2022

Exply 5.0 is finally here!

The biggest change was done under the hood as we now start ElasticSearch (Exply's data management) as a separate service, instead of starting it embedded. As of now, you will not recognize any changes in the behaviour of Exply. But this major change opens the door to a lot of future improvements and features for Exply, like SQL-Widgets, anomaly detection, forecasting and so forth.

Features:

• Added sorting options for x- and y- axis in matrix chart
• Issue comments and custom field type user are now also imported through the Jira Cloud importer

Improvements:

• Improved the Loading Spinner UX
• Fixed some broken Widget labels
• Fixed the notifications for available updates
• Fixed a bug with the Tempo Cloud importer not finding some issues

Features:

• Date Pivot Fields in all Widgets with pivot fields
• Enhanced UI for field mapping configurations for generic importers
• Value is shown on hover if there is not enough space available for permanent display inside the chart
• New loading spinner

Improvements:

• Better service management custom field exception handling
• Better support for service management approval fields in Jira Cloud
• Jira Cloud Importer does not crash anymore when issue descriptions are too long
• Fixed color scale color picker minimum width
• Fixed bugs in Quickfilter widget 
• Fixed a bug which caused UI crash when switching back from user
• Fixed issue which led to broken pivot table when switching from time series chart to pivot table 
• Fixed bug which caused errors when editing a number-field-based widget group filter 

Features:

• Tempo Planner Support for Exply Jira Cloud!
  Users can now dig into their Workloads and Planned Times
• Added support for Jira Service Management SLA Fields
• Multiple values can now be stacked in Multi-value Time Series Charts
• Show Exply On-Premise users if updates are available

Improvements:

• Non permitted users can no longer see the create Dashboard buttons
• Fixed a bug that caused the comparison selection in Metric Tiles to It's possible again, to select comparison periods in the Metric Tile 
• Enhances error handling for the Exply for Jira Cloud Importer
• Custom Pivot Table Labels don't get concatenated with other text anymore
• Minor improvements to Exply for Jira Cloud Importer
• Dark Mode Improvements
• Jira Server Data Import: An issue with Tempo Team Accessing was fixed
• Other minor bugfixes

Features:

• Removed IE11 Support
• Exply for Jira Cloud now officially supports Tempo Cloud
• The Jira Cloud importer shows incidents in a more explicit way. 
• Added better support for Jira Service Desk Fields service desk custom fields

Improvements:

• We significantly optimised the frontend performance 
• Editing a widget title is now more convenient
• and a lot more :)