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Comment: Update for R4J 4.5.0 official release

We are proud to announce our R4J - Requirements Management for Jira will release version 4.5 soon.

If you would like to participate in the 4.5 BETA release, we advice for you to prepare the following ahead of the release:

  • A test instance (Most preferably one that has close to production data)

  • A backup of your test instance data – the revision cleanup process cannot be aborted and can only be reverted through a backup
    Info

    The revision cleanup process is a required action for this release. Due to the clearing up of data in the R4J revision history tables, views that use the revisions are affected and were modified accordingly to fit the new implementation. The cleanup is performed as a background task and no downtime is expected.

    Warning

    Known issuesRead here for a complete overview.

    Warning

    R4J 4.5 revision data is not

    backward

    compatible with older versions of R4J
    From R4J 4.5, the change sets are evaluated based on issue field values in Jira history, we no longer store issue field values in R4J revision tables which will cause revisions created in R4J 4.5 to show as empty change sets in older versions.

    R4J 4.5.x will be the last version to support Jira 7 compatibility
    From R4J 4.6.x onward, only Jira 8 will be supported. This is in line with Atlassian Support’s EOL Policy.

    New features and improvements

    Component

    Issue Key

    Summary

    1

    Revision History

    EASE-8390

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    EASE-8490
    EASE-9231
    EASE-9784
    EASE-10551
    EASE-10556
    EASE-11086
    EASE-11352
    EASE-11353
    EASE-11482

    Optimized handling of revision data; Fixed exponential growth of R4J revision history table consuming a large percentage of database storage capacity – see Summary of functions affected by revisions restructure in R4J 4.5.

    2

    Administration: Cleanup Revisions

    Manual cleanup can be triggered by your Jira Administrator via App/Add-on Administration > (R4J section) Cleanup Revisions. However, please backup your data before performing the cleanup. We strongly recommend that you first run and verify the result on a staging system.

    3

    Administration: Tree View

    EASE-11401
    EASE-11474

    Modified behavior when editing root project folder description in R4J.
    Hint: Project description will only be editable in Jira Project settings to ensure consistency in content format.

    4

    Traceability View

    EASE-10562
    EASE-11497

    Added support for sorting issues in traceability row and column when using JQL statement like “ORDER BY summary ASC” in configured view.

    5

    Reuse

    EASE-11712

    Added support for creating a link from source issue to reused linked issue.
    Tip: In reuse configuration, set both “Create links to new issues” and “Copy directly linked issues” to Yes with selected link type.

    6

    Reuse

    EASE-11646

    Default field values configured shall be applied to the copied issue(s) for fields which are not defined in “Fields to copy“ during reuse.

    7

    Custom Field: R4J Suspect

    REQ-9710

    The new R4J Suspect custom field provides details on the changed issue and linked issue(s) affected. This information will show in the revision history.
    Tip: If unwanted, please include R4J Suspect in the field blacklist.

    8

    Revisions: Linked Issues

    REQ-10086

    Added support for revisions of issue link changes; Linking and unlinking will show in the revisions.
    Tip: If unwanted, please include Linked Issues in field blacklist.

    9

    REST API: Field Blacklist

    REQ-10376

    New REST API 2.0 endpoint to get, add, and remove fields from the R4J field blacklist – see details in REST API 2.0 Reference

    Bugfixes

    Component

    Issue Key

    Summary

    1

    Tree View: Get URL

    EASE-11625
    EASE-11680

    Fixed “Get URL“ not persisting selected item when shared.

    2

    Word Export

    EASE-11128

    Fixed rendering of numbered lists inside tables.

    3

    ReqIF

    EASE-11169

    Fixed importing error for manually compressed ReqIF files (reqifz format).

    4

    Coverage View

    EASE-11413

    Fixed error when using Epic Name or Epic Links to order issues in a column.

    5

    REST API 1.0

    EASE-11213

    Fixed incorrect response for coverage /1.0/export/excel endpoint when “fromColumn” parameter other then 0 is requested.

    6

    Administration: Logging

    EASE-11302

    Fixed logging for groups deleted in Jira used in permission configuration in R4J – logging will be at INFO level instead of ERROR.

    7

    Administration: Field Blacklist

    REQ-9614

    Fixed field dropdown selector showing unsupported fields – see Field Blacklist Supported Fields for supported fields and field types.

    8

    Reuse

    REQ-10204

    Fixed issues with sub-tasks not showing in tree after reuse.

    9

    Reuse

    REQ-10320

    Fixed reuse only copying one out of multiple issues when “Copy attachments“ is set to Yes.

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