Release Notes

Version 3.2.4 Jira 8.15 compatibility and improvements

• New: Restrict Bulk Watch operation to a user group
• Improved: Performance of Filter watching is improved by omitting redindexing of issues
• Improved: Compatibility with Jira 8.15 and later versions
• Improved: Make In-app notification icon use Jira Look & Feel colors
• Fixed: Clone plus plugin (bob swift) errors out on issue watcher fields
• Fixed: Broken avatar images in in-app notifications
• Fixed: Statuses displayed twice in inapp notifications

Version 3.2.3 Jira 8.4.x compatibility

• Jira 8.4.0 platform compatibility
• (BW-209) Exclude Jira projects from Bug Watcher notifications
• FIXED: (BW-211) Bulk watch on Jira 8 generates error

Version 3.2.2 Jira 8.0.0 / Service Desk 4.0.0 Compatibility and bugfixes

• Changes to make the app compatible with the latest Jira version
• Fixed: (BW-206) Inconsistent Filter Watch notifications
• Fixed: (BW-207) Occasional ClassCastExceptions related to desktop notifications
• FIXED: Eye icon did not appear in several Jira screens

Version 3.2.1 Automated cleanup of in-app notifications

• (BW-66) Allow configuration of cleanup rules for in-app notifications
• (BW-200) Optimized load of notifications

Version 3.2.0 Desktop Notificaitons

• Desktop notifications: receive your notifications inside your browser.

Version 3.1.9 Bugfixes and Jira 7.9 compatibility

• Compatiblity with Jira 7.9 API
• [BW-188] - Adding Issue Security breaks watcher emails
• [BW-189] - Comment Security Level not checked in in-app notifications
• [BW-190] - Deleted projects cause errors in the logs
• [BW-191] - Issue with Icon
• [BW-192] - Error when deleting issue
• [BW-194] - Wrong link at manage addons - Get Started
• [BW-195] - Wrong link at Bug Watcher Plugin Configuration - license administration page

Version 3.1.3 - Bugfixes

• [BW-130] - Lucene index sometimes not updated when an issue is changed
• [BW-131] - Watches dashboard fails to open
• [BW-132] - Project watcher cannot be removed after adding them

Version 3.1.2 - Bugfixes

• [BW-121] - Comment notifications contain velocity markup
• [BW-123] - User Icons overlap names in Bug Watcher custom field dispay

Version 3.1.1 - Bugfixes

• [BW-117] - Error when clicking on users within the Issue Watcher Custom Field
• [BW-119] - Users cannot add a comma separated list of email addresses of Current Jira users
• [BW-121] - Comment notifications contain velocity markup
• [BW-103] - External Watchers are not affected by Notification Scheme

Version 3.1 - Watches Dashboard

• Watches Dashboard

Versions 3.0.1-3.0.5 - Improvements and Bug fixes

• polling performance improved (BW-109)
• JIRA API velocity markup appearing in in-app notifications fixed
• New configuration option to set the number of threads in the asynchrpnous event processing pool.
• Configuration screen displays more statistical information on the event processor pool.

Version 3.0 - JIRA 7 Compatibility

• Bug watcher made compatible with JIRA 7

Version 2.4 - Enable In-App Notifications in projects using existing Notification Schemes - Released 15/06/2015

It is now very easy to enable in-app notifications in projects replacing email notifications. Simply select an existing Notification Scheme for in-app notifications. You can combine email and in-app notifications within a project by selecting different notification schemes.

• Notification Schemes for In-App notifications (BW-97, Documentation)

Minor fixes:

• BW-91, BW-93, BW-95

Version 2.3 - Long awaited major new features - Released 02/06/2015