Atlassian News

FishEye 2 and Crucible 2 released!

kolofsen — 2009-07-01T01:03:04+10:00

I am very excited to announce the release of FishEye 2 and Crucible 2. Both of these products have undergone a complete UI makeover with improved usability and productivity features focused on agile development. FishEye and Crucible help you explore your source code and conduct code reviews that actually work.

After announcing the betas of both products at Atlassian Summit about a month ago, we had several hundred people download and try it, many of which provided us with valuable feedback. Check out the new features below and download the latest version to upgrade or try a free 30-day evaluation.

FishEye 2: Explore your source

FishEye, our source code repository browser, has add a whole new dimension for looking at the activity in your repository by focusing on the people that contribute to your code and letting you follow what they are doing.

View all activity - Keep tabs on the people and source code you care about.
Follow people that matter - Follow any user or committer within your source code repository.
Explore your source - Search, navigate and report on your source code from any browser.
Collaborate with your team - Share source code with your team. Add code insight to your existing tools, like JIRA and Crucible.

Crucible 2: Code review that works!

Crucible, our peer code review tool, has also taken a major leap forward introducing the concept of "iterative code review". Your development environment is constantly changing, and that should not to get in the way of an effective review process.

Productive code review - Simple, fast review creation. Keyboard navigation, display preferences, inline comments.
Fit your review process - Post-commit reviews from Subversion, Perforce, CVS, Git and ClearCase. Pre-commit from anything.
Iterative reviews - Code. Review. Code. Review ... review is usually not the last step.
Integrate with your toolset - Plays well with others. FishEye, JIRA, Eclipse, IntelliJ or roll your own with REST API or plugin framework.

Join us for a webinar

If you would like to learn more, please join us for a product webinar on July 15, 2009. There will be two session both covering the following:

Review latest features of FishEye
Review latest features of Crucible
Provide demo of both products
Answer any questions you have

Wed, July 15, 2009 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PST
Wed, July 15, 2009 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM PST

(Cartoon) Follow me NOT

jsilvers — 2009-06-30T10:07:17+10:00

We created a special piece of collateral to hand out at our booth at last week's Enterprise 2.0 conference. Confluence 3.0 has some great, new social features, but rather than tell the story through a typical sales datasheet, we invented Bill and John, two cartoon characters trying to overcome a few coworker TMI issues — too much information. Fortunately, Confluence-man comes to the rescue.

Let us know what you think! Excelsior!

Confluence Customer wins 'Open Enterprise Innovation' Award at Enterprise 2.0

barconati — 2009-06-27T07:58:40+10:00

A huge congratulations goes out to Walton Smith and team at Booz Allen Hamilton for their winning the Open Enterprise Innovation Award at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston this week.

Booz Allen's Hamilton is a 90-year-old consulting firm with over 20K employees. Walton helped create Hello.bah.com, a platform combining 'best of breed enterprise 2.0 tools' including Confluence. It's a great example of a large, mature firm can innovate with new ways to communicate, collaborate and share knowledge.

Stephen Walling at ReadWriteWeb also gives a great summary of Walton's Enterprise 2.0 presentation in Boston on Thursday. If you missed it, Walton also presented hello.bah in our March Voice of the Customer webinar which you can watch on Atlassian.com/tv.

Video: Plugin of the Month with Go2Group and 3 Plugins

mfriberg — 2009-06-26T10:25:49+10:00

Wil, Mike, and Doug gave a great presentation today on 3 of there plugins for our Plugin of the Month webinar:

1) Go2Group JaM Plugin - integrates JIRA and HP Quality Center, allowing developers in JIRA to display a list of available QC test cases/defects within a JIRA issue.
2) Go2Group CRM Plugin - integration between Atlassian JIRA and Salesforce or SugarCRM, providing tighter collaboration between support teams and sales teams.
3) Go2Group synapseRT Plugin - provides a dashboard within JIRA which displays requirements based on projects and releases, providing a comprehensive view into your entire development environment.

For past webinars, please hop on over to Atlassian TV where you can now sort videos by products and categories. For upcoming webinars, please visit our events page. If you would like to be in our webinar series, please contact us.
Also, don't forget about following us on

Confluence Macros - Do the Evolution!

ewang — 2009-06-25T08:00:00+10:00

Last week my colleague Matt wrote a piece explaining the history of macros, and how they have evolved over time. He showed how they were powerful ways to add content to your wiki but historically out-of-reach to the average user. Today, we want to shed some light on exactly how much has changed since day one and how easy Confluence 3.0 makes it for mere mortals to use macros.

As the video below shows, no longer do users need to concern themselves with typing inside of curly brackets and figuring out what parameters need to be set. All that's needed is an idea of what content you'd like to show and Confluence takes care of the rest. Matt showed you the old way of doing things. This video shows how much simpler it is today in Confluence 3.0.

The evolution of macros is, in a way, a reflection of Atlassian's own growth as a company. Atlassian has evolved from a highly technical team, mainly of developers, to a diverse range of departments. Teams such as Marketing, Customer Service, and Talent that did not exist before are now essential parts of Atlassian. Like many business users, our non-technical departments are thrilled to be able to embed task lists, charts, RSS feeds and other dynamic content into their wiki pages.

The future is bright for the Macro Browser. Plugins 2.0 and Atlassian Plugin Exchange set the foundation for building and discovering new plugins, while the Macro Browser makes the magic accessible to all users.

What are you doing still reading this post? Download Confluence 3.0 and see for yourself already!

(Marketing) 7 lessons learned in publishing video to our website

jsilvers — 2009-06-25T06:00:31+10:00

More than a year ago, we launched AtlassianTV, a section on our website dedicated to videos about products, customers, plugins, partners, and all-things Atlassian. When we first launched the site, it was a barely structured, small group of videos. Since then, the site has become more sophisticated, the number of videos grows weekly, and the audience has grown at a nice click.

Graphs that go up and to the right are usually a good thing. That's the result, but of course there were some mistakes made and lessons learned along the way. Herewith are a few key takeaways:

1. Think about your audience first
2. Determine how you're going to measure success early on
3. YouTube is awesome, but is it the right tool for what you need to accomplish?
4. Get into a rhythm
5. Have fun
6. Even B2B companies can use ads
7. Got content? It should be organized

Wikis wikis wikis - usergroups in Dutch and Strine

rmunro — 2009-06-24T12:52:08+10:00

Confluence 3 Launch Party in Vianen, The Netherlands - 25th June
E-id is organising in cooperation with Atlassian an event for new and existing users to the use of the new enterprise wiki, an even stronger platform for online collaboration and social interaction within organisations. The event is designed for anyone online collaboration within their organisation to improve using Web 2.0 software such as a wiki.
There will be presentations covering what's new in Confluence 3.0 and practical issues when migrating to Confluence 3.0
There are limited places available so register quickly to secure a place. Registration is by sending an email to events@e-id.nl.

Wiki Wednesday in Sydney, Australia - 1st July
Every few months in Sydney, a group of developers, bloggers, entrepreneurs, consultants, educationalists, accountants in practice, or anyone interested in wikis, social software, and web 2.0 get together to share their experiences. Everybody is welcome. Pizza will be provided and you'll get to have a sneak peek inside Atlassian's Sydney offices. If you are interested in attending or giving a presentation, we're going Pecha Kucha style this time, please sign up here.

If you can't make it all the way to The Netherlands or down to Sydney, then you can always check out this quick video about what's new in Confluence 3.0

Get (task) focused with the Atlassian Connector for Eclipse

jgibbs — 2009-06-24T12:00:00+10:00

Today is a big day for the Eclipse community with the release of "Galileo", also known as Eclipse 3.5.

Atlassian is joining the fun with the latest version of our Atlassian Connector for Eclipse.

This Eclipse plugin allows developers to quickly access JIRA issues, Bamboo builds, Crucible code reviews and FishEye SCM insights without context-switching from the IDE. The Atlassian Connector supports the newly-released Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo) as well as earlier 3.3 and 3.4 versions.

The latest release of the Atlassian Connector for Eclipse was created in partnership with Tasktop Technologies, creators of the widely adopted task-focused Mylyn interface for Eclipse. Developers working on JIRA issues and Crucible code reviews are far more productive thanks to Mylyn's innovative context-based presentation which shows them only the source code files and information needed for the task at hand.

The Atlassian Connector for Eclipse allows developers to easily and efficiently:

Configure JIRA, Bamboo, Crucible and FishEye servers as Mylyn task repositories
Receive notifications of changes to JIRA issues, Crucible code reviews, and Bamboo build status directly in Eclipse, eliminating context switches
Create, update, and manage JIRA issues throughout their life cycle.
Launch Bamboo builds and create JIRA issues to address failed Bamboo builds
Create and conduct Crucible code reviews right in the source code editor
Access FishEye SCM insights at the project, package, file, or line of code level

Please note: some users have encountered errors when installing the Atlassian Connector for Eclipse. This is due to a problem with the distribution of Eclipse 3.5 to the various mirroring sites.

If you encounter one of the following error messages during installation, please try the following troubleshooting steps. If these solutions do not fix the error, we recommend attempting to re-download the 3.5 distribution from a different mirror site.

"Cannot find a solution satisfying the following requirements"
Click here to view solution

"Error while collecting items to be installed"
Click here to view solution

Check out the Atlassian Connector for Eclipse in action (2:36):

Webinar: 3 Plugins with Go2Group

mfriberg — 2009-06-24T07:57:00+10:00

This month's Plugin of the Month webinar will feature Wil Anderson and crew of Go2Group. They plan on showing off 3 fantastic plugins:

1) Go2Group JaM Plugin - integrates JIRA and HP Quality Center, allowing developers in JIRA to display a list of available QC test cases/defects within a JIRA issue.
2) Go2Group CRM Plugin - integration between Atlassian JIRA and Salesforce or SugarCRM, providing tighter collaboration between support teams and sales teams.
3) Go2Group synapseRT Plugin - provides a dashboard within JIRA which displays requirements based on projects and releases, providing a comprehensive view into your entire development environment.

Update: View video here.

Check out our video of the LincVolt car!

lkhalil — 2009-06-23T09:14:22+10:00

As I mentioned in a previous post, the LincVolt is a project pioneered by Neil Young. It's his goal to turn his 1959 Lincoln Continental into a green car. They're converting it to an electric vehicle with the goal of getting it to 100mpg. The coolest part of this (for Atlassian) is that the LincVolt project is using JIRA to manage all of this!

Check out this video Mark and I shot when we were down at JavaOne earlier this month, explaining the car, its history and how it uses JIRA:

Videos: Fireball - The Collaboration Appliance by Appfire

mfriberg — 2009-06-20T05:48:08+10:00

Mat Gauvin, COO of Appfire, recently showcased Fireball, the collaboration appliance built for our software. Fireball provides a cost-effective solution for organizations of any size looking to collaborate, fast.

You will not want to miss the following videos if you are interested in Fireball. In the first video, you will see a webinar complete with an excellent Q&A session. The second video documents the unboxing of Fireball, proving the slogan 'From Cardboard to Dashboard in under 10 minutes.' Lastly, the third video is a great, professionally produced, overview of Fireball.

Fireball Webinar with Mat Gauvin (29:15)

Fireball Unboxing (6:18)

Meet Fireball (4:14)

Meet Fireball - The turnkey Collaboration Appliance built for Atlassian software! from Appfire Technologies on Vimeo.

FishEye 2 Beta Insight (part 3) - Usability

kolofsen — 2009-06-19T22:12:10+10:00

So far, I have talked about the new People and Personalisation features in the FishEye 2 beta. And these are just the tip of the iceberg.. FishEye 2 has gone through a complete UI transformation to ensure that performance and usability is unparalleled. Working with Subversion, CVS, and Perforce (and soon Git!) has never been easier.

FishEye 2: Faster and easier than ever

While all of the great features that you have come to know and love FishEye 1.x for still exist, we have improved upon many things to make using FishEye 2 feel almost like a client GUI. Here's just a few things you'll love:

Performance - First and foremost, you'll notice the performance of FishEye 2 is faster than ever.

Tree browser - When navigating through the source tab, the tree browser is lightning fast with new Ajaxy goodness. The path at the top ensures you never lose your context.

File Explorer - See all revisions for any file in your repository with commit details and easy access to diffs. You can also see all activities and users involved with the file, view reports or drill into the raw or annotated source.

Favourites - Adding a star next to any file, revision, branch, repository or changeset will do two things, 1) bookmark it to your favourites menu, and 2) add all related activity to your personal dashboard.

Activity streams - Generate RSS feeds from any type of activity stream including cross repository streams, project streams, user and committer streams, or your personal dashboard stream.

Emails - You can also place watches on any browse or changelog page and receive email notifications.

Annotated source - You'll never look at code the same way with annotations in the gutter providing author and revision information.

Ad hoc reporting - When looking at any file, branch, or repository you can click the reports tab to get detailed historical charts. You can slice and dice the data with a variety of chart types, options and data constraints.

Plugable reports - You can even create your own customised reports using the FishEye index and show them in the query tab with our overhauled plugin architecture.

Side bar tabs - As you move around in FishEye, the side bar tabs are contextual based on what you are looking at. This let you quickly switch between left-hand panels or collapse them all together for a full-screen view.

Search - Use the query tab from anywhere to construct detailed queries and share links with teammates or export results as CSV.

EyeQL - FishEye has it's own query language, called EyeQL, which lets you structure sophisticated queries to find exactly what you are looking for.

Quick Navigation - The search box in the top right now includes Quicknav which auto-completes as you type.

And there's plenty more in FishEye 2, so I encourage you to take a closer look..

Give us your feedback

Download the public beta of FishEye 2 and check out the FishEye 2 Beta Release Notes for more information.

You can also check out these updated public instances:

http://fisheye1.atlassian.com - SourceForge CVS repositories
http://fisheye6.atlassian.com - Apache Subversion Repositories

Kick the tires yourself and let us know what you think.

IntelliJ + Atlassian now means even higher productivity!

jgibbs — 2009-06-19T12:00:00+10:00

We're excited to announce the release of the latest version of the Atlassian Connector for IntelliJ IDEA!

This IntelliJ plugin is freely available to everyone, and allows you to access JIRA issues, Bamboo builds, Crucible code reviews and FishEye SCM insights without switching tools.

The latest version, 2.1, introduced a bunch of awesome features that make common activities easier and faster. Our own developers have been 'dogfooding' with the plugin for a couple of weeks now, and I've heard nothing but great things about the new functionality.

The new active issue toolbar remembers the JIRA issue you are working on, tracks time spent on the issue, and automatically updates the issue status to 'in progress'.

Keyboard shortcuts bring your JIRA issues within a few keystrokes:
- Press Shift-Alt-J to see your recently viewed issues.
- Press Shift-Alt-S to do a quick search for an issue.
- Click an issue key in the IDEA editor to open the issue.

Creating pre-commit Crucible code reviews is quick and easy, and doesn't require the creation of a patch.

You can now create a review while committing your files. A Crucible review is automatically started for the changeset.

There are a bunch more new features that are going to make working with JIRA, Bamboo, Crucible and FishEye even easier for IntelliJ users. You can get the full details in the release notes.

Want to see the Atlassian Connector for IntelliJ in action? Check out this three-minute video that shows how you can easily work with JIRA issues, Bamboo builds, Crucible code reviews and FishEye SCM insights as you work on source files.

GreenHopper for JIRA: Not Just for Agile Developers Webinar

dcook — 2009-06-19T04:42:17+10:00

Atlassian recently hosted a webinar entitled "Greenhopper for JIRA: Not Just for Agile Developers." The webinar featured demos from Jean Christophe Huet, the father of GreenHopper, and Cody Burleson, founder and President of Burleson Technology Group. In addition, the webinar included over 45 minutes of questions!

JC showed how GreenHopper can be used by pretty much any JIRA user and informed the audience that GreenHopper's two main goals are to provide a simple and interactive interface and increase visibility and traceability of JIRA projects. He demonstrated how GreenHopper can help you: update issues quickly, prioritize issues, manage subtasks, manage versions, schedule issues, and update statuses quickly.

Then Cody Burleson took the stage and expanded on his GreenHopper blog series by describing what he does and how he uses GreenHopper and JIRA. He is new to GreenHopper (his 30-day trial expired two days before the webinar), but he already finds the plugin extremely helpful. Referring to GreenHopper, Cody commented: "only once in a while does a product come around that really delights you, and when I find something like that it's exciting!"

After Cody finished his demo, JC and Cody spent the next 45 minutes answering questions from people watching the webinar. Topics included the burndown chart, custom fields, custom issue types, test integration, etc. Unfortunately, a technical difficulty cut off about 20 minutes of the Q&A, so the recorded version of the webinar is missing the last few questions.

Hopefully the webinar will help you learn more about GreenHopper and JIRA!
Check out the webinar:

So far, several attendees have downloaded or bought GreenHopper. Join them!

Crucible 2 Beta Insight (part 3) - JIRA Integration

kolofsen — 2009-06-18T22:45:11+10:00

In the first two parts of my little blog series on the Crucible 2 beta, I covered iterative reviews and the new usability improvements. One of the most requested features from existing customers was better JIRA integration and I'm excited to let you know that we have improved this greatly.

JIRA + Crucible 2: Better together!

For developers using JIRA to manage issues and tasks, Crucible adds a very valuable quality assurance step to your development processes by making it quick and easy for teammates to complete code reviews.

Here are some of the key integration features:

Suggested issues - When creating new reviews, Crucible automatically suggests potentially related JIRA issues based the commit messages or the review title. You can link them to your review with a single click.

Access review details in JIRA - Review comments are automatically incorporated into the comments of the linked JIRA issue. There is also a Crucible tab which includes all of the review details.

Link comments as subtasks - When adding comments to a review, you can also create a corresponding subtask in the related JIRA issue with just one click.

Resolve subtasks from Crucible - Once a comment and subtasks are linked, you can resolve them from either Crucible or JIRA and they'll be updated in the other system as well. This means you don't have to leave Crucible to update the status of your issues in JIRA.

Hover details - Just move your mouse over any JIRA issue key to get a hover box with essential issue details including title, status, reporter, and assignee. Click to expand and get even more details like the full description, issue type, project, created and modified dates.

Managing your JIRA issues and Crucible code reviews has never been easier!

Give us your feedback

Download the public beta of Crucible 2 and check out the Crucible 2 Beta Release Notes for more information.

You can also check out these updated public instances:

http://fisheye1.atlassian.com - SourceForge CVS repositories
http://fisheye6.atlassian.com - Apache Subversion Repositories

Kick the tires yourself and let us know what you think.