2.4 Release Notes(coming soon !)

Velocity/Capacity feature improved as explained in this blog

  • The Velocity tab is gone for now. Don't worry, it will reappear in a future release with a proper velocity feature
  • Set your projects start date easily by using the new Project menu
  • Set the capacity of a sprint easily by using context menu or general menu Project>Set Iteration Capacity
  • Set a default capacity when creating a new iteration
  • New columns in planning view for estimates based on capacity
  • Velocity changes history is available all the time

Note: for current users of ProjectCards, they will have the choice to continue using the old way of working or to migrate to the new and improved feature. Note that after converting to the new features, the change is permanent.

2.3 Release Notes

Card history

  • A new tab was added to the Card Editor in order to indicate the history of the major events in the life of the card: when the card was created, last changed and when each status was last changed.
  • The history indicates the event date and the user who performed the change.

Tasks displayed in the Dashboard

  • In the Project Planning, the Dashboard now displays the tasks along with the cards. Double-clicking on a task in the dashboard allows editing the task.

Filters and Planning Groups in the Dashboard

  • The filter applied in the Release Plan is now also automatically applied to the Dashboard. This can become particularly useful when combining the Dashboard with the "Show Cards for User" filter, in order for each person in the team to view her own Dashboard.
  • The Planning Groups are also enabled in this view, in order to group together the various related cards.

Remember opened Planning Groups when restarting

  • When ProjectCards is closed, the list of opened Planning Groups for each iteration is now persisted. This way, when ProjectCards is restarted, the card list is displayed as was before.

Support of Eclipse versions 3.3+

  • The Eclipse Plugin for ProjectCards now supports Eclipse 3.3 and more recent. The installation of the plugin is always as simple, by copying the JAR file to the /plugins directory.

New support for Windows 7 and Windows 7 64-bit

  • We can now confirm that ProjectCards is supported on Windows 7, both on the 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

Java 6 and Tomcat 6

  • Linux and Mac upgrading the server to version 2.3 will also need to migrate their Java and Tomcat installation to Java 6 and Tomcat 6. The installation is simple and is described in the Linux section of the installation instructions page.
  • Version 2.3 no longer supports Java 1.4.

Linux UI bug fix

  • Fixed display bug with password change fields when users open a project.
  • Fixed display bug in custom fields creation.

2.2.8 Release Notes

Features:

  • Backups are now taken only once per day, shortly after midnight

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed issues in the dashboard refresh mechanism.

2.2.6 Release Notes

Bug fixes

  • Fixed duplicate cards appearing when moving some cards.

2.2.5 Release Notes

User experience improvements

  • Enhanced performance when dragging a lot of cards

Bug fixes

  • Fixed printing bug.

2.2.4 Release Notes

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug that caused folders to be marked as being complete when they still had open tasks

User Experience

  • Enhanced the url custom field to start application associated to file type.

2.2.3 Release Notes

User Experience

  • Minor improvements to the GUI.

2.2.2 Release Notes

Technology Changes

  • The Eclipse plugin is now supported on Eclipse 3.2 and up.

Improvements to task handling

  • The tasks are now visible in the Themes view and in the Release Plan, by using the "+" sign next to the story's card. Double-click on the task in the view to open the edit dialog for the task without having to edit the full card. This is very useful to quickly see the tasks for the current iteration.
  • ProjectCards now has three statuses for the tasks: Waiting, Started and Complete. This allows the developers to indicate that they have started working on a task and is no longer limited to "to-do" and "done".
  • In the different views and reports, the status is now represented using a clear icon.
  • In the task tab of the Card Editor, it is now possible to use direct editing in the task table for updating existing tasks.

Release Plan

  • It is now possible to assign the cards to a team or to a project. Using the new Planning Group entry field in the Card Editor, you can now view cards which are assigned to the same team or same sub-project grouped together in the Planning View. The view also displays the estimates for each group part of an iteration. ProjectCards now has a "Show Planning Groups" button to the taskbar of the Release Plan view to toggle between our current view and the new view with the planning groups.
  • Drag and drop can now be used to assign or change the Planning Group of the cards directly from the Release Plan. You can also use the right-click button to change it.
  • The Planning Groups are also visible in the reports. For the reports generated from the user interface, the Planning Groups are included in only if the "Show Planning Groups" button from the Release Plan is selected.
  • The "estimate" field for the Cards and for the Tasks now allows a precision of 2 decimals.
  • The current release, interim release and iteration is now displayed in bold, in order to be able to locate the current items quickly.
  • The red "bomb" icon is no longer displayed when a card for which the required date is before the iteration's end date but the card has been completed.

Reports

  • We have greatly simplified the burn-down and burn-up charts to better match what is used in Scrum. The previous stacked area charts are still available from the server reports by using the "Show Detailed Burn-Down Chart" or "Show Detailed Burn-Up Chart".
  • The Release Report has been simplified and is now easier to understand, with less data repetition when there are many interim releases.
  • [New in V2.2.2] It is possible to select the type of chart that is generated by default. In the Manage - Configure Server Tasks dialog, select the "Display detailed work charts in reports" option to have the detailed chart in the report by default. Unselect the option to get the more "Agile-like" simple chart.

Search and Filters

  • When using the Search feature, the dialog box now prompts checkboxes to indicate the view(s) on which the search criteria should be applied. By default the search applies to both the Themes and the Release Plan.
  • Changed the location of the Filter icon. Instead of having only one icon for both views, the Filter icon is now located in the toolbar of each view (Themes and Release Plan). It is now much easier to see and decide where the filter is or must be applied.
  • When filtering based on a value in a custom field, it is now possible to search for cards where no value has yet been specified.
Installation on Windows
  • ProjectCards can now safely be installed on Windows Vista and 64-bit editions of Windows.

Licensing and Updates
  • ProjectCards Free! is now activated automatically at the end of the 60-day trial period. When ProjectCards Free! is activated, only 2 users will have read-write access to the projects. All other users need to be changed to "Guest" access. ProjectCards Free! is limited to servers hosting 4 projects, with 200 stories per project and it is not possible to edit the definition of the custom fields.
  • In ProjectCards v2.2, we have enabled a better tracking of the software updates of ProjectCards. In prior version, updates where always free. Starting from v2.2, when a license is purchased, the buyer gets one year of free updates. After this period has expired, a software maintenance plan must be purchased for the upcoming year. This means that v2.2 is the last free update if your software maintenance plan is currently expired. You can see the Upgrade Expiry Date in the "About ProjectCards" dialog box.

User Experience

  • The "New Card" and "New Category" actions are now enabled only when the current selection allows adding a new entry.
  • Changed the "Started" icon from yellow over green to white over blue. This makes the started activities more visible.
  • [2.2.2] Fixed missing icons in the reports for the new Planning Groups.
  • [2.2.2] Fixed the nagging dialog that comes up when the evaluation period is almost over. The dialog popped up at every key typed in a card, so it was not nagging anymore... Sorry about that.
  • Solved a few hiccups here and there, nothing to worry about.

2.2

Technology Changes

  • The Eclipse plugin is now supported on Eclipse 3.2 and up.

Tasks

  • The tasks are now visible in the Themes view and in the Release Plan, by using the "+" sign next to the story's card. Double-click on the task in the view to open the edit dialog for the task without having to edit the full card. This is very useful to quickly see the tasks for the current iteration.
  • ProjectCards now has three statuses for the tasks: Waiting, Started and Complete. This allows the developers to indicate that they have started working on a task and is no longer limited to "to-do" and "done".
  • In the different views and reports, the status is now represented using a clear icon.
  • In the task tab of the Card Editor, it is now possible to use direct editing in the task table for updating existing tasks.

Release Plan

  • It is now possible to assign the cards to a team or to a project. Using the new Planning Group entry field in the Card Editor, you can now view cards which are assigned to the same team or same sub-project grouped together in the Planning View. The view also displays the estimates for each group part of an iteration. ProjectCards now has a "Show Planning Groups" button to the taskbar of the Release Plan view to toggle between our current view and the new view with the planning groups.
  • Drag and drop can now be used to assign or change the Planning Group of the cards directly from the Release Plan. You can also use the right-click button to change it.
  • The Planning Groups are also visible in the reports. For the reports generated from the user interface, the Planning Groups are included in only if the "Show Planning Groups" button from the Release Plan is selected.
  • The "estimate" field for the Cards and for the Tasks now allows a precision of 2 decimals.
  • The current release, interim release and iteration is now displayed in bold, in order to be able to locate the current items quickly.
  • The red "bomb" icon is no longer displayed when a card for which the required date is before the iteration's end date but the card has been completed.

Reports

  • We have greatly simplified the burn-down and burn-up charts to better match what is used in Scrum. The previous stacked area charts are still available from the server reports by using the "Show Detailed Burn-Down Chart" or "Show Detailed Burn-Up Chart".
  • The Release Report has been simplified and is now easier to understand, with less data repetition when there are many interim releases.

Search and Filters

  • When using the Search feature, the dialog box now prompts checkboxes to indicate the view(s) on which the search criteria should be applied. By default the search applies to both the Themes and the Release Plan.
  • Changed the location of the Filter icon. Instead of having only one icon for both views, the Filter icon is now located in the toolbar of each view (Themes and Release Plan). It is now much easier to see and decide where the filter is or must be applied.
  • When filtering based on a value in a custom field, it is now possible to search for cards where no value has yet been specified.

Installation on Windows

  • ProjectCards can now safely be installed on Windows Vista and 64-bit editions of Windows.

Licensing and Updates

  • ProjectCards Free! is now activated automatically at the end of the 60-day trial period. When ProjectCards Free! is activated, only 2 users will have read-write access to the projects. All other users need to be changed to "Guest" access. ProjectCards Free! is limited to servers hosting 4 projects, with 200 stories per project and it is not possible to edit the definition of the custom fields.
  • In ProjectCards v2.2, we have enabled a better tracking of the software updates of ProjectCards. In prior version, updates where always free. Starting from v2.2, when a license is purchased, the buyer gets one year of free updates. After this period has expired, a software maintenance plan must be purchased for the upcoming year. This means that v2.2 is the last free update if your software maintenance plan is currently expired. You can see the Upgrade Expiry Date in the "About ProjectCards" dialog box.

User Experience

  • The "New Card" and "New Category" actions are now enabled only when the current selection allows adding a new entry.
  • Changed the "Started" icon from yellow over green to white over blue. This makes the started activities more visible.
  • Solved a few hiccups here and there, nothing to worry about.

2.0 release notes

New Reporting Engine

  • Configure the ProjectCards Server to serve static reports in HTML (go to the Manage -> Configure Server Reporting menu to set everything up and get more information)
  • Automagically generate reports on server side

Project Statistics and Charts

  • Capture and archive project statistics
  • Burn-up and burn-down charts
  • Project Release Plan chart
  • Velocity chart

Engineering Task Management

  • Task estimates
  • Unique ID for tasks

Export/Import

  • Import or export cards to CSV files
  • It is now possible to interact with Excel spreadsheets using the CSV format

Performance improvements and backups

  • Optimization of the user interface
  • Automatic backups taken on the server side (7 last days + last of the month)

User experience improvements

  • Message on default user/password on a new install
  • Option to reactivate inactive user
  • Soft delete (a backup is kept for deleted cards)
  • It is now impossible to delete a category (theme or iteration) that is not empty
  • There's a new menu for adding a new "Top-level" category
  • Refactored the look and usability of the Card Editor and the Planning view.

Bug Fixes

  • Order of cards not maintained when publishing iteration report
  • Hover help missing on new cards

Known issues and outstanding problems:

  • Eclipse Plugin:
    • Some accelerator keys do not work properly.
    • On Linux only: when you save a card, the dirty indicator [*] is not reset. Please note that your card is already saved.
  • Linux:
    • Split Card & Publish Card do not work from the CardEditor's context menu.
    • Card printing does not work, as this feature is not available from SWT in Linux.
    • Card publishing does not open the report if Mozilla or Firefox is not installed.