Releases

 Release plan

VisionProject is always moved forward by customer requests!

Please let us know if you have any specific feature requests or improvements that you want us to add by emailing us at support@visionproject.se.

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Version 6.0 - Released February 14th

Issue management

Improved permission on issues, ability to add individual users

Enhancements to the subscription functionality

Ability to update all active links in a chain

Email ticket system

Support for HTML in emails, with inline images

Miscellaneous

Support for German, Czech, Polish and Norwegian languages

The Web Service API is now available on the hosted version

Some minor bug fixes :-)

 Previous releases

Version 5.4 - Released December 13th

Issue management

Add import/export to MS Project

Add action to upload documents for builds

When adding a document on an issue the issue history should be updated

Email ticket system

Improve reply templates in reply to correspondent with variables

Miscellaneous

Make it easy to create new email / outgoing communication

Ability to specify attributes when doing a commit to Subversion

Make it possible to configure if a project should be opened by default

Add the ability to have "commands" when replying from an email client

Version 5.3 - Released November 15th

Issue management

Add subscribers to issues

Enhance links between issues so you can update linked issues "automatically"

Include [no version] in the version dropdown for Issues page

Make it possible to change the text in notifications

Add context menu in "Quick search"

Ability to change Issue type in context menu

Added the ability to specify "your own" minutes in date+time fields (previously only 0, 15, 30 and 45 was possible)

Company management

Companies should be displayed in an Ext grid

Miscellaneous

Improve "Recent activity" to be customizable

Cycle time chart in the Kanban board

Settings on account level should use a tree instead of tabs

Forum messages should be available in Recent activity

Version 5.2.1 - Released October 19th

This is mostly a bug fix release with a few new features stuffed in.

Issue management

The "Last visited issues"-panel will now remember the issues between logins

New column in "Recent activity"-portlet that displays who has done the change

Paste as plain text and paste as word has been added to the HTML textareas

Miscellaneous

Bug fixes - mostly notably we have fixed the issues with unnecessary spacing between rows in HTML textareas.

Version 5.2 - Released September 27th

Issue management

Kanban/Task board

Cumulative Flow Diagram

HTML area in description and comments

Improve readability for Issue History Log

Add a "Version-sub menu" in Issue tab that displays all issues in the selected version

All Components should be available in filter mode

"Add new worklog" should be available in the context menu

Let parent inherit start date and end date from children

Improved design of the Issue History log

Ticket system

A processing rule that disables auto-reply

A processing rule that makes it possible to send an alternative auto-reply

Add a processing rule criteria that checks the issue status

Misc

Possibility to override "nomenclature", e.g. instead of Version you can use Release, etc.

Improved LDAP module (added support for a mixed password hashing mechanisms)

Show Worklog per user on Project page

Enhanced "Version/Release" page with progress information and graphs

Bug fixes

Version 5.1 - 5th of July

Issue management

Issue History export

Exporting selected issues using context menu

Access on issue comments

SLA management

Ability to filter on severity in Alerts

Web Service API

Enhanced Web Service API - better query functionality, document upload/download and more

Ticket system

Ability to create a "subject template" for email replies

Ability to set Issue type in processing rules

Improved identification of a VisionProject ticket id (easier to let two different ticket systems cooperate)

Reports

Details in the "Average time in status" report has been added

Misc

Domain mapping on companies

GUI themes

Ability to set which user groups a particular user group can set in "Invite users"

Added "document has been changed"-notification

(Installed version) Default locale can be set in property file

(Installed version) Better management of invalidated MySQL connections

Version 5.0.1 - Released 2009-05-11

Issue management

Set current issue as sub-issue to another issue

Add warning that changes will not be saved if moving to "add document"

Ability to choose "Unassigned" for "Fix for version" in context-menu

Dashboard/portal

Modified date and Created date added to issue-portlets in the dashboard

Misc

Added TicketId to the "Issue document"-added notification

A few minor usability enhancement

Bug fixes

Version 5.0 - Released 2009-04-06

Issue management

Improvements in the edit issue view

Ability to open an issue in its own tab

Added "time line" for versions

Add dependencies between issues

Improved issue link functionality (dialog on the same page)

Added quicklinks for company

Made it easier to add subissues directly in issue table

Batch update directly in issue table

Added "column views" for choosing columns for a personalized issue views

Batch update for sub-issues

Improve workflow management

Flexibility/configurability

Improved time/work log report

Access control with finer granularity

Custom fields on user/contacts

Different statuses per issue type, configurable on project

Ability to limit access on an issue for a user group, depending on current status.

Company as a new custom field

Document management

More consistent functionality between views

Improved screenshot applet - with local save and reduced size

Reduced size for multi-upload and document-edit applet

Improve usability

Improved usability and readability in some pages (e.g. the permissions page)

More quick links for easy access to frequently used functions

Extended context menu

Search and reports

New report section

New SLA (Service Level Agreement) reports

Improved MSExcel export

More grouping options and including billable/none billable hours in time report

Support center module

Add setting to make it possible for users to see all issues at their associated company

New SLA (Service Level Agreement) reports

Add preview to Support Center

Quicklinks on reply to correspondent for adding reply easier

Dashboard/portal

The portal will be completely configurable and settings will be remembered between logins

Many new statistics portlets

Misc

Many new custom field types

Upgrade to new version of EXTJS for increased performance and compabtiblity

More personal and company settings

I18n improvements

A couple of bugfixes. Yes, we had a couple of those :-)

Version 4.1 - Released 10 November 2008

This release contains a few new features and some bug fixes.

Issue management

Ability to add new issues directly in the issue table

Added documentation and samples for "Simple forms". (Ability to create issues with forms outside of VisionProject.)

Made aggregated fields read-only for parent issues if sub-issues are used. For the fields: Estimated time, Actual time and Remaining time.

Added Copy/Transfer to the context-menu on issues

Warning when concurrent modification in edit issue and reply to correspondent happens

Ability to create new companies directly from the user info dialog

Dashboard

Added "Last visited issues"-area in the left-hand-side panel

Add the ability to choose which issues to show in My open issues (where owner, where developer and/or where reporter)

Document management

Visual compare of old versions of HTML and TXT files

Image viewer - ability to view image files in the Document archive as well as on issues

Ticket system

Add To: and Cc: fields from emails to the description

Improved "Reply to correspondent" so two users cannot make a reply on the same issue at the same time

Miscellaneous

Added ability to group by: issue, user and date in the time report

Improved Web Service API

Bug-fixes

Version 4.0 - Released 1 September 2008

As of version 4.0 the user interface has been totally revised and greatly improved by using the EXTJS framework. This has affected many parts of the system and many changes have been needed to make this happen. To guarantee quality of the new version once released to our customers we have decided to postpone the release of the new version until the August. We are sorry for the delay of this release but we think you will be very pleased with the new version.

Issue management

Tags on issues

Enhanced Custom fields - they will be handled exactly as normal fields.

Context menu on issues in issue lists. (With quick edit ability and more...)

Ability to have calculated times on parents (from sub-issues)

Progress column added in issue lists (Remaining time vs. Estimated time)

Project management

Copy/clone projects + project templates

Improved time tracking

Document management

Revisions on documents

Possible to lock documents

Quick edit-save of any document

Personal notes

Ability to see all issue documents for a project in one page

Misc

Major GUI enhancements using the EXTJS framework

Knowledge base enhancements

Improvements of the web service API

Ticket system rules enhancements

Ability to add "issue attachments" in reply to correspondent

Knowledge base improvements

Tree for navigation

Rating of an article

Marking articles as outdated

Adding comments on articles

Version 3.2 - Released - 20 December 2007

Access management

Create new roles and edit existing ones.

Ability to configure which modules and functions a role should have access to.

Configure access to issues, documents and forum entries.

Issue management

Screenshot applet (add screenshots to issues easily)

Gantt chart

Start date added as a standard field

Ability to configure which textareas that should be shown (specific to issue type)

Support Center

Configuration to let customers create their own user account or not.

Simple forums - create your own forms for easy issue reporting

Document management improvements

Misc

LDAP user import utility

GUI improvements

Bug fixes

Version 3.1 - 18 July 2007

Issue management

Ability to create subtasks

Completely flexible statuses (create, edit, delete)

Completely flexible priorities (create, edit, delete)

Completely flexible severities (create, edit, delete)

Ability to create a new user directly from the New issue page

Ability to add separators in the Issue Field Configurations

Issue field configuration preview

Improved comments view and history log on issues

Misc

API - create issues, list issues, etc.

Add customer companies. A user can be associated to a company and filters/searches can be done on with a company as a search criteria

Integrate a Version Control System (Subversion and/or CVS)

Internationalization, support for other languages than English.

Burn-down charts

Document tab improvements, total size of all files, number of files, multi upload/download

LDAP integration

Version 3.0 - 28 February 2007

Issue management

Work log on issues with time reporting

Ability to add more than one attachment when creating a new issue

Escalation reports. When an issue is overdue a notification will be sent.

Calendar view in issue tab

Add images to the 'Print view' of an issue

Reports

Ability to choose which field you want to have in the report and in which order.

New predefined reports

Export search results and issue lists to XML/Excel/PDF/Word

Installed version

Support for MySQL

Support Center

Ability to search for ticket id in the quick issue field.

Ability to tag a knowledge base article as a featured article.

Ability to exclude knowledge base articles from being shown in latest changed articles.

Misc

Calendar view to show due dates for issues and versions, both on Start page and on the
Projects page

Add the ability to let the administrator to have access to all project.

Add the ability to search on Issue History log as well (comments, customer e-mails, etc.)

Version 2.4.2 - 16 October 2006

Once again mostly a bugfix release. The new features in this version is a full featured Spam filter as well as the ability to specify which statuses that should be used in a project.

Read more here

Version 2.4.1 - 12 September 2006

This is mostly a bugfix release but it contains some nice new features such as batch delete of users, project categories and the ability to specify that a user should only have access to issues where she is the owner, the reporter or the developer of an issue.

Read more here

Version 2.4 - 5 July 2006

This release focus a lot on improvement of the Support Center (helpdesk) as well as a new improvements on the edit issue and the ability to show searches on the Start page (Dashboard).

Read more here

Version 2.3 - 29 March 2006

In this release add a lot of customization features has been added to VisionProject, making is possible to use VisionProject for virtually all types of projects, not only software development projects.

Read more here

Version 2.2 - 20 September 2005

In this release two new modules has been introduced: the support center and email ticket system.

Read more here
Read press release here

Version 2.1.2 - 1 September 2005

This is a minor release with several enhancements that has been frequently requested by our customer. Read more here.

Version 2.1.1 - 8 June 2005

This is a minor release with a few frequently requested enhancements. Read more here.

Version 2.1 - 15 March 2005

This release contains a few notable features such as batch update functionality and a new "estimated time" field on issues. Read more here.

Version 2.0 - 5 January 2005

Major GUI enhancements, issue handling enhancements and bug fixes.