High availability now available with JIRA Data Center

We've built upon all the features that make JIRA great for your business at scale and created a new offering specifically for organizations that require high availability for mission critical JIRA instances. These features are enabled through the clustering capability in JIRA Data Center 6.3:

• High availability - Active-active clustering of JIRA means minimal downtime for your teams. In addition, replication of the index across each node means that you're safe from data loss due to corruption
• Scalability - It's easy to scale your JIRA environment as your business grows; simply add another node to maintain the performance required by your business
• Performance - You can use any form of load-balancing technology – hardware or software – to intelligently distribute load across your Data Center cluster

You can access these features in JIRA 6.3 by purchasing a JIRA Data Center license. Read more about JIRA Data Center here...

Create issues in the moment...

Sitting in a planning meeting and want to create an issue in the moment? Easy! With inline issue creation and JIRA Agile, you can now create an issue from within your Scrum board during planning. Simply click on the Create issue link, select the issue type and enter a brief summary, then hit the Enter button. The issue is created and automatically added to your backlog. It couldn't be simpler!

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'On the fly' version and component creation

Project administrators can now add versions and components from within the Fix Version/s, Affected Version/s and Component/s fields. Previously, project administrators needed to add a version or component via the appropriate screen on the project's administration page. Now, project administrators are able to create a version or component by typing it in the appropriate field, and selecting it from the drop-down list. When you begin typing text that JIRA does not recognize as existing, it will add it to the bottom of the drop-down list and add (New Version) or (New Component). Selecting the new version or component will automatically create it within your project for future use.

Enhanced auditing capabilities

We first introduced the audit log in JIRA 6.1 late last year. In this release, we've added some new features to the audit log to make it more efficient and easier to use:

• When a role is removed (deleted) from JIRA, previously the audit log would log an event for every project that it was removed from. Now, the audit log will only log the event that the role has been removed from JIRA.
• We have given administrators the option to hide logged events from external user directories, such as LDAP and Crowd. These events are still recorded, just hidden from view, and are still available for export and through the REST API.

Increased data import options

The newly released GitHub importer allows you to connect to your GitHub account, regardless of whether it's a private or enterprise account, and import any public, private or starred repository configurations into JIRA. You can map the GitHub labels to issue types, to resolutions, or import them as JIRA labels. The import process supports importing attachments, and also provides you with a detailed log of your import so that you can troubleshoot any issues.

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And more!

Of course, that's not all we've done in this release! We've been working hard to improve the user experience, and to make sure that whatever Atlassian product you use, you recognize that great Atlassian "feel".