SodiusWillert OSLC Connect for Jira

Fixes:

• Fixed OAuth authentication issue in clustered environments.
• Improved issue selection dialog robustness to unsupported search filters.
• Improved deserialization safety.
• Improved link exposition robustness.
• Improved TRS robustness against duplicate key exceptions.

Downgrade is supported.

Note: It is now recommended to restart Jira after an update of OSLC Connect for Jira

Fixes

• Fixed Linking and TRS consumption of issues with special characters.

Downgrade is supported.

Note: It is now recommended to restart Jira after an update of OSLC Connect for Jira

• Feature Additions
  • Add OSLC Creation API
  • Add OSLC Update Resource capabilities
  • Add Drag and Drop support for Publication for Capella artifacts
• Performance improvements:
  • TRS admin page feeds
  • XML serialization for large resources
• Fixes
  • Addressed issue where creating a Jira Issue from ETM with a log description would fail
  • Addressed requestToken behavior for DOORS Classic support
  • Addressed issue when priority does not have a “medium” value
  • Improve ServiceProxyDestroyedException handling

Downgrade is supported.

Note: It is now recommended to restart Jira after an update of OSLC Connect for Jira

• Fixes
  • Avoid an Exception in the Issue creation dialog if default priority has been renamed/removed
  • Removing an existing issue type from a project’s scheme no longer causes errors

Downgrade is supported.

Note: It is now recommended to restart Jira after an update of OSLC Connect for Jira

• Fixes
  • Avoid an Exception in the Issue creation dialog if default priority has been renamed/removed.
  • Removing an existing issue type from a project’s scheme no longer causes errors.

Downgrade is supported.

Note: It is now recommended to restart Jira after an update of OSLC Connect for Jira

• Updates
  • TRS – Lots of changes to provide new functionalities, better performance and more stability
    • Scheduled daily Repair Job to automatically repair all the TRS Feeds at a convenient (low-activity) time
    • Large TRS events, like enabling or disabling OSLC on projects, are now deferred to the next Repair job
    • TRS Feeds can be validated to find missing changes and apply them after confirmation if necessary
    • All resources of a project can be forced to re-read by consuming applicationsTRS Feeds can be downloaded to inspect their contents
• Fixes
  • Instability during TRS operations could lead to duplicate key errors
  • Calm Filter endpoint was replying 403 error because of missing Jira 10 migration changes

Downgrade is supported.

Note: It is now recommended to restart Jira after an update of OSLC Connect for Jira

• Updates
  • TRS – Significant changes to provide new functionalities, better performance, and more stability
    • Scheduled daily Repair Job to automatically repair all the TRS Feeds at a convenient (low-activity) time
    • Large TRS events, like enabling or disabling OSLC on projects, are now deferred to the next Repair job
    • TRS Feeds can be validated to find missing changes and apply them after confirmation if necessary
    • All resources of a project can be forced to re-read by consuming applications
    • TRS Feeds can be downloaded to inspect their contents
  • X-Ray
    • Changed the Configuration Management's release resolution when linking
    • Added default usages for suggested Issue Types Mappings
• Fixes
  • Double PUT request for Windchill Simplified Change Object Creation
  • Exclusive Issue Type creation dialog submit issue
  • Instability during TRS operations could lead to duplicate key errors

Downgrade is supported

Note: It is now recommended to restart Jira after an update of OSLC Connect for Jira

New:

• Jira 10 Support
• X-Ray
  • Changed the Configuration Management's release resolution when linking from external applications
  • Added default usages for suggested Issue Types Mappings

Fixes:

• Double PUT request for Windchill Simplified Change Object Creation
• Exclusive Issue Type creation dialog submit issue

Downgrade is supported.

Java 17 is NOW REQUIRED

Fixes:

• Improvement in TRS Stability at large scale

New:

• New integration: Xray Test Management for Jira
  • Connect Xray to IBM ELM, Siemens Polarion, and more.
• TRS
  • We now check the TRS user is an administrator and recommend switching if not
• Global Configuration
  • Enhanced display of the repair hints in the version-GC mapping page to avoid race conditions
• Generic
  • Enhanced performance by deferring the load of sodius-oslc.js when possible
  • Make good use of foundation’s brand new LocalClusterSyncedCache
  • ELM 7.1 support
  • Update logos in embedded help

Fixes:

• Make sure TRS thread pool uses accurate data for its JQL queries
• The Linking Wizard had no bar for scrolling down and selecting a remote project from the bottom when lots of projects were associated

Downgrade is NOT supported.

• Links created with the new version will not be valid after downgrading
• The linkType versionField mappings can break after downgrading
• The project associations display can break after downgrading

Downgrade Manual Actions:

• Reset the versionField mappings before downgrading

• Update Capabilities
  • Removed CMJ support as in some situations CMJ would disable OSLC functionality
  • Issue Approval Strategy Changes no longer produce TRS Change Events
• Fixes
  • Avoid errors when user deletes a Jira version associated to a GC
  • Tracks Changeset links can once again be removed from the Jira side

Downgrade is supported

Fixes:

• Fixed wrong truncation of TRS feeds due to expired events being added.

Downgrade is supported.

• Restored the Link-Type/Version-Field Mapping Capability
  • Now available directly in Project Global Configuration Page

Downgrade is supported

New Features

• Updated GC to be explicitly activated on Jira projects and simplified by removing the need to configure the link-type/version-field mapping.
• Added Issue Type Mapping to control how issues are exposed to OSLC
  • Exclude Jira Issues from OSLC mapping to disable availability for linking
  • Allows an option to restrict the changing of issue types in dialogs used from remote tools
  • Allows the definition of available remote dialogs (creation/selection)
• TRS adds a repair feature for when users modify the functional user to minimize the need for a full rebuild of the TRS feed
• TRS page has a "search for issue" option to discover if a Jira Issue is exposed in the TRS feed

Improvements/Fixes

• Fixed usage of tracksChangeSet link type from EWM when strict linking is active
• When Scriptrunner is available some OSLC queries will now leverage for performance improvements

Upgrade Actions

• Issue Type Mapping are migrated, but administrators may review the configuration of the new Issue Types Mapping

Fixes

• Fixed compatibility with MySQL 8.0
• Fixed link deletion from a Jira board, where links were removed from storage but still visible on the page
• Sanitized Jira project names to suppress control characters that prevented access from remote applications

Downgrade is supported

Fixes

• Fixed compatibility with MySQL 8.0
• Fixed link deletion from a Jira board, where links were removed from storage but still visible on the page
• Sanitized Jira project names to suppress control characters that prevented access from remote applications

Downgrade is supported

Fixes:

• Fixed compatibility with Jira Agile Hive plug-in
• Fixed search filters when selecting a Jira version from an IBM Global Configuration
• Fixed display of links in ELM applications not always appropriate for Jira Issue using multiple Versions
• Sanitized Jira project names to suppress control characters that prevented access from remote applications

New Features

• Verified support for Polarion 2310
• Introduced support for Teamwork Cloud versions 2022x Refresh 2 and 2024x

Downgrade is supported

New Features

• Verified support for IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management 7.0.3
• Improved performance in displaying OSLC links
  • Minimized network traffic when the user is not yet connected to remote OSLC applications
  • Remote resources are contacted for an up-to-date icon and label only when the link becomes visible on the screen
  • Server administrators can disable automatic fetching of up-to-date link icon and label for slow remote OSLC applications
• Improved support for OSLC queries, for a client application to query on additional Jira fields, including custom fields

Downgrade is supported

• Fixed compatibility with Appfire Configuration Manager for Jira (CMJ)
• Downgrade is supported

• Fixed compatibility with Appfire Configuration Manager for Jira (CMJ)
• Downgrade is supported

• Fixed setting the Security Level field when creating an issue with OSLC dialog

Downgrade is supported

• Fixed setting the Security Level field when creating an issue with OSLC dialog

Downgrade is supported

Important: Java 11 Now Required!

New Features

• Simplified Project Associations
• OSLC Schemes to customize available remote Friend services
• TRS status page improvements to suggest when rebuilds are to be performed
• Official Support for Teamwork Cloud to enable Cameo model support

Fixes

• Fixed encoding issues for Polarion Document Links
• Reduced cluster lock usage to avoid HTTP 503 response to LDX/LQE on heavily loaded systems

Downgrade is supported

Fixes

• Some Jira links to remote artifacts were displayed as "Not connected resource", when the title of the remote artifact was containing new line characters.
• Some Jira issues were not displayed in the selection dialog, when creating a link from a remote application, if the Reporter field was not set.

New Features

• Appfire Configuration Manager for Jira (CMJ) integration.Starting this version, and if the CMJ plugin is installed, OSLC project configuration data will be exported/imported automatically (for the chosen project(s)) when creating/deploying CMJ snapshots.

Fixes

• Upgrade from connector version 3.1.3 was not possible if both the Priority and Status Link Decorators were disabled.

• The "Tracks Change Set" link between a Jira issue and a DOORS Next change set was no longer correctly processed, preventing the correct display of the linked requirement and the discovery of the link from DOORS Next.

• When a Windchill web URL was dropped in Jira's OSLC linking wizard, a loop made an authentication popup to constantly open and close. The user is now informed such Windchill web URL cannot be used to initiate link creation.

New Features

• Appfire Configuration Manager for Jira (CMJ) integration.

  Starting this version, and if the CMJ plugin is installed, OSLC project configuration data will be exported/imported automatically (for the chosen project(s)) when creating/deploying CMJ snapshots.

Fixes

• Upgrade from connector version 3.1.3 was not possible if both the Priority and Status Link Decorators were disabled.

• The "Tracks Change Set" link between a Jira issue and a DOORS Next change set was no longer correctly processed, preventing the correct display of the linked requirement and the discovery of the link from DOORS Next.

• When a Windchill web URL was dropped in Jira's OSLC linking wizard, a loop made an authentication popup to constantly open and close. The user is now informed such Windchill web URL cannot be used to initiate link creation.