Release Notes 2026

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The release notes list what each version of Advanced Boards: Kanban, Analytics & Forecasts brings, newest release first. Each entry names its version and what it includes, area by area.

First release #

Version 1.0.0

Area What’s included
Home The boards you can open and what needs attention
Boards Boards built from Jira spaces, a saved filter, JQL or a Jira board (its saved filter and, if you keep them, its columns), with a guided “Create board” wizard; each board opens on its Overview
Configure Source and scope, flow and time (status mapping, boundaries, calendar, service levels), layout and cards, policies and agreements, board access and roles, and configuration backup and restore; a board’s configuration backs up to a file and restores only onto the flow and calendar its preview checked
Work and Backlog Columns, swimlanes and saved views; moving cards with a preview and a keyboard move, offering only the Jira transitions that land in the chosen column; ranking and creating work items, and batch actions on selected cards
WIP policies Limits on the board, across boards, on columns, column groups, swimlanes, cells, people, teams and classes of service, with agreements and SLEs
Analyze Flow metrics with “Data as of”, “Permissions as of” and coverage on every screen, and “Explain this number”; the coverage reads Partial while the board holds work items that Jira no longer confirms
Forecasts Answers to “When will this scope finish?” and “How much can finish by a date?” from delivery history, kept for up to 30 days, with exports
Plan Planned dates, milestones, dependencies and priorities, with actual dates in the board’s planning time zone and a reason for every work item that is not scored
Risk Current risk signals across your boards and on each board
Share and Reports Stakeholder views and a library of your saved results and exports
Jira surfaces Four dashboard gadgets (Advanced Boards: WIP, Advanced Boards: Throughput, Advanced Boards: Work Item Age and Advanced Boards: Forecast), the work item panel and the space page
Administration License and editions, operational health and the pause on changes, imports and jobs, audit trail, permissions, data retention and deletion, a list of every board’s configuration backup, support diagnostics and error reports
Advanced edition Portfolios and value streams, forecast schedules and calibration, scenarios, risk rules and alerts, policy experiments, AI investigation, templates with rollout, governance, risk automation and priority support
Scenarios and the apply plan A scenario states no date for work that waits on unfinished work outside it. The apply plan never repeats an uncertain change by itself: an item that shows “Outcome unknown” waits until you select Check this item’s outcome, or is sent again only as the same request, so it takes effect once at most
A move to Standard Your rules, schedules, templates, portfolios and value streams stay readable and can be deleted. The site’s governance rules still apply
Data and security Every figure counts only what the viewer can read in Jira; no work item text is stored; error reports are off until an administrator turns them on; an export states its times with the time zone and its offset

The two editions are described on Standard and Advanced editions, and what the app stores on Data and Security.

How updates reach your site #

An update of the app reaches your site by itself, and nothing needs to be reinstalled. While a new version gets ready, a screen may read “The app is setting itself up” for a moment. Nothing is lost. An update that needs a new permission waits for a Jira administrator’s approval in Connected apps; until then, the app runs without the features that need it (Support and diagnostics).