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Agilefant 3.2 Release notes 2013-04-17 -- Please spend a couple of minutes to register your organization at http://tinyurl.com/agilefant-registration This helps us keep a full-featured Agilefant free-of-charge forever! +--------------------+ | CHANGESET | +--------------------+ Changes from 3.1.1 to 3.2 2013-04-17 + Improvements to Daily Work + Renamed My Work Queue => Task queue + Renamed My Stories => Story queue + You can now use the Story queue to plan what stories you take on next across all your iterations, projects and products (works like the task queue) + Improvements to user rights + Non-admin users can now access the portfolio view and rank all the projects their teams have access to + Non-admin users can create new users to their teams + Small UX improvements and bug fixes + Story points in breakdown points always calculated correctly + Stories in projects and products with you as responsible for one or more non-done tasks are now visible in daily work + Create new -> Iteration: default end date = sysdate + 2 weeks + Navigation to parent stories now possible from Work Queue context bubbles + UX improvements to effort spent -dialog: + If delta to last logged entry > 8h => no ES autofill + Focus to close button upon saving EL + Stories in projects, products, and iterations with you as responsible for one or more tasks are now visible in daily work + Iteration velocity now calculated as story points / day + Hibernate updated to version 4 Changes from 3.1 to 3.1.1 2013-03-01 + Bug-fixes: + Fixed servlet context config (was causing "Could not create and/or set value back on to object" errors) + Fixed shared read-only iteration links Changes from 3.0.3 to 3.1 2013-02-27 + Improvements to roadmapping and release planning + The work breakdown view loads now much faster! + Nodes' points' now display the greater of (child items' points vs. their own points) + Nodes story points now show branch completion in terms of story points + Story info bubble shows the total effort spent in branch + Filtering works based on iteration name also (and not just backlog name) + Sum of ES in child stories calculated to StoryInfoBubble + You can now navigate to parent stories from iteration view story hierarchy bubble + Bug fixed: Upon hitting Esc in the Story info bubble, the breakdown node "disappeared" + Improvements to access rights + Bug fixed: Non-accessible standalone iterations no longer show up in all products' leaf stories view + Non-admin users can now create standalone iterations, with access rights for their own teams + Non-admin users can now create products, with access rights for their own teams + Non-admin users can now view the Daily Work of those in their teams + Build manager changed from Ant to Maven + Small UX improvements + Dialog for logging spent effort + Doesn't lose focus upon changing user + Daily total spent effort now refreshes upon deleting an effort entry + More understandable help text when opening an empty daily work page + Fixed problem with saving certain national characters + Inverted positions of Value and Points in StoryInfoBubble + Expanded accepted effort formats; now accepts .5, 30 min, and 0.5h + Database export failure in Cloud fixed + Technical changes + Added database migration library (Flyway) + Switched logging to SLF4J + Logback + Updated most libraries + Changed the way Agilefant is configured (using an XML file) Changes from 3.0.2.1 to 3.0.3 2012-12-29 + Workflow improvements to logging spent effort: + The dialog automatically autofills ES with the delta from the last entry logged by the user + Upon saving an effort entry, focus automatically to 'Close' button => If you log spent effort 'as you go', you can just hit 2x <enter> and you're done! + Story tree: Changing a child story as started automatically changes all its parent stories as started (adpated from code by Javier Bazzocco) + Sort by Iteration in Project Backlog view works again + Year-end bug in spent effort -scroller fixed + Move to Backlog -dialog: focus to text field upon dialog opening + Create new product and iteration dialogs: added text that warns that newly created products / standalone iterations seem to 'disappear' if the user does not have access rights to them + Create team -dialog: + After selecting users for a new team, focus to 'Add all products to team' dropdown + Default values for 'Add all products to team' and 'Add all standalone iterations to team' changed to 'No' + Registration link fixed to point to the correct registration form Changes from 3.0.2 to 3.0.2.1 2012-12-21 + fixed missing </font> tags in hyperlink-keyboard shortcuts in case they would cause problems in some browser/OS combination Changes from 3.0.1 to 3.0.2 2012-12-21 + Added hyperlink-keyboard shortcuts to some commonly used operations: + Task and story state, responsibles, effort left, original estimate, effort spent + spent effort, add child, add sibling, delete in the story + Select users in the Team creation dialog + See http://agilefant.freeforums.org/how-to-enable-the-keyboard-shortcuts-t346.html on how to effectively use the keyboard shortcuts! + Iteration and Product creation dialogs now read 'Project' and 'Product' (respectively) instead of 'Parent' + Rewrote a couple of error messages to be more comprehensible Changes from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1 2012-11-09 + Bug fixes: + Iteration-to-iteration story moves from the breakdown view no longer break story ranks (#1518) + New database upgrade script 300-301 to fix broken iteration storyranks caused by Agilefant versions 3.x-3.0.0 (#1459 and #1524) + Updated version of exampledb.sql Changes from 3.0 beta 2 to 3.0.0 2012-10-15 + spent effort can now be logged directly to any story from the breakdown view + Bug fixes: + No burndown if sprint start date <= creation date + exampledb.sql works also on case-sensitive environments like Linux Changes from 3.0 beta 1 to 3.0 beta 2 2012-08-22 + Bug fixes: + #1201: Email notification implemented by https://github.com/jumarkoJuraj%20Martinka from GoodData + #1258: Fixed broken Breakdown view operations: treerank & deletion Changes from 3.0 alpha 12 to 3.0 alpha 13 2012-08-10 + Bug fixes: + #1240: Effort spent calculation in iteration Burndown graph. + #Change: Reverted Effort Spent focus directly to Close-button. Changes from 3.0 alpha 11 to 3.0 alpha 12 2012-08-09 + Bug fixes: + #1117: Bug: Missing: a direct way to remove stories away from a standalone iteration. Fixed: Can be removed by moving back to its backlog. + #1239: Fix StoryInfoBubble backlog & iteration selection Changes from 3.0 alpha 10 to 3.0 alpha 11 2012-08-07 + Bug fixes: + #962: Fix the upgrade scripts so that they give everyone access to all products and remove old upgrade shell scripts from the release package Changes from 3.0 alpha 9 to 3.0 alpha 10 2012-07-20 + Bug fixes: + #848: Change delete dialog tab order in all delete dialogs (First focus in cancel, then change to OK) + #852: HeaderTooltips and focus to Close-button + #887: Leaf stories as default tab when clicking on a project + #1056: Iteration history tab throws exception - Hide until it's fixed! + #1078: Iteration assignees selector dialog (product level, projects tab) & (project level, iterations tab)'s title says "(Insert title here)" instead of "Select users" + #1144: Bug in iteration velocity calculation + #1200: Adding effort to story's task in product gives error (in daily work view) + #1207: Bug: in standalone iteration: creating a story, when top-ranked story has parent story in project, doesn't work Changes from 3.0 alpha 8 to 3.0 alpha 9 2012-07-02 + Bug fixes: + #866 Text change tweaks to project burn-up legend + #888 Text change: product/project Leaf stories tab => Backlog, Story tree tab => Breakdown, Story tree header => Product Backlog in product view and Project Backlog in project view + #913 BUG: When a story is in a Product and in a Standalone iteration, it shows up in Product Leaf stories in the product as well (should only be in the standalone iteration) + #1180 Prevent non-admins from seeing Teams and Users they don't belong to via assignee selector (in task, story, iteration, project) + #1191 Daily work - My stories shows Done stories from standalone iterations (should not show them) Changes from 3.0 alpha 7 to 3.0 alpha 8 2012-06-26 + Bug fixes related to user & access rights: + #1165 Prevented non-admin users from seeing Teams they do not belong to, as well as Users not in their teams + #1161 Restricted non-admin users from viewing anyone else's daily work + #1155 Restricted non-admin users from viewing the portfolio + #1181 Bug: in certain cases security check throws nullpointerException when non-admin opens storyInfoBubble Changes from 3.0 alpha 6 to 3.0 alpha 7 2012-06-14 + Bug fixes: + Deleting a project that has one or more iterations containing one or more stories threw exception (#963) Changes from 3.0 alpha 5 to 3.0 alpha 6 2012-06-12 + Bug fixes: + Copied story appears in project, not iteration; fixed (#961) + ID displays null when creating a new story in iteration; fixed (#1017) + Selecting [standalone iterations] in Timesheets throws exception; fixed (#943) + Clicking on iteration history tab throws exception; fixed (#1056) + Top left logo to point to www.agilefant.org (#439) Changes from 3.0 alpha 4 to 3.0 alpha 5 2012-06-08 + Bug fixes: + Iteration spent effort graph omitted efforts from stories and tasks in stories; fixed (#1108) + Exception from clicking on 'Backlogs' tab after login if there are no products or standalone iterations that the user has access to; fixed (#958) + Force Java 1.6 compilation + Enlarge -link below iteration burndown charts was broken; fixed + Refactored design issues and fixed potential memory leaks regarding anonymous DB export Changes from 3.0 alpha 3 to 3.0 alpha 4 2012-05-31 + Bug fixes: + Fixed story tree after it was broken by #977 in alpha 1.2 (#1122) Changes from 3.0 alpha 2 to 3.0 alpha 3 2012-05-31 + Bug fixes: + Bug: stories saved in regular iterations drops story rank to the bottom of the iteration; fixed (#1034) Changes from 3.0 alpha 1 to 3.0 alpha 2 2012-05-28 + Bug fixes: + Creating stories to a standalone iteration threw exception fixed + The dialog for sharing iterations as read-only gave the wrong URL; + 'Backlog' column in project leaf story list did not display iteration; fixed Changes from 2.5 to 3.0 alpha 1 2012-04-27 + Iterations can now include stories from multiple products + Iterations can now be "standalone"; this is the simplest way to use Agilefant for iteration management + The project level is no longer mandatory; a product can be advanced via assigning its stories to standalone iterations + Per-product user rights + Separated admin users from 'regular' users (admin-status can be set in new user creation) + Only admins are allowed to create products, edit teams, create users, edit other users' accounts, export the database, etc. + Admin users can set which teams can access which products + In team creation the team can be set to access all products + Likewise, in product creation, all teams can be granted access to it + Read-only iterations + Iterations can now be shared as read-only via emailing an URL token (all metrics and stories visible; tasks are hidden) + Small usability improvements + Story IDs in iteration and project leaf story lists are now clickable links for copy-paste purposes + Misc bug fixes + Fixed initialization of vertical rank in story tree of a newly created story + Overly long decimals truncated in Project metrics widget (used to create custom views into the portfolio) + Known issues + listed at 3.0 alphas' release thread at http://agilefant.freeforums.org/post643.html + new alpha releases are made whenever significant changes get done; these are announced in the above thread, along with an updated list of known issues + if you find a new issue, post it to the above thread Changes from 2.0.5 to 2.5 2012-04-08 + Improved portfolio management + Improved metrics in Story, Iteration and Project widgets used to create custom views into the development portfolio + Improved support for product and release planning + Project burn-up now displays an additional graph based on the maximum of story points in the tree (e.g. story of 10 points having two children with 2 points each => 10 points, instead of 4) + New story attribute 'Value' (a non-negative integer, similar to story points) + Drag & drop multiple stories in the story tree view with a single operation + Added 'rank to top' and 'rank to bottom' as separate buttons in the project leaf stories view for faster ranking; fixed bug regarding these actions + Improved layout when creating stories in the project leaf stories list + New stories are now created to the top of the project leaf stories list + Story IDs are displayed in the project leaf story list for easier reference + Improved iteration management + New state 'Deferred' for stories and tasks to indicate that it has been scoped out of the project or iteration. Deferred stories (tasks) are ignored in all metrics + Stories (including tasks) can now be copied in iteration view - helps e.g. in dealing with unfinished stories at the end of an iteration + Iteration burndown now depicts cumulative spent effort as a function of time (when timesheets are enabled) + Setting tasks as 'Ready' prompts for zeroing of effort left + Iteration history tab now includes trace of added/removed stories + Story IDs are displayed in the iteration story list for easier reference + User rights + Teams can now be deleted (preparatory work for the upcoming teams/products access matrix) + Support for Agilefant's research-industry ecosystem + Manual export of database for research and/or backup purposes (outputs a zipped SQL dump that you can email - Agilefant does not send anything anywhere!) + Automatic anonymization of an exported database for research purposes (all object names are replaced with their ID's, all text fields in objects are replaced with string length) + Small usability improvements + All editing is now done with single-click (instead of double-click); double-click still works, though + Smoother drag n' drop for ranking stories in story lists + Search now includes tasks as well + Focus to main frame when loading all pages (pages can be scrolled without unnecessary focus clicking when not using a mouse) + Planned size of projects and iterations now explicitly as man-hours + Misc bug fixes Changes from 2.0.4, also known as Agilefant 2.0.3 (r4337) 2011-11-26 + Usability improvements: + Navigation between Story tree and Iteration views now possible from the context info bubbles + Added a 'Recent items' tag cloud to ease finding the stories recently worked on + Improved help page texts + Bugfixes (agilefant.googlecode.com ids): + 22: NullpointerException in Daily work + 20: Trying to add spent effort when creating a task gives an error (if the task is not yet saved) + 34: Team names are not unique Changes from 2.0.3 2010-09-08 + Labels can be added when creating a new story + Possibility to show weekends as flat-lines in iteration burndown + Iteration summary, stories and tasks can be exported in Excel spreadsheet + Fixes to RESTful API and data format + Bugfixes: 0000145, 0000131, 0000159 and 0000159 Changes from 2.0.2 2010-08-25 ! NOTE ! Agilefant 2.0.3 requires Java 6 + New RESTful web API, see further details at http://www.agilefant.org/wiki/display/AEF/RESTful+API + Numerous bugfixes - mantis issues: 0000154, 0000155, 0000140, 0000151, 0000152, 0000146, 0000150, 0000147 and 0000148 - see http://www.agilefant.org/mantis/ Changes from 2.0.1 2010-07-26 + Renewed portfolios with customizable widgets + Product leaf stories view for easy drag'n'drop moving of stories + Editing multiple stories at a time in story tree is now possible Changes from 2.0 2010-06-28 + Quick search functionality + Labels in story lists + Configuring the story tree + Branch metrics in story trees Changes from Beta 2 2010-06-03 + Timesheets related bug fixes + Reduced debug levels + Performance improvements Changes from Beta 1 2010-05-28 + Daily work functionality rewritten + Lots of improvements to story tree - The hierarchy consistency is mainted. For example a child story can not reside in a different project than its parent + All functionality that will be included in Agilefant 2.0 should be present + Added help page and some quick help links + Daily Work, Timesheets, and Portfolio view can now be enabled/disabled in the settings Changes from Alpha 5 2010-04-09 + Story tree improvements - Editing story labels - Creating stories to empty story trees - Improved filtering and search capabilities + Performance improvements in project and iteration views + Ability to delete iterations, projects and products Changes from Alpha 4 2010-02-12 + Labels can be added to stories + Iteration workload + Story tree improvements, such as creating child and sibling stories + Improvements to setting pages + New user interface for logging spent effort Changes from Alpha 3 2010-01-09 -- + Project portfolio view added + Story tree on product and project pages - including changing parent-child relationships - sorting story trees + Sorting project child stories + 'My Assignments' in left hand menu + Minor timesheets improvements Changes from Alpha 2 2009-11-17 -- + Timesheets functionality implemented - including logging effort for stories, tasks, iterations, projects and products + Story tree and hierarchy on project page + Splitting stories + New layout + Lots of changes to Daily Work ================================================================= Compared to the previous major version, Agilefant 1.6, the 2.0 version has the following changes. For more information and questions, visit http://www.agilefant.org/. - Totally renewed user interface * The interface has been streamlined and works similarly in every view * Performance and ease-of-use is now on a totally different level - Conceptual model has been fundamentally changed * Instead of a workaround on iteration level, the stories are now consistent throughout the whole system * The former tags have been changed to a more intuitive and easy-to-use labeling system * A work queue for tasks has been added to the Daily Work page - Hierarchical backlog management * Product level backlog has been replaced with a story tree * Project backlog is now a collection of all of its iterations' stories * Hierarchy is allowed on project and product levels. Iteration stories can't have children - Disabling unneeded views * The Timesheets, Daily Work, and Portfolio views can be disabled through the Settings page. - Browser support: * Firefox 3.0+ and Google Chrome are officially supported * Safari should work fine * IE8 is not guaranteed to work, but works to some standard * Opera probably works to some extent, but has not been tested