Monthly Archives: November 2006

JIRA 3.7 Beta 2 Released

Wow, it has been quite a while since we have made a JIRA release, and the JIRA team have been hard at work. This release we are proud to deliver over 100 bug fixes and more than 60 improvements and new features. A lot of effort this release has been dedicated to developing Project Roles, which we hope will greatly reduce the headache of JIRA administration. Project Roles should greatly reduce the number of user groups, permission and notification schemes in the system. This feature should also place

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Gliffy!

I'm happy to announce the official release of the terrific new Gliffy plugin for Confluence. If you've been watching the Confluence mailing lists, you will have seen the beta announcements for this plugin over the last couple of months, but this is the real, 1.0 release -- just in time for Confluence 2.3. The Gliffy plugin lets you embed diagrams in a Confluence page for sharing and collaboration. Like this: We're already finding the Gliffy plugin indispensable. It adds a whole new dimension to

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Fighting Comment spam in JIRA

Recently there has been a surge of comment spam on public JIRA instances. Spammers are registering themselves as JIRA users, in order to spam issues. Atlassian is evaluating solutions to this problem. In the meantime, we have written up a JSP that can be deployed in an existing JIRA instance (versions 3.3 – 3.6.5), that will help manage the problem by allowing you to easily identify and delete spam comments. To obtain the JSP and for instructions on how to use it, please see: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRASPAM/Deleting+JIRA+comment+spam We

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Melbourne Cup Lunch

The Melbourne Cup is a big deal on the annual calendar Down Under. We spent a beautiful afternoon catching the ferry across to Will and Toby's at Manly Beach where we all enjoyed an afternoon champagne and racing extravaganza. See other photos from 2006, or even more from past years.

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