Atlassian News

Clover 2.4 released, now test smarter with Test Optimization

kolofsen — 2008-11-06

We are pleased to announce the latest version of Clover which now adds automatic Test Optimization capabilities to our award-winning Java code coverage tool.

The Clover 2.4 release takes advantage of the "per-test" coverage data already being tracked in order to automatically optimise your testing. This means you spend less time running your builds and automated tests, and more time cranking out quality code.

We have also packed in several enhancements to make the integration with your existing development tools, like Ant, Maven2, Eclipse, and IntelliJ IDEA, that much easier. For all the details on the over 40 major issues and bugs fixed in the this release, check out the release notes.

Failure never tasted so sweet

For developers, the only thing more frustrating than waiting 15 minutes to find out you have broken the build is waiting another 15 minutes to see whether your fix actually worked.

With Clover's Test Optimization, each optimised build will selectively run the tests that cover your changes. Test Optimization will also re-order those tests to ensure the ones most likely to fail go first.

"If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate."
Thomas John Watson, Sr., Former President of IBM

Our own Brendan Humphreys explains how to avoid testing too much and leverage Test Optimization to increase the frequency of the tests that matter. Also, check out why failing fast is actually a good thing:

Check out more Clover videos!

Easy integration to the tools you use

Whether you are using Ant or Maven2, Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA, Bamboo or other CI systems.. running Clover 2.4 has never been easier:

* Ant users, just add two lines to your build.xml
* Run the maven-clover2-plugin as part of the default maven2 lifecycle
* Get instrumentation, in-line annotation, quick navigation and reporting right in your favourite IDE
* Automatically generate coverage reports from Bamboo

Want to see more?

Join us for a webinar next week to learn more. Just click on the time below to register:

Tues, Nov 11, 2008 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PST/16:00 GMT
Tues, Nov 11, 2008 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM PST

Check out all of the details about what's new in Clover 2.4 including more videos!

Crowd 1.5 Now Supports Google Apps

lkhalil — 2008-09-05

Today we're happy to announce that the newest version of Crowd now includes single sign-on support for Google Apps and OpenID 2.0.

This new release extends Crowd's identity management capabilities to Google Apps, allowing a user to authenticate directly to Google Apps with the one username and password they use to log on to other enterprise applications.

In addition Crowd 1.5 offers support for OpenID 2.0 and Apple OS X Open Directory. Crowd's OpenID support gives administrators a simple, secure way to provide OpenID accounts for their users, and further centralize authentication to OpenID-supported web sites.

For all the details check out our press release below or take a look at the Crowd 1.5 Release Notes.

To take Crowd for a 30-day fully functional test drive, click here.

New Confluence Shizzle - 2.9, Office and SharePoint Connectors

barconati — 2008-08-12

Today's an auspicious day for Confluence fans - Confluence 2.9 is out in the wild, with a gaggle of new features, 140 resolved issues and two wickedly cool plug-ins: the Office Connector, which lets users edit Confluence pages with Microsoft Office and OpenOffice clients (free for all customers), and the SharePoint Connector, which allows SharePoint and Confluence to share content and generally get cozy with each other (available as a for pay add-on).

New in 2.9

Confluence 2.9 has a few important and targeted improvements:

Improved search: we've simplified the Search screen to make it easier to find what you're looking for, and Confluence by default now searches across all spaces and object types (pages, news items, comments and more). Filtering results - by Space, object type, date or contributor - is a piece of cake.
Beautiful charts: we've radically refreshed the charting engine and the new charts generated by the Chart macro are simply gorgeous. Lots of formats and chart types are supported, and your friends will now ask if you're a graphic designer in addition to a financial wizard.
Auto save: small but important enhancement to display a time stamp of the last saved draft right by the save button. No more wondering.
Build a Gallery: the improved Gallery macro helps you display a pictures sets visually on a page. Easy to use, and comes with a fancy lightbox to view individual photos.
Updated Demonstration Space: we added a ton of spit-and-polish to the demonstration space bundled within Confluence. The space includes simple, straightforward demonstrations of Confluence's capabilities and an easy to follow tutorial for newbies.
140 end user driven fixes and improvements: the dev team has been busy. There's a complete list of all the other goodies here.

Introducing the Office Connector

Along with Confluence 2.9, today we announced the Office Connector, a completely sweet piece of integration magic. The Office Connector brings Confluence to the masses, and lets anyone participate in creating and editing Confluence pages just using Microsoft Word (or OpenOffice). It does some pretty slick things with Excel and PowerPoint too. In fact, ever heard of SlideShare? Well you could create SlideShare for your company using Confluence and the Office Connector. The technology for the Office Connector comes from Benryan Software, a plugin developer that Atlassian acquired in July, 2008.

Here's a video of the Office Connector in action:

SharePoint Connector goes into Production

And finally, we're pleased to announce the official release of the SharePoint Connector. This connector basically allows Confluence to search across SharePoint TeamSites, and embed content from SharePoint TeamSites into Confluence pages. And conversely, the Connector includes two Confluence-specific WebParts that allows SharePoint to embed Confluence content into TeamSites. One WebPart displays a navigation tree view of a specific Confluence space, and the other displays specific content from a Confluence page (a chart, an image, a section, some text, you name it), or just the entire page. Check it out at http://www.atlassian.com/sharepoint.

Here's a video of the SharePoint Connector in action:

More to come

These plug-ins complement the growing and powerful catalog of extensions to Confluence, made by some of the coolest new companies in the business, like Gliffy, Balsamic, Theme Builder, Approvals workflow Be sure to check those out as well.

Believe it or not, Confluence 3.0 is going to be even hotter. Stay tuned...

In the meantime, check out our press release for more details on Confluence 2.9

Confluence 2.8 Gets a Facelift!

lkhalil — 2008-04-18

We're happy to announce the latest release of Confluence. The newest version includes major UI improvements with an improved interface, drag and drop page reordering and simplified menus.

Taking a look at some of the highlights of Confluence 2.8:

Dynamic menus and Simplified Screen Design

Drop-down menus now replace tabs and links. Grouping of functions is more intuitive and a cleaner screen design lets you focus more on the page's content.

Drag and drop page ordering

Manual page ordering is now possible within Confluence 2.8. Choose the order in which wiki pages are displaced and use a dynamic tree view to drag and drop you pages into the right position.

Enhanced commenting functionality

The comments on pages and news items have been beautified. Now, collapse comments onto a single line and keep better track of multi-level comment threads.

With over 90+ improvements in this release, how could you resist getting your hands on Confluence 2.8? w00t!

For more information on Confluence, or for a free 30-day evaluation, click here.

For more details on this release, check out the Confluence 2.8 Release Notes
or see the press release below:

Bamboo 2.0: Continuous Integration on Steroids

lkhalil — 2008-04-15

We're happy to announce the release of Bamboo 2.0, the latest version of our continuous integration server!

This release introduces the ability to run distributed builds. You will find this particularly useful if you need to run your builds in different geographic locations, or on different platforms. Simply install the new Bamboo Agent on your additional build servers, and your main Bamboo 2.0 server will be able to manage them. We have also provided a number of plugin points in case you need to control your distributed builds programatically.

For all the technical nitty gritty, check out our release notes. To learn more about Bamboo, or for a free 30-day evaluation, click here.

For more information, check out our press release below:

Atlassian Introduces the Next Generation Issue Tracker -- JIRA Solver

lkhalil — 2008-04-01

We're happy to announce the release of our latest and most anticipated new JIRA plugin -- JIRA Solver.

Using sophisticated code-inspection tools acquired from Cenqua, fourier analysis, latent semantic mapping and advanced AJAX integration, JIRA Solver takes your issues one step further, and resolves them. Quickly, quietly, and with no need for programmer
intervention.

Features include:

* Advanced artificial intelligence techniques running on a map/reduce architecture
* Automatic and instant identification of "nuisance" issues
* Auto-generated responses with configurable "tone", using Commentator
functionality acquired from Cenqua

In beta since January, JIRA Solver has been at the hands of over a twenty development teams worldwide. Beta tester, John Marion, head engineer for Mission IT exclaims, "JIRA Solver has single-handedly fostered phenomenal team performance. I don't think I have ever seen a team this far on day one of Systems Integration Test in my life."

Pricing for JIRA Solver starts at $1200 USD and is available for purchase as of today. For more information, visit: http://www.atlassian.com/solver/

Crowd 1.3 Solves Your Identity Crisis

lkhalil — 2008-03-07

The Atlassian Crowd team is delighted to present Crowd 1.3. This release includes innovative solutions for LDAP group administration, cross-directory user imports and a streamlined management interface.

Crowd 1.3 features delegated authentication, giving users greater control of LDAP group administration, while allowing users to be managed in Crowd. This means local systems administrators can bypass the bureaucracy and easily configure user permissions, group configurations and passwords from Crowd without having to make changes in a central directory.

"LDAP shows central administrators the nitty gritty of a database-- often the information isn't easy to understand. That's where Crowd comes in. Crowd is a great way to see what's in the central directory and makes changes at a local level while maintaining the integrity of the LDAP directory," notes Dave O'Flynn, Crowd Team Lead.

Taking a closer look at the highlights of Crowd 1.3:

LDAP Authentication with Crowd Groups and Roles

Crowd 1.3 provides a new directory type, Delegated Authentication, combining the features of a Crowd internal directory with delegated LDAP authentication. This allows you to have your users authenticated via an external LDAP directory while managing the groups and roles in Crowd. Now you can set up a group configuration in Crowd for use with Confluence, JIRA and other Atlassian products.

Cross-Directory User Importer

Our new Directory Importer allows you to copy your users from one directory into another. Provided that the directory is defined in Crowd, you can copy from and to any directory type.

Streamlined User Interface

The Crowd Administration Console has a new menu structure and an enhanced look and feel. A left-hand menu grants easy access to the functions you use most often, such as searching for a user or group. A single 'Administration' tab holds the configuration options, system information and backup/restore functions.

For all the details, check out the Crowd 1.3 release notes or see our press release below.

Over 200 organizations around the world rely on Crowd for identity management, authentication, and single sign-on. Pricing for Crowd starts at US$600 per license, making the software affordable for small businesses as well as the world's largest enterprises. A fully functional 30-day evaluation of Crowd is available here.

Our Valentine's Day Gift to Developers: cLOVER 2.1

lkhalil — 2008-02-15

We're happy to announce the release of Clover 2.1, just in time for Valentine's Day!

Clover 2.1 allows you to tailor your code coverage reporting even more closely to your needs. Configurable risk metrics let you choose an algorithm that matches your definition of a project risk. 'Coverage Clouds' are now available for every individual package. Building on the per-test coverage that was introduced in Clover 2.0, in Clover 2.1 reports from merged databases now include per-test coverage data.

Additionally, a whole range of advanced charting options are available. Clover historical reports are now much more configurable, especially the charts and movers section. You can now customize which data gets shown, where.

Upgrading to Clover 2.1 is free for all customers with active Clover software maintenance at date of launch.

For the full details, check out our press release below:

Cutting-Edge Plugin Released for Confluence Hosted

lkhalil — 2008-01-15

We're pleased to announce that EditGrid has created a plugin of their online spreadsheet that is now available to Confluence Hosted and Confluence Enterprise Hosting customers.

EditGrid's online spreadsheet lives entirely in the web browser--no browser plugin or Flash required. It allows for real-time collaboration on spreadsheets in Confluence, ensuring that co-editors are always working on the latest version.

The second most popular online spreadsheet on the market, EditGrid has some of the most advanced functionality available.

Features include:

Real-time updates: allows multiple users to see dynamic changes to a spreadsheet.

Industry leading features: more than 500 functions, the greatest of any online spreadsheet.

Import and export: accepts common file formats such as Microsoft Excel, CSV, HTML, Gnumeric, Lotus, OpenOffice and assigns fine-grained access control.

Live Chat: enables multiple users to discuss changes from within EditGrid, no need to switch to another chat application.

What could be better than that? Well how about that the plugin is completely free to all Confluence Hosted and Confluence Enterprise Hosting customers.

Confluence Hosted and Confluence Enterprise Hosting customers include The Wall Street Journal, Nintendo of America, Accenture and Illinois Wesleyan University. To learn more about Atlassian's hosted software and for a free thirty day evaluation, click here.

And for the full documentation on EditGrid for Confluence Hosted, click here.

To read the entire press release, please see below.

Dynamic Duo: Introducing FishEye 1.4 and Crucible 1.2

lkhalil — 2007-12-10

We're happy to announce the release of Crucible 1.2 and FishEye 1.4! Both products work closely together, with FishEye allowing programmers to view their source code repository and then use Crucible for dynamic peer code review. The new versions offer dozens of new features and improvements and are integrated more tightly together.

Highlights in these releases include:

Integration: review status of files and changesets available throughout FishEye
Workflow: optional simplified reviews
API: access to reviews and Perforce 'Jobs'
Administration: projects and user groups
Security: permission schemes
Atlassian JIRA: enhanced FishEye plugin, new Crucible tab and new direct review creation
Atlassian Crowd: single sign-on across applications, corporate LDAP directories, Windows Active Directory, and many hundreds of other third-party products

What's so exciting about both of these products is their ability to make distributed software development much more efficient. If you aren't already doing code reviews, there are plenty of good reasons to start.

Nearly 200 organizations rely on Crucible for efficient code review and over 1200 use FishEye to monitor, search and analyze their source code repository. Customers include BP, DaimlerChrysler, GE, NEC, Pfizer, and Sony.

New to FishEye and Crucible? Visit the product home pages for FishEye and Crucible to see why you should start using them today. Or simply download a 30-day fully functional evaluation copy of Crucible here or FishEye here and start using them today.

For more information, read our press release below:

JIRA 3.12 has arrived!

lkhalil — 2007-12-09

We're happy to announce the release of JIRA 3.12. The latest version of JIRA provides a number of enhancements, and with over 100 improvements, it paves the way for the for the upcoming launch of JIRA Studio.

Major highlights of this release include:

'Trusted' Confluence

The major feature of this release is the ability to 'trust' Confluence. For people who use both JIRA and Confluence, the ability to configure a 'trust' relationship between the two will allow for a seamless end-user experience. So for example, the 'JIRA Issues' macro will now display exactly the same list of issues on a Confluence page that the user would see in the JIRA Issue Navigator. No longer is there a need to hard-code JIRA user names and passwords on a Confluence page. Please note that you will need to install the forthcoming Confluence 2.7 or later.

'JIRA Systems Administrator' Permission

Also included in this release is a new global permission, 'JIRA System Administrators'. This will be particularly useful for organisations where the JIRA administrators are not necessarily the same people who are responsible for maintaining the file system and network environment.

Granting the 'JIRA System Administrators' permission to only a controlled number of people will give your Windows or UNIX administrators greater peace of mind, while people with the 'JIRA Administrators' permission can enjoy full control over JIRA-specific administration.

To learn about more features included in JIRA 3.12, keep reading below:

Atlassian Wins Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award

lkhalil — 2007-12-05

We're excited to announce that Atlassian has been ranked #20 by Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 for Australia! The Fast 50 ranks the fifty fastest growing tech companies based on revenue growth from 2005-2007. Atlassian rocked with a staggering 357% growth in revenue over this period.

For more information, check out our press release below:

Single Sign-On, OpenID Just Got Easier with Crowd 1.2

lkhalil — 2007-11-29

We're excited to announce the launch of Crowd 1.2, the latest version of our centralized authentication, single sign-on and OpenID application. Crowd 1.2 is a major release with over 70 improvements. This version of Crowd gives sys admins greater control over directory permissions and additional features for use with OpenID, Subersion, Acegi and more.

Taking a look at some of Crowd 1.2’s newest features:

Crowd's directory permissions now allow finer-grained control, so that you can define the permissions per application.
The Group and Role Browsers now display group/role membership.

Other enhancements include:

Enhanced group management in the existing Jive Forums and Apache/Subversion connectors.
A new connector lets you integrate your Acegi security solution with Crowd.
And you can import your Bamboo users directly into a Crowd directory.

To take Crowd 1.2 for a test drive, download a free 30 day evaluation copy. If you’re upgrading from a previous version, check out our upgrade notes for more information.

If you're thinking about using Crowd in your organization, check out our Top 10 Reasons You Should Be Using Crowd.

For further information, read the press release announcing Crowd 1.2 below.

Introducing the SharePoint Connector for Confluence

jsilvers — 2007-10-18

Today at the kick off the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, we're announcing our new SharePoint Connector for Confluence.

So, what is it?
In sum, the SharePoint Connector for Confluence does exactly what it sounds like it would do: allows customers to bridge the products together. Two separate collaboration repositories can live separately yet be used together. First generation features of the new plugin include cross-product search, content sharing, and linking. Single sign-on between the products is accomplished via Atlassian Crowd.

Why build a connector?
For us, the work we're doing with Microsoft is important for a number of reasons:

You, our customers, had requested it. Around eight or nine months ago, after Microsoft started marketing SharePoint Server 2007 to their customers, the SF office was deluged (only slight exaggeration) with calls from our customers asking how they could use the two solutions together... or if they competed? We didn't have a good answer for them. Now we do.
Even though MOSS 2007 has wiki capabilities, some SharePoint customers will want a dedicated enterprise wiki solution. Now there's an awesome solution that doesn't obviate their SharePoint investment.
There are a lot of terrific wiki solutions available on the market today. We're delighted that Microsoft picked Confluence as the one they wanted to work with for their inaugural launch of the SharePoint platform for Web 2.0 solutions. (And whoever said Java and .NET, the lion and the lamb, couldn't lay down together? )

More details: Overview, FAQs, Features, Download, etc here. The SharePoint team will be contributing their $.02 on the official blog of the SharePoint product group.

The product is in beta now and there's a slew of people to thank for building a very brilliant Connector in a short time, but none more so than Jonathan Nolen and Brendan Patterson... seriously, you guys rock!

If your company is using SharePoint but you think they could benefit from a full-time, full-featured wiki, try Confluence and the new Connector.

UPDATE: Here's Robert Scoble's interview with Mike and Jeffrey about the announcement:

Click below to read the complete press release.

Confluence 2.6 Ships!

jsilvers — 2007-10-01

Atlassian is proud to announce the latest version of Confluence, the enterprise wiki. Confluence 2.6 offers user-friendly UI changes, including a new theme with a fresh look and feel. Additional new features include default content for spaces, template labels, official MySQL 5.0 support, PDF export of images and default bundling of the social bookmarking plugin.

Where to next?

Complete release notes
Download a fully functional evaluation
Customers with active Maintenance agreements can upgrade free