2020 -

🎁​​ Enhancements

• Added reports & setting related permissions to 'Roles & permissions section'.

• Performance improvements on My forms page

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

🎁​​ Enhancements

• Jira admin facing screen has been added that allows Jira admins to show/manage UpRaise admins & super admins when UpRaise is set to Group-based access.

• Default form templates inserted as sample templates

• Introduced 'Edit user role' permissions in roles & permissions.

🐞 Bug fixes

• System was not updating team members when synced with the Jira-group, now fixed

🎁​​ Enhancements

• Now UpRaise can be synced with HRIS tools to manage user/team’s data. Read How do I integrate with AD, LDAP & other HRIS tools for centralized user management? for more details

• Previously, system used to list down all OKRs of a team member those are in closed, ready for grading, carried forward & Abandoned to be imported in forms

  • This restriction is now removed and it lists all OKRs of a team member

🐞 Bug fixes

• Job description custom attribute (inserted by default) is changed from multi-line type to single-line type.

🎁​​ Enhancements

• Search by OKR Id is now enabled. Users can search OKRS in universal search with OKR ids

🐞 Bug fixes

• Jira issues as KRs configuration-related issues fixed.

🎁​​ Enhancements

• Labels are now displayed on hierarchy view & explorer view

🐞 Bug fixes

• The Leave balance page was not displaying, now fixed

• Fixed a few UI issues on hierarchy & explorer view

🐞 Bug fixes

• Leave status updates now happening in different transactions to avoid bulk failures

🎁​​ Enhancements

• UpRaise access can now be based on Jira user groups

• Integrated bulk sync & import from Jira user groups for further improvement in UX

🐞 Bug fixes

• User update was causing unintended credit adjustment on leaves, fixed

🎁 Enhancements

• User’s leave policy/scheme associations are now displayed within the user profile page

• User create & edit now happens via extended pop-up, all attributes can be added/edited rather than just the default ones

• Leave balance page available to the UpRaise admin restructured for better UX

🐞 Bug fixes

• Some leaves were displaying on incorrect dates in the calendar view, fixed

🐞 Bug fixes

• When epics from next gen projects were linked as KRs, progress calculation was failing. Now fixed.

🎁 Enhancements

• Thumbnail view on the browse OKRs screen is now available

• Metric KR progress automation is now in place

  • Customer satisfaction from JSD can also be tracked using this automation approach

🎁 Enhancements

• One objective can now contribute to multiple objectives

• New filters added for Alignments & KRs section on objective details page

• Quick links to assigned OKRs to logged in user or team lead (in case of team objectives) on create objective pop-up

• Cascade invisibility on hierarchy & explorer view settings are now available

  • Read Cascade Invisibility for more details

👨‍💻 Tech

• Security bug fixes

  • Users with no access can fetch users history

  • Users with no access can fetch teams details

  • IDOR user with low role can create, update, delete the calendar of other user

  • Low role user can access leave request of other users

  • Low role user can change roles & permissions

  • Normal user can access and change the company settings

  • View key results added to a private project's issue under restricted objective

  • User with no access role can delete other users' views

  • Users with no access role can create and fetch views under OKRs

  • Users can link issues of a private project as a key result

  • IDOR - Users with no access role can view company objectives

  • No access user is able to fetch okr progress data

  • No access user is able to fetch usage report data

  • No access user is able to fetch all dashboard data

  • No access user is able to update limited roll out setting

  • Backend validation missing on objective api's

🎁 Enhancements

• Ability to move KRs from one objective to the other

• Change in sequences of actions on objectives for improved UX

👨‍💻 Tech

• Security fixes that came out of our ongoing bug bounty program

🐞 Bug fixes

• OKR filters return different results in browse and hierarchy

• Form permissions related fixes

🎁 Enhancements

• Complete flexibility in setting up granular permissions around forms

🎁 Enhancements

• Complete flexibility in setting up granular permissions around company directory

👨‍💻 Tech

• Security bug fix - normal users were able to manage custom profile attributes

🐞 Bug fixes

• When adding KR comments, error was thrown if KR owner was different from comment creator - addressed

🎁 Enhancements

• Ability to watch Objectives & Key results

🐞 Bug fixes

• Epic statuses were not correctly reflected within UpRaise, addressed

• Fixed the root cause of new relic errors

🎁 Enhancements

• Extensive feedback permissions are now available

🎁 Enhancements

• Worklog page on user profile is now available in Alpha

🐞 Bug fixes

• Epics due dates were not populated within UpRaise OKRs when they were added/updated after linking. Fixed

• Metric does not allow same original & target values anymore

🐞 Bug fixes

• When confidence score setting was set to manual & someone updated the score manually, threw an error but the score was updated correctly. Now fixed

🎁 Enhancements

• User profile pages now have an additional tab that display feedback for & by the user.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Editing leave requests was creating a duplicate entry in the database. Now fixed. This was introduced in the last release.

• 👨‍💻 Tech

  • Security enhancements & bug fixes

🎁 Enhancements

• It is now possible to categorise templates for better organisation.

👨‍💻 Tech

• Performance of ‘My leaves’ page improved.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Objective serial numbers were causing a problem in some corner cases, potential solution deployed.

🎁 Enhancements

• Usage report is now available

🐞 Bug fixes

• The spelling of ‘My leaves’ corrected

🎁 Enhancements

• When aligning objectives, suggestions now show up by default. Ability to search/create an objective for alignment still exists but we’ve made it secondary.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Objective alignments were not displayed in any specific order, fixed. Now they are displayed in the order in which they were aligned.

🎁 Enhancements

• UpRaise administrators can now export the feedback data in an excel.

🎁 Enhancements

• It is now possible to mark a team as inactive, when it is not active anymore but you don’t want to delete it.

👨‍💻 Tech

• Security enhancements & bug fixes

🐞 Bug fixes

• KR dates were resetting to one day before what was entered, fixed

  • Scheduled form distributions were not working as expected, resolved

🎁 Enhancements

• Review forms now support date type of question

  • Comments when more than 5, are hidden under ‘Show x older comments’ button

  • ‘Leave’ word can be configured across the system to match the cultural needs e.g. Time Off, Vacation etc

🐞 Bug fixes

• Only one item from the KR history was being displayed, fixed

🎁 Enhancements

• Ability to add numeric attributes to user profiles

🐞 Bug fixes

• Some profile attributes which shouldn’t be, were editable

  • Security bug fixes

👨‍💻 Tech

• Evaluation license abusers can be blocked from using the app

🎁 Enhancements

• Ability to bulk sync UpRaise users with Jira

  • Now multi-line attribute supports WYSWYG editor

🐞 Bug fixes

• Security bug fix - User without permission was able to delete the objectives, fixed.

  • Some profile attributes were editable in cases when they were not supposed to be, resolved.

  • Minor fix related to leave application.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Form response sharing was throwing error due to a previous change, resolved.

  • OKR comments were indirectly referenced and it was possible for someone to impersonate other users by modifying the HTTP requests. No evidence of any tampering exists, but we are fixing these security issues as part of ongoing initiative.

  • Form builder was behaving erratically when questions were moved up & down or when multiple choice questions were used, now fixed.

🎁 Enhancements

• OKR module is now live with customisable roles/permissions. We will soon be extending other modules with this possibility.

  • Key results now also have start dates. Up until now they were same as that of the objective start date.

  • Objective & KR progress charts enhanced to display ideal vs actual progress. Also, the charts now display progress comparison according to the ‘current date’ on which user is looking at them.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Objective dates were not considered during alignment. So it was possible for two objectives with completely different dates to align with each other. Now fixed.

  • OKR hierarchy view wasn’t showing user avatars, resolved.

  • Minor fixes

🎁 Enhancements

• Leaves summary page enhancements.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Minor security fixes.

🎁 Enhancements

• Universal search feature to easily search for OKRs, users & teams is now available.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Change in sequence of objective cycles displayed in filters to make them reverse chronological

  • Improved handling of Browse OKRs column size drag & drop, now much easier than what was before

  • Minor issues related to forms - extreme labels for opinion scale questions were not visible while responding to a form, renaming template was resetting pagination, distribution description was displayed as empty despite setting a value

• 🐞 Bug fixes

  • We got the security/penetration testing done via a 3rd party & received few bugs that needed fixing. With this release, we’ve fixed first lot of items that are important to make the app secure.

  • Minor bug fix related to ‘manage leaves’ screen.

🎁 Enhancements

• Jira issue search is now improved. No basic/advanced modes. Simply type in issue id or other search params & results will be displayed.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Non-admin users were not able to access teams in the OKR alignment pop-up, that is now fixed.

  • When adding Jira issues as KRs, if the summary was lengthy it would hide the ‘Weight’ field - addressed.

🎁 Enhancements

• Manage leaves page UX improved with easy access to users who are not assigned to any scheme/policy

🐞 Bug fixes

• OKR progress charts were showing for the entire X axis even if the current date was somewhere in the middle, fixed

  • OKR summary tab UI improved a bit

  • Add users in bulk pop-up had a checkbox missing in the table header, addressed

  • Objective cycles dropdown sequence rearranged for better UX

🐞 Bug fixes

• Jira cloud’s REST API does not send user keys anymore. While we had already handled this change for accountID across the app, the pop-up for adding users was not handled. This is now fixed.

?? Enhancements

• Default OKR configurations are modified for better user experience on fresh installs

🐞 Bug fixes

• Browser console error while editing a leave type, fixed

  • Some permissions for OKRs were not behaving as expected, addressed

  • Single day on calendar was showing only 3 events at a time, resolved

  • Minor bug fixes

🐞 Bug fixes

• User profile links on team tree view were broken, fixed

  • Grade & carry forward action failure in some cases, addressed

  • Drag & drop key results action was not working, resolved

  • Leave balance page was displaying some users twice on applying the user status filter, done

🐞 Bug fixes

• OKR hierarchy view was not showing company objectives when they were not aligned, fixed

  • Leave balance page was throwing a JS error due to which all leave types were not displayed on screen, addressed

🐞 Bug fixes

• Browse OKRs filter toggle was not working, fixed

  • There was a bug in one specific case when an objective was moved to a different cycle, addressed

🎁 Enhancements

• Explorer view is now available for visualising relationships between OKRs

• Filters on the Hierarchy/Explorer view are modified for better UX

🐞 Bugs

• Deleted distribution was visible on ‘My forms’ page

🎁 Enhancements

• Manage leaves page UI changes

🎁 Enhancements

• Calendar UI enhanced to show additional event details (e.g. leave type) without an extra click

🐞 Bug fixes

• Bug that was preventing ‘non-active’ users being removed from leave policy is now fixed

🎁 Enhancements

• OKR progress chart report is now available

🐞 Bugs

• Leave policy was displaying an incorrect number of users associated with it, bug fixed

🎁 Enhancements

• Email notification preference centre introduced on user profile page

• OKR summary page further enhanced to display stats about the currently selected view

🎁 Enhancements

• Some templates (even when distributed) were showing no questions inside of them, when viewed. Fixed.

• Form distribution responses, when exported were empty. Addressed.

🎁 Enhancements

• OKR summary page part I is now live

🎁 Enhancements

• The feedback summary page go live

🎁 Enhancements

• Ability to export user profile attributes from UpRaise company directory

• UI improvement for objective cycle listing

👨‍💻 Tech

• Springboot version update

• All.js source update

🐞 Bugs

• Minor regression bug fixes

🎁 Enhancements

• It is now possible to rename the templates, even after they are distributed

• Browse OKRs page now has ‘Reset width’ option to reset the column widths

🐞 Bugs

• Minor bug fixes

🎁 Enhancements

• For a 360 distribution, when admin was accessing the responses - there was an error when using the pagination. That error is now addressed.

🐞 Bugs

• Minor bug fixes

New features

• Two new configurable leave statuses available

  • Availed - past dated: This one identifies all the leaves that were created after the leave was actually availed

  • Availed without approval: This one identifies all the leaves that did not have ‘Approved’ status before they turned into ‘Availed'

🐞 Bugs

• There was an error while trying to add a Jira issue as action on a metric KR, that is now addressed.

• Minor bug fixes.

🎁 Enhancements

• Enhanced Slack integration

  • It is now possible to add a comment on feedback directly from Slack

  • Feedback requests can be responded to right from within Slack

  • The feedback that is visible to all can be routed to a pre-defined Slack channel

🎁 Enhancements

• Further performance improvement in browse OKRs page loading time

• Performance improvement in OKR Hierarchy view page loading time

🐞 Bugs

• Minor bug fixes

🎁 Enhancements

• Ability to rename different levels of OKRs

  • e.g. If you call Company level OKRs by ‘Corporate OKRs’ or even individual OKRs by ‘Personal OKRs’, you can configure UpRaise accordingly

• Also, it is now possible to have multiple layers of OKRs based on team types

  • e.g. Department OKRs, Division OKRs, etc.

• Additional columns are made available on the Browse OKRs page

🐞 Bugs

• Minor bug fixes

🎁 Enhancements

• Form reports were not adhering the sequence of questions in the actual templates.

🐞 Bugs

• Minor bug fixes

🎁 Enhancements

• Onboarding flow modified to make the installer as default UpRaise administrator

🐞 Bugs

• Minor bug fixes