Page Comparison

Release Date - 08th December 2018

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Form distribution page was breaking when a user's key contained a comma, that is now fixed.

Release Date - 03rd December 2018 

🎁 Enhancements

• Revamped Browse OKR experience with deep filtering & ability to choose visible columns

  • Read Browse OKRs page (v3.9.3) for more details.

  • Also, read Use cases for Browse OKR filters

• Objective start dates are now editable

  • Previously start date of the objective was the first day of an objective cycle by default, now it can be any date between current date & objective cycle due date. 

• Improved Jira group-based access setting UI for better understanding

  • On the request of a few existing customers, labels/heading of this setting are changed to Grant access, Deny access.

Release Date - 04th November 2018 

🎁 Enhancements

• Ability to edit column list on browse OKRs page.

• Ability to move KRs (Metric & to do) from one objective to another.

• Three types of OKR progress reports for all levels of OKRs. Read OKR progress charts for more details. 

  • Progress view

  • Progress over time - Week over-week progress view

  • Progress over time - Month-over-month progress view

• Ability to bulk sync UpRaise users with Jira.

• Objectives that do not need grading now will have the status 'Ready to close' rather than 'Ready for grading'.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

Release Date - 10th October 2018

🎁 Enhancements

• Continuous feedback REST API is now available. For more details read REST APIs.

• Progress calculation when Jira issues are KRs is now much more configurable. One can now make use of custom fields on Jira issues to calculate progress on UpRaise objectives.

  • With this change, it is possible for Jira issues to progress as any number and not just 0 or 100 based on resolution.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes & UI improvements

Release Date - 04th Sept 2018  

🎁 Enhancements

• My dashboard & company dashboards are merged to form a single dashboard with multiple tabs.

  • Soon a team dashboard will be released.

• Team OKRs progress comparison section now lets the end user choose what team's to see in the chart.

• Ability to connect feedback with Objective as well as a Key result, in addition to Jira issue. Read How can I request feedback? & How can I give, edit, or delete feedback?

🐞 Bug fixes

• 360 template visibility bug is now fixed.

• Past dated objective cycle creation bug is now fixed.

• Logging clean up for Datacenter instances. 

Release Date - 21st September 2018   

🎁 Enhancements

• Ability to export forms in PDF format

• A couple of default templates now available

🐞 Bug fixes

• Objective & KR progress chart was displaying incorrect values

• Other minor bug fixes

Release Date - 13th September 2018     

🐞 Bug fixes

• OKR Hierarchy View loading time optimization.

  • There were a few reports that OKR hierarchy view was taking a bit of time to load. That is now optimized for quicker loading time.

Release Date - 05th September 2018     

🐞 Bug fixes

• 360 template anonymity bug that was introduced in the last release is now fixed.

Release Date - 04th September 2018

🎁 Enhancements

• My dashboard & company dashboards are merged to form a single dashboard with multiple tabs.

  • Soon a team dashboard will be released.

• Team OKRs progress comparison section now lets the end user choose what team's to see in the chart.

• Ability to connect feedback with Objective as well as Key result, in addition to Jira issue.

🐞 Bug fixes

• 360 template visibility bug fix

• Past-dated objective cycle creation bug fix

• Logging clean-up for Datacenter instances

Release Date - 22nd August 2018          

🎁 Enhancements

• OKRs section on My Dashboard now lets you drill down into an objective to view further details.

  • Read My dashboard for more details. 

• OKR hierarchy view search filters are improved to be searched by Team as well as objective owner.

• Date type question is now available in the form builder.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

Release Date - 08th August 2018          

🎁 Enhancements

• Jira issue linking via JQL 

  • It is now possible to link Jira issues as key results. Read more here.

  • This allows updating of linked issues automatically.

  • You can also add Jira issues as actions directly via JQL. Check out more details. 

• Synchronise team data from any other tool via the HRMS sync. Read more here.

• Ability to categorize review form templates.

  • In the upcoming releases, this enhancement will make way for the better organization of forms.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

Release Date - 21st May 2018       

🎁 Enhancements

• My OKRs section on my dashboard is now modified & gives clean overview of all the OKRs logged in user owns

  • My OKR section is enhanced with new progress chart.

  • The progress chart and OKR list are prioritized depending on actions need to be taken.

  • OKRs that need immediate focus are listed first.

  • This view now shows a lot of minute details about OKRs with its visual cues, such as : 

    • Green or red up & down arrows for OKRs contribution information.

    • Green or red calendar icons for start/end date.

    • Green or red dots for last punch-in date.

• To Do gadget for Jira dashboards introduced to easily keep track of assigned items.

  • This gadget displays below items that need logged in user's inputs or immediate focus.

    • Pending feedback requests

    • Pending form inputs

    • Objective grading reminders

  • These items in the ToDo list can also be dismissed by clicking on 'x' sign.

• UI/UX improvement for creation of objectives.

  • There is now a single pop-up to create any level of the objective.

• Grades of objectives are not ceiled anymore, they are displayed upto decimals.

  • Now the objective grades are stored/displayed in absolute values upto 2 decimals.

• Now thumbnail view also displays grades.

• Now admins have the option to re-open an objective even after it is closed

  • Admin & super admins can reopen closed objective.

  • This action is available in 'More' button on objective detail page.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes.

Release Date - 02nd May 2018   

🎁 Enhancements

• Now it is possible to create an upward alignment at the time of objective creation.

• Continuous feedback UI improvements along with performance enhancements.

  • UI changes on my feedback page.

  • 'Yet to shared' tab is now renamed to 'notes'.

• Impact of import OKRs is now addressed on print form, export responses, etc.

  • Added valid notes in reports if import OKRs question is available in form.

  • Enhanced the Excel export of form distribution. 

  • Enhanced the UI of print form. 

• Now the app does not import all Jira users on install, rather admin has the option to import users from one or more Jira groups.

  • At the time of installation, system will not auto-import all Jira users, only selected users can be added to UpRaise. 

  • Admins or super admin can import different Jira groups. 

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

Release Date - 16th April 2018     

🐞 Bug fixes

• Browse OKR pages were taking too much time to load if filtered on OKR owner

  • If the browse OKR pages were filtered by user, it took a lot of time for them to load. This issue is now fixed.

Release Date - 10th April 2018       

🐞 Bug fixes 

• DB Connection Issue on Jira versions 7.0 to 7.4

  • After recent performance improvements, older versions of Jira - from 7.0 through to 7.4 were throwing DB timeout exceptions on browsing OKRs. This issue is now addressed. We strongly recommend updating to this version.

Release Date - 04 April 2018          

🎁 Enhancements

• Ability to include objectives in the review form

• Ability to add section-level weightage in review forms

• Improvement in view responses UI

• Ability to convert team objectives into individual objectives & vice versa

• Ability to sync UpRaise team members with Jira user group members

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

Release Date - 19th March 2018       

🐞 Bug fixes

• Bug fixed that prevented objective cycles from being created. Was introduced in the last release - 3.7.8

Release Date - 09th March 2018   

🎁 Enhancements

• Code refactored to improve the performance of OKR features

🐞 Bug fixes

• Bug fixed that didn't allow 0 as a value in OKR grading - opinion scale type

Release Date - 19th February 2018     

🎁 Enhancements

• Continuous Feedback

  • Ability for receiver to modify feedback sharing is now available

  • Administrators can now delete the feedback even if they were not the creators

  • Better filtering & sorting on the insight view page

  • Response to feedback requests can now be created in a single click via email

  • Ability to delete a feedback request

  • Conversations are deprecated due to low adoption

  • Default labels for continuous feedback are modified for fresh installations

• Review Forms

  • UpRaise admins can now see distributions that they have created

  • Super admins will be able to view all the distributions in the system

• OKR

  • Experience with OKR grading is enhanced

  • There is a possibility to remove the grading option so the users can directly close the objectives

Release Date - 25th January 2018 

🎁 Enhancements

• OKRs

  • Ability to retrieve comments & their details on OKRs, via REST API

• Continuous feedback

  • It is now possible to restrict feedback label creation. Also, administrators get the ability to manage these feedback labels.

  • Similar to OKR sharing, continuous feedback can now be shared with the teams as well as users.

• Review forms

  • Auto-save is now available. When you are filling up a form, every 1 minute it will be auto-saved.

  • Review form assistant now allows you to view Jira issues that the team member had worked on.

• HRMS sync now supports xls file format in addition to existing JSON.

🐞 Bug Fixes

• When all the key results and contributing alignment had 0 weightage, progress calculation of the objective was incorrect.

• KR add/edit/delete emails were not triggered.

• Minor issues related to Oracle DB addressed (in some places, the variables showed up when the field was null)

Release Date - 04th January 2018          

🎁 Enhancements

• UpRaise objective attributes in issue custom fields - Read this article for setup steps. This now allows you to look at different Jira issues that are connected to UpRaise objectives as key results, in a Kanban or Scrum board. You can also include UpRaise objective attributes to be shown in the card layouts on these boards.

• UpRaise feed gadget - More interactive UpRaise feed is now available & can be added to your Jira dashboards. One can add comments right from this gadget.

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Minor enhancements & bug fixes