ARN is now whitelisted by Atlassian to receive email address of Jira users & Jira user groups.

• Jira 8.4 compatibility
• Bug fix - customer request type field was returning unreadable object, that is now fixed

• Jira 8.4 compatibility

• Bug fix - Customer request type field on JSD tickets was returning unreadable values, that is now fixed

Release notes generation was causing problems when the issue summary contained < or > special characters, that is now fixed.

There was a problem in release notes generation when any of the issue summary had special characters > or < - that is now fixed.

• There was a bug related to Rules & templates sorting that happened on only one known instance. It has been addressed.

• There was a single report about rules & templates not being rendered on screen. We have fixed this so that there is no scope for such rendering error to happen.

Jira 8.3 compatibility & minor bug fixes

Jira 8.3 compatibility & minor bug fixes

• Jira data center compatibility

Data center compatibility

• Additional logging for POST action troubleshooting
• changed the cdf4j and winp lib version to latest

This is a compatibility release for Jira 8.2

ARN is now compatible with Jira version 8.1

It is now possible to use 'Stats' within release notes templates. Read more about stats here

• Jira 8 Compatibility
• Bug fix related to release notes POST action

• Ability to add current date in templates
• Ability to POST the release notes data to a pre-defined url
• Ability to view project key for global templates
• Bug fixes related to special characters (confluence templates)

• PDF generation issue further corrected

• There was a problem in detecting the chrome library used for pdf generation, that is now address.
• Minor bug fixes.

A bug was introduced in the last version wherein some actions were restricted under evaluation license. That is now fixed.

• It is now possible to include some of the macros in your Confluence templates
• It is now possible to add release announcements on Jira Service Desk customer portals
• Bug fixes
  • Inserting large images was breaking the template

• Bug fixes
  • Font change breaks the template
  • Custom message for empty result set not displayed

• New feature that lets you group data in release notes based on any issue attribute is now available.
• Minor bugs fixed which caused the confluence page creation to fail.

• It is now possible to publish release notes blog on Confluence
• Bug fixes
  • Couple of corner cases were reported where Confluence page creation failed, those are now fixed

• ARN is now compatible with Jira 7.11.0
• Release notes can now be generated in JSON format
  • Soon it will be possible to POST this JSON data to a pre-defined url
• It is now possible to suppress release notes generation if none of the JQL sections return any result
• Whenever issue type was included in the JQL section the Confluence page create action threw an error that page already exists, that is now resolved.
• Minor issue in rule execution logging

• Jira 7.10.0 compatibility
• App permissions compatibility with earlier versions of Jira 7.x
• Bug fix related to a conflict in tinymce editor from another add-on.

• Now generate release notes in markdown format
• Access tab removed & project level permissions added for 'Manage automated release notes'
• Minor fixes

• Versions can be now filtered based on whether they are released or not.
• Bug fixed that caused some of the versions to not appear in search results.
• Minor bug fixes

• It is now possible to trigger ARN rules via webhooks
  • This will help you integrate ARN with other devops tools
• Minor bug fixes

• Confluence integration
  • Labels were not getting created when using Confluence templates, this is now fixed.
• PDF templates
  • Warnings/errors displayed at the right places if google chrome is not installed on your Jira server (google chrome is required in order to generate release notes in pdf format)
• Template sharing across projects
  • Templates are now created as either 'Local' or 'Global'
  • Global templates can be used in rules of any projects but can be modified only within the parent project

• Ability to add labels while creating a page in Confluence

• A bug was introduced in the last release due to which JQL sections became uneditable. It was also not possible to add new JQL sections.

It is now fixed.

We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version.

• Action to publish release notes to Confluence
• Improvements in pdf generation

• Issue that prevented release notes generation in pdf format is now resolved.

Logs are added to investigate pdf generation issue on some instances.

• With this release, it is now possible to generate release notes in pdf format & send them as an attachment to email.
• Minor bug fixed that caused issues in loading images within release notes emails.

• Some custom fields were not being replaced with correct values when sequential layout was used. That is now fixed.

• Sequential formatting enhanced in release notes templates
• Fixes to make the app compatible with Oracle DB

• Mail templates now allow inserting images, tables
• ARN page access can now be configured to allow access to users who are not project administrators

Some of the enhancements released in 1.5.5 version were not available because of the faulty build, that is now corrected.

• Insert JQL section button was disabled if the Jira instance had Zephyr installed, that is now fixed
  • Irrespective of what add-ons your Jira has, this will work correctly
• Ability to remove ARN branding from templates

• Template builder now has more flexibility for JQL sections & variables
• JQL sections can be further customised
  • messages on empty results
  • display labels
  • key, id, summary - links
  • & so on
• Logs
  • All the instances of rule execution are automatically stored under logs, along with the generated emails

• Rules & Actions introduced
  • This allows you to take multiple actions (send multiple emails) in one rule
  • One project can now have multiple different release notes email templates
• Triggers to invoke the rule
  • Version release in Jira
  • Manual
  • Scheduled
• All existing email templates should be automatically migrated to 'Default Template' after this upgrade

• Some versions were not appearing in the search results, that bug is now quashed.
• When copy pasting JQL, search results were not returned properly. That is now resolved

• Email generation at the time of version release was breaking, fixed with this release

• Now configure Jira groups as email receivers
• Date format is picked from Jira setting
• Sprint parameter is retrieved correctly
• Now the sequential layout is also available in addition to tabular one
• Minor bug fixes

• When issue types involved special characters, the query didn't return any results. Now special characters are handled.

• Automated Release Notes is now compatible with Jira 7.2
• Bug fixed that caused issues when a custom field was saved in the email template.

A bug which occurred when special characters were part of the issue summary/description is resolved. Almost all the special characters are supported now.

• Maintain different templates for different projects.
• Easily customise templates with the help of JQL & custom written variables.
• Automate the process of emailing release notes every time a version is released in Jira.