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Agilefant 3.5.4
Release notes
2015-07-03
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Changes from 3.5.3
2015-07-03
Bug fixes:
+ Fix endless loop when loading iteration burndown 

Changes from 3.5.2
2015-02-23
Bug fixes:
+ Fix burnup and burndown graphs (were not working at all on some servers)
+ Security fix: Prevent non-admins from changing admin value
+ Fix database import (on Windows Google Chrome there was "Content-Type not allowed" error)
+ Fix leaf stories tab: show story labels and task spent effort immediately (without modifying the story or task)
+ Fix left menu to show all backlogs if the backlogs list is long
+ Fix removing selected backlog in create new menu

Usability improved:
+ My work, Reporting, and Dashboards Automatically enabled for new and existing accounts
+ Admin users can now see all backlogs, even if his team(s) does not have access rights to the backlog
+ When creating new user, add the user by default to all teams if creator is admin, or to creator's teams if creator is non-admin
+ Moving stories from one backlog to another speeded up
+ Renamed Daily Work tab to My Work
+ Renamed Portfolio & Dashboards tab to Dashboards
+ Renamed Timesheets tab to Reporting

Changes from 3.5.1
2014-05-02
+ Fixed problem related to Firefox 29: dailywork and iteration views were not loading

Changes from 3.5
2014-04-07
+ Fixed Java 8 compatibility problem

Changes from 3.4
2014-04-03

New features and improvements:
+ Password hashing changed to Bcrypt
+ Search includes strings from from backlog/story/task descriptions
+ Speeded up search
+ Increased search results limit to 500
+ Speeded up queries related to spent effort entries and timesheet reports
+ New tasks are now added to the top of the task list
+ Non-admins can now create other non-admin users from the users page
+ Added explicit reference id links for tasks
+ Added story task ids to timesheets' excel export
+ Added filtering by responsible initials to project's story tree and leaf stories
+ Made the sidebar resizable
+ Sidebar open/close button now stays always visible
+ You can now choose time zone when generating timesheet reports
+ Added search for backlog/story/task id
+ Added sum of left and spent hours to project's Iteration tab
+ Added effort spent for project total hours to project metrics

Bug fixes:
+ When clicking on scrollbar, prevent blur event which was causing auto-save for description field
+ Fixed problems with database import
+ Added 'object not found' page when backlog is not found
+ Fixed showing standalone iterations in timesheets for non-admins
+ Fix to timesheets: show hours only from standalone iterations that the user can access
+ Removed max results limit when retrieving standalone iterations in timesheets page
+ Show standalone iterations in Project planning for non-admin users based on their access rights
+ Fixed spent effort to work when current date is last week of the year
+ Fixed selecting a day in spent effort when the year changes in middle of week
+ Made weekly spent effort's weekly hours dependent on the user's time zone
+ Made weekly spent effort's daily hour entry list dependent on the user's time zone
+ Do not fill backlog automatically when creating iteration in product page
+ Fix iteration excel export: take substring of strings over 32767 characters

Changes from 3.3.3
2013-11-05

Usability improved:
+ Calculate from all backlogs when no backlogs are selected on the Timesheets page
+ Changed Timesheets default interval from Today to All past entries
+ Fill backlog or iteration field automatically in Create new dialog if user is on backlog or iteration page
+ Show ‘Filters’ text in the filter image in list views (project leaf stories and iteration views)
+ Help pages to open in new window
+ Dashboards now created from a button instead of a select menu + minor text and positioning changes
+ Newly created backlog now opens automatically in the left hand backlog tree after it has been created via the Create new button
+ Parent story now displayed in the project leaf stories list
+ Show ‘(none)’ instead of project name in iteration dropdown to remove story from an iteration in the Project leaf stories list view
+ Changed the button that opens / closes stories in list views to plus/minus
+ Changed the link from Agilefant logo to Daily work (was pointing at www.agilefant.org)
+ Selected menu item in left hand Administration menu highlighted
+ Removed Recent link from top left menu (unused feature), restructured create new and search links
+ Added dropdown arrow in autocomplete boxes
+ Display  ’No items found’ message when text typed to autocomplete does not match anything in team, user or story parent selection
+ Shortened footer height
+ Enabled autoclose when clicking outside bubble popup
+ User settings: Removed change password button, password can now be changed using a text field
+ All custom portfolios are now public
+ Show tasks in project’s Leaf stories tab
+ Removed Administration tab (Administration is still accessible from left menu)
+ Added scrollbar to middle area so that the header, footer and left menu do not move when the page is scrolled
+ Stories can now be edited on the Project planning view on the product level
+ Show stories and tasks in daily work as long as they are not done, even if they belong to project or iteration that has ended
+ Added Create new story button to daily work’s My story queue
+ Added create new project, iteration and story links to the product Roadmap tab
+ ‘Backlog’ auto-filled when creating projects and stories in the Roadmap tab
+ Newly created projects, iterations and stories (via the Create new -dialog) populate automatically to the current view
+ Keep sessions active to prevent the feeling of suddenly being logged out when returning after a long period of inactivity
+ Highlighted editable text fields
+ Highlighted required fields in Create new dialogs
+ Show all possible choices (teams, users, backlogs, etc. ) when clicking auto-complete input fields
+ Simplified Create new -dialogs by removing baseline load, planned size, story value, and labels
+ Added tutorial video links to help page
+ Renamed Dashboard (formerly known as the Portfolio) tab to Portfolio & Dashboards
+ Renamed custom portfolios as dashboards and dashboard widgets as metrics
+ Renamed Assignees as Project assignees or Iteration assignees
+ Renamed ‘Started’ to ‘In progress’ and its abbreviation ‘S’ to ‘I’
+ Renamed Roadmap tab to Project planning
+ Renamed Breakdown as Story tree
+ Renamed the All backlogs accordion as Backlogs
+ Renamed ES as Spent and EL as Left
+ Renamed Context to Iteration for tasks without story
+ Renamed My stories to Story queue in daily work
+ Text changes to edit user page
+ Highlight the active backlog name in Backlogs menu
+ Moved standalone iterations as separate tree in Backlogs menu
+ Moved create new menu to left side
+ Removed My stories in iterations from left menu
+ Show add and remove all buttons in team selection when creating new user
+ Removed original estimate field from story lists
+ When creating new team, the default choice for access rights is ‘all’

Bug fixes:
+ Prevent nonadmins from creating users that belong to teams that the nonadmin user does not belong to
+ Burndown with just Spent effort wasn’t shown
+ Show user’s weekly hours as hours instead of minutes also for non-admin users

Changes from 3.3.2
2013-08-29
Bug fixes:
+ Non-admin users no longer allowed to create admin users (gasp!)
+ Select iteration autocomplete box now shows only iterations that the user has access to
+ Infinite loop when fetching story metrics prevented
+ A bug in new wersion check comparison fixed
+ Backlog access code refactored

+ Small UX improvements
  + Renamed 'Story queue' in left hand side accordion => 'My stories'

Changes from 3.3.1
2013-08-15
Enhancements:
+ Support hotline - hosted users can now chat with Agilefant Headquarters from their account

Usability improved:
+ Help page rewritten, with links to Agilefant User Guide and FAQ
+ Login name is now automatically generated based on email
+ Daily work shows a 'loading' marker when loading data
+ Upon logging into a fresh, newly installed Agilefant or Cloud account, open the 'All backlogs' accordion section by default
+ Keyboard shortcut to show the tasks of a story
+ Focus goes to username on the login page (so you can just press enter to login)

Bug fixes:
+ Vertical ordering of stories in Breakdown was broken; fixed
+ In some cases story ranks broke when moving stories between iterations; fixed (contribution by JBazzo)
+ A story that has children sometimes erroneously showed up in project leaf stories list; fixed (contribution by JBazzo)
+ Newly created custom portfolio view widgets did not show up without refreshing; fixed
+ Problems rendering the list of teams (requested at forum); fixed
+ Tasks in standalone iterations did not always show up in search; fixed
+ Effort spent in deferred stories did not show up in the Daily work Story queue; fixed


Changes from 3.3
2013-06-07
Bug fixes:
+ Java 6 compatibility - version 3.3 required Java 7
+ Fixed Nullpointerexception when clicking story in standalone iteration
+ Fixed task sort order bug
+ Corrected a bug in the parsing of the double value which depends on the current Locale
+ Fixed bug in exampledb.sql - only affected those who initialized database with version 3.3 exampledb.sql
+ Refactoring

Enhancements:
+ Added possibility to enable/disable import database

Changes from 3.2
2013-05-31
Enhancements:
+ Splitting unfinished stories in iterations made easier (Edit->Extract unfinished)
+ A small red star displays if there's a newer Agilefant version available for download
+ Export database changed from an SQL dump into a JSON dump; it no longer contains a history of all changes made
+ You can now import a JSON dump database on the Admin tab; the new items do not overwrite pre-existing data

A more verbose description of the new features can be read from:
http://agilefant.freeforums.org/post1857.html

Bug fixes:
+ DOM now updated when disabling / enabling users
+ Couldn't create stories into iterations from Create new->Story menu (previously, the search only included products and projects)
+ Added connection validation to prevent MySQL timeouts
+ Fixed a bug that in some cases produced huge errors to agilefant.log
+ Creating the readonly user required for sharing iterations as readonly now automatic when starting Agilefant on an empty database
+ Refactoring

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
+ Bug fixes and small UX improvements
+ 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
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 + 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 
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 + 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

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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