Release date US: 2026/07/24
Release date AU/EU: 2026/07/24
Jama Connect® v9.38
Auto-Apply Categories to New Items
When filtering by category, you can now choose to automatically apply the selected categories to any new component, set, item, or folder created within that filtered view. This option helps keep new content categorized consistently so that it appears in the appropriate filtered results as soon as it is created.
Initiate a Review from a Baseline
Accelerate incremental reviews by comparing approved baselines with current content.
Convert up to 5,000 items
You can now convert up to 5,000 items at a time, increased from the previous limit of 1,000 items.
Export Trace View with double-byte characters
Trace View note supports exporting double-byte characters.
New Duplicate Project API Endpoint (Labs Only)
A new Project API endpoint is now available in Labs. You can use this endpoint to duplicate an entire project via the API, empowering teams to efficiently clone items, settings, and relationships. Projects with up to 100,000 items are supported.
| Endpoint | Description |
| POST /projects/{projectId}/duplicate | Duplicate project with the given projectId |
| Get /workrequests/{workKey} | Get the operation's status by providing the workKey |
Jama Connect Advisor — Relationship Discovery
Relationship Discovery streamlines the process of finding potential relationships between records. By selecting source and target items, users can analyze similarities and quickly identify candidate relationships that might need further review.
Key Features
- Flexible item selection — Choose source and target items to analyze for potential relationships.
- Similarity analysis — Compare selected items using similarity criteria to identify candidate relationships.
- Ranked results — Review potential relationships ordered by similarity to prioritize evaluation.
- Interactive review — Collaborate with co-workers to quickly examine and validate candidate relationships before taking action.
Benefits
- Reduce the time spent manually comparing records.
- Identify potential relationships that might otherwise be overlooked.
- Prioritize the most relevant candidates with similarity-based ranking.
- Improve confidence and consistency when discovering relationships.
Jama Connect Advisor — Quality Analysis Enhancements
Quality Analysis has been enhanced to provide more complete and actionable feedback. These updates improve analysis coverage, increase transparency into rule evaluations, and streamline the review experience.
Key Updates
- Expanded analysis limit — Increased the supported text length from 400 to 2,000 characters.
- Improved analysis processing — Updated the analysis service to evaluate the full content instead of stopping at the first period(.).
- Analysis summary — Added a high-level summary to provide a quick overview of results.
- Enhanced rule explanations — Expanded rule details to explain why each issue was flagged and how to fix it.
Benefits
- Analyze longer requirements without truncation.
- Receive more complete and accurate quality assessments.
- Understand quality issues more quickly with a concise summary.
- Gain clearer guidance for improving requirement quality.
Jama Connect Advisor — Requirement Refinement Enhancements
Requirement Refinement has been updated to be able to apply suggested improvements more easily.
Key Updates
- Immediate rewrite suggestion — A suggested rewrite is now provided with the initial analysis.
- One-click application — Apply rewrite suggestions directly to the item without having to manually copy and paste text.
Benefits
- Save time when refining requirements.
- Reduce manual editing and copy/paste actions.
- Create a more efficient and seamless refinement experience.
Updates from User Feedback
- Dashboards can now be included with project duplication.
- Overbar/Overline notation can now be applied from the Rich Text toolbar.
Review Center — Setting Recommendation
The Jama Connect 9.37 release includes enhancements to Review Center that streamline review workflows and improve efficiency. As a result, Review Center behavior might differ in some scenarios.
To help maintain consistent review behavior, enable the Block review finalization when item versions mismatch setting.
For more information, see Configure review access. If you have questions about this recommendation or need help enabling the setting, contact your Jama Customer Success Manager or Consultant.
Resolved Issues
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| SOS-DEF-721 | Stakeholders, Collaborators, and Test Runners now must have permission to be able to use the Reuse wizard. |
| SOS-DEF-1333 | When Test Runs are removed from an active Test Plan, the Test Case Status no longer remains Scheduled. |
| SOS-DEF-1546 | You can now successfully filter test runs in a test plan or test cycle within the current project if any sourced test cases are from a different project. |
| SOS-DEF-2673 | The Review Center Stats Report now correctly exports the Test Run stats. |
| SOS-DEF-4431 | Now, when you try to delete a parent/set container that includes “locked” children, a success message is no longer displayed. |
| SOS-DEF-5230 | The Test Run Status field in a test case no longer shows archived Test Plan or Test Run results. |
| SOS-DEF-5246 | You can now edit a test run when the duration field is set to Required and the test run is not set to Read-only. |
| SOS-DEF-5290 | Test case steps now recognize line breaks. |
| SOS-DEF-5362 | Test runners with read-only permissions can no longer edit and add defects. |
| SOS-DEF-5459 | In test case steps, the Move Down pop-up window no longer appears. |
| SOS-DEF-5609 | When creating a new user, if you add that user to a user group, the activity is correctly recorded in the Org Activity stream. |
| SOS-DEF-6500 | Error in table width visualization description field of an item no longer occurs. |
| SOS-DEF-6535 | The Activity Stream Tag filter now includes the ability to add tags to items. |
| SOS-DEF-6600 | Special characters such as &, <, and > are now displayed correctly in the Review Center. |
| SOS-DEF-8248 | In the Review Center, the Discard changes modal responds correctly to Yes and No responses. |
| SOS-DEF-8521 | Alternative text pasted from image properties into the Results column during a Test Run execution is now saved correctly. |
| SOS-DEF-8589 | Get testCycles testgroup no longer returns removed test groups in test cycle results. |
| SOS-DEF-8793 | Filter results no longer shows the incorrect message “no items found.” |
| SOS-DEF-8946 | The test cycle now displays the correct end date. |
| SOS-DEF-8949 | The email notification that is sent after a batch edit now shows the correct number of items that were updated. |
| SOS-DEF-9037 | The Test Case Status no longer remains Scheduled when there is no associated Test Run. |
| SOS-DEF-9132 | You can now duplicate a test plan even if deactivated users were assigned to the test group. |
| SOS-DEF-9158 | Exports from the filtered test cycle view now apply the selected filters correctly. |
| SOS-DEF-9548 | When a filter is applied, syncing a test run now updates only the selected test run. |
| SOS-DEF-9575 | When you select Baseline > View details for large baselines, SQL Server error 8632 no longer occurs. |
| SOS-DEF-9576 | The REST API no longer returns inconsistent itemType values for test cycles and test runs. |
| SOS-DEF-9606 | Batch editing or executing test runs now requires users assignment when the field is required. |
| SOS-DEF-9624 | In Trace View, the side panel now shows item-specific categories for each selected item. |
| SOS-DEF-9645 | When duplicating a project, duplicate Test Plan folders are no longer created. |
| SOS-DEF-9725 | In the Explorer Tree, when you select Show Relationships, related items now open in multi-item view, as expected. |
| SOS-DEF-9731 | The Refine button in Jama Connect Advisor is now displayed correctly. |
Known Issues
| ID | Description |
|---|---|
| SOS-DEF-9770 |
Users with a Test Runner license can't access Edit, Lock, or Delete actions in the Single Item View or List View top toolbar. They can can still edit items by double-clicking their fields. Users can:
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