Introduction
On List view of the Releases tab, when you click on the Version name it displays the version details as shown in the image below.
Edit, Release & Archive buttons are available only for Jira project admin. They can edit, release or archive versions right from the Version details page.
This view includes three tabs -
Summary
Issues
Comments
Let us all of these tabs one by one
Summary
As the name suggests it is a complete summary of the release. The below information is visible on the summary -
Name - Name of release
Start date - Release start date (if specified in release)
Release date - Release date (if specified in release)
Clicking on show more will show the Description of the release if that is specified
In four boxes you will see -
Total number of issues in the release
Number of issues in To Do Status
Number of issues in in-progress status
Number of issues in done status
Release date
Charts
Issue type overview - Distribution of the total number of issues by their types. Hover on each color to know the number of issues in each type
Statuses overview - Distribution of the total number of issues by their statuses. Hover on each color to know the number of issues in each type
Team workload
In this section, the distribution of issues in the release by assignees is displayed based on the statuses like to to, in progress, done.
Cliking on go to the list view takes you to the Issues tab
Recent activity
This section shows recent activities by different users on the issues from the release
Issues
On this tab you will see the list of issues, along with their priority, type, Key, summary, assignee names, and status.
Columns on the issue tab can be configured as needed. You can select all the Jira default and Jira custom fields as columns.
Group by dropdown allows you to group issues by Jira default and custom fields. This gives you complete flexibility over deciding your focus on issues in the release. This enables you to do better planning of the releases because of proper segmented view.