🎉Ability to sort group by fields 👍

The "order by" clause in JQLs now respects the sorting of "group by" fields as well. This means that groups created by the "group by" fields in the JQL section can be ordered in the desired sequence. Additionally, you can now choose where to place orphan elements of the respective "group by" field. This update provides greater flexibility and control over the organization of your data.

🎉 Introducing the App Tours 📣

We are excited to announce the launch of our new App Tour feature! This feature will give you a quick and easy way to learn about some of the great features our app has to offer. To access an App Tour, simply navigate to the help tab. From there, you can choose from multiple app tours and you'll be guided through a series of screens that will introduce you to all of the key aspects of the selected feature.

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🎉HTML template preview now allows you to download the HTML file. ⏬

Do you wish to download the HTML template output? An additional download option on the template preview screen makes this extremely simple.

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🎉JQL input box changes its height dynamically

The height of the JQL input box is now dynamically adjusted according to the length of your JQL query. This allows you to read the complete JQL query at a glance. 😎

🎉Now, use the previous rule action's confluence page as the parent page for the current rule action 📑

Now, it's possible to create both parent and child Confluence pages using the same ARN rule. Simply choose the previous confluence action under the parent page setting, and you're done.
Read more.

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🎉New library for PDF generation

We are using a new library to generate PDFs and it does not require any installation on the app server. 🙂

🐞Fix for correct rendering of fonts for multi-line Jira fields in the sequential layout 🛠️

Fonts applied for multi-line Jira fields in the JQL section's sequential layout were not correctly rendered. This problem has been resolved.

🐞Some users were unable to access ARN app 🐛

This fix will ensure there are no duplicate entries for a user which was preventing certain users to access the ARN app.

🐞Improved navigation between field customization menu to add columns menu

In the edit JQL section pop-up, users were having trouble figuring out how to return from the field customization menu to the add columns menu. Added a separate "back" button which makes the navigation simpler. 🧐

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🤹‍♂️ Improvements to the markdown template ✅

The new ‘Group by' layout customization is now available in the Markdown template. Additionally, hardcoded styling for the status field and indentation have also been removed. This allows you to freely alter the template to suit your preferences.
Read more about the 'Group by’ layout customization.

🎉Improvements in sprint selector on template preview screen ✅

Jira API which provides a list of sprints associated with a board has some limitations & it always provides the list in chronological order. However, with the latest improvements on the sprint selector screen, you can fetch for latest sprints using pagination on the sprint selector screen. You can also filter sprints based on their status such as ‘Active’, ‘Future’ & ‘Closed’.

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🎉Additional authorization methods for POST action ✔️

POST rule action will now provide more flexibility with two additional authorization methods Bearer token and Custom header.

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🎉Template gallery for quick creation of release notes templates 📑

The template gallery feature is now live. Here you can see a list of ready-to-use templates useful for certain use cases. While you create a new template, you can easily browse, preview and use templates from the template gallery. We will be building a comprehensive gallery of templates that support a wide range of use cases.

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🐞Fixed - Max JQL results (per JQL) setting ⚙️

Max JQL results (per JQL) setting set from the admin panel was not working properly due to some bug, It has been fixed now. Maximum no. of issues fetched in a JQL section and bar charts will depend on this instance level setting.

🎉Jira 9.1.0 Compatibility ⚒️

Bug fixes related to Jira 9.1.0 Compatibility.

🎉Introducing bar charts 📊

Stats macro is now called a ‘Stats & charts’ macro. You can include a simple bar chart showing the count of issues returned by configured JQL aggregated over values of specific Jira fields. Read more.

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🎉Ability to add page break in sequential layout for PDF template 📑

In the PDF template, page breaks can be added in sequential layout. Using this, you can choose to show each issue on a separate page of the PDF.

🐞Jira 9.0 compatibility 🛠️

Bug fixes related to Jira 9.0 Compatibility.

🐞Minor bug fixes & improvements 👍

Few fixes & improvements related to support for sprint variables and markdown templates.

🤹‍♂️ Added support for bullet listing in group-by customization editor ✅

New WISWYG editor for group-by field customizations now support the bullet listing applied to group by field variables.

🎉Customization of 'Group by' fields layout is now completely flexible 👏

'Group by' field WYSIWYG editor is here. As opposed to the earlier 'custom CSS' approach, we now have released a full-fledged WYSIWYG editor to tackle the group by formatting.

Note: This change is applicable only for the new templates and existing templates will continue to show the earlier 'custom CSS' approach.

Read more.

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🎉Support for sprint variables is here 🥳

If you use 'sprints' in your agile software development, you can generate release notes for your sprints created in Jira through ARN. Just like version variables, ARN now supports sprint variables in the templates and JQL sections. Plus, we have added the ability to trigger a rule automatically when a sprint is marked completed in Jira. Read more.

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🎉Ability to insert expand macro in confluence template 🙌

The “Expand’ macro is one of Confluence's most popular macros. ARN confluence template now supports the ability to include expand macro. Read more.

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🐞Fixed ! Rule actions triggered multiple times for version release trigger 🐞

There was a bug due to which rules with version release trigger were getting executed multiple times. This has been fixed now.

🎉Remote pdf generation service introduced as a backup 🐞

A couple of customers are facing problems while generating release notes in pdf format. While the behavior is very peculiar, we are still not able to reproduce it and thus fix it. Thus, a temporary remote service is being allowed to be used for PDF generation. This service will be used for a couple of months until we release a new version of the app that includes a different library for pdf generation.

🐞Fixed a bug preventing users to view logs in a certain scenario 📝

A bug where logs were not accessible when the rule creator was deleted from Jira is fixed

🐞PDF library upgrade ⬆️

Library used to generate the documents in PDF format is now upgraded to the latest available version.

🎉Notification to admin while disabling 'run rule as' setting ⚠️

Admins shall be notified with list of projects which have active rules with rule actor ‘App user’ when they disable ‘run rule as’ setting. This will help admins to identify and disable such rules if required. Read here more about ‘run rule as’ setting and its impact.

🎉Now, create and execute rules from cross project ARN screen 📢

The ability to create rules and publish release notes from the cross-project ARN screen is here. You can create rules for email, confluence, POST action, and JSD announcement actions with the manual trigger. You can also see rule execution logs within cross-project ARN screen.

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🐞Improvement in rule execution logs 👋

When a rule is triggered, entry for individual rule actions which are queued for execution, shall be seen in the logs immediately. This will give quick confirmation to the user that rule is triggered successfully. Status of individual rule actions shall get updated when they get executed one by one.

🎉Easily navigate to ARN in-project screen from cross-project screen 🧭

Many early ARN users would find it difficult to locate the in-project ARN screen and end up accessing the cross-project ARN screen. Now, you can easily navigate to ARN in-project screen from the cross-project screen. You have the necessary permission to access that screen.

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🎉Easily navigate to ARN cross-project screen from in-project screen 🚸

Users can easily navigate to ARN cross-project screen from their regular in-project screen.

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🎉Rule execution logs older than 90 days shall be automatically cleared 🗑️

Rule execution logs which can be viewed from logs tab, shall be available only up to 90 days. Logs older than 90 days shall be automatically deleted by the system.

🎉Insert page break in PDF templates 📑

Ability to insert page breaks in PDF template is now added so that, you can format the PDF output in a better way.

🎉Support for second level 'group by' field is here ! 👏

Now, you can add up to two fields in ‘group by’ configuration of JQL section. When two ‘group by’ fields are added, issues returned by JQL will be grouped by second ‘group by’ field within each group created by first 'group by' field. Read here more about this.

🎉New & improved JQL suggestions 👏

JQL suggestions are now more relevant & appear in logical groups. You will also get suggestions for the ARN-specific variables which makes template creation a lot easier.

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🐞'Epic Link' was not shown as a link in 'group by', fixed ! 🐛

There was a bug due to which the ‘Epic Link’ field when added as ‘group by’ field in JQL section, was not properly shown in the template as a link (even when ‘display as a link’ is enabled). This is now fixed.