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Version 3.9.1

Release date - 02 Jan 2019

New features

• OKR punch-in report is now available

• Ability to enable/disable specific level of OKRs.

  • Read Disable or enable objective levels for more details. 

• All types of custom fields are now applicable in OKR progress calculation configuration

  • For more details read How to manage progress calculation settings for Jira epics & issues as KRs?

🐞 Bugs

• Minor bug fixes. 

Version 3.9.2

Release date - 14 Jan 2019

New features

• More powerful OKR filtering based on labels

  • Labels are now clickable & display all OKR view filtered based on the clicked label

• It is now possible to have OKR levels that meet your needs e.g.

  • Corporate level

  • Department level

  • Division level etc

    • These levels are completely customizable & can be configured based on your needs.

• Enhanced filter management on browse OKRs page 

  • It is now possible to rename/delete a 'view'/filter from browsing OKRs screen.

  • In the upcoming release, we will enhance this with an ability to share the views/filters with other Employee Sucess users/teams.

🐞 Bugs

• Minor Bug fixes

Version 3.9.2.1

Release date - 28 Jan 2019

🐞 Bugs

• Team dropdown was broken while creating/editing team objectives.

• Dashboards now do not need to connect to the internet for displaying charts/graphs

• Sorting was broken on Browse OKR columns after the last release

• An unknown error occurred an error while adding objective

Version 3.9.3

Release date - 07 Mar 2019

👨‍💻 Tech

• Jira 8 compatibility

New features

• Ability to add confidence status to Objectives manually

  • Now objective owner can select relevant confidence status for his/her objective

  • We are going to add more enhancements in this feature

• Ability to mark a team as 'inactive'

  • Now you need not to delete teams and objectives associated with the team

• REST API for GetObjectiveCycles

• Use chartjs to render charts in UpRaise instead of google charts.

• Retain the last visited view on browse OKR page

• Browse OKR filter 

  • Removed level wise objective filters. 

  • Added 'My objectives' filter that caters all levels of objectives owned by logged in user. 

  • Team filter extended on browse OKRs to allow 'Logged in user is a member of'

🐞 Bugs

• Minor bug fixes

Version 3.9.4

Release date - 04 Apr 2019

New features

• Create or edit team objectives permission can be granted to any user (who are not team leads).

  • Previously you could only select team leads to create/edit team objectives.

  • Now admin can select any team member even if she is not a team lead

• On a request from a majority of the customers, we have brought back on-screen filters

  • This is useful to pin down a specific set of OKRs within a view during meetings)

  • This ensures that you don't have to 'store a view' even for a quick temporary search.

  • On-screen filters apply on top of the 'view' that is selected.

  • On-screen filters can be hidden from the screen to reduce the clutter.

  • You can also choose which filters you want to be displayed.

  • Your latest view & the on-screen filters are persisted to be used for your next visit to browse OKR screen.

• Sharing your OKRs views with others

  • Your OKRs views can now be shared across users and/or teams.

  • This works the same as you'd set the objective visibility.

• 'Clone' a distribution

  • You can pick existing distribution, make changes (if needed) and simply distribute!

🐞 Bugs

• Minor bugfixes.

Version 3.9.4.1

Release date - 29 Apr 2019

New features

• Ability to support multiple business units within OKRs

  • Now it is possible to have multiple separate units created within Employee Success & then create independent OKRs for them

  • Refer What are 'Units' and how to use them in UpRaise?

Version - 3.9.5

Release date - 20 May 2019
New features

• Ability to add company objectives in objective cycle

  • On a request from a lot of customers, this feature is brought into the app.

  • You can create separate cycles for company objectives or add them to any existing objective cycle.

  • Note for existing users of Employee Success

    • Existing company objectives are moved to relevant objective cycles.

    • If system doesn't find any matching cycle then a new generic cycle is created for such company objectives.

    • Please check your OKRs settings page.

• Introduced a new workflow called One-On-One discussions

  • This workflow has been added to self & manager review template.

  • Specially designed to conduct One-On-One meetings/reviews.

  • Read One on one performance review

• Confidence status display names to be made configurable

  • Now it is possible to change default confidence status names to anything you want.

• Added a few new on-screen filters

  • Teams, Owner's Team/s, Confidence status filters added to the existing list of on-screen filters.

• Objective start date is now visible on the objective details page.

• 'Cheer' & 'Like' buttons from the objective details page are now removed.

🐞 Bugs

• Minor bug fixes

Version - 3.9.6

Release date - 06 Jun 2019
New features

• My Dashboard improvements

  • Now all my dashboard shows data based on OKRs views instead of forcing users to see ready for grading or in progress objective list

• Browse OKR page improvements

  • following columns added to browse OKRs columns list -

    • Latest objective or KR comment,

    • Objective or KR description

    • Grade remarks on OKRs

• Reports page layout update 

• New UI for Objective status and compliance reports

Version - 3.9.7

Release date - 01 Jul 2019
New features

• Ability to configure confidence score and status with KRs.

  • Now you can associate confidence scores & status with KRs

  • A weighted average of KR confidence score & objective alignments will reflect as the total confidence score of the objective

  • Customizable score range and status labels now allow you to define your own confidence level system

  • Check below documents for more details

    • Confidence score/status configurations

    • How does automatic confidence score calculation work?

Version 3.9.7.1

Release date - 17 Jul 2019
New features

• Hierarchy view is now complemented by 'Explorer view'

  • It is a treelike presentation of OKR hierarchy view

  • Navigate to hierarchy view page >> Click on 'E' to see explorer view

• Ability to manage team type

  • Now admins can edit or delete team types

🐞 Bugs

• In the last release (V 3.9.7) there was a bug that caused progress percentages & confidence statuses to go wrong. That is now corrected. At the time of this upgrade(v3.9.7.1), app will scan through all OKRs & ensure their confidence status, progress percentages are correct

• Other minor bug fixes

Version 3.9.8

Release date - 09 Aug 2019
New features

• Keyboard shortcuts introduced for all important actions

  • Read this document for more details

• Filters added on objective details page to sift through the list of KRs & alignments.

  • For more details read below documentations -

• Feedback can now be given to multiple users at a time

• Objective owners are not populated automatically

  • Assign to me, assign to team lead - actions appear beside the owner field

• Introduced a new feedback type called 'independent'

  • Previously if a user has not selected any feedback type it was considered as independent feedback by default.

  • Now we have added a separate feedback type called 'independent' allows you to classify your generic feedback properly.

• Close & Carry Forward option should be available for 'Ready to Close' objectives

• Share form option even if the distribution is closed

• Field labels on give/request feedback pop are changed

  • 'Receiver' is now 'feedback for' & 'shared with' changed to 'visibility'

🐞 Bugs

• Minor bug fixes

Version 3.9.9

Release date - 12 Sep 2019
New features

• Rest API updates

• While punching on To do KR, current value checkbox is not checked by default now

🐞 Bugs

• Minor Bug fixes

Version 3.9.9.1

Release date - 13 Sep 2019
👨‍💻 Tech

• Jira 8.4 compatibility

  • UpRaise is now compatible with Jira 8.4 

Version 3.9.9.2

Release date - 04 Oct 2019

🐞 Bugs

• Hierarchy view now groups together KRs & Alignments to make them more readable.

• OKR status was updated a day before due date, in some cases. That should now be addressed.

• OKR export excel now includes original value, current value & target value.

• The confidence score configuration bug introduced in the last release is now fixed.

• 360 form excel export was revealing reviewer names even when they should have been anonymous, that is now fixed.

Version 3.9.9.3

Release date - 09 Oct 2019
New features

• A configuration is now available that lets you cascade invisibility within the hierarchy view. Read Cascade Invisibility for more details.

🐞 Bugs

• Confidence score column was not being displayed on the browse OKRs screen, that is now corrected.

• Objective & KR detail pages were not loading if they were linked to a deleted Jira issue, now rectified.

Version 3.9.9.4

Release date - 15 Nov 2019
New features

• App now supports the interface in multiple languages

  • This release only deals with the support. In an upcoming release (before EOY) we will ship with German language.

• REST API added to fetch a list of all teams within Company Directory

Version 3.9.9.5

Release date - 05 Dec 2019
New features

• Employee Success server & DC versions now support REST APIs to get the forms data in your own tools for further processing.

• Now punch-in automatically turns To Do key result status into in progress. Up until now, To Do key results only had Pending & Done statuses.

🐞 Bugs

• Minor bug fixes