Changelog

April 1, 2025

Bugfixes

• Planned issues missing in Team Planning Boards: Fixed a bug that caused some issues planned on the Team Planning Board for a selected PI to occasionally not appear.

March 14, 2025

New Features

• Remove ART Feature swimlanes from Team Planning Boards: You can easily remove unnecessary empty swimlanes from the board by hovering over the swimlane and clicking the ‘X’ button next to the issue summary. This will remove the respective Team from the ‘Assigned Teams’ field and also clear the currently displayed PI from the ‘Assigned PIs’ field, if the issue was only assigned to your Team. To add a swimlane back, simply drag it from the ‘Unplanned Issues’ sidebar into the board area.

• ‘Improved Planning’ generally available: The ‘Improved Planning’ mode is now fully available and has moved out of the status:beta phase. This means that all changes introduced at Changes to planning of ART Features for Teams are now live and accessible to all Agile Hive users.

March 12, 2025: Improved Planning of ART issues for Teams

Open

New Features

• Enhanced Planning of ART Features for Teams: Most updates to Team-level planning of ART Features, outlined at Changes to planning of ART Features for Teams, are now available. This release introduces several improvements to how Team Planning Boards function:

  • Access the ART backlog directly from the ‘Unplanned Issues’ sidebar in the Team Planning Board.

  • Search the ART backlog in the ‘Unplanned Issues’ by entering search queries or using quick filters that are synced from the ART project's primary Jira board.

  • Drag and drop ART-level issues from the ‘Unplanned Issues’ sidebar to the Team Board, automatically creating a dedicated swimlane for the issue and allowing the Team to immediately start breaking it down into Stories.

  • The ‘Unplanned Issues’ sidebar now provides quick indicators showing which ART-level issues are assigned to the currently selected PI and Team, making it easy to identify the most relevant issues.

  • ART parent swimlanes in the Team Planning Board are no longer displayed based on the ART Roadmap plan. Instead, swimlanes are created using the Custom Fields ‘Assigned PIs’ and ‘Assigned Teams’ of ART-level issues. This change reduces clutter on the Team Planning Board by hiding irrelevant swimlanes, unless the Team actively adds them to the board or plans related work.

  Please note: A forthcoming update will offer an easy way to remove swimlanes from Team Planning Boards. In the meantime, empty swimlanes can be removed by either clearing the ‘Assigned Teams’ field or the ‘Assigned PIs’ field for the respective ART-level issue.

March 11, 2025

Improvements

• Inline editing experience for Agile Hive Custom Fields in Issue Detail view: In the Jira Detail view, Agile Hive Custom Fields such as Assigned PIs, Assigned Teams, and Owning Team now provide an enhanced inline editing experience, aligning with the editing functionality of default Jira fields.

• Capacity input locked for completed Iterations in Team Planning Boards: Previously, it was possible to modify a Team's capacity for Iterations that had already been completed. Similar to Jira Sprints, Agile Hive now prevents changes to completed Iterations by locking the input fields for Team Capacity in Team Planning Boards.

Bugfixes

• Multiple PI lanes in boards after moving ART projects: Fixed a bug that sometimes caused PI lanes to appear multiple times across various boards in Agile Hive after moving an ART-level project in 'My Organization.' This issue did not impact any stored data.

• ‘Expand swimlanes’ view option stuck after switching PIs: Fixed a bug that caused the "Expand swimlanes" view option to remain stuck in expanded mode, preventing the option to collapse swimlanes after switching PIs in the Team Planning Board.

March 6, 2025

Bugfixes

• Features not displayed in the ART Planning Board if child issue was planned in a completed PI: Fixed a bug where Features were not displayed in the ART Planning Board if a child issue had been planned in a completed PI. This caused the Features to be entirely missing from the board, preventing visibility into their expected delivery dates.

March 4, 2025

Bugfixes

• ‘Cannot read properties of undefined’ error in ART Planning Board: Fixed a bug that occasionally caused a ‘Cannot read properties of undefined’ error when accessing the ART Planning Board.

• ‘Done’ issues appearing in results when applying quick filters in ‘Unplanned Issues’ sidebar: Fixed a bug where issues already marked as complete were sometimes incorrectly displayed in the "Unplanned Issues" sidebar of Team Planning and Roadmap Boards after applying certain quick filters. This was caused by an error in converting the quick filter from the Jira board into a JQL query compatible with Agile Hive’s boards.

February 28, 2025

Bugfixes

• ‘Parent’ cells not clickable in Issue List view: Fixed a bug where empty cells in the ‘Parent’ column of Agile Hive’s Issue List view were not clickable due to the element's height being too small.

• Story Points no longer visible in ‘Unplanned Issues’ of Team Boards: Fixed a bug that resulted in Story Point information no longer being displayed in issue cards of ‘Unplanned Issues’ in Team Planning Boards.

February 21, 2025

Open

New Features

• Configure link direction for Dependencies in Agile Hive: Agile Hive Administrators can now configure the link direction for the Dependency Link Type within Agile Hive’s ‘App Settings’. This enhancement enables flexible use of any Jira Issue Link Type, even if its logical link direction differs from Agile Hive’s default interpretation of ‘inward’ and ‘outward’ links in Jira. When the link direction is toggled in Agile Hive, all boards and report widgets displaying dependencies will automatically adjust by reversing directed arrows and the relationships between linked issues.

• New Global Permission ‘Manage Agile Hive Project Hierarchy’: This update introduces a new global permission that enables users to edit the project hierarchy setup in the ‘My Organization’ view of Agile Hive. For more details on Agile Hive’s permission model, please refer to Permissions.

Improvements

• Enhanced Performance for ART & Team Reports and ART Planning Board: Based on customer feedback regarding slow loading times in certain Agile Hive views, we investigated potential optimizations for the affected areas. As an initial improvement, we have successfully reduced loading times by up to 40% for some Team Report widgets and the ART Planning Board, while certain ART Report widgets now load up to 20% faster.
  We remain committed to enhancing the performance of all Agile Hive views in future updates.

• Extended auto-filling of site-related information when reporting a bug: When reporting a bug to the Agile Hive team through the ‘Help’ menu in the top right corner of Agile Hive views, the affected site's base URL is now automatically prefilled in the Service Desk request. This streamlines the process for users and helps the Agile Hive team more efficiently identify potential causes.

Bugfixes

• Story Point estimation of 0 interpreted as ‘missing estimation’: Fixed a bug where Agile Hive identified tasks estimated at 0 Story Points as ‘missing estimation,’ causing a warning icon to incorrectly appear in certain Report widgets.

February 19, 2025

Bugfixes

• Required permissions for creating Iterations for Large Solution PIs on ART level: Fixed a bug where users with the ‘Manage PIs and Iterations’ permission were unable to create Iterations for a Solution Train PI unless they also had the same permission at the Solution Train level. This primarily impacted RTEs, as they are typically responsible for a single ART within a Solution Train.

February 7, 2025

New Features

• New Global Permission ‘View all Projects in Agile Hive Project Hierarchy’: This update introduces a new global permission that enables users to view the names and keys of all projects added to the ‘My Organization’ view in Agile Hive, even if they lack the ‘Browse projects’ permission for those projects. For more details on Agile Hive’s permission model, please refer to Permissions.

Bugfixes

• Inaccurate Result Count in the ‘Unplanned Issues’ Sidebar: Fixed a bug that caused the item counter in the ‘Unplanned Issues’ sidebar of Roadmap and Team Planning Boards to display incorrect numbers.

• ‘Today’ indicator in Roadmap Boards overlaps context menu of issue cards: Fixed a bug where the ‘Today’ indicator on Roadmap Boards overlapped with the context menu of issue cards, accessible via the Three-Dot-Menu icon.

January 30, 2025

Improvements

• Updating ‘Current day’ data in Burnup Charts: Burnup Charts in ART and Team Reports now load and update ‘Current day’ data asynchronously, significantly improving the widget's loading time. Since current-day data is always calculated in real-time, this change ensures faster processing without delays.

Bugfixes

• Access ART views without ‘Browse projects' permission on Solution level: Fixed a bug that prevented users from accessing reports and boards in an ART project if they lacked the ‘Browse Projects’ permission for the ART’s parent project at the Large Solution level. The issue stemmed from PI information being requested from the Large Solution project, which the user was not authorized to read.

• ‘Unable to load data’ error in Milestone Report widget: Fixed a bug where the ‘Milestones’ widget in Reports displayed an error instead of the ‘+’ button for adding a new Milestone.

• Error when displaying ART and Team project boards: Fixed a bug that caused error code 500 when displaying the ART Roadmap, ART Planning Board, Team Planning Board, and PI & Iteration Management at the Large Solution and ART levels. Additionally, we have implemented enhanced logging to further investigate potential causes of this issue, ensuring a more comprehensive fix that covers possible edge cases.
  If you are still experiencing the issue, please submit a support request at https://seibert.biz/ahc-help, so we can analyze the problem on your site immediately. Thank you!

January 29, 2025

This Agile Hive release restores the version that was available in the Atlassian Marketplace before the rollback on Jan 21, 2025, which was necessitated by an issue in the underlying Jira Cloud infrastructure.

All features from the versions originally released on January 13, 2025, and January 17, 2025, are once again available to all customers with this release.

If you’re still experiencing issues with Agile Hive in your Jira Cloud site as well, please refer to our service desk at https://seibert.biz/ahc-help. Thank you!

January 17, 2025

Open

 

Open

New Features

• Support for changing organization structure with carrying over PIs: Changes in ‘My Organization’ now respect and transfer existing PIs where applicable.
  When moving an ART to a Large Solution, the ART retains its completed and current PIs, provided the current PI does not extend beyond any active PI of the Large Solution. The ART also becomes part of the Solution's planned PIs.
  If the ART is detached from a Large Solution, it will carry over its completed PIs from when it was part of the Solution, ensuring that relevant data in the reports is preserved.

• New Custom Project Permissions: This version introduces new project permissions for more granular control over access and editing of Agile Hive's Project Settings. The new permissions, ‘Administer Agile Hive Projects’ and ‘Manage Agile Hive Project Members’, allow specific users to manage these aspects. Additionally, the default Jira permission ‘Administer Project’ continues to provide access to most project settings within Agile Hive (refer to Permissions for a more comprehensive overview).

• ‘Starred' Section in the Sidebar: Starred Jira projects within your company's organization in Agile Hive are now displayed in a dedicated section of the navigation sidebar, making it easier to quickly access the projects you work with most often.

Improvements

• Criticality filter for the Dependency Overview widget: The ‘Dependencies’ widget now comes with a filter to display dependencies based on criticality. Filtering works just like in Agile Hive Team Planning and Roadmap Boards.

• Introduce a more helpful error message for restricted Parent projects: If you lack access to a parent project (e.g., the superior ART), most data cannot be meaningfully displayed. Instead of causing a crash and returning an error 500, the system now suggests requesting access to the direct parent project when necessary.

Bugfixes

• Creating Iterations and Sprints with only having the ‘Manage PIs and Iterations’ permission on ART/LS levels: The newly introduced custom permission, ‘Manage PIs and Iterations’ (see Changelog archive (2024) | December 9, 2024: ‘Manage PIs and Iterations’ permission major Release), previously caused a bug when users had only this custom permission at the ART and LS layers, along with the ‘Manage Sprints’ permission for all underlying Team projects. Due to a misconfiguration, the mapping between Iterations and Sprints could not be saved. This release fixes the issue, ensuring that users with these permissions can now create PIs and Iterations as intended.

January 13, 2025

Open

New Features

• status:beta ‘Improved Planning’ mode in Team Planning Boards: To prepare for the revamped experience of planning and displaying ART Feature swimlanes on Team Boards, some functionality is now available in early access. Users can enable this preview on any Team Board by using the toggle switch located in the top toolbar.
  When the 'Improved Planning' mode is activated, it severs the link between the Team Planning Board and the ART-level Roadmap. Consequently, only those ART Feature swimlanes that are tagged with specific values for the 'Assigned Teams' and 'Assigned PIs' Custom Fields will be displayed on the Team Planning Board.
  Learn more on the upcoming changes and how to prepare here: Changes to planning of ART Features for Teams.

• Dynamically hide Agile Hive-specific interface elements in Jira views: In projects that are not set up in ‘My Organization’ within Agile Hive, interface elements of the app will no longer appear in Jira project views. This means the ‘View in Agile Hive’ navigation item, the ‘SAFe® Hierarchy’ option in an issue's ‘Apps’ menu, and the ‘Agile Hive’ context panel on the right-hand sidebar in Jira issue views will not be displayed. There will be no changes to projects that are included in ‘My Organization’.

Improvements

• Creating new issues by pressing ‘C' in Agile Hive views reflects current project context: When you press the ‘C’ button in any Agile Hive view, now the 'Create Issue' modal automatically fills in with the project context you have been working in. Additionally, the issue type you last created is preselected to streamline the process of creating new issues and align better with the standard Jira experience.

Bugfixes

• Long Team names in Team Boards did not wrap correctly: Fixed a bug where long Team names did not wrap properly in swimlanes on Team Planning Boards, leading to overlapping text labels or unintended line breaks.

• Removing parent issues that no longer belong to the hierarchy failed in Issue List view: Fixed a bug that prevented users from removing or editing the parent information of issues when the existing parent was no longer included in the project hierarchy defined in 'My Organization'.

• Team-level issues linked with deleted ART Feature not displayed in Team Planning Boards: Fixed a bug where Team-level issues linked to a deleted Feature at the ART level were not displayed on Team Planning Boards, despite being planned for the respective PI. These Team issues will now appear in the ‘Independent’ swimlane of the Team Planning Board.

• Broken link to manage quick filters in Team Boards & Roadmap Boards: Fixed a bug that blocked users from accessing the quick filter settings from Team Planning Boards and Roadmap Boards.

• Error code 500 when navigating to Reports and Planning tabs of Team-level projects within restricted ARTs: Fixed a bug where users received a 500 error code when attempting to access the Reports or Planning tab of a Team layer project linked to a restricted ART-level project.

• Error code 403 flashing when navigating to Agile Hive Jira Administration: Fixed a bug where users encountered a fleeting 403 error code when trying to access Agile Hive settings in the Jira Administration. This occurred because permission checks in the backend took longer than the user interface to load.

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