Jama Connect® 8.66 Self-Hosted

Release Date AU/EU/US: 2021/10/27

Add Multiple Items with "Quick Add"

When brainstorming with your team, you may want to quickly capture the flow of ideas. In Jama Connect, the "Quick add" option lets you easily add multiple items using only the Name and Description fields. After you create the item, you can edit it to add more fields.

The "Quick Add" Option Allows You to:

• Add up to 50 rows at a time.
  • Each row represents a single item that can be added to a set of like items. 
• Use the tab key to quickly move across the table. 

Note: "Quick add" respects item-type configurations of the Description field (read-only, required field).

The Jama Connect Header Gets a New Look

This release continues the introduction of a new interface design for the Jama Connect content headers. For a consistent and organized user experience, we created a standardized design pattern to make actions and views more visible. Buttons replace drop-down menus and interactive links (breadcrumb navigation) now indicate the location in your project hierarchy. 

The header is divided into two sections:

• Views
  • Information and actions that relate to the presentation of your data. 
• Actions
  • The things you can do with the currently displayed content. 

Single Item View, List View, and Reading View

Review Center

Trace View

Integrating OSLC Model Connector with Jama Connect

With this release, you can now integrate the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) model connector with Jama Connect through Smartfacts. This integration provides clear visibility to model artifacts in real time, further enhancing your Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approach.

Important: Contact your Jama Software Account Manager to set up access to the OSLC Model Connector and MID Smartfacts. For more information, see Jama Connect OSLC Model Connector Datasheet. 

In Single Item View, you can configure specific item types for the OSLC Model Connector using the OSLC Artifacts widget.

Support for WIRIS MathType Floating License

This release removes support for the WIRIS MathType named license. Jama Connect now supports the WIRIS MathType floating license. 

Usability Improvements

• You can now resize review comment windows.
  
  
• When you enable or disable workflow options in the Admin area, a confirmation window now appears.
  
  
• From the item preview menu in Review Center, a "Go to item" link now appears in a new browser tab. 
  
  
• Trace View filters now support multiple choices. 
  
  
• On the Jama Connect homepage, you can now bookmark projects, components, sets, or folders so they appear under Bookmarks and remain in the Recently viewed sections.
  • Having them appear in both places allows you to keep track of recently viewed items even if you remove the bookmark. 
• When you try to delete a filter that was used to create a review, a warning now appears. 
  
  
• In Single Item View, a refresh button has been added to the content header. 
  
  
• The "View all locked items" button was moved to the actions area of the content header. 
  
  
• In Single Item View, you can no longer unlock an item while you edit.

Updates from Customer Feedback

• In List View, you can now remove tags when you bulk edit items 

• Project Admins can now unlock user-locked items in Single Item View.
  
  
• Organizational Admins now have the ability to relate two locked items.

• Test runs now remain open when a session has timed out. 
  
  
• In the Reports tab of root admin, the "Restrict to Group" options are now listed in alphabetical order. 
  
  
• New improved library to support PDF exports of Velocity reports.
  
  
• You can now use "Find me" to locate a folder in a folder.
  
  

Notes for Self-Hosted Administrators

Elasticsearch Upgrade and Migration 

This release upgrades Elasticsearch to 7.10.2. For licensing reasons, Jama Connect was upgraded to AWS Open Distro for Elasticsearch 1.13.2. After you upgrade, admins must re-index their instance. 

Incremental Step Upgrade and New Database Schemas

If You Haven't Yet Upgraded to Jama Connect 8.62.x

• Before you install or upgrade to Jama Connect 8.66, we recommend that you first create two new database schemas to support the new options for SAML and Oauth authentication, where were introduced in 8.62.0 and revised in 8.62.3.
   
• For the upgrade to succeed, organizations using Microsoft SQL Server must enter database users in Replicated. Without these entries, the installation or upgrade will fail. 

For more information, see Incremental Step Upgrade and Jama Connect 8.62.3 Release Notes.

Container Artifacts

We regression tested using Replicated 2.53 and recommend the use of the following script for the initial installation of Jama Connect. This will install Replicated 2.53: 
 

curl -sSL "https://get.replicated.com/docker?replicated_tag=2.53.0&replicated_ui_tag=2.53.0&replicated_operator_tag=2.53.0" | sudo bash -s no-auto

Airgap Environments

Airgap customers can download the required version of Replicated via https://s3.amazonaws.com/replicated-airgap-work/stable/replicated-2.53.0%2B2.53.0%2B2.53.0.tar.gz before installing the 8.66 Airgap file available in your portal. 

Resolved Issues