Version 7.9.0

New features

• Distribution user limit is now brought to 500 users from the earlier limit of 200.
• Now it is possible to find out Jira issues via JQL that are linked as key results or key result actions to UpRaise objectives & key results respectively.
• Create & edit view UI improved for better user experience.

Enhancements

• Archival functionality on OKRs is now rectified to be analogous with project archival in Jira.

Bugs

• Minor bug fixes

Version 7.9.0

New features

• Distribution user limit is now brought to 500 users from the earlier limit of 200.
• Now it is possible to find out Jira issues via JQL that are linked as key results or key result actions to UpRaise objectives & key results respectively.
• Create & edit view UI improved for better user experience.

Enhancements

• Archival functionality on OKRs is now rectified to be analogous with project archival in Jira.

Bugs

• Minor bug fixes

• A bug was introduced in V 7.8.0 wherein it wasn't possible to add more than one KR actions. This is now fixed.

• A bug was introduced in V 7.8.0 wherein it wasn't possible to add more than one KR actions. This is now fixed.

Version 7.8.0

Release date - Jan 16, 2023

New features

• Similar to Metric KR progress calculation, To Do key results can be configured (for progress calculation) to depend on any type of key results - be it metric, to do or even Jira issues.
• New permission option introduced to prevent certain roles from being able to access profiles of inactive/deleted users.
• Form templates can now be shared with other users so that they can use these templates in their own distributions. Up until now, you either had to be creator or a super admin to be able to do this.
• Beta version of the ‘Roadmap view’ for OKRs is here. Right now, it only supports display of first level of nesting. However, based on the feedback we receive - we will enhance this feature further.

Enhancements

• Number of key results that can be configured for progress calculation is now 50. Earlier, this number was restricted to 10.

Bugs

• Minor bug fixes

Version 7.8.0

Release date - Jan 16, 2023

New features

• Similar to Metric KR progress calculation, To Do key results can be configured (for progress calculation) to depend on any type of key results - be it metric, to do or even Jira issues.
• New permission option introduced to prevent certain roles from being able to access profiles of inactive/deleted users.
• Form templates can now be shared with other users so that they can use these templates in their own distributions. Up until now, you either had to be creator or a super admin to be able to do this.
• Beta version of the ‘Roadmap view’ for OKRs is here. Right now, it only supports display of first level of nesting. However, based on the feedback we receive - we will enhance this feature further.

Enhancements

• Number of key results that can be configured for progress calculation is now 50. Earlier, this number was restricted to 10.

Bugs

• Minor bug fixes

Version 7.7.0

New features

• Now Metric KR progress calculation can be configured to depend on any type of key results - be it metric, to do or even Jira issues.
• Deletion and Deactivation flow for OKR custom fields is now improved to keep the data integrity in place.
• There is a new section on the feedback summary page for managers. They will be able to see the feedback their direct reports have received in the given duration as well as see when they had given feedback to those direct reports. Will help managers quickly understand how their direct reports are doing.
• New way to visualise continuous feedback is now live with this version. Also available on the user profile page.
• Part 1 of the OKR summary page revamp is now available & will be enhanced with a few more sections in the upcoming release.

Bugs

• Minor bug fixes

Version 7.7.0

New features

• Now Metric KR progress calculation can be configured to depend on any type of key results - be it metric, to do or even Jira issues.
• Deletion and Deactivation flow for OKR custom fields is now improved to keep the data integrity in place.
• There is a new section on the feedback summary page for managers. They will be able to see the feedback their direct reports have received in the given duration as well as see when they had given feedback to those direct reports. Will help managers quickly understand how their direct reports are doing.
• New way to visualise continuous feedback is now live with this version. Also available on the user profile page.
• Part 1 of the OKR summary page revamp is now available & will be enhanced with a few more sections in the upcoming release.

Bugs

• Minor bug fixes

Tech

• Jira 9.5 compatibility

New features

• Ability to archive objective cycles is now live. With this action, you can easily ‘stove away’ older OKRs if they do not need to be referred to anymore. This is quite similar to how you would ‘archive’ a project in Jira.
• Whenever a Jira issue is linked as a key result or as a KR action, it is possible to view its description on the browse OKRs screen in the ‘description’ column. This is the same column where descriptions about respective objectives & key results are displayed from UpRaise.
• It is now possible to associate custom user picker fields (single & multi select) with user profiles within UpRaise company directory. e.g. Mentor/Mentee pair can be added with introduction of a single select custom profile attribute.

Bugs

• Minor bug fixes

Tech

• Jira 9.5 compatibility

New features

• Ability to archive objective cycles is now live. With this action, you can easily ‘stove away’ older OKRs if they do not need to be referred to anymore. This is quite similar to how you would ‘archive’ a project in Jira.
• Whenever a Jira issue is linked as a key result or as a KR action, it is possible to view its description on the browse OKRs screen in the ‘description’ column. This is the same column where descriptions about respective objectives & key results are displayed from UpRaise.
• It is now possible to associate custom user picker fields (single & multi select) with user profiles within UpRaise company directory. e.g. Mentor/Mentee pair can be added with introduction of a single select custom profile attribute.

Bugs

• Minor bug fixes

Version 7.5.0

Release date - Dec 1, 2022

New features

• Continuous feedback trends report is now available for users with ‘Continuous feedback’ → ‘View’ permission set to ‘Always’
• History is now displayed for OKR custom fields.
• Feedback summary page enhancements.
• Introducing ‘Maintain’ type of key results.

Bugs

• Minor bug fixes

Version 7.5.0

Release date - Dec 1, 2022

New features

• Continuous feedback trends report is now available for users with ‘Continuous feedback’ → ‘View’ permission set to ‘Always’
• History is now displayed for OKR custom fields.
• Feedback summary page enhancements.
• Introducing ‘Maintain’ type of key results.

Bugs

• Minor bug fixes

Version 7.4.0

New features

• Custom fields for Objectives & Key results have arrived. While in Beta, we are limiting the number of custom fields to 5 & will expand it later on.
  • It is also possible to use the filters on these custom fields.
• Feedback summary tree chart now allows drill down to look at the distribution of feedback into various tags.
• Objective & KR titles are now wrapped onto the next line to mimic how Jira issue titles behave.
• There is now a refresh action available on Objectives & Key results to immediately recalculate progress rather than wait for the periodic job updates.
• UpRaise admins & super admins can now enable/disable email notifications at the instance level.

Bugs

• Minor bug fixes

Version 7.4.0

New features

• Custom fields for Objectives & Key results have arrived. While in Beta, we are limiting the number of custom fields to 5 & will expand it later on.
  • It is also possible to use the filters on these custom fields.
• Feedback summary tree chart now allows drill down to look at the distribution of feedback into various tags.
• Objective & KR titles are now wrapped onto the next line to mimic how Jira issue titles behave.
• There is now a refresh action available on Objectives & Key results to immediately recalculate progress rather than wait for the periodic job updates.
• UpRaise admins & super admins can now enable/disable email notifications at the instance level.

Bugs

• Minor bug fixes

Version 7.3.0

Release date - Oct 20, 2022

New features

• New feedback suggestions feature is now available to encourage interaction among different stakeholders.
• Feedback summary page revamped to provide more insightful & actionable information.

Bugs

• Improved the experience on the UpRaise panel displayed within Jira issue details page

Version 7.3.0

Release date - Oct 20, 2022

New features

• New feedback suggestions feature is now available to encourage interaction among different stakeholders.
• Feedback summary page revamped to provide more insightful & actionable information.

Bugs

• Improved the experience on the UpRaise panel displayed within Jira issue details page.

Version 7.2.0

Release date - Oct 13, 2022

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Tech

• Jira 9.3 compatibility

New features

• Explorer view now shows additional columns to make OKR consumption easier.
• We are introducing filters for custom user profile attributes, this feature will now pave way to User segments.

Bugs

• Updated some dependent libraries to fix known vulnerabilities.
• There was an error in the application logs every time Jira issue was loaded when the UpRaise panel was turned on, fixed.
• When OKRs were imported into forms, response saving was erratic. Now resolved.

Version 7.2.0

Release date - Oct 13, 2022

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Tech

• Jira 9.3 compatibility

New features

• Explorer view now shows additional columns to make OKR consumption easier.
• We are introducing filters for custom user profile attributes, this feature will now pave way to User segments.

Bugs

• Updated some dependent libraries to fix known vulnerabilities.
• There was an error in the application logs every time Jira issue was loaded when the UpRaise panel was turned on, fixed.
• When OKRs were imported into forms, response saving was erratic. Now resolved.

Tech

· Jira 9.2 compatibility

New features

· Form autosaving feature.

· Set reminder frequency while creating a KR.

· Deleted/Inactive user's view can be managed from Manage OKR views.

· Exchange Team member & Reviewer while creating/editing a distribution.

· Progress chart on the O/KR details page is configurable.

· Alignment related filter added on Browse OKR page.

· Ability to refresh progress percentage on the objective details page.

Bugs

· "Back" Button for an Objective Does Not Return User to the Hierarchy View.

· Inconsistent Use of "Remarks" vs. "Comments" When Grading OKRs.

· Grading details overlap with other parts of the Objective Detail screen.

· Minor bug fixes

Tech

· Jira 9.2 compatibility

New features

· Form autosaving feature.

· Set reminder frequency while creating a KR.

· Deleted/Inactive user's view can be managed from Manage OKR views.

· Exchange Team member & Reviewer while creating/editing a distribution.

· Progress chart on the O/KR details page is configurable.

· Alignment related filter added on Browse OKR page.

· Ability to refresh progress percentage on the objective details page.

Bugs

· "Back" Button for an Objective Does Not Return User to the Hierarchy View.

· Inconsistent Use of "Remarks" vs. "Comments" When Grading OKRs.

· Grading details overlap with other parts of the Objective Detail screen.

· Minor bug fixes

Tech

• Jira 9.1 compatibility

New features

• Introducing ‘Recent activity’ section for OKRs to keep an eye on ongoing activity on OKRs.
• Brought in additional visibility configurations for OKRs to allow hiding of ‘All users’ option completely.
• Similar to how metric type KR’s progress can be linked to other metric KRs, the same feature is available for To Do type of KRs as well.

Bugs

• Form actions from UpRaise were visible on the Jira workflow post functions page, we have now removed them from the screen.
• UI alignment bug on explorer view fixed.
• Minor bug fixes

Tech

• Jira 9.1 compatibility

New features

• Introducing ‘Recent activity’ section for OKRs to keep an eye on ongoing activity on OKRs.
• Brought in additional visibility configurations for OKRs to allow hiding of ‘All users’ option completely.
• Similar to how metric type KR’s progress can be linked to other metric KRs, the same feature is available for To Do type of KRs as well.

Bugs

• Form actions from UpRaise were visible on the Jira workflow post functions page, we have now removed them from the screen.
• UI alignment bug on explorer view fixed.
• Minor bug fixes

• Newly created custom roles had their permissions left non-editable due to a bug. Now fixed

• Newly created custom roles had their permissions left non-editable due to a bug. Now fixed

Version 6.9.0

Tech

• Jira 8.22.3 compatibility

New features

• Ability to create your own custom roles has landed. With the existing capabilities around flexible permissions, this just completes our entire roles & permissions feature
• We have introduced ‘extended search’ within the progress calculation configurations to allow for a better search experience for those who need it
• Users from group/s that are ‘granted UpRaise access’ are automatically synced to the Company directory. Before, this was limited to Jira group/s that are synced to teams in the Company directory
• We do not show inactive/deleted users or teams in the default search results anywhere. However, these objects will show up in suggestions when you start typing in their names
• To Do & Metric type of KRs are now configurable. You can check the one that your team needs to use or keep both of them checked
• Ability to navigate back from the objective detail page introduced for quick navigation

Bugs

• Minor bug fixes

Version 6.9.0

Tech

• Jira 8.22.3 compatibility

New features

• Ability to create your own custom roles has landed. With the existing capabilities around flexible permissions, this just completes our entire roles & permissions feature
• We have introduced ‘extended search’ within the progress calculation configurations to allow for a better search experience for those who need it
• Users from group/s that are ‘granted UpRaise access’ are automatically synced to the Company directory. Before, this was limited to Jira group/s that are synced to teams in the Company directory
• We do not show inactive/deleted users or teams in the default search results anywhere. However, these objects will show up in suggestions when you start typing in their names
• To Do & Metric type of KRs are now configurable. You can check the one that your team needs to use or keep both of them checked
• Ability to navigate back from the objective detail page introduced for quick navigation

Bugs

• Minor bug fixe

• One click one level expand is now available for the OKR explorer view as well
• Updating user role was taking time in a specific scenario for large instances, we have now optimized that further
• For lengthy OKR labels, tooltips were not displayed - now fixed

Version 6.8.0

New features

• One click one level expand is now available for the OKR explorer view as well

Bugs

• Updating user role was taking time in a specific scenario for large instances, we have now optimized that further
• For lengthy OKR labels, tooltips were not displayed - now fixed

New features

• Ability to expand one level in the hierarchy view at once, with a single click is now live
• Customisable UpRaise dashboards are here
• Now KR based progress calculation shows the linkage both ways. Earlier it was only possible to see which KRs current KR depends on (from the KR details page). However, with this change - now you can even tell what other KRs current KR is linked with
• Recently there were complaints that the Objective cycle statuses were not updated automatically based on dates. While that should still continue to work as expected, if there is a situation where it doesn’t - then the buttons are displayed on screen so that the action can be initiated by the user

Bugs

• If you were using the KR based progress calculation, there was a corner case in which it became impossible to delete an involved KR - this is now corrected
• Carry forward option is now displayed even for ‘Ready to close’ objectives. Earlier it was available only on ‘Ready for grading’ objectives

New features

• Ability to expand one level in the hierarchy view at once, with a single click is now live
• Customisable UpRaise dashboards are here
• Now KR based progress calculation shows the linkage both ways. Earlier it was only possible to see which KRs current KR depends on (from the KR details page). However, with this change - now you can even tell what other KRs current KR is linked with
• Recently there were complaints that the Objective cycle statuses were not updated automatically based on dates. While that should still continue to work as expected, if there is a situation where it doesn’t - then the buttons are displayed on screen so that the action can be initiated by the user

Bugs

• If you were using the KR based progress calculation, there was a corner case in which it became impossible to delete an involved KR - this is now corrected
• Carry forward option is now displayed even for ‘Ready to close’ objectives. Earlier it was available only on ‘Ready for grading’ objectives

Minor bug fixed due to which roadmap portal link was not working as expected.

Minor bug fixed due to which roadmap portal link was not working as expected.

Release date - 9th April 2022

New features

• New feedback permissions were introduced to implicitly allow direct & indirect managers to view the feedback even if not explicitly shared.
• It is now possible to add/edit/delete comments on Team member & Reviewer type of forms, once distributed. Soon we will make this possible on other base templates as well.
• Now objective level grades are calculated as weighted average against the earlier formula of simple average. This means the weight against KRs impacts not just the progress % but the grades as well.

Bugs

• With metric KR progress automation via JQL, if the JQL returned 0 results - app wasn’t updating the current value to 0. That is now corrected.
• Project restrictions related bug fixed where users were not able to add Jira issues as KRs in a specific set up.

Release date - 9th April 2022

New features

• New feedback permissions were introduced to implicitly allow direct & indirect managers to view the feedback even if not explicitly shared.
• It is now possible to add/edit/delete comments on Team member & Reviewer type of forms, once distributed. Soon we will make this possible on other base templates as well.
• Now objective level grades are calculated as weighted average against the earlier formula of simple average. This means the weight against KRs impacts not just the progress % but the grades as well.

Bugs

• With metric KR progress automation via JQL, if the JQL returned 0 results - app wasn’t updating the current value to 0. That is now corrected.
• Project restrictions related bug fixed where users were not able to add Jira issues as KRs in a specific set up.

Version 6.5.0Release date -

New features

• Support for quarterly KR reminders is here. Additionally, you can control the default KR reminder frequency as an UpRaise admin.
• OKR progress chart dashboard gadget is now available. We are starting to make it possible to have customized dashboards based on UpRaise data.
• User profile pages now have an additional tab to show forms the user is involved in. Helps in finding the relevant information quickly.
• Similar to user history, we are now showing the team history on the team profile page.
• It is now possible to export 360 template responses in an excel sheet.
• Review forms UI is a bit cleaned up for further UX enhancements.
• UpRaise panel on the issue details page is relocated in the right-hand sidebar.

🐞 Bugs

• Minor bug fixes

Version 6.5.0

New features

• Support for quarterly KR reminders is here. Additionally, you can control the default KR reminder frequency as an UpRaise admin.
• OKR progress chart dashboard gadget is now available. We are starting to make it possible to have customized dashboards based on UpRaise data.
• User profile pages now have an additional tab to show forms the user is involved in. Helps in finding the relevant information quickly.
• Similar to user history, we are now showing the team history on the team profile page.
• It is now possible to export 360 template responses in an excel sheet.
• Review forms UI is a bit cleaned up for further UX enhancements.
• UpRaise panel on the issue details page is relocated in the right hand sidebar.

🐞 Bugs

• Minor bug fixes

Version 6.4.0

Release date - Feb 11, 2022

New features

• Metric key results now allow progress calculation based on other metric key results. This improves the progress automation logic where KRs at lower level are helping achieve the KR at a higher level. What’s more, this linkage is also visible on the hierarchy/explorer views.
• Clone action is now extended to allow for cloning of progress calculation logic that we have just introduced.
• Jira dashboard gadgets for showing OKRs data in UpRaise in the form of a pie chart is here. It is super flexible and allows for grouping of OKRs in a view based on a bunch of different attributes.

Bugs

• Up until now, the dropdowns were not displaying any values by default. That is now corrected. All of them now display 10 possible values by default & more possibilities can be searched for by typing in.
• Objective alignment at the time of objective creation used to fail, that is now rectified with appropriate permission check.

Version 6.4.0

Release date - Feb 11, 2022

New features

• Metric key results now allow progress calculation based on other metric key results. This improves the progress automation logic where KRs at lower level are helping achieve the KR at a higher level. What’s more, this linkage is also visible on the hierarchy/explorer views.
• Clone action is now extended to allow for cloning of progress calculation logic that we have just introduced.
• Jira dashboard gadgets for showing OKRs data in UpRaise in the form of a pie chart is here. It is super flexible and allows for grouping of OKRs in a view based on a bunch of different attributes.

Bugs

• Up until now, the dropdowns were not displaying any values by default. That is now corrected. All of them now display 10 possible values by default & more possibilities can be searched for by typing in.
• Objective alignment at the time of objective creation used to fail, that is now rectified with appropriate permission check.

Version 6.3.1

Release date - Feb 3, 2022

Bugs

• In some installations data export from UpRaise apps wasn’t working, that is now fixed.
• When upgrading confidence scores on OKRs were getting wiped out, corrected.
• When upgrading from any version (except V 6.2.0) to V 6.3.0, there was an error which is now resolved.

Version 6.3.1

Release date - Feb 3, 2022

Bugs

• In some installations data export from UpRaise apps wasn’t working, that is now fixed.
• When upgrading confidence scores on OKRs were getting wiped out, corrected.
• When upgrading from any version (except V 6.2.0) to V 6.3.0, there was an error which is now resolved.

Release date - Jan 27, 2022

New features

• Any changes to a team in the UpRaise company directory are now stored in the database.
• We are now storing the KR progress in the database instead of calculating it on the fly.
• We are making progress automation a central concept in the OKRs module. Thus, we have brought the progress calculation configurations to the fore on the create/edit key result pop-up itself. We plan to bring in some more automation-related options in the next few weeks.
• Team type value, if not empty, is now being displayed at all places wherever team name is displayed. This makes it easier for end users to see what type of ‘team’ they are dealing with.
• To allow reordering when there are more than 5 key results, we are now displaying a ‘show all’ toggle on the objective details page.

Bugs

• Some corrections in the Estonian language version of the app.
• OKR progress chart was displaying progress % as undefined, fixed.

Release date - Jan 27, 2022

New features

• Any changes to a team in the UpRaise company directory are now stored in the database.
• We are now storing the KR progress in the database instead of calculating it on the fly.
• We are making progress automation a central concept in the OKRs module. Thus, we have brought the progress calculation configurations to the fore on the create/edit key result pop-up itself. We plan to bring in some more automation-related options in the next few weeks.
• Team type value, if not empty, is now being displayed at all places wherever team name is displayed. This makes it easier for end users to see what type of ‘team’ they are dealing with.
• To allow reordering when there are more than 5 key results, we are now displaying a ‘show all’ toggle on the objective details page.

Bugs

• Some corrections in the Estonian language version of the app.
• OKR progress chart was displaying progress % as undefined, fixed.

Tech

• Jira 8.21 compatibility

New features

• Now you can export additional information about users involved in continuous feedback. This can help you map the users to different attributes and come out with cohort specific reporting.
• It is now possible to clone OKRs from any other cycle into a selected active/scheduled cycle. There is also the option to include KRs, Alignments etc
• Now exporting OKRs will only include those columns that are visible on the screen.

Bugs

• Minor bug fixes

Tech

• Jira 8.21 compatibility

New features

• Now you can export additional information about users involved in continuous feedback. This can help you map the users to different attributes and come out with cohort specific reporting.
• It is now possible to clone OKRs from any other cycle into a selected active/scheduled cycle. There is also the option to include KRs, Alignments etc
• Now exporting OKRs will only include those columns that are visible on the screen.

Bugs

• Minor bug fixes

Tech

• Jira 8.20.2 compatibility

New features

• Added provision in the database to block instance-level email notifications based on different event types. Soon, these will be editable from the app UI.
• Wherever team selector is available, the app now lists down all the teams logged in user belongs to make selection easier.
• User & Team profile pages now display relevant actions related to OKRs & Feedback.
• Create another checkbox now allows you to add more than one objectives or feedback messages quickly.

Bugs

• Give feedback permission wasn’t behaving as expected in a certain set up, now corrected.
• Feedback creation success message didn’t show the user’s name, rectified.
• Team member & reviewer pairs in form distributions got jumbled on save, improved the UX by making them consistent.

Tech

• Jira 8.20.2 compatibility

New features

• Added provision in the database to block instance-level email notifications based on different event types. Soon, these will be editable from the app UI.
• Wherever team selector is available, the app now lists down all the teams logged in user belongs to make selection easier.
• User & Team profile pages now display relevant actions related to OKRs & Feedback.
• Create another checkbox now allows you to add more than one objectives or feedback messages quickly.

Bugs

• Give feedback permission wasn’t behaving as expected in a certain set up, now corrected.
• Feedback creation success message didn’t show the user’s name, rectified.
• Team member & reviewer pairs in form distributions got jumbled on save, improved the UX by making them consistent.

Version 6.0.1

Release date - Oct 31, 2021

Tech

• Jira 8.20.1 compatibility

New features

• When hovering your mouse over any Team level objective, the app shows level of the objective along with the team name.
• OKR cycle & objective status update as well as progress update jobs can be triggered via a manual endpoint.
• Active objective cycles can be closed via a manual action now, rather than waiting for the job that updates their status on due date.
• It is now possible to assign custom roles to UpRaise users via the HRMS sync feature.

Bugs

• Exporting the ‘Confidential review’ data didn’t include team member name, now corrected.
• Minor bug fixes.

Version 6.0.1

Release date - Oct 31, 2021

Tech

• Jira 8.20.1 compatibility

New features

• When hovering your mouse over any Team level objective, the app shows level of the objective along with the team name.
• OKR cycle & objective status update as well as progress update jobs can be triggered via a manual endpoint.
• Active objective cycles can be closed via a manual action now, rather than waiting for the job that updates their status on due date.
• It is now possible to assign custom roles to UpRaise users via the HRMS sync feature.

Bugs

• Exporting the ‘Confidential review’ data didn’t include team member name, now corrected.
• Minor bug fixes.

• Bug fixes
• Code refactoring

• Bug fixes
• Code refactoring

• Changed version name from 5.9 to 5.9.0 to address JCMA compatibility issue. No other changes done.

• Changed version name from 5.9 to 5.9.0 to address JCMA compatibility issue. No other changes done.

New features

• Support for Emojis in all the WYSWYG editors is now available.
• OKR confidence score charts report is live.

Bugs

• There was a date related problem when exporting data (for migration from on-prem to cloud). This is now corrected.
• There were some issues while opening/closing/extending due dates of a form distribution, fixed.
• Added a validation to prevent user roles turning to ‘No access’ even when the instance access is set to ‘All users’
• Other minor bug fixes

New features

• Support for Emojis in all the WYSWYG editors is now available.
• OKR confidence score charts report is live.

Bugs

• There was a date related problem when exporting data (for migration from on-prem to cloud). This is now corrected.
• There were some issues while opening/closing/extending due dates of a form distribution, fixed.
• Added a validation to prevent user roles turning to ‘No access’ even when the instance access is set to ‘All users’
• Other minor bug fixes

• Anonymity was breached in the history section of 360 forms, fixed
• Form distribution job was not working as expected in some cases, corrected

• Anonymity was breached in the history section of 360 forms, fixed
• Form distribution job was not working as expected in some cases, corrected

Release date - Sep 13, 2021

Tech

• Jira 8.19 compatibility.

Bugs

• User mentions were failing at the time of migration to V 5.x version from any previous version. Now fixed.

Release date - Sep 13, 2021

Tech

• Jira 8.19 compatibility.

Bugs

• User mentions were failing at the time of migration to V 5.x version from any previous version. Now fixed.

Tech

• UpRaise data for cloud migration is now exported in a specific sequence to allow easy import.
• Jira 8.18.2 compatibility

New features

• Company directory user listing UI improvements. Grid/thumbnail view is improved for ease of use. Edit action is available right from the grid & the app remembers which view list vs grid you used last.
• Continuous feedback sharing options can now be configured to prevent feedback sharing with all users or teams or users. More flexibility means more power to your users.
• If you have the weight column enabled, it now shows up on the Hierarchy as well as Explorer views.

Bugs

• Now To Do KRs have ‘in progress’ status based on if they were punched in or not.
• Other minor bug fixes.

Tech

• UpRaise data for cloud migration is now exported in a specific sequence to allow easy import.
• Jira 8.18.2 compatibility

New features

• Company directory user listing UI improvements. Grid/thumbnail view is improved for ease of use. Edit action is available right from the grid & the app remembers which view list vs grid you used last.
• Continuous feedback sharing options can now be configured to prevent feedback sharing with all users or teams or users. More flexibility means more power to your users.
• If you have the weight column enabled, it now shows up on the Hierarchy as well as Explorer views.

Bugs

• Now To Do KRs have ‘in progress’ status based on if they were punched in or not.
• Other minor bug fixes.

UpRaise for Employee Success is now compatible with Jira 8.18.1

UpRaise for Employee Success is now compatible with Jira 8.18.1

Tech

• First step towards Server/DC → Cloud migration is here. Now you can export the UpRaise for Employee Success data, which we will later use to import into your cloud instance.

New features

• Now the OKRs bucket columns on user & team profile pages can also be resized similar to Browse OKRs screen.

Bugs

• Punch-in comment box wasn’t showing the text editor options when confidence score was enabled, now fixed.
• Team logo wasn’t being shown even after uploading, corrected.
• Action to delete a KR as action from issue details page was broken, addressed.
• Sorting on distributions tab wasn’t working as expected, quashed.
• OKR export from Browse OKRs screen was failing in some cases, fixed.
• Delay added for OKR progress calculation to ensure resolution is considered.

Tech

• First step towards Server/DC → Cloud migration is here. Now you can export the UpRaise for Employee Success data, which we will later use to import into your cloud instance.

New features

• Now the OKRs bucket columns on user & team profile pages can also be resized similar to Browse OKRs screen.

Bugs

• Punch-in comment box wasn’t showing the text editor options when confidence score was enabled, now fixed.
• Team logo wasn’t being shown even after uploading, corrected.
• Action to delete a KR as action from issue details page was broken, addressed.
• Sorting on distributions tab wasn’t working as expected, quashed.
• OKR export from Browse OKRs screen was failing in some cases, fixed.
• Delay added for OKR progress calculation to ensure resolution is considered.

Release date - Jul 19, 2021

Tech

• Performance improvements OKRs, Company directory etc screens

New features

• Now the hierarchy/explorer view is available even if multiple alignments configuration is turned on
• Objective conversion between different objective levels is available, even when there are multiple layers based on team types
• OKR icons are now displayed based on their levels. Earlier it was only limited to C, T & I. Now they are based on your customisation as well as team-type based levels

Bugs

• In some cases the pretty time was not displayed based on user’s Jira profile but based on their system locale, which lead to inconsistencies in some cases. Now fixed.
• Objective labels were displayed only on the top level in hierarchy/explorer view. Corrected.
• Bullet lists functionality in the editor corrected

Release date - Jul 19, 2021

Tech

• Performance improvements OKRs, Company directory etc screens

New features

• Now the hierarchy/explorer view is available even if multiple alignments configuration is turned on
• Objective conversion between different objective levels is available, even when there are multiple layers based on team types
• OKR icons are now displayed based on their levels. Earlier it was only limited to C, T & I. Now they are based on your customisation as well as team-type based levels

Bugs

• In some cases the pretty time was not displayed based on user’s Jira profile but based on their system locale, which lead to inconsistencies in some cases. Now fixed.
• Objective labels were displayed only on the top level in hierarchy/explorer view. Corrected.
• Bullet lists functionality in the editor corrected

Tech

• Performance improvements in retrieving relevant custom fields from Jira.

Bugs

• In case of an OKR being shared with ‘All users in the unit’, some objective actions were not working. Now fixed.
• Forms sharing wasn’t modifiable, addressed.

Tech

• Performance improvements in retrieving relevant custom fields from Jira.

Bugs

• In case of an OKR being shared with ‘All users in the unit’, some objective actions were not working. Now fixed.
• Forms sharing wasn’t modifiable, addressed.

Tech

• Jira 8.17.1 compatibility

New features

• Support for three new languages is now available
  • Estonian
  • Turkish
  • Spanish
• Objective cycle status & compliance report now splits up the information based on internal layers of OKRs as well (which are essentially team types)
• Many of the entities that are paginated also display total numbers e.g. Teams, Users, Designations, Distributions & Templates
• Now the team type is displayed on the team profile page
• App now remembers the last visited tab for each user and brings them back to the same place on their next visit

Bugs

• OKR progress charts were displaying flat line for non-admin UpRaise users in some cases, now fixed
• Forms related bug fixes
• Other minor bug fixes

Tech

• Jira 8.17.1 compatibility

New features

• Support for three new languages is now available
  • Estonian
  • Turkish
  • Spanish
• Objective cycle status & compliance report now splits up the information based on internal layers of OKRs as well (which are essentially team types)
• Many of the entities that are paginated also display total numbers e.g. Teams, Users, Designations, Distributions & Templates
• Now the team type is displayed on the team profile page
• App now remembers the last visited tab for each user and brings them back to the same place on their next visit

Bugs

• OKR progress charts were displaying flat line for non-admin UpRaise users in some cases, now fixed
• Forms related bug fixes
• Other minor bug fixes

Tech

• Jira 8.17 compatibility

Bugs

• User profile page was not working when all the profile attributes were deleted from the app. That is now fixed

Tech

• Jira 8.17 compatibility

Bugs

• User profile page was not working when all the profile attributes were deleted from the app. That is now fixed

Tech

• Limited rollout flag was causing problems at times for large instances, now handled.
• User profile page loading time improved further.

New features

• View teams permission is now forced to be true for all roles except no access. Moreover, this permission can not be modified. It is a fundamental permission to make the app work & thus we wanted to stay clear of any unnecessary complexities.
• Support for three new languages is now available
  • Russian 🇷🇺
  • Romanian 🇷🇴
  • Polish 🇵🇱
• Pop-ups across the app now deal better with Escape click. Also, they don’t close when you click outside of them. This will prevent any data loss.

Bugs

• In one specific case, Settings page was not loading when you migrated from pre 5.x version. This is now fixed.
• For To Do type of KR, in no case, the checkbox’s value will change without explicit user action.
• Owner’s team value was not being displayed on the Browse OKRs page, now corrected.
• Carry forward action is now available from the objective detail page.

Tech

• Limited rollout flag was causing problems at times for large instances, now handled.
• User profile page loading time improved further.

New features

• View teams permission is now forced to be true for all roles except no access. Moreover, this permission can not be modified. It is a fundamental permission to make the app work & thus we wanted to stay clear of any unnecessary complexities.
• Support for three new languages is now available
  • Russian 🇷🇺
  • Romanian 🇷🇴
  • Polish 🇵🇱
• Pop-ups across the app now deal better with Escape click. Also, they don’t close when you click outside of them. This will prevent any data loss.

Bugs

• In one specific case, Settings page was not loading when you migrated from pre 5.x version. This is now fixed.
• For To Do type of KR, in no case, the checkbox’s value will change without explicit user action.
• Owner’s team value was not being displayed on the Browse OKRs page, now corrected.
• Carry forward action is now available from the objective detail page.

Bug fixes - some reported by customers & others found during internal regression.

Complete release notes can be found here - https://amoeboids.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/UP/pages/2655027347/

Bug fixes - Some reported by customers & others found during internal regression

Complete release notes can be found here - https://amoeboids.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/UP/pages/2655027347/

Tech

• OKR hierarchy view performance improvements, loading time reduced to a couple of seconds.
• Delete team wasn’t deleting all the team members when it had a lot of members, addressed along with performance improvements.
• User profile attributes update/deletion is now async for improved loading times.

New features

• Ability to hide Weightages related to OKRs. If you are using the OKRs for first time, weights may be a bit too much for you. This configuration lets you customise that behaviour.
• It is now possible to define default OKR views rather than use the ones that are provided by the system.
• Team OKRs progress comparison section is back with team selector for easy interpretation of the data.
• Reports item is now moved out Administration section since reports are now available for all users.

And a number of bugs.

Please look at the full release notes here.

Tech

• OKR hierarchy view performance improvements, loading time reduced to a couple of seconds.
• Delete team wasn’t deleting all the team members when it had a lot of members, addressed along with performance improvements.
• User profile attributes update/deletion is now async for improved loading times.

New features

• Ability to hide Weightages related to OKRs. If you are using the OKRs for first time, weights may be a bit too much for you. This configuration lets you customise that behaviour.
• It is now possible to define default OKR views rather than use the ones that are provided by the system.
• Team OKRs progress comparison section is back with team selector for easy interpretation of the data.
• Reports item is now moved out Administration section since reports are now available for all users.

And a number of bugs.

Please look at the full release notes here.

Tech

• User profile custom attribute delete/update actions performance improvements
  • When a custom attribute was used for 1000+ users (had a not null value for them), taking any action on it was a slow process. That is now addressed.
• Distribution/distribution user reopen action was taking 20+ seconds to complete. Now resolved.

New features

• Team list size increased to 25 from 10. Now majority of the times, the team you are searching for will be visible by default.
• Role is more appropriately now called UpRaise role.
• Ability to search by OKR title is here on the browse OKRs page.
• OKR excel export now also populates Team column for KRs for easy manipulation/visualisation in spreadsheets.

🐞 Bugs

• JQL progress calculation job wasn’t working based on provided cron expression, now fixed.

Detailed release notes available here

Includes breaking changes, please go through https://amoeboids.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/UP/pages/2578284564/V+5.x+-+Milestone+releases+notes

Tech

• User profile custom attribute delete/update actions performance improvements
  • When a custom attribute was used for 1000+ users (had a not null value for them), taking any action on it was a slow process. That is now addressed.
• Distribution/distribution user reopen action was taking 20+ seconds to complete. Now resolved.

New features

• Team list size increased to 25 from 10. Now majority of the times, the team you are searching for will be visible by default.
• Role is more appropriately now called UpRaise role.
• Ability to search by OKR title is here on the browse OKRs page.
• OKR excel export now also populates Team column for KRs for easy manipulation/visualisation in spreadsheets.

Bugs

• JQL progress calculation job wasn’t working based on provided cron expression, now fixed.

Detailed release notes available here

Includes breaking changes, please go through https://amoeboids.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/UP/pages/2578284564/V+5.x+-+Milestone+releases+notes

👨💻 Tech

• Performance improvements across the entire app

:check_mark: New features

• Info drawer now brings along a consolidated view that shows information about the installed app, license as well as important links
• OKR progress chart report now supports Quarter over quarter option
• Browse OKR screen now also displays number of OKRs based on applied view/filters

🐞 Bugs

• Export action was not working due to the symlink, issue fixed
• OKR summary screen was being displayed on the grade page, addressed
• Impact on WBS gantt chart due to css conflict, resolved
• OKR views were not working as expected when shared only with one or more teams, corrected
• Next reminder date was being calculated based on objective start date & not today’s date, rectified
• KRs were not being searched on when Jira used MySQL database, resolved
• Alignments for deleted objectives are also now marked as deleted

Tech

• Performance improvements across the entire app

New features

• Info drawer now brings along a consolidated view that shows information about the installed app, license as well as important links
• OKR progress chart report now supports Quarter over quarter option
• Browse OKR screen now also displays number of OKRs based on applied view/filters

Bugs

• Export action was not working due to the symlink, issue fixed
• OKR summary screen was being displayed on the grade page, addressed
• Impact on WBS gantt chart due to css conflict, resolved
• OKR views were not working as expected when shared only with one or more teams, corrected
• Next reminder date was being calculated based on objective start date & not today’s date, rectified
• KRs were not being searched on when Jira used MySQL database, resolved
• Alignments for deleted objectives are also now marked as delete

With this release, we are bringing in the new UpRaise experience to the DC version. This is a potentially breaking version, please refer release notes before executing the upgrade.

Includes all the changes that went live for server in all previous 5.x versions. Release notes here.

• Performance improvements across the entire app
• In some cases UpRaise was adding # to the Jira urls, fixed
• Listing of teams now displays 25 records instead of earlier 10
• OKR visibility bug fix that occurred in a specific condition

Tech

• Performance improvements across the entire app
• App is now Data center compatible (Migration to the new consolidated platform for DC)

Bugs

• In some cases UpRaise was adding # to the Jira urls, fixed
• Listing of teams now displays 25 records instead of earlier 10
• OKR visibility bug fix that occurred in a specific condition

New features

• Reports are now available to even non-admin users. Right now only OKR reports are made available. Others will follow soon. Please do remember though, visibility is honoured at all times. If something is not meant to be visible to you, it won’t be seen in the reports as well.

Bugs

• Ability to set/see view id in the url is back.
• Translated versions of the app were not working as desired when Jira default language and user profile language were same, fixed.
• Upgrade to V 5.0.7 directly from V 4.5 was throwing errors, addressed these

Potentially breaking change if upgrading from any version < 4.5. Please go through these release notes first.

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Tech

• Jira 8.15 compatibility

New features

• Support for German language is back. What’s more we are now supporting French language as well.

Bugs

• Inactive teams were not called out while searching, now fixed.
• Objective cycle sequence in dropdowns wasn’t correct, resolved.
• In a corner case, OKR summary page was throwing NPE. Now it doesn’t.

We are continuing to get closer to our DC compatibility release with new migrated platform.

This release includes some more performance improvements along with a few bug fixes that were reported by some customers.

Detailed release notes here

In the next week, we will release German & French language packs.

• 'Feedback formats' are predefined templates for giving & requesting feedback. Usually the exercise of feedback exchange is daunting if you have to start from scratch. To counter that we are introducing 'Feedback formats'.
• Minor bug fixes

• Form description as well as instructions on questions can now be configured via WYSWYG editor
• Objective suggestions were not being displayed when Units were enabled, addressed
• Other minor bug fixes

• Company directory pages performance improvements
• OKR pages performance improvements
• Minor migration related bug fixes

👨💻 Tech

• Further migration related fixes

🐞 Bugs

• Non UpRaise Jira admins were not able to access the UpRaise configurations screen, fixed
• User profile → Feedback tab was missing some feedback messages, now addressed
• Form shared email notification was navigating users to incorrect link, resolved
• Search was not working for KRs on Oracle database, quashed
• Dashboard chart related errors addressed
• Pagination was not working as expected while viewing listing of team members, fixed

• Some customers had reported failures in migration, addressed the root causes
  • If you had tried upgrading to V5.0 but failed and are on MS SQL database, please run script linked below on your database (if you are not on MS SQL database, no need to run the script)
  • DB script

Bug fixes

• OKR export was failing in the new app, fixed
• Links in the feedback notifications were incorrect, addressed
• Default templates were not being displayed in reports, resolved
• Form response sharing was not behaving as expected, fixed
• Handled system comments on KRs post migration
• Other minor fixes

💥 Potentially breaking changes, please read the details below💥

We are now moving the Employee Success server app to our new consolidated platform. We have been working on this migration project for more than 6 months now.

Must do -

• This version involves potentially breaking changes, thus ensure that you are verifying this first on a test Jira instance where your previous data is restored.
• Please perform this upgrade on your production Jira instance over the weekend to avoid any potential downtime.
• This is a milestone release. Meaning, Before the earlier versions can upgrade to any version that is higher than 5.0, they have to first upgrade to 5.0 & then only they can jump to the desired one (e.g. 5.3 whenever it is released)
• At the time of upgrade, all the UpRaise screens will be blocked from access & you will be able to see a migration in progress screen.

For further detailed instructions, refer these release notes.

• Compatibility with Jira 8.13
• Bug fixes
  • Grade option was failing for closed OKRs, now fixed
  • Another error at the time of upgrade from a very old version now addressed.

• Compatibility with Jira 8.13
• Bug fixes
  • Grade option was failing for closed OKRs, now fixed
  • Another error at the time of upgrade from a very old version now addressed.

Tech

• Jira 8.12 compatibility
• Forms module migration is now complete to new platform

Bugs

• Bulk sync action in UpRaise company directory was removing admins, now addressed
• Email notification for comment Mentions had a broken link to the objective, fixed
• Other minor bug fixes

Tech

• Jira 8.12 compatibility
• Forms module migration is now complete to new platform

Bugs

• Bulk sync action in UpRaise company directory was removing admins, now addressed
• Email notification for comment Mentions had a broken link to the objective, fixed
• Other minor bug fixe

• UpRaise for Employee Success is in the last phase of migration to a new revamped platform. To ensure that all your data is properly migrated in the next couple of releases, we are introducing a 'migration check' screen.
  • This screen is available only to the UpRaise admins & clearly tells them if something needs to be fixed or if all is well for the migration to happen.
• SFTP sync failover library added
• When the JQL was more than 300 characters, app was throwing error. We have increased this limit now to 450 characters.
• Jira 8.11 compatibility

👨💻 Tech

• Jira 8.11 compatibility
• UpRaise for Employee Success is in the last phase of migration to a new revamped platform. To ensure that all your data is properly migrated in the next couple of releases, we are introducing a 'migration check' screen.
  • This screen is available only to the UpRaise admins & clearly tells them if something needs to be fixed or if all is well for the migration to happen.
• SFTP sync failover library added

🐞 Bugs

• When the JQL was more than 300 characters, app was throwing error. We have increased this limit now to 450 characters.

• Conflict between UpRaise for Employee Success and another Jira app, Clone + was reported. That problem is now resolved.
• Cleaned up logs to stop cluttering Jira error logs.
• Punch-in action accessibility made consistent from all the screens. Now the action is available only as part of the additional ‘actions’ menu and not from the ‘current value’ link or checkbox.
• Additional logging related to SFTP sync added for debugging a customer’s connectivity problem.

• Conflict between UpRaise for Employee Success and another Jira app, Clone + was reported. That problem is now resolved.
• Cleaned up logs to stop cluttering Jira error logs.
• Punch-in action accessibility made consistent from all the screens. Now the action is available only as part of the additional ‘actions’ menu and not from the ‘current value’ link or checkbox.
• Additional logging related to SFTP sync added for debugging a customer’s connectivity problem.

🎁 Enhancements

• Now a configuration is available to allow multiple contributing OKRs
• Migration to new db structure
  • Settings
  • Company directory
  • Continuous feedback
• Jira 8.9.1 compatibility

🐞 Bugs

• Bug related to hierarchy view filters fixed
• Minor bug related to permission of re-sequencing key results on objective details page addressed

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In the next 4 weeks, we will be releasing a couple of more updates focused on migrating the existing modules to the new db structure. Post that, a brand new app will be available for you.

🎁 Enhancements

• Now a configuration is available to allow multiple contributing OKRs
• Migration to new db structure
  • Settings
  • Company directory
  • Continuous feedback
• Jira 8.9.1 compatibility

🐞 Bugs

• Bug related to hierarchy view filters fixed
• Minor bug related to permission of re-sequencing key results on objective details page addressed

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In the next 4 weeks, we will be releasing a couple of more updates focused on migrating the existing modules to the new db structure. Post that, a brand new app will be available for you.

⚠️ This is a major update and can potentially break UpRaise for Employee Success if you haven’t updated the app for a long time.

✅ We strongly recommend verifying the new version on a test environment before promoting it to your production Jira.

🎁 Enhancements

• Main navigation is now modified. User & admin facing screens are now merged onto a single screen in the form of multiple tabs. This gives us a lot more space to provide more quick actions to the end users.
• Robust roles & permissions module is now available.
  • It is now possible to update permissions for ‘User’ role as many of you requested.
  • Existing permissions are migrated to the new structure but wherever conflicts were seen, we’ve put in the default set of permissions.
    • Thus, potentially some of the permissions may be different for some roles on your instance before & after the update.
• Minor bug fix where ‘Give feedback' action was giving an error in a specific scenario.
• Jira 8.8.1 compatibility

⚠️ This is a major update and can potentially break UpRaise for Employee Success if you haven’t updated the app for a long time.

✅ We strongly recommend verifying the new version on a test environment before promoting it to your production Jira.

🎁 Enhancements

• Main navigation is now modified. User & admin facing screens are now merged onto a single screen in the form of multiple tabs. This gives us a lot more space to provide more quick actions to the end users.
• Robust roles & permissions module is now available.
  • It is now possible to update permissions for ‘User’ role as many of you requested.
  • Existing permissions are migrated to the new structure but wherever conflicts were seen, we’ve put in the default set of permissions.
    • Thus, potentially some of the permissions may be different for some roles on your instance before & after the update.
• Minor bug fix where ‘Give feedback' action was giving an error in a specific scenario.
• Jira 8.8.1 compatibility

Enhancement

• It is now possible to update metric KR based on Customer satisfaction score on Jira service desk

Bug fixes

• Edit objective cycle was not working due to a conflict with Tempo timesheets
• Ideal KR progress & progress tracking chart broken in some cases
• Insight view error for graphs

Performance improvements

• Performance improvements for Data center version

Enhancement

• It is now possible to update metric KR based on Customer satisfaction score on Jira service desk

Bug fixes

• Edit objective cycle was not working due to a conflict with Tempo timesheets
• Ideal KR progress & progress tracking chart broken in some cases
• Insight view error for graphs

Performance improvements

• Performance improvements for Data center version

• Progress automation for metric types of key results is here. Read more here.
• 'UpRaise admin deleted' notifications are now configurable
• Visibility issue when using ‘Units’ feature
• Minor bug fixes & German translation corrections

• Progress automation for metric types of key results is here. Read more here.
• 'UpRaise admin deleted' notifications are now configurable
• Visibility issue when using ‘Units’ feature
• Minor bug fixes & German translation corrections

• The app interface is now available in German language
• Minor bug fixes

• App interface is now available in German language
• Minor bug fixes

• Employee Success server & DC versions now support REST APIs to get the forms data in your own tools for further processing.
• Now punch-in automatically turns To Do key result status into in progress. Up until now, To Do key results only had Pending & Done statuses.
• Minor bug fixes

• Employee Success server & DC versions now support REST APIs to get the forms data in your own tools for further processing.
• Now punch-in automatically turns To Do key result status into in progress. Up until now, To Do key results only had Pending & Done statuses.
• Minor bug fixes

• App now supports the interface in multiple languages
  • This release only deals with the support. In an upcoming release (before EOY) we will ship with German language.
• REST API added to fetch a list of all teams within Company Directory
• Bug fixes
  • When UpRaise gadgets were added to Jira dashboards, they made end user login twice (when user was not logged into Jira).
  • While filling up forms, 'This field is required' error message was not being displayed on screen due to 'auto-save' functionality.
  • API to get KR grades was throwing an error when remarks were empty

• App now supports the interface in multiple languages
  • This release only deals with the support. In an upcoming release (before EOY) we will ship with German language.
• REST API added to fetch a list of all teams within Company Directory
• Bug fixes
  • When UpRaise gadgets were added to Jira dashboards, they made end user login twice (when user was not logged into Jira).
  • While filling up forms, 'This field is required' error message was not being displayed on screen due to 'auto-save' functionality.
  • API to get KR grades was throwing an error when remarks were empty

• A configuration is now available that lets you cascade invisibility within the hierarchy view. Read more details here.
• Confidence score column was not being displayed on the browse OKRs screen, that is now corrected.
• Objective & KR detail pages were not loading if they were linked to a deleted Jira issue, now rectified.

• A configuration is now available that lets you cascade invisibility within the hierarchy view. Read more details here.
• Confidence score column was not being displayed on the browse OKRs screen, that is now corrected.
• Objective & KR detail pages were not loading if they were linked to a deleted Jira issue, now rectified.

Minor bug fixes - release notes here

Jira 8.4 compatibility

• Jira DC compatibility
• REST API updates

• REST API updates
• Minor bug fixes

• Keyboard shortcuts introduced for all important actions
• Filters added on objective details page to sift through the list of KRs & alignments
• Objective owners are not populated automatically, anymore
  • Assign to me, assign to team lead - actions appear beside the owner field
• Feedback can now be given to multiple users at a time
• Minor bug fixes

We recommend upgrading to this version whoever is using V3.9.7, released about a week ago.

At the time of upgrade, some background jobs are going to run for correcting OKR progresses/confidence statuses that were wrong. Thus, we encourage to perform this upgrade when there is minimal activity expected in Jira.

• Hierarchy view is now complemented by 'Explorer view'. A treelike presentation of OKR hierarchy view.
• In the last release (V 3.9.7) there was a bug that caused progress percentages & confidence statuses to go wrong. That is now corrected. At the time of upgrade app will scan through all OKRs & ensure their confidence status, progress percentages are correct.

• This upgrade enhances OKRs in UpRaise to have confidence scores. Read more about this feature
  • Please note that this feature is still in Beta.
• Few bug fixes
  • HRMS sync team upload
  • Grading errors
  • Other minor bug fixes

• My Dashboard --> OKRs section now allows choosing any view
• Browse OKR page now has the ability to display latest comment, description, grade remarks on OKRs
• Reports page layout update

• Additional on screen filters added on browse OKRs page (Team, Owner's team, Confidence status)
• Objective start date is now displayed on objective details page, in all cases
• Company objectives are now associated with objective cycles
  • Existing company objectives are migrated to corresponding objective cycles (based on start & due dates for the objectives)
  • If the dates do not fit, a new objective cycle is created to accommodated those company objectives
• New workflow is added for 'One-on-one discussion' within the 'Team member & Reviewer template'
• Incomplete social features are removed

• Now it is possible to have multiple separate units created within Employee Success & then create independent OKRs for them

Refer this documentation

Enhancements

OKRs

• It is now possible assign team OKR create/edit permissions to normal team members (who are not team leads).
• In addition to being able to create 'views' on browse OKR screen, we have brought back the on-screen filters (as many of you requested). This ensures that you don't have to 'store a view' even for a quick temporary search.
  • On-screen filters apply on top of the 'view' that is selected (useful to pin down a specific set of OKRs within a view during meetings)
  • On-screen filters can be hidden from the screen (thereby reducing the clutter)
  • You can also choose which filters you want to be displayed
  • Finally, your latest view & the on-screen filters are persisted to be used for your next visit to browse OKR screen
• Views can now be shared across users and/or teams (similar to how you would define visibility for an objective)

Forms

• It is now possible to 'Clone' a distribution

Bug fixes

• Team searching performance issue
• Epic link JQL issue
• Grading related issue

• Jira 8 compatibility
• Enhancements
  • Ability to mark a team as inactive
  • ChartJS used to render graphs instead of Google charts. Thus, no internet connection required.
  • Ability to add Confidence Status to objectives manually
    • Filters added for Confidence status
  • Team filter extended on browse OKRs to allow 'Logged in user is a member of'
  • REST API for GetObjectiveCycles
  • OKR screens optimised especially for cases where visibility is set to a large number of users
• Bug fixes

• Bug fixes
  • Team dropdown was broken while creating/editing team objectives
  • Dashboards now do not need to connect to internet for displaying charts/graphs
  • Sorting was broken on Browse OKR columns after the last release
  • Unknown error occurred error while adding objective

• More powerful OKR filtering based on labels
  • Labels are now clickable & display all OKR view filtered based on the clicked label
• It is now possible to have OKR levels that meet your needs e.g.
  • Corporate level
  • Department level
  • Division level etc
    • These levels are completely customisable & can be configured based on your needs.
• It is now possible to rename/delete a 'view' from browse OKRs screen. In the upcoming release, we will enhance this with ability to share the views with other UpRaise users/teams.
• Custom field selector dropdown was not populating for older versions of Jira, that is now fixed

• OKR punch-in report
• Ability to enable/disable specific level of OKRs
• Allowed all types of custom fields in OKR progress calculation config

Forms were breaking when a user's key contained comma, that is now fixed.

• Revamped Browse OKR experience with deep filtering & ability to choose visible columns
• Objective start dates are now editable
• OKR detail API was throwing 500 error for some of the objectives, that issue is now fixed

• Ability to move KR from one objective to another
• Ability to select 'visible columns' on browse OKR page
• New progress report added for OKRs
• Ability to bulk sync UpRaise users with Jira
• Objectives which do not need grading now will have the status 'Ready to close' rather than 'Ready for grading'

• Continuous feedback REST API is now available
• Progress calculation when Jira issues are KRs is now much more configurable. One can now make use of custom fields on Jira issues to calculate progress on UpRaise objectives.
  • With this change, it is possible for Jira issues to have progress as any number and not just 0 or 100 based on resolution.
• Minor bug fixes & UI improvements

• Ability to export forms in PDF format
• Couple of default templates now available
• Bug fixes
  • Objective & KR progress chart was displaying incorrect values
  • Minor bug fixes

There were a few reports that OKR hierarchy view was taking a bit of time to load. That is now optimised for quicker loading time.

• 360 template anonymity bug that was introduced in the last release is now fixed.

• My dashboard & company dashboards are merged to form a single dashboard with multiple tabs.
  • Soon a team dashboard will be released.
• Team OKRs progress comparison section now lets the end user choose what team's to see in the chart.
• Ability to connect feedback with Objective as well as Key result, in addition to Jira issue.
• 360 template visibility bug fix
• Past dated objective cycle creation bug fix
• Logging clean up for Data center instances

• OKRs section on My Dashboard now lets you drill down into an objective to view further details.
• OKR hierarchy view search filters are improved to be searched by Team as well as objective owner.
• Date type question is now available in the form builder
• Minor bug fixes

• Jira issue linking via JQL - It is now possible to link Jira issues as key results or actions directly via JQL. This allows updating of linked issues automatically. Read more here
• Synchronise team data from any other tool via the HRMS sync. Read more here
• Ability to categorise review form templates.
  • In the upcoming releases this enhancement will make way for better organisation of forms.
• Bug fixes

• Team chart was not displayed for non-admin users
• Minor bug fixes

• It is now possible to connect Jira issues to key results (as actions).
• Jira admin now has a screen where they can see a list of current UpRaise admin/super admins.
• UX improvements in hierarchy view
  • Nodes in the hierarchy are now ordered alphabetically
  • it is now possible to search for an objective & view its entire alignment tree (from top to bottom)
• Minor bug fixes

• UpRaise is now compatible with new Jira UI
• When Jira issues/epics are connected to UpRaise objectives as KRs it is now it is possible to take into consideration sub-tasks involved.
• UX improvements for creation of KRs
• Additional section on My Dashboard
• 'Contact Support' link can be made invisible for non-admin users
• Easy navigation for viewing form responses
• Base template name is displayed in the template listing view

• My OKRs section on my dashboard is now modified & gives clean overview of all the OKRs logged in user owns
• To Do gadget for Jira dashboards introduced to easily keep track of assigned items.
• UI/UX improvement for creation of objectives
• Grades of objectives are not ceiled anymore, they are displayed upto decimals
• Now admins have the option to re-open an objective even after it is closed

• Version 3.8.0 had some incompatible classes for Jira versions before 7.6.1 - that is now handled

• Now it is possible to create an upward alignment at the time of objective creation
• Continuous feedback - UI improvements along with performance enhancements
• Impact of import OKRs is now addressed on print form, export responses etc
• Now the app does not import all Jira users on install, rather admin has the option to import users from one or more Jira groups
• Minor bug fixes

When browse OKR pages were filtered on objective owners, the query took long time & thus the page load time was high. This is now addressed.

After recent performance improvements, older versions of Jira - from 7.0 through to 7.4 were throwing DB timeout exceptions on browsing OKRs. This issue is now addressed.

We strongly recommend updating to this version.