🎉📢 Exciting update: ARNR now supporting Jira 10! 🚀

Automated Release Notes & Reports is now fully compatible with Jira 10!💡 Enjoy seamless integration, improved performance, and enhanced stability for effortless release note generation.

Upgrade now to stay ahead and streamline your workflows!🔄

🎉New Template in the Gallery – Bug Tracking and Resolution Report 🐞

Say hello to the Bug Tracking and Resolution Report template! This powerful addition to the template gallery gives you a clear picture of bug activity, resolution times, and severity distribution of past 30 days.

What’s inside?

• Overview of bug stats: Get metrics like bug count, severity distribution, and current statuses.

• Visual insights: A bar chart for bug priority and count for quick data interpretation.

• Summary table: View critical bug details (key, priority, assignee, and resolution) in a compact table format.

• Template available in 3 types - PDF, Email and MS PowerPoint

Keep your projects on track and squash bugs faster with this new reporting template! 🚀

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🎉Performance improvements ⬆️

We've optimized how rule actions and their attachment templates are stored for enhanced performance.

🎉Introducing new 'Grid layout' in the JQL sections ! 🗂️

Check out the new Grid layout in JQL sections! It lets you display Jira issues as stylish cards in 2, 3, or 4 columns. Plus, there's a fresh template in the gallery: ITSM Weekly Major Incident Report. Give it a spin!

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🎉Seamless Import/Export for Templates 🎉

We’ve introduced a new Import/Export Data feature in Automated Release Notes & Reports! Admins can now seamlessly migrate templates between Cloud and Data Center or vice versa. This feature includes an intuitive interface for importing/exporting templates, detailed action logs for tracking status, and robust error handling to ensure smooth operations. Enhance your migration process and take control of your templates effortlessly! 🎉

🎉✨ Introducing the new "Spotlight Issue" mode for enhanced template customization 🚀

🎉 We’re excited to announce the re-release of the Single-Issue Templates feature! After addressing a technical issue that required a temporary rollback, we’ve resolved the problem and are rolling out the feature again. 🛠️

With Single-Issue Templates, users can easily create detailed, customized templates for consistent, accurate, and efficient reporting. This enhancement saves time ⏳, improves precision 🎯, and ensures smoother issue management tailored to your workflow. 🚀

Thank you for your patience, we’re confident this update will significantly enhance your experience! 🙌

🐞Bug fix: Confluence spaces not listed in rule action🚀

When selecting a Confluence space in a rule action, the spaces were not listed in the dropdown.

✅Spaces now load correctly for the selected instance.

🐞Fix for page ID search in Confluence new editor actions 🔍📄

We have resolved an issue where users were unable to find results when searching or copy-pasting page IDs in Confluence rule actions. ✅ This fix ensures that page ID searches now return accurate results as expected. 🚀

🐞Bug fix: Image attachments in Wiki renderer fields🚀

Images attached via the attachments dropdown in a wiki renderer field were breaking when published on Confluence DC, while images uploaded via the browse button worked fine.

Fix:

✅Images now display correctly in Confluence.
✅Both uploaded and existing attachments work seamlessly.

🤹‍♂️ Custom variables now supported in AI rule action ! ✨

You can now use custom variables in JQL for AI rule actions. This lets you pinpoint exact issues by matching values to specific Jira fields, just like in your templates.

🎉📜 Track Template Edit History (Advanced Edition) 📝

Users can now track template edit history with the new “Template History” icon on the Templates page. This feature allows you to view who made changes and when, helping you stay informed about template updates. Enhance your template management workflow with the ne feature. ✨

🎉Audit history for app configurations 📋

We are now maintaining the 🕵️‍♂️ audit history of app configuration changes. Whenever updates are made to settings such as integrations, SMTP, 📅 date formats, or other app configurations, the system will now log details, including the previous and new values, 🕒 timestamp, and the 👤 user who made the change. This ensures better tracking and transparency.

🎉Enhanced Rule Action UI with New ‘Add Action’ Pop-Up 🎨🆕

We've redesigned the rule action UI to improve usability! Now, only added actions are displayed as cards with clear icons, names, and templates. You can drag to reorder actions, and changes auto-save. Plus, a new ‘Add Action’ button brings up a pop-up for easy action selection. This update also introduces a card-style rule details section and a streamlined design across rule actions. 🎉

🎉Flexible Grouping Options for Jira Fields

We’re introducing customizable grouping behavior for Jira fields! Users can now choose between “Group-by combination” or “Group-by individual values” for issue grouping. This enhancement allows issues belonging to multiple values to be repeated in separate groups, offering more flexibility in organizing your data.

Existing JQL sections will default to "Group-by combination," ensuring no changes to current outputs. Enjoy improved control over how you view and manage your issues! 🎉

🎉Trim Leading & Trailing Spaces in Wiki Fields 📑

For multiline fields utilizing a wiki-styled renderer, automatic leading and trailing empty spaces were previously added. Users now have the option to eliminate these empty spaces by enabling the “Trim leading & trailing spaces” setting for such fields. This feature can be accessed within the field-level configuration in the JQL section.

🎉📝 Track Template Edit History in the Database

Template edit logs will now be maintained in the database, capturing details like old and new values, timestamps, and the user who made the changes. This feature ensures a complete history of template modifications.

🎉🎯 Multi-Select Custom Variable 📝

This new feature enhances the release note generation process by allowing users to select multiple custom variable options while publishing the release notes.

Instead of being limited to a single select custom variable, users can now choose multiple components using a multi-select dropdown.

🎉Open AI Account Integration Simplified

We’ve introduced new AI integration settings for cloud apps, allowing users to either connect their own Open AI account or disable AI features across the app to comply with their organization’s AI security policies.

Users can also select Open AI models (gpt-3.5-turbo, gpt-4-turbo, gpt-4o) when connecting their own account.

For DC apps, we’ve added an "Enable AI features" toggle and Open AI model selection to streamline AI integrations. All API keys are securely encrypted and stored.

This feature is available exclusively in the 'Advanced Edition' of the ARNR App. Contact us for more information.

🎉🛠️ New Editing Options in JQL Section

Now available in the JQL section editors: indent tools, horizontal lines, images, and hyperlinks. These features are accessible in HTML-type templates and the ARN helper app, giving users more flexibility to customize their content.

🎉Custom Variable Help Text for Better Clarity

You can now add and view helpful descriptions for custom variables directly below the input fields on the template and rule preview screens. Hover over long descriptions to see the full details, ensuring smoother and clearer user input.

🐞Custom Variable Value Display Issue in Logs Resolved 🔧

Fixed an issue where custom variables with default values were not displaying correctly in the logs tab under the variable/title column.

🎉Trigger actions on release day with N days set to 0. 🚀

The rule trigger ‘Schedule before N number of days of a release’ now lets you trigger actions on release day. Just set 'before days’ to '0'.

🎉New Daily Standup Report template for better team tracking! 🚀📊

We’ve introduced a new template in the gallery for Daily Standup Reports, designed to enhance team status tracking. This template organizes your team’s progress by displaying issues assigned to each member in To-Do, Doing, and Done categories. For each issue, the report shows the issue key and summary, providing a concise snapshot of the team’s workload and progress during a sprint.

This feature helps you easily monitor tasks and manage team performance more effectively. The layout is clean and sequential, ensuring that all essential information is accessible at a glance, making your daily standups more efficient.

🎉📧 New Email Templates: Release, Version, Sprint, and Support Reports 🚀

We are introducing these four Email templates in the template gallery

• Release planning report

• Version workload report

• Sprint review report

• Weekly customer support report

🎉Customize ARNR Calendar titles and see project legends! 🗓️✨

You can now customize the title of your ARNR Calendar gadget for better organization on your dashboards. A new "Name" field has been added, allowing you to set a unique title that reflects the specific projects within the gadget.

Additionally, we've added project legends directly on the calendar. The project key will now appear on each release strip, making it easy to identify which project corresponds to which color. These updates improve usability across all dashboard layouts.

🎉Enhanced bar chart customization with series colors, titles, and labels 🎨📊

This update enhances user control over bar chart presentation by introducing several customization options:

1. Improved Customization: Users can now adjust series colors, titles, label positions, and grid lines to better match their data visualization needs and aesthetic preferences.

2. Dynamic Chart Titles: Users can include or exclude a chart title dynamically, providing flexibility in how charts are presented and making reports more informative and aligned with the content.

3. Enhanced Clarity: Options for customizing X-axis and Y-axis titles and label formats improve the readability and relevance of the chart, making it easier for users to interpret data at a glance.

4. Consistent Appearance: Existing charts maintain their current look unless explicitly updated, ensuring that past reports remain unchanged unless users decide to modify them.

🎉Custom variable defaults now apply for automated triggers 🔄

Default values for custom variables are now applied when templates are triggered via automated rules. This update ensures that automated triggers (e.g., version release, scheduled at interval, etc.) use the default values for custom variables, aligning with manual trigger behavior. If a default value is empty, no value will be used.

🎉Webhook enhancements now support POST requests and secure URL updates! 🔒

The ‘Webhook’ trigger just got better with these changes!

• Support for POST requests: Now, rule webhooks support POST requests, letting you add version, sprint, or custom variables within the request body. You can also view and copy the variable list in JSON format.

• Variable query parameters: GET requests still work, with variables dynamically added to the URL as query parameters.

• Ability to update webhook URL: Now, you can update the 'webhook' of a rule anytime with the 'Regenerate URL' action. Just click it to get a new, secure URL. Remember, once you regenerate, the old URL won't work anymore.

• Enhanced security: The new webhook URLs that get generated for a rule have enhanced security.

🐞Fixed multiline fields in Slack templates for plain text. 🛠️

Fixed: Adding multiline fields in JQL section in Slack templates. Works great with plain text now, but rich text elements might not display perfectly due to Slack’s message builder limitations.

🐞Direct JQL section edits without navigating main template code. ✨

The enhancement of editing capabilities for JQL section elements, such as the source code of sequential layout, title, description, table properties, and color picker for font colors, has been achieved. Previously, these features were inaccessible due to opening in a pop-up over the JQL section's own pop-up. Users were constrained to customize these settings by delving into the main template's source code, a challenging task for the average user. Now, users can directly customize these elements without the need to navigate through the main template's source code.

🎉Improved Table of Contents (TOC) feature in PDF templates 📑

We spruced up the Table of Contents (TOC) feature in PDF templates. Now you can create TOC with stylish bullet and leader styles. You can also create a two columns layout. Give it a try!

🎉Add an "End page" to PDF templates in ARN 📄

You can now add a last page for PDF templates in ARN. Just like the ‘Title page’, the new “End page" setting in advanced settings allows you to add content, images, variables, and even a background image to the ending page of your PDF template.

🎉New ARNR variable 'confluencePageId' added for Confluence page actions. 👍

You can now use the new ARNR variable - confluencePageId, just like the confluencePageURL variable. It gives you the 'Page Id' of a Confluence page created or updated using the confluence rule action.

🎉Introducing ARN dashboard with some cool widgets to track app usage 📊

Introducing our awesome new ARN dashboard! Now you can effortlessly track your app usage with our new tab. We've included cool features like Top 5 templates, Top 5 rules, and Rule execution status in the last 90 days. Take a peek and let us know what else you want to monitor for your ARN app!

🎉Introducing our new template gallery with ready-to-use reports 🎉

Hey folks, we're excited to announce the arrival of our brand new template gallery! It's got a bunch of ready-to-use templates like sprint review reports, release planning reports, and weekly customer support reports. We've even added some release note templates for Confluence and MS PowerPoint. And this is just the beginning, we'll be adding more reports in the coming months. Let us know if there are any specific reports you'd like to see. Stay tuned.

🎉Rules tab improved with new columns, icons, and customization options. 💪

Now the rules tab looks and works even better! Three new columns have been added to the rule listing table to track more information about your templates.

• Last used: Displays the date of its last execution,

• Actions: Shows list of actions added to the rule.

• Last modified date: Indicates the date of its last update.

• Last modified by: Shows the user who last modified the rule.

• Enable: Now, you can enable or disable a rule from the rule listing itself.

You can also select which columns to display from the column selector, and the rule trigger and actions are now shown as icons.

🎉Templates tab improved with new columns, icons, and customization options. 💪

Now the templates tab looks and works even better! Three new columns have been added to the template listing table to track more information about your templates.

• Last used: Displays the date of its last use,

• Used in: Shows how many rule actions it has been utilized in,

• Last modified date: Indicates the date of its last update.

You can also select which columns to display from column selector, and the template type and level are now shown as icons.

🎉View all template types in one place when creating new templates - 📋

Check out all the template types in one place when creating a new template. It's super easy to see what options are available and keep track of any new types that have been added.

🐞Bug fixed where email actions with large file names got stuck 🐛

There was a bug where email actions that have attachments with ‘large’ file names would get stuck within the ‘In-progress’ status. It has been fixed now.

🐞Fix for image display issue in Confluence pages 🛠️

In case of 'Publish to confluence (with new editor)' rule action, there were specific scenarios in which the images from wiki-styled multiline field were not displayed correctly in the output confluence page. We have fixed the potential root causes of this issue in this release.

🤹‍♂️ Added the 'Template gallery widget' on the dashboard 🎉

Check out the awesome new addition to our dashboard - the Template Gallery! Each time you visit the dashboard, you'll be greeted with a random template from our gallery. It's a great way to stay up-to-date with the latest templates. Keep exploring the gallery to make the most of our app!

🤹‍♂️ We gave the ARN app a fancy new name: ARNR! Why?

Hey there! Your favorite 'Automated release notes (ARN)' app just got a makeover! We've renamed it to 'Automated release notes & reports (ARNR)'. This means it's not just about release notes anymore. You can generate reports for all your Jira data. From monthly PDF work reports to daily Slack status updates and even quarterly review PowerPoint presentations - automate it all with your ARNR templates. Enjoy!