Missed last weeks webinar on "What's New in JIRA 3.13? No problem! A 30 minute is below (and also on Atlassian TV) for your viewing pleasure. And thanks to everyone who attended. We've heard your feedback, and we'll be doing more of the sessions!

Once you've viewed the session, be sure and swing by the Webinar Landing Page to find links, copies of slides, and answers to common questions from the live sessions.

As I recently mentioned , you can now get a Personal license for JIRA for free! Gratis! Zero dollars. No Dinero! Gratuit!

But what can you do with free, personal JIRA?

Well, there were lots of good suggestion in JRA-10393, such as using Personal JIRA to learn, or to develop a plug-in. And I'm sure, with over 275 Personal Licenses already generated in just the first two weeks, lots of people are doing just that.

Track Personal Projects

Or you can be like Andy Bang (father of Christina Bang, one of our Pre-Sales Engineers). Andy will use his Personal JIRA to track work against two personal websites he maintains, one for a Boy Scout troop, and the other for a Rugby team. Andy loves JIRA, but has to use another bug tracker at work (I feel your pain, Andy), and doesn't want to track personal tasks there, so he's installed a server in his house, and will have JIRA and Subversion running there shortly.

Moving? Use JIRA?

Or follow Julia Westen's lead. I noticed Julia Twittering about her Personal JIRA:

Julia was kind enough to give me all the details, too. Here is what she had to say:

At work we use JIRA, Confluence and Bamboo as part of our daily workflow. (We are also doing a trial of Fisheye and Crucible!) So, I was already familiar with JIRA and how good it can be for task/issue tracking.

Anyhow, when I found myself with overwhelming mental lists, a bunch of emails I was trying to keep track of, a bunch of random papers and at least one large project (buying a house), I realized that JIRA would be the perfect solution. And, not just for the current project of moving house but also for future things we want to do. I remembered that my husband had told me recently you had personal licenses (he's the one at work who has convinced everyone to use Atlassian products).

So, we installed that on the server we have space on and we have one project, Home, right now. I just started putting in tickets yesterday and I've got 32 so far! I've used components for Home Maintenance and Improvements, various move categories (utility setup, getting to closing, physical move, other) and a general other. I can see me using this for keeping track of lots of things (I could possibly even use it for keeping track of who's left to buy Christmas presents for -- hey if you've got it, why not use it?) especially all the things I want to do that I'll forget otherwise.

Got a great idea for your Personal JIRA? Go get your license, and let me know what you do!

As I announced yesterday, we've just released JIRA 3.13.

If you like to see 3.13 in action, and get a chance to talk to us about it directly, then join us for a What's New in 3.13 Webinar next week.

We're offering two sessions, doing our best to span the time zones. You'll need to register before hand to attend, so please select the registration link that works best for you:

Wed, Sep 17 8:00 am Pacific time
Wed Sep 17 5:00 pm Pacific time

And for those of you who can't make either of those times, we'll make a recorded version available next week.

Hope to see you there!

Atlassian is happy to announce the release of JIRA 3.13!

With this release, we've gone back to basics, and took a long look at jira.atlassian.com, a.k.a. JAC, our public Issue Tracker. We picked some of the most popular requested features, and put them into JIRA 3.13. Those features include:

Our top vote-getter, with over 430 votes . JIRA dashboards can now be shared with your user group, project or all JIRA users. Now JIRA experts can create dashboards for less technical users. For example, if you use JIRA to track your hiring process (as we do!), a JIRA expert can create a Dashboard for use by your HR people. Once Dashboards have been shared, users can search for them, and "favourite" them to add them to their JIRA home page.

Next up, with over 400 votes, the ability to restore a single project . Prior to 3.13, restore was an all or nothing process. Now you can restore a single project from a previous JIRA backup into an existing JIRA instance. System and custom fields are restored, along with history, links and (optionally) attachments. But some data elements, such as workflows, are not. Please be sure and check the documentation on Project Import for all the details.

Another popular request, with over 170 votes, is the ability to change an active workflow . Now, instead of making a copy of an active workflow prior to editing, you can edit in place.

Another popular request, with more than 80 votes.! It's been possible to share filters for some time now, but only with a single group, or everyone. With 3.13, you can share your filters with multiple groups, projects, users, roles, or any combination. And just like the new Dashboards, you can search for and favourite filters.

Free (as in beer) JIRA! A JIRA Personal License will allow you to create a single instance of JIRA with three registered users with full access and unlimited anonymous visitors. As with our other Personal Licenses, support is not provided, and the JIRA instance must be for personal, non-commercial use. More details and instructions for getting your personal license are on the JIRA Personal Licensing page.

• A number of UI improvements, such as the addition of a Progress Bar for some long-running transactions, additional fields on the sub-task creation form, and several convenient new drop-down menus in the header.


• A new version of the Fisheye plugin, featuring new graph types, is bundled with JIRA 3.13.


• As Jon recently mentioned the new Bamboo plugin (available separately) allows you to integration JIRA with Bamboo 2.1, greatly increasing the amount of build information available in JIRA.


• The release of JIRA 3.13 has closed over 200 issues on JAC. Take a look at what else we've done.

You can grab 3.13 right now in our Download Center, and be sure to review both the Release Notes and, if upgrading from an older version of JIRA, the Upgrade Guide.

A few days ago, we rolled out a significant update to our hosted development tool, JIRA Studio.

First, we've upgrade JIRA Studio to Confluence 2.8. Laura posted all the details about 2.8 earlier, but in brief, Confluence 2.8 features an updated user interface focused on making our Wiki easier to use (and look at), better searching, and more, for a total of over 90 improvements. Check out Laura's Post for more details on Confluence 2.8.

Speaking of search, this update to JIRA Studio includes Studio-wide searching. The search box found on every page now allows you to search across Issues, Wiki pages, Reviews, and Code. And you can filter the results based on Project. Have a look:

Performance was another focus of this update, and you'll see big improvements in the Source and Review tabs.

Finally, we now allow certain 3rd party plugins to be installed into your JIRA Studio Instance. Currently we support Gliffy and EditGrid for Confluence. EditGrid and Gliffy licenses are, as they say, sold separately. Check out the JIRA Studio Plugin Policy for complete details.