Version - 3.7.5

Release date - Jan 4, 2018

New features

• UpRaise objective attributes in issue custom fields - Read this article for set up steps. This now allows you to look at different Jira issues that are connected to UpRaise objectives as key results, in a Kanban or Scrum board. You can also include UpRaise objective attributes to be shown in the card layouts on these boards.

• UpRaise feed gadget - More interactive UpRaise feed is now available & can be added to your Jira dashboards. One can add comments right from this gadget.

Bugs

• Minor enhancements & bug fixes

Version - 3.7.6

Release date - Jan 4, 2018

New features

• OKRs

  • Ability to retrieve comments & their details on OKRs, via REST API

• Continuous feedback

  • It is now possible to restrict feedback label creation. Also, administrators get the ability to manage these feedback labels.

  • Similar to OKR sharing, continuous feedback can now be shared with the teams as well as users.

• Review forms

  • Auto-save is now available. When you are filling up a form, every 1 minute it will be auto-saved.

  • Review form assistant now allows you to view Jira issues that the team member had worked on.

• HRMS sync now supports xls file format in addition to existing JSON.

Bugs

• When all the key results and contributing alignment had 0 weightage, the progress calculation of the objective was incorrect.

• KR add/edit/delete emails were not triggered.

• Minor issues related to Oracle DB addressed (in some places, the variables showed up when the field was null)

Version - 3.7.7

Release date - Feb 19, 2018

New features

• Continuous Feedback

  • Ability for the receiver to modify feedback sharing is now available

  • Administrators can now delete the feedback even if they were not the creators

  • Better filtering & sorting on the insight view page

  • Response to feedback request can now be created in a single click via email

  • Ability to delete a feedback request

  • Conversations are deprecated due to low adoption

  • Default labels for continuous feedback are modified for fresh installations

• Review Forms

  • UpRaise admins can now see distributions that they have created

  • Super admins will be able to view all the distributions in the system

• OKR

  • Experience of OKR grading is enhanced

  • There is a possibility to remove the grading option so the users can directly close the objectives

Version - 3.7.8

Release Date - Mar 9, 2018       

New features

• Code refactored to improve performance of OKR features

Bugs

• Bug fixed that didn't allow 0 as a value in OKR grading - opinion scale type

Version - 3.7.8.1

Release Date - Mar 19, 2018

Bugs

• Bug fixed that prevented objective cycles from being created. Was introduced in the last release - 3.7.8.

Version 3.7.9

Release Date - Apr 4, 2018

New features

• Ability to include objectives in the review form

• Ability to add section level weightage in review forms

• Improvement in view responses UI

• Ability to convert team objectives into individual objectives & vice versa

• Ability to sync UpRaise team members with Jira user group members

Bugs

• Minor bug fixes

Version 3.7.9.1

Release Date - Apr 10, 2018

Bugs

• DB Connection Issue on Jira versions 7.0 to 7.4

  • 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.

Version 3.7.9.2

Release Date - Apr 16, 2018

Bugs

• Browse OKR pages were taking too much time to load if filtered on OKR owner

  • If the browse OKR pages were filtered on users, it took a lot of time for them to load. This issue is now fixed.

Version 3.8.0

Release Date - May 2, 2018

New features

• Now it is possible to create an upward alignment at the time of objective creation.

• Continuous feedback UI improvements along with performance enhancements.

  • UI changes on my feedback page.

  • 'Yet to shared' tab is now renamed to 'notes'.

• Impact of import OKRs is now addressed on print form, export responses, etc.

  • Added valid notes in reports if import OKRs question is available in form.

  • Enhanced the excel export of form distribution. 

  • Enhanced the UI of print form. 

• Now the app does not import all Jira users on install, rather the admin has the option to import users from one or more Jira groups.

  • At the time of installation, system will not auto-import all Jira users, only selected users can be added to UpRaise. 

  • Admins or super admin can import different Jira groups. 

Bugs

• Minor bug fixes.

Version 3.8.0.1

Release Date - May 2, 2018

Bugs

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

Version 3.8.1

Release Date - May 21, 2018

New features

• My OKRs section on my dashboard is now modified & gives a clean overview of all the OKRs logged in user owns

  • My OKR section is enhanced with new progress chart.

  • The progress chart and OKR list are prioritized depending on actions that need to be taken.

  • OKRs that need immediate focus are listed first.

  • This view now shows a lot of minute details about OKRs with their visual cues, such as : 

    • Green or red up & down arrows for OKRs contribution information.

    • Green or red calendar icons for start/end date.

    • Green or red dots for last punch-in date.

• To-Do gadget for Jira dashboards introduced to easily keep track of assigned items.

  • This gadget displays below items that need to be logged in user's inputs or immediate focus.

    • Pending feedback requests

    • Pending form inputs

    • Objective grading reminders

  • These items in the ToDo list can also be dismissed by clicking on 'X sign.

• UI/UX improvement for creation of objectives.

  • There is now a single pop-up to create any level of the objective.

• Grades of objectives are not ceiled anymore, they are displayed up to decimals.

  • Now the objective grades are stored/displayed in absolute values up to 2 decimals.

• Now thumbnail view also displays grades.

• Now admins have the option to re-open an objective even after it is closed

  • Admin & super admins can reopen closed objectives.

  • This action is available in 'More' button on objective detail page.

Version 3.8.2

Release Date - Jun 14, 2018

New features

• JIRA issue progress calculation when it is a KR (epics & sub-tasks handling)

  • Jira issue & epic KR progress can be tracked on the subtasks within Jira issue.

  • Configurable setting to track the progress of Jira issue & epic KR.

• 'Contact Support' link made configurable from general settings option.

• UI/UX improvements for the creation of key results.

• Additional sections on My Dashboard

  • The number of objectives & KRs details section.

  • KR punch-in graph.

• Base template names are now displayed in template list.

• Improved navigation for viewing form responses (for admins).

• UI improvements for browse OKRs page. 

• UpRaise is now compatible with Jira 7.10.x.

Bugs

• Minor bug fixes

Version 3.8.3

Release Date - Jul 10, 2018

New features

• Ability to connect Jira issues to KRs 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).

• User profile & team profile page UI improvements.

• Improvements in UpRaise panel on Jira issue details page.

• Add tagging feature for KR description same as an objective description.

• Improvements in add alignment pop-up.

Version 3.8.3.1

Release Date - Jul 13, 2018

Bugs

• Objective description was not visible in the thumbnail view.

• There was an error while creating alignments on the SQL server.

• UpRaise admin page was not accessible to Jira admins.

• Fixed a few issues in the company directory.

• Users added in team not having Employee Sucess access were not visible to non-admin users.

Version 3.8.4

Release Date - Aug 8, 2018

New features

• Jira issue linking via JQL 

  • It is now possible to link Jira issues as key results. Read more here.

  • This allows updating of linked issues automatically.

  • You can also add Jira issues as actions directly via JQL. Check out more details. 

• Synchronize team data from any other tool via the HRMS sync. Read more here.

• Ability to categorize review form templates.

  • In the upcoming releases, this enhancement will make way for the better organization of forms.

Bugs

• Minor bug fixes

Version 3.8.5

Release Date - Aug 22, 2018

New features

• 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.

Bugs

• Minor bug fixes

Version 3.8.6.1

Release Date - Sep 4, 2018

New features

• 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 results, in addition to Jira issue.

Bugs

• 360 template visibility bug fix

• Past dated objective cycle creation bug fix

• Logging clean up for Datacenter instances

Version 3.8.6.2

Release Date - Sep 5, 2018

Bugs

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

Version 3.8.6.3

Release Date - Sep 13, 2018

Bugs

• OKR Hierarchy View loading time optimization.

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

Version 3.8.7

Release Date - Sep 21, 2018

New features

• Ability to export forms in PDF format

• A couple of default templates now available

Bugs

• Objective & KR progress chart was displaying incorrect values

• Other minor bug fixes

Version 3.8.8

Release Date - Oct 10, 2018

New features

• Continuous feedback REST API is now available. For more details read REST APIs.

• 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 progressed as any number and not just 0 or 100 based on resolution.

Bugs

• Minor bug fixes & UI improvements

Version 3.8.9

Release Date - Nov 4, 2018

New features

• Ability to edit column list on browse OKRs page.

• Ability to move KRs (Metric & to do) from one objective to another.

• Three types of OKR progress reports for all levels of OKRs. Read OKR progress charts for more details. 

  • Progress view

  • Progress over time - Week over week progress view

  • Progress over time - Month over month progress view

• Ability to bulk sync UpRaise users with Jira.

• Objectives that do not need grading now will have the status 'Ready to close' rather than 'Ready for grading'.

Bugs

• Minor bug fixes

Version - 3.9

Release Date - Dec 3, 2018

New features

• Revamped Browse OKR experience with deep filtering & ability to choose visible columns

• Objective start dates are now editable

  • Previously start date of the objective was the first day of an objective cycle by default, now it can be any date between the current date & objective cycle due date. 

• Improved Jira group-based access setting UI for better understanding

  • On the request of a few existing customers, labels/heading of this setting are changed to Grant access, Deny access.

Version 3.9.0.1

Bugs

• Form distribution page was breaking when a user's key contained a comma, which is now fixed.