Release Notes

• Old Name: Template (Epic) Cloner for Jira
• New Name: Clone Expert for Jira

This new name better reflects our app’s expanded focus on flexible, expert-level issue and epic cloning in Jira.

• Possibility to add new issues directly during the cloning process. These issues will be included only in the newly cloned template, allowing more flexibility and customization without altering the original.
• Addressed minor bugs to improve overall stability and user experience.

• Various minor bugs have been resolved to enhance stability and performance.

• Improved cloning progress visualization – clearer real-time updates for better tracking.
• More stable cloning for big templates.

• Improved cloning progress visualization – clearer real-time updates for better tracking.
• More stable cloning for big templates.

• Clone All Issue Types & Hierarchies: Duplicate any Jira issue type (Bugs, Tasks, Epics, or custom types) along with their entire hierarchy of child issues and subtasks.
• Forge Migration: Enjoy enhanced security, better performance, and an overall simpler installation experience.
• Bug Fixes: Key issues have been resolved.

• Clone All Issue Types & Hierarchies: Duplicate any Jira issue type (Bugs, Tasks, Epics, or custom types) along with their entire hierarchy of child issues and subtasks.
• Forge Migration: Enjoy enhanced security, better performance, and an overall simpler installation experience.
• Bug Fixes: Key issues have been resolved.

New Features:

• Clone Without Epic Option: Gain greater flexibility by cloning templates without including the Epic itself.
• Expanded Custom Field Modification: Alongside standard custom field options, you can now also customize advanced custom fields directly in the form before cloning. Supported field types include groups, users, and versions, available in both single and multi-select formats.

Improvements:

• Enhanced User Interface: We’ve introduced UI updates for a smoother, more intuitive experience when setting up and managing clones.

Bug Fixes:

• Various minor bugs have been resolved to enhance stability and performance.

New Features:

• Clone Without Epic Option: Gain greater flexibility by cloning templates without including the Epic itself.
• Expanded Custom Field Modification: Alongside standard custom field options, you can now also customize advanced custom fields directly in the form before cloning. Supported field types include groups, users, and versions, available in both single and multi-select formats.

Improvements:

• Enhanced User Interface: We’ve introduced UI updates for a smoother, more intuitive experience when setting up and managing clones.

Bug Fixes:

• Various minor bugs have been resolved to enhance stability and performance.

New Features:

• Clone Without Epic Option: Gain greater flexibility by cloning templates without including the Epic itself.
• Expanded Custom Field Modification: Alongside standard custom field options, you can now also customize advanced custom fields directly in the form before cloning. Supported field types include groups, users, and versions, available in both single and multi-select formats.

Improvements:

• Enhanced User Interface: We’ve introduced UI updates for a smoother, more intuitive experience when setting up and managing clones.

Bug Fixes:

• Various minor bugs have been resolved to enhance stability and performance.

New Features:

• Clone Without Epic Option: Gain greater flexibility by cloning templates without including the Epic itself.
• Expanded Custom Field Modification: Alongside standard custom field options, you can now also customize advanced custom fields directly in the form before cloning. Supported field types include groups, users, and versions, available in both single and multi-select formats.

Improvements:

• Enhanced User Interface: We’ve introduced UI updates for a smoother, more intuitive experience when setting up and managing clones.

Bug Fixes:

• Various minor bugs have been resolved to enhance stability and performance.

New Features:

• Clone Without Epic Option: Gain greater flexibility by cloning templates without including the Epic itself.
• Expanded Custom Field Modification: Alongside standard custom field options, you can now also customize advanced custom fields directly in the form before cloning. Supported field types include groups, users, and versions, available in both single and multi-select formats.

Improvements:

• Enhanced User Interface: We’ve introduced UI updates for a smoother, more intuitive experience when setting up and managing clones.

Bug Fixes:

• Various minor bugs have been resolved to enhance stability and performance.

Minor version update

Improvements:

Unified Epic and Issues Editing: The entire Epic, along with its associated issues, is now displayed in a single table format. This new layout enables more effective and cohesive editing of all related issues, improving your overall experience.

Minor version update

Improvements:

• Sprints: Users can now select Sprint from the additional fields, enabling the selection of sprints for child issues.
• Link Cloning: The cloner now copies all links to external sources, including Confluence content and web links from the issues. Note that only the links are copied, not the content itself.
• Issue Type: Users can change the issue type for child issues in both cloning strategies.
• Layout Enhancements: Minor layout changes for improved user experience.

Bug Fixes:

• Various minor bugs have been resolved for better performance and stability.

Improvements:

• Sprints: Users can now select Sprint from the additional fields, enabling the selection of sprints for child issues.

• Link Cloning: The cloner now copies all links to external sources, including Confluence content and web links from the issues. Note that only the links are copied, not the content itself.

• Issue Type: Users can change the issue type for child issues in both cloning strategies.

• Layout Enhancements: Minor layout changes for improved user experience.

Bug Fixes:

• Various minor bugs have been resolved for better performance and stability.

Improvements:

• Enhanced Performance: Drastically improved performance from the user interface side. Added pagination for issues, significantly decreasing initial load time. Changes in templates with a large number of linked issues/components are now smoother and more efficient.

Bug Fixes:

• Minor Bug Fixes: Addressed various minor bugs to enhance the overall stability and performance of the app.

New Features

• Quick Clone: Introduced a new feature allowing users to clone epics more efficiently with a single click, streamlining your workflow and saving valuable time.

Bug Fixes:

• Minor bug fixes to improve stability and performance.

• Dynamic table: Customize your cloning experience with the new dynamic table. Resize, reorder, and toggle columns (fields) with a layout that saves automatically!
• Clone without epic: More flexibility – exclude the epic from cloned templates if needed.
• Bug fixes: Minor improvements for better stability.

• Old Name: Template (Epic) Cloner for Jira
• New Name: Clone Expert for Jira

This new name better reflects our app’s expanded focus on flexible, expert-level issue and epic cloning in Jira.

• Major Bug Fix: Resolved an issue affecting Jira 9 users where the cloning action incorrectly indicated network errors.
• Bug Fixes: Addressed several minor issues to enhance the app’s overall stability and reliability.

• Fixed an issue where the app could hang during loading or cloning

• Jira 10 Compatibility: Fully compatible with Jira 10 while maintaining support for Jira 8 and Jira 9.
• Dark Theme Support: Enhanced UI to seamlessly integrate with Jira’s dark theme.
• Bug Fixes: Resolved minor issues to improve stability and performance.

• Enhanced Field Editing UI/UX: We’ve updated the user interface to make editing fields more intuitive and user-friendly
• Bug Fixes: Addressed minor issues to improve the overall stability and reliability of the app

• Sprint Field Support: Added sprint field support in “Additional Fields” for better sprint management in cloned templates.
• Bulk Edit for Text Fields: New “Find and Replace” function for quick text updates across multiple fields.
• Multiple Cloning: Added “Do not close after cloning” checkbox for convenient repeated template cloning.
• Minor bug fixes to enhance overall performance and stability.

• Unified Table: All issues, including the Epic itself, are now displayed in a single table, enabling faster and more flexible editing and bulk changes.

• Issue Type Changes: You can now change issue types across both strategies.

• Epic Name & Summary: Epic name and summary can now be edited together in one place for better management.

• Minor Bug Fixes: Addressed various small issues to enhance performance.

• UI Enhancements: Minor improvements to the overall user interface for a smoother experience.

Enhanced issue type detection to ensure the “Clone Template” action is displayed for Epics.

Minor bug fix

Cloning Parent Link field.

Fixed ordering variability with multiple Jira rank fields define

Cloning Parent Link field

Enhanced issue type detection to ensure the “Clone Template” action is displayed for Epics.

Minor bug fix

Cloning Parent Link field.

Fixed ordering variability with multiple Jira rank fields define

Cloning Parent Link field