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Join us on an exciting journey towards a revamped community experience - launching soon!

By Amanda Jennewein posted 03-06-2024
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Dear Community Members, Join us on an exciting journey towards a revamped community experience - launching soon! We are excited to announce the launch of our newly designed online community! As we grow and evolve, we strive to provide you with the best possible platform for collaboration, discussion, and connection. To facilitate the launch of our new online community site, we will enter maintenance mode starting Monday, March 11, 2024, until the launch date later this month. During this period, you can access the platform; however, it will be in view-only mode. This means you can browse and read existing content, but you won't be able to post new topics, ...
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Jama Connect® 9.9.0 Cloud

By Carly Rossi posted 03-01-2024
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Release Date US: 2024/03/08 Release Date AU/EU: 2024/03/09 Introducing the Live Trace Explorer TM — Beta This release introduces Live Trace Explorer, which provides comprehensive and detailed insights into your complex product, systems, and software development processes. This feature automates the measurement of requirements traceability, coverage across disciplines, and your organization’s toolchain. Live Trace Explorer provides an at-a-glance snapshot of the traceability of your product's requirements to help you quickly and easily evaluate coverage, address any gaps, and proactively manage associated risks by answering two key questions: ...
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Jama Connect® 9.6.4 Self-Hosted, hotfix

By Carly Rossi posted 02-14-2024
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Release Date US: 2024/02/15 Release Date AU/EU: 2024/02/16 This release provides standard maintenance updates - delivering performance, security, and reliability improvements in a number of areas, including: Apache ActiveMQ Apache Tomcat jQuery Jama Connect Diff, SAML, OAuth, and Search services Resolved Issues ID Description SOS-DEF-7217 Round trip import enforces write permissions when the import is completed in an incorrect project. SOS-DEF-7343 Adding a user via LDAP no longer results in "Attribute ID must not be empty" error. SOS-DEF-7406 Standard text ...
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Jama Connect® 9.6.4 Customer-Validated Cloud, hotfix

By Carly Rossi posted 02-14-2024
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Release Date US: 2024/02/15 Release Date AU/EU: 2024/02/16 This release provides standard maintenance updates - delivering performance, security, and reliability improvements in a number of areas, including: Apache ActiveMQ Apache Tomcat jQuery Jama Connect Diff, SAML, OAuth, and Search services Resolved Issues ID Description SOS-DEF-7217 Round trip import enforces write permissions when the import is completed in an incorrect project. SOS-DEF-7406 Standard text fields now display appropriate spacing between lines when exported to Excel. SOS-DEF-7410 Test Plan ...
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Jama Connect® 9.0.5 Self-Hosted, hotfix

By Carly Rossi posted 02-08-2024
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Release Date US: 2024/02/07 Release Date AU/EU: 2024/02/08 This release provides standard maintenance updates - delivering performance, security, and reliability improvements in these areas: Apache ActiveMQ Resolved Issue ID Description SOS-DEF-7412 DATABASE_SCHEMA_NAME is now available as an environment variable for the Oauth and SAML services when using Microsoft SQL.
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Jama Connect® 8.79.7 Self-Hosted, hotfix

By Carly Rossi posted 02-01-2024
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Release Date US: 2024/02/01 for Native, 2024/02/05 for KOTS Release Date AU/EU: 2024/02/02 for Native, 2024/02/06 for KOTS This release provides standard maintenance updates -- delivering performance, security, and reliability improvements in these areas: Apache ActiveMQ Resolved Issue ID Description SOS-DEF-7412 DATABASE_SCHEMA_NAME is now available as an environment variable for the OAuth and SAML services when using Microsoft SQL.
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Jama Connect® 9.8.0 Cloud

By Carly Rossi posted 01-26-2024
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Release Date US: 2024/02/16 Release Date AU/EU: 2024/02/17 Test Management Improvements Test Plan Organization Updates Previously, all test plans were organized into a single flat list for a project. With the introduction of the Test Plans tree and folders, you now have a flexible and scalable method for test plan organization and navigation. Note: If archived test plans existed in a project prior to Jama Connect 9.8, the system performs a one-time move to relocate all archived plans into a user-managed folder called "Archived test plans." You can remove or keep this folder. All subsequently archived test plans remain ...
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Jama Connect® 9.6.3 Customer-Validated Cloud, hotfix

By Carly Rossi posted 01-09-2024
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Release Date US: 2024/01/11 Release Date AU/EU: 2024/01/12 Resolved Issues ID Description SOS-DEF-540 Changes to diagrams are saved when the diagram is center-aligned in the Rich Text Editor. SOS-DEF-7350 An error is no longer created when you select an item ID hyperlink in an Excel export. SOS-DEF-7358 Test case IDs now appear in the UI and in the exports. SOS-DEF-7359 Item path delimiter is now a forward slash ( / ) instead of a pipe ( | ) symbol. SOS-DEF-7361 Replace with baseline now finishes without an error when items with workflow enabled are deleted from a set. SOS-DEF-7365 Users can ...
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Jama Connect® 9.6.3 Self-Hosted, hotfix

By Carly Rossi posted 01-09-2024
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Release Date US: 2024/01/10 Release Date AU/EU: 2024/01/11 Resolved Issues ID Description SOS-DEF-540 Changes to diagrams are saved when the diagram is center-aligned in the Rich Text Editor. SOS-DEF-7350 An error is no longer created when you select an item ID hyperlink in an Excel export. SOS-DEF-7358 Test case IDs now appear in the UI and in the exports. SOS-DEF-7359 Item path delimiter is now a forward slash ( / ) instead of a pipe ( | ) symbol. SOS-DEF-7361 Replace with baseline now finishes without an error when items with workflow enabled are deleted from a set. SOS-DEF-7365 Users can ...
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Jama Connect® 9.7.0 Cloud

By Carly Rossi posted 01-05-2024
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Release Date US: 2024/01/12 Release Date AU/EU: 2024/01/13 Jama Connect Advisor — Analysis Results Slide-Over Panel for Document View In Document View, after analyzing a requirement with Jama Connect Advisor, the analysis results now opens in a slide-over panel (previously a window). This panel lets you view the analysis results side-by-side with your requirements, and easily incorporate suggestions. Embedded Filter Enhancements The following updates have been made to embedded filters that you access through the Filter window: Under Create rules, when defining conditions that must be met, you no longer have to add an embedded ...
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Jama Connect® 9.0.4 Self-Hosted, hotfix

By Carly Rossi posted 12-20-2023
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Release Date US: 2023/12/20 Release Date AU/EU: 2023/12/21 This release provides standard maintenance updates - delivering performance, security, and reliability improvements in these areas: Longhorn migrated to OpenEBS Docker migrated to containerd Weave migrated to Flannel Resolves errors in horizontal scaling Improves search service memory management Additional installation improvements Please Pay Attention to the Important Considerations in the User Guide! Upgrading Jama Connect to 8.79.6, 9.0.4, or 9.6.x requires that you first update the Jama Connect KOTS platform (please refer to page 480 on the v9.6.x User ...
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Jama Connect® 8.79.6 Self-Hosted (KOTS Only), hotfix

By Carly Rossi posted 12-20-2023
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Release Date US: 2023/12/20 Release Date AU/EU: 2023/12/21 This release provides standard maintenance updates - delivering performance, security, and reliability improvements in these areas: Longhorn migrated to OpenEBS Docker migrated to containerd Weave migrated to Flannel Resolves errors in horizontal scaling Improves search service memory management Additional installation improvements Please Pay Attention to the Important Considerations in the User Guide! Upgrading Jama Connect to 8.79.6, 9.0.4, or 9.6.x requires that you first update the Jama Connect KOTS platform (referred to on page 480 on the v9.6.x User Guide). ...
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Jama Connect® 9.6.1 Customer-Validated Cloud

By Carly Rossi posted 12-20-2023
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Release Date US: 2023/12/20 Release Date AU/EU: 2023/12/21 Important EOL and Transition Information Updates to the Jama Connect Help Portal Starting with this release, the Help portal ( help.jamasoftware.com ) will host Cloud-only content. Self-hosted content will be accessible from the Jama Connect application and as version-specific PDFs in the Support Knowledge Base ( Jama Connect® User Guides , Jama Connect® KOTS , and Jama Connect® Traditional ). This change provides a more streamlined user experience by focusing solely on product features, while removing information that's specific to managing self-hosted instances. REST API ...
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Jama Connect® 9.6.2 Self-Hosted

By Carly Rossi posted 12-19-2023
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Release Date US: 2023/12/19 Release Date AU/EU: 2023/12/20 Special Considerations in Upgrading to 9.6.x Self-Hosted This version of Jama Connect Self-Hosted requires special considerations -- please refer to the Notes for System Administrators section for more information. Important EOL and Transition Information Updates to the Jama Connect Help Portal Starting with this release, the Help portal ( help.jamasoftware.com ) will host Cloud-only content. Self-hosted content will be accessible from the Jama Connect application and as version-specific PDFs in the Support Knowledge Base ( Jama Connect® User Guides , Jama Connect® KOTS , and ...
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Supported Software for Jama Connect® 9.6.x - Self-Hosted

By Carly Rossi posted 12-19-2023
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Server Components (KOTS) Jama Connect self-hosted does not support high availability configurations. We recommend using snapshotting via your VM or taking nightly database backups in order to manually restore the application. We do not support making changes to Replicated outside of the Replicated Admin Console web-UI. Required System Specifications See the Jama Connect Installation Guide to determine data size thresholds and scale adjustments for your environment. Operating Systems Jama Connect was regression-tested against the following distros: Red Hat 8.6 and 8.8 RHEL 8.x requires Containerd Ubuntu 20.04 ...
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Jama Connect® 9.6.1 Cloud, hotfix

By Carly Rossi posted 12-13-2023
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Release Date US: 2023/12/14 Release Date AU/EU: 2023/12/16 Baseline Updates This hotfix enables these additional fields in Baselines: Number of attachments Number of links Relationship status List View only Calculated fields Rollups Locked status SCIM Integration Improvements This hotfix also enhances performance when making User Group updates (PATCH requests) via the SCIM API. This improvement primarily affects Azure Active Directory integrations. Known Issue ID Description SOS-DEF-7348 Creating a baseline adds two activities to activity stream.
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Jama Connect® 9.6.0 Cloud

By Carly Rossi posted 11-27-2023
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Release Date US: 2023/12/08 Release Date AU/EU: 2023/12/09 Jama Connect Advisor — Updated Scoring Jama Connect Advisor now provides updated scoring for INCOSE rules and EARS patterns. After text is analyzed, the following updates now appear at the summary level and in the Jama Connect Advisor results window: INCOSE rules show a percentage score instead of "X of Y rules flagged" A new count if EARS errors were found Note: Jama Connect Advisor is a separately purchased add-on for Jama Connect. Contact your Customer Success Manager for more information. Baseline In-App Compare to Current In Baseline Document View, ...
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Jama Connect® 9.0.4 Customer-Validated Cloud, hotfix

By Carly Rossi posted 11-21-2023
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Release Date US: 2023/11/17 Release Date AU/EU: 2023/11/18 This release provides standard maintenance updates - delivering performance, security, and reliability improvements in these areas: MySQL database
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Jama Connect® 9.5.0 Cloud

By Carly Rossi posted 10-13-2023
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Release Date US: 2023/10/20 Release Date AU/EU: 2023/10/21 Categories — Now Available With Item Reuse You can now include categories when you reuse items in the destination project. Note: The category isn't a synced field. It isn't reused if it's deleted from the destination project or if the organization admin re-orders or removes the category path. Categories — Now Available in Reviews For the Categories field to appear in the Review Center Reading View and in the Review Center Single Item View, organization admins must enable it for all items that are sent to a review. Once enabled, the Categories table ...
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Jama Connect® 8.74.7 Self-Hosted, hotfix

By Carly Rossi posted 09-22-2023
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Release Date US: 2023/09/26 Release Date AU/EU: 2023/09/27 Resolved Issues ID Description SOS-DEF-6950 The baseline status from the previous baseline version is no longer copied to the new baseline when the baseline is created from a review or revision. ​​​​​​SOS-DEF-7088 When you submit a GET request to the REST API endpoint, "picklistoptions" no longer returns an href URL with NULL followed by a selector with { } brackets.
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