog in Teams bigger to allow a better editing experience

August 28, 2023 - Cloud

Features

• Whole new user experience using Meetings in Jira

  • Updated meetings in Outlook now show live data in Jira

  • Simplified create meeting dialog and added an advanced mode

  • Harmonized the UI across products

• Enabled JSM Chat notifications. When creating a new Teams chat from Jira in a JSM project, you can choose to post updates about the request into the chat. More details

• New Automation Action “Reply Teams chats” More details

August 14, 2023 - Cloud & v6.4.0

Features

• Template configuration now supports searching for templates

• Board view in Teams now shows subtasks in detail screen

• Creating a new comment from a group chat will now suggest linked issues

Bugfixes

• Fixed that JSM portal on Jira DC would not load if Refined is used JIRA DC

• Fixed that the chat/email/meetings buttons would not work when previewing an issue from the board view JIRA DC

• Fixed that editing a JQL based calendar would not save the JQL

• Fixed that the editor in inline chat view in Teams would not grow in height JIRA CLOUD

• Fixed a bug where customer users where not selectable in JSM portal user fields JIRA CLOUD

July 17, 2023 - v6.3.2

Bugfixes

• Fixed a newly introduced bug where configured shared mailboxes would not load in the “Send email” dialog in Jira

July 14, 2023 - v6.3.1

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug when using the meeting functionality without any other product (e.g. by using the Outlook Meetings for Jira standalone app), the template functionality would not work. To fix this, you’ll need to install 6.3.1 and re-login to the app via your avatar in the meeting dialog.

July 10, 2023 - Cloud & v6.3.0

Features

• Sending hours (e.g. business hours) are now supported in the “Send email” automation

• Email replies can now be defaulted with a template as well

• Email templates now support tables as a formatting option

• The “shared with” and knowledge base search can now be toggled off in the JSM portal settings JIRA CLOUD

• Added NL translation for the customer portal JIRA CLOUD

• The Jira Work management category field and the time tracking field are now supported when creating issues from Teams

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug that would not load To Do in dark mode

• Fixed multiple sync bugs with To Do that would lead to weird status change behaviors

• Removed the default mapping for the “Organization” field in the Outlook add-in, which pre-filled this based on the email sender. As this shares the new request with everyone in this organization, which might not be desired.

• Fixed how the calendar filters events when selecting more than one avatar. Previously, it would only show events with everyone selected. Now, any events with any of the selected avatars will be shown.

• Added option to disable KB article suggestions in the Teams JSM portal JIRA CLOUD

• Added option to disable “Shared with” field when creating requests in the Teams JSM portal JIRA cloud

• Fixed that the project chooser in the activate features page would sometimes lag for many projects JIRA DC

Outlook add-in web view deprecation

June 27, 2023 - v6.2.0

Bugfixes

• Fixed that meetings would not load if no active connection to the yasoon cloud is present

• Fixed an issue that would prevent from logging in in older versions of the app

• Fixed missing default values/template when opening dialogs (e.g. Teams/Email)

• Fixed that JSM portal on Jira Data Center would not allow creating new requests as a customer only user

June 19, 2023 - Cloud & v6.1.0

Bugfixes

• Fixes a bug that shows an error “Page expired, please reload the page” when using a button 15min after the issue has been loaded.

• Loop components in Teams messages will now be rendered better

• Fixed a bug that would show “Response blocked” when opening a meeting on the web

• Fixed a bug that would show “Couldn't load yasoon assets” in issue view once a day Jira DC/Server

• Fixed a bug that would break Teams / email button when switching an issue Jira DC/Server

May 30, 2023 - Cloud

Features

• Added preview mode when creating or editing templates

May 22, 2023 - Cloud

Features

• Backup Automation can now add a searchable Jira comment to the issue

Bugfixes

Meetings

• Fixed Outlook meeting links not redirecting correctly

May 15, 2023 - Cloud

Features

• Automation & Trigger overview become more usable showing better info

Bugfixes

JSM Portal

• Fixed a bug where certain back/forth navigations would result in incorrect request types showing up

• Fixed that article suggestions would link to Confluence instead of JSM portal on the web

• My requests is now correctly filtered for configured service projects

• Fixed that typing in the summary field in Android would result in laggy app interactions

• Fixed that formatted field descriptions would show markup instead of properly formatted text

May 11, 2023 - v6.0.1

Bugfixes

All

• Fixed a bug that would result in XSRF errors when using the meetings feature for some configurations

• Fixed a few broken “Configure” links in the standalone versions of our apps

May 3, 2023 - Cloud & v6.0.0

Features

• Templates are now available for our standalone apps Jira DC/Server

Bugfixes

JSM Portal

• Fixed compatibility with official Microsoft AzureAD SSO plugin Jira DC/Server

Meetings

• Fixed that roles in user suggestions would sometimes appear duplicated

Teams

• Fixed that admin page would sometimes not load and only show a blank page Jira DC/Server

Email

• Fixed that opening emails in Outlook would result in “Blocked response” error Jira DC/Server

All

• Fixed an issue that would prevent some Jira Cloud migrations to fail or run indefinitely Jira DC/Server

• Fixed and improved the connection screen Jira DC/Server

• Fixed that switching to an issue subtasks would in some cases break our app buttons Jira DC/Server

• Some improvements for dialog sizes Jira DC/Server

April 17, 2023 - Cloud

Features

Teams

• Added success screen when creating Jira issue from Teams

• Added assign to me function when creating issues from Teams

• When using “Add comment” on a Teams conversation, previously linked issues on the same thread are now suggested

• Board view is now supported in Jira Data Center Jira DC/Server

Automation

• Automation now supports the “Send email” action and the “Email sent” trigger

Calendar

• Added search bar to filter events on the calendar view. More details.

Bugfixes

Teams

• Made empty state in issue more compact, as there are a few edge cases when it will always show

April 4, 2023 - Cloud

Bugfixes

Teams

• Fixed a bug that would not allow chatting with external users if the email address was entered manually

March 27, 2023 - Cloud

Features

• Dark mode for Jira Cloud is now available 😎

• Improved usability of automation feature to make it clearer for first use

Bugfixes

Teams

• Fixed a race condition that would sometimes duplicate messages when hitting Enter too fast after another

• Fixed a few resizing / flickering issues in chat / conversation UI

• Fixed chat backup was not working for multiple chats from automation

Email & Teams

• Fixed that images pasted to the editor were sometimes not sent via mail / chat

March 15, 2023 - Cloud

We harmonized the features available across our apps we also had to harmonize the required scopes. This causes “Microsoft To Do for Jira” and “Outlook Meetings for Jira” to require a manual update.

You now no longer have the ability to maintain a custom Azure Client Id for “Outlook Meetings for Jira”.

We changed big parts of the background infrastructure. If you happen to find any inconsistencies in this version, we would be extremely happy if you reach out.

Bugfixes

We fixed a lot of edge-case issues which should improve the general stability.

Email

• Fixed a bug causing attachments of an email to not be downloadable.

• Fixed a bug causing “Open in Outlook” to be blocked by Outlook

To Do

• Fixed a bug causing the login on the Microsoft 365 settings page.

Features

Email & Teams & Meetings & To Do

• You can now choose to activate/deactivate the features on a per-project level in the single apps just like you can in “Microsoft 365 for Jira”

• You can now create templates in the single apps just like you can in “Microsoft 365 for Jira”

• You can now create automation actions and triggers in the single apps just like you can in “Microsoft 365 for Jira”

Feb 18, 2023 - Cloud

Bugfixes

We fixed a lot of edge-case issues which should improve the general stability. We’ll continue focusing on these kind of issues over the next few weeks!

To Do

• Fixed a bug where the list chooser would be empty in the issue screen

Meetings

• Fixed a bug that would cause the location / room picker to not update availabilities correctly

March 15, 2023 - Cloud

Features

Teams & Meetings

• Templates are now supported for chats & meetings as well, allowing you to create pre-configured responses

Bugfixes

Teams

• Fixed a bug where certain chat messages would cause chat & conversations to not render correctly in Jira

JSM Portal

• Fixed a bug where the “Share with” field would not work correctly for certain customer users

Jan 23, 2023 - Cloud & v5.8.13

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug in Jira 9, that might cause the issue view to fail to load when accessed anonymously

Jan 11, 2023 - Cloud

Features

Outlook

• Added the possibility to send an additional email from the content area in the Jira issue

Bugfixes

Teams

• Fixed a bug that would not show shared chats in Jira

• Fixed a bug that would not take over numbers with decimal points when creating an issue from Teams

• Fixed a bug that would not allow to use radio button custom field when creating an issue from Teams

Outlook

• Fixed that “append issue details” would not send out the issue details correctly

Calendar

• Fixed that events couldn’t be created in shared calendars

Jan 5, 2023 - Cloud & v5.8.8

Features

We are introducing our integration with Jira Automation (Currently Cloud only). It is now possible to define actions and triggers and include them into the native Jira automation functionality.
This is currently in beta - please feel free to report any feedback to our support team.

We start with a set of actions for Teams and will continue to advance into other features.

Bugfixes

Teams

• Fix issues displaying inline images and emojis

• Support multiple JSM portals in Teams

• Fix sprint field in Teams app create issue screen

• Fix a rare race condition preventing the app from loading at all

Email

• Keep basic formattings (bold, italic, …) when sending the email

Todo

• Fix advanced filters with labels and components

• Fix a bug that created duplicated tasks when having installed multiple our apps

Older

Nov 17, 2022 Cloud

Bugfixes & Changes

Teams

• Show replies to messages correctly inline as in Teams

Email

• Fixed a bug that would not find results for email recipients when searching for first and last name

• Fixed a bug that the template chooser would sometimes not open

Todo

• Fixed that using a personal Microsoft login would work

• Fixed that using <Enter> to create manual To Dos would not work

Nov 10, 2022 Cloud v5.8.8 @ Jira DC/Server

Features

Email

• You can now declare templates as default which will apply it automatically when opening the “Send email” dialog.

Bugfixes

Calendar

• Fixed a bug that would display the calendar always in German

Nov 9, 2022 Cloud v5.8.8 @ Jira DC/Server

Bugfixes

Teams

• Fixed a bug that would include incorrect issue link in chat in JSM project for issues with no request type

• Improved line break formatting now matches the one of the created chat better

Email

• Fixed that time shown on “Send later” button would be incorrect around daylight savings time switch

• Fixed that links in an email would open inline instead of in a new window

• Improved line break formatting now matches the one of the sent email better

Meetings

• Fixed that “Out of office” users would show up as busy instead of out of office

• Fixed that the room availabilities are not re-evaluated after changing the event times

Todo

• Fixed that logging out would not be possible

Oct 30, 2022 Cloud v5.8.8 @ Jira DC/Server

Bugfixes & Changes

All

• Fixed a bug that the editor would not support pasting markdown anymore

Teams

• Guest users are now properly supported when starting a chat

• Fixed that new channel conversations could not be started on Jira Server / DC

Email

• Fixed that emails sent from Jira with attachments were corrupted in some cases

• Fixed that attachments would not show a preview image (in Jira)

• Fixed issue when sending email with large message

• Fixed a bug when sending an email to a recipient with a leading or trailing whitespace

• Fixed a bug that the email formatting would appear different from when sending the email from Outlook

Oct 17, 2022 Cloud v5.8.8 @ Jira DC/Server

Bugfixes & Changes

Teams

• Fixed a bug that when starting a chat the button would say “Post a reply”

• Fixed a bug where the adaptive cards would contain a description placeholder when posted from Teams

Email

• Fixed a bug that all attachments of a Jira issue would be selected by default when sending an email

Oct 13, 2022 Cloud v5.8.8 @ Jira DC/Server

Features

All

• A new personal Microsoft 365 menu to manage all your logins in centrally.
  You can access it by clicking on your profile image in the top right corner → “Microsoft 365” .
  
  

Teams

• A new board view in Microsoft Teams, details here: Jira board view in Microsoft Teams (Upgrade of Smart Connect in Teams required)

• Added support for suggesting “Incident responders” when creating a chat from a JSM incident

Email

• Added a “From” field to the “Send email” dialog which works just like the “From” field in Outlook and relies on the same permissions.
  You can also configure “From” options centrally in the global app settings “Email settings” → “Send Email Settings” and on a project level in the “Outlook Email” project settings.

• Added new global and project-specific templates to quickly send standardized mails

• Added support for tables and dividers in the “Send email” dialog

• Added the option to directly select issue attachments as attachments in the “Send email” dialog

• Added the option to delay the sending of the email

• Reorganized the “Email settings” admin page to better reflect which parts of the app they affect

• Improved search for email addresses

• Improved the “Send email” dialog UI

JSM Portal in Teams

• The native look and feel option respects custom colors now

• Customers can now approve or decline a pending approval

Bugfixes & Changes

Teams

• Changed sharing to allow users from different Microsoft tenants to view shared chats, if they have issue access

• Prefill reporter field with own user when creating issues from Teams

• Fixed a bug where an technical identifier would be shown in the Jira chat view instead of the users name

• Fixed a bug where creating the issue was not possible with certain kinds of select fields

• Fixed a bug where the last used project/issue type would not be preselected in group chats

Email

• Fixed a bug causing plaintext emails to be displayed wrongly

Calendar

• Fixed buttons in event hover not always working

• Fixed some Jira calendars only fetching 20 issues

• Fixed all events showing as all day, when switching from agenda month to other agenda views

Aug 31, 2022 v5.6.20 @ Jira Dc/server

Features

Email

•  Improved user search in send email dialog

Bugfixes

All

• Fixed a race-condition in Jira 9 JIra DC/SERVER

Teams

• Fixed system messages for unknown users

Jul 27, 2022 V5.6.12 @ JIRA DC / SERVER

Features

Teams

• The Teams bot will now react to updated or deleted comments in Jira and adjust the Teams notification accordingly

• It’s now possible to change the chat access level (private, shared, shared + join) after the chat has been created

• Support to mention people in the first message when creating chats

Bugfixes

All

• Fixed a bug that would write excessive log entries jira server/DC

Teams

• Fixed a bug where a chat wouldn’t be created when the issue summary is longer than 250 characters (Teams limit)

• Added a confirmation before unlinking chats to prevent accidental deletion

Meetings

• Fixed a bug that would prevent global meetings settings (e.g. template) from being saved jira server/DC

To Do

• Fixed a bug that a task would not sync / update if it was relevant for two different users, e.g. both having a matching sync condition

• Fixed a bug that would resize some frame incorrectly

Jun 21, 2022 V5.6.4 @ JIRA DC / SERVER

Bugfixes

Teams / JSM

• Fixed a bug that would crash the chat UI in Jira for certain system messages

• Featured portals in JSM portal in Teams are now displayed correctly jira cloud

Email / Meetings

• Removed excessive logs for missing translations in Jira log files Jira server/DC

Calendar

• Fixed a few stylings

• Fixed that certain shared mailboxes would not be loaded correctly
  
  

May 25, 2022 V5.6.0 @ JIRA DC / SERVER

Features

Teams

• Customize default chat title, default comment & chat visibility globally + on project level

• Reactions to chat messages are now shown instantly and you can see who reacted on the message

• System messages are now displayed in the chat

• Unlink Teams chats from Jira issue

• JSM-Portal now opens create issue dialog in an popup when compatibility mode is selected

new Calendar

• Added a configurable calendar to all projects to share Outlook calendars as well as Jira dates

• Added a personal calendar for every Jira user

• For a feature overview and activation, see our docs Use Outlook calendars in Jira

Bugfixes

Email

• Fixed a bug when composing an email in Jira, that would clear the email content when using the CC field

• Fixed that the email area would display for Jira issues without attached emails jira server/dc

• Improved the styling of the send email dialog jira server/dc

To Do

• Improved resizing on view issue screen

Apr 25, 2022 v5.5.0 @ JIRa dc / Server

Features

Email

• Rework of Send Email dialog

  • Improved attachment handling

  • Visually show Issue Details in email

  • Visually show reply thread

  • Add CC field

  • Improved error messages

Teams

• Customize issue card that is posted to Microsoft Teams
  
  

JSM Portal in Teams

• Setting to take over certain configuration options & theming from the native portal

  • Service Desk icons & descriptions texts

  • Announcement messages

  • Banner image
    
    

Other

• Some of the feature settings are now available on the project-level as well

• Project admins can now enable features (Email, Meetings, Teams, To Do) in the project settings

Notable bugfixes

Email

• View an email in Jira downloaded all attachments instead of showing a thumbnail

• Drag & Drop into the Editor field sometimes crashed the screen

Teams

• Logging in from Teams Desktop app would sometimes hang for Jira Cloud

• Mentions would only work with a lowercase first character

JSM Portal in Teams

• Fixed flickering of banner image

Feb 25, 2022

Features

Teams

• Multiple chats per issue are now supported

• Meeting chats (scheduled via the meetings app) are now shown in the Jira issue

• Manually backup chats/conversations to the Jira issue for audit purposes (Automation coming soon)

• Support for adding users to chats from Jira

• Support for sending images in Teams messages

• Reworked UI to make it more clear when more than one chat/conversation is available

• When creating an issue from Teams, the last selected project & issue type (per channel) will now be remembered

• When creating an issue from Teams, the reporter field is now supported

Notable bugfixes

Teams

• Fixed a bug that channel conversations sometimes would load endlessly

• Fixed that removing the whitespace behind an @-mention would break the mention

• Fixed scrolling behavior / capture in chat, should now “just work”

• Fixed that user suggestions would not work if more than 7 users involved in an issue

• Fixed that custom issue type images sometimes would not load when creating an issue

JSM Portal

• Fixed that all organization requests would be shown under “My requests”

• Fixed that request type images sometimes would not load

Jan 28, 2022

Features

Meetings

• Added support for the German language

Notable bugfixes

Meetings

• Fixed a issue with rendered fields (e.g. description HTML) used in meeting template

• Fixed location picker not showing room availability

Jan 18, 2022

Features

Email

• Security upgrade: The connection from Jira to Outlook is now authenticated via MSAL. This might require users to login again to be able to send emails.

• You can now add attachments to an email

• Emails can now be unlinked from an issue

Notable bugfixes

Email

• Forwarded emails should now be filtered from shared conversations

Dec 17, 2021

Features

Meetings

• Rendered fields (e.g. description HTML) can now be used in meeting template

Teams

• Support for cascading select field in JSM portal & Teams app

Notable bugfixes

Meetings

• Fixed an issue that users with non-english locales would always show up as unavailable

• Date picker now shows first day of week correctly, depending on locale

• Fixed an issue that would not correctly show the availability of meeting rooms

• Fixed overzealous “meeting starts in the past” warning

• Fixed project settings to make it more clear which user defaults are used

• Fixed that availability would only show on second time opening the dialog

Teams

• Fixed assignee field when creating issues from Teams on Jira Server/DC

• Fixed that channels were missing in the Jira when you are member of 60+ teams

Nov 16, 2021

Features

Teams

• Chatting with external participants is now supported (see docs: Chat with external & guests )

• Configure which notifications about issue updates are posted to Jira (see notification settings)

Notable bugfixes

Teams

• User dropdown was not suggesting users in some cases

Oct 6, 2021

Features

JSM portal

• Search does now included searching for request type as well (like the official portal does)

Teams

• Sprint field is now supported when creating issues from Teams

• Chat sharing: You can now allow other Jira users to join a chat on their own

• Choose if a notification comment with the link to the Teams chat/conversation is added

Bugfixes

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Unlinking a conversation did not work

• Fixed: Images in shared chats would not load correctly

• Fixed: Appearance settings could not be changed

Jul 28, 2021

Features

JSM portal

• It's now supported to upload files in the JSM portal in Teams for existing requests

Bugfixes

Email

• External email addresses are now suggested as well

• Admin panel for Email settings would not load in some cases

• Sending emails would not work if you logged in with Meetings first

• Send email dialog would not open on first "Send email" click

JSM portal

• Much improved performance of the JSM portal in Teams

Teams

• Creating issues in Teams from app messages - e.g. an email sent to a Teams channel - now works

Jun 29, 2021

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug preventing Teams channels from loading in the “New conversation” dialog in Jira

Mar 2, 2021

Features

• It’s now possible to add the sent email as a comment automatically
  
  

   

• Improved first user experience for admins

Notable bugfixes

• Fixed a bug that would prevent users from logging in to Office 365 from Outlook

• Fixed that user search in recipient field was slow

• Fixed that emails were sent with low importance from Jira

Jun 14, 2021

Initial release