Release Notes for Spira v4¶

Version 4.2 (October 2014)¶

New features

Ability to have artifact dependencies and associate tasks to incidents
Enhanced source code inspection and traceability capabilities including multiple-branch support
Refreshed Planning Board for Scrum, Kanban and other agile methodologies
Requirements burndown, burnup and velocity graphs added
Build details now includes consolidated list of affected artifacts on one screen

Bug fixes and enhancements

Code preview and syntax coloring added to source code file viewing pages
Task burndown and burnup graphs updated to better visualize the information
Associations grids and reports now include the artifact status as an additional field
List custom properties can now be categorized as active / inactive and an undelete option has been added
Components are now available for categorizing tasks and incidents as well as requirements
Performance enhancements when viewing lots of project documents
Copying a project now copies the tasks associated with the requirements
Ability to rank backlog items in the updated Scrum/Kanban planning boards
Dates in reports standardized to all display in user’s local timezone rather than a mix of local and UTC
Use case scenario steps added to requirements reports
Additional functions added to both the SOAP and REST web service APIs
Incident dashboard widgets can now use either Detected Release or Resolved Release for displaying data
Sorting fixed on main project administration screen.
Build dropdown list now correctly populates on various report configuration screens
Rich-text custom properties now render correctly in the various reports

New features

Requirement types and customizable requirement workflows
Requirements now estimated in story points with evidence-based effort calculations for resource tracking
Task types and customizable task workflows
Support for organizing tasks into folders
Support for use cases and scenarios
Ability to manage project components and map requirements into different components
Integrated instant messenger capability for enhanced team collaboration
Ability to create shared project filters and add them to project dashboards

Bug fixes and enhancements

Application-wide performance enhancements especially on slower network connections
Filters now displayed for columns that are not visible to the current user
Issue associated with indenting/outdenting requirements with deleted children fixed
Notifications now include last comment when comment added to artifact
Generation of MS-Word and MS-Excel reports now handles complex markup and formatting
Generation of Acrobat PDF reports now handles larger reports without timing-out
Screenshot capture no longer relies on Java applet, migrated to HTML clipboard API
Quick-Filter panel added to requirements, incident and task list pages to increase productivity
Global search can now search by keyword and artifact token; resources added to global search
Change history for custom properties fixed to handle cases where multiple items updated at once.
Requirement name added to task list pages

New features

Support for thirty (30) custom properties per artifact and additional property types (date, user, multi-list, rich text, etc.)
Ability to raise incidents and add discussion comments from inbound emails
Cross-project resource allocation and leveling capabilities
Redesigned user interface with enhanced usability and performance
Ad-hoc report generator and cross-project reporting capabilities
Enhanced permission system with more customizable and granular user roles / permissions
Support for displaying data in different timezones depending on user preferences
Support for user avatars within enhanced discussion thread system

Bug fixes and enhancements

System remembers the custom ordering of columns in the various list pages throughout the application
Ability for users to register for new accounts, with administrators able to approve in bulk
Progress indicator now displayed on incident list pages and tabs
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format reports now available for all report types
Web-based event log added to make remote administration and diagnostics easier
Ability to log incidents and view tasks without seeing other users’ information
Ability to remove comments from an artifact
Ability to give custom properties a default value and make them required fields
Ability to edit the names of incident workflow transitions without having to delete and re-add
Easier multi-select on datagrids using SHIFT+CLICK to select ranges
System can detect unsaved changes and prompt user before navigating away
Ability to move non-modal dialog boxes in the system
Ordering of comments in discussion threads can now be changed to oldest or newest first date order