5th of June, 2019
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Version Highlights
Changes in DetailTime in StatusThe Time in Status column allows you to calculate how much time issues spend in specific statuses. Time in Status can be customized and aggregated, depending on your business needs. Documentation: Time in Status Column Memo ItemsMemo items work similar to folders within a structure, except that memos can include a choice of icons, color and text. Memos can serve a variety of purposes within a structure:
Documentation: Memo Status Category ColumnThe Status category column allows you to see at a glance which Status category each issue is in. This can be extremely useful if different teams/projects use different workflows or custom statuses. Additional Updates
Supported VersionsStructure 5.4 and all extensions support Jira versions 7.6 or later. All editions of Jira (Jira Core, Jira Software, Jira Service Desk) are supported. Jira Data Center is supported. With respect to other add-ons and custom integrations, this release is backwards-compatible with Structure 3.4–5.3. Structure.Testy extension, Colors, Structure.Pages, Structure.Gantt and integrations with third-party apps should continue working normally. Installation and UpgradeInstalling StructureIf your Jira server does not have Structure yet, the installation is simple:
Upgrading StructureIf you're upgrading from version 2.11.2 or earlier, please read Structure 3.0.0 Release Notes. The upgrade procedure from versions 3.x–5.3 is simple:
Enterprise Deployment NotesStructure 5.4 introduces two new features and a performance improvement important for large-scale Jira Server and Jira Data Center instances. Periodical Cleaning of the JQL Query Literals CacheJira has quite a lot of request-level caches that keep expensive data easily accessible for the duration of a single user request. These caches get cleared once the request completes, and since the absolute majority of requests are quick, there is usually no problem. However, we have seen a few support cases in which an unusually long-running background task would make a Structure thread accumulate too much data in request caches, consuming excessive amounts of memory. We are actively working to solve this problem, and in Structure 5.4 we introduce periodical cleaning of the JQL query literals cache, which is one of the caches susceptible to the problem. Further improvements in this area are planned for future Structure releases. If you have large structures that take significant time to generate, we advise that you check their performance in a staging environment before upgrading. Time in Status ColumnThe new Time in Status column is based on issue history data, so the values can be quite expensive to calculate. Our performance tests have shown that in the aggregate mode, it can be visibly slower than simple field-based columns in structures of 10,000 issues or more. If you are planning to use this column with large, deeply-nested structures, we advise that you check its performance on a staging system. Memo Item TypeThe new Memo item type is based on generic items, introduced in Structure 4.4. The data will be stored in the
Testing on a Staging EnvironmentApart from the suggestions above, there are no special areas of interest for load testing and stress testing Structure 5.4. We advise running the same testing procedures as you've done for previous upgrades.
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