Changelog

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Jira StopWatch 2.3.1

What’s Changed

This release contains no new installer and is just to document the changes made in preparation for future releases. Mainly, work has been done on updating old and insecure packages and adding CI/CD workflows. These now enable easier contributions, as changes can be merged with confidence that they compile and do not break existing functionality.

Work is also ongoing on automating the generation of the installer and other release assets. Once that is completed, a full release will likely follow that will actually include all these changes.

New Features / Improvements

Pass test for RequestDeniedException being thrown from DoAuthenticatedRequest by @norwd in https://github.com/jirastopwatch/jirastopwatch/pull/12
Update copyright notices by @norwd in https://github.com/jirastopwatch/jirastopwatch/pull/24
Updated project by @HytrexOfficial in https://github.com/jirastopwatch/jirastopwatch/pull/52
Backmerge upstream by @norwd in https://github.com/jirastopwatch/jirastopwatch/pull/66

Dependency and Security Updates

Create dependabot.yml by @norwd in https://github.com/jirastopwatch/jirastopwatch/pull/6
Bump System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe from 4.5.3 to 6.0.0 in /source/StopWatch by @dependabot in https://github.com/jirastopwatch/jirastopwatch/pull/14
Bump RestSharp from 105.2.3 to 108.0.3 in /source/StopWatch by @dependabot in https://github.com/jirastopwatch/jirastopwatch/pull/11
Bump System.Text.Json from 8.0.4 to 8.0.5 in /source/StopWatch by @dependabot in https://github.com/jirastopwatch/jirastopwatch/pull/57
Bump System.Numerics.Vectors from 4.5.0 to 4.6.0 in /source/StopWatch by @dependabot in https://github.com/jirastopwatch/jirastopwatch/pull/64
Bump Microsoft.Bcl.AsyncInterfaces, System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe and System.Threading.Tasks.Extensions in /source/StopWatch by @dependabot in https://github.com/jirastopwatch/jirastopwatch/pull/60
Bump System.Buffers from 4.5.1 to 4.6.0 in /source/StopWatch by @dependabot in https://github.com/jirastopwatch/jirastopwatch/pull/65
Add Castle.Core package by @norwd in https://github.com/jirastopwatch/jirastopwatch/pull/70
Fix assembly redirects and mismatches by @norwd in https://github.com/jirastopwatch/jirastopwatch/pull/71
Bump NUnit from 3.14.0 to 4.2.2 in /source/StopWatchTest by @dependabot in https://github.com/jirastopwatch/jirastopwatch/pull/53
- Update NUnit to 4.2.2 by @norwd in https://github.com/jirastopwatch/jirastopwatch/pull/79
- Update NUnit to 4.2.2 by @norwd in https://github.com/jirastopwatch/jirastopwatch/pull/80

New Contributors

Yuri Meyer-Norwood (@norwd) made their first contribution in https://github.com/jirastopwatch/jirastopwatch/pull/3
Dependabot (@dependabot) made their first contribution in https://github.com/jirastopwatch/jirastopwatch/pull/17
Hytrex (@HytrexOfficial) made their first contribution in https://github.com/jirastopwatch/jirastopwatch/pull/52

All changes in this release: https://github.com/jirastopwatch/jirastopwatch/compare/2.3.0...2.3.1

Jira StopWatch 2.3.0

New Features / Improvements

Changed Jira authentication to use API tokens instead of username/password (big thank you to @bellamatte for this!)

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Jira StopWatch 2.2.0

New Features / Improvements

Log work using actual start time (Thanks to Adam Conway (@slarti-b))
Use Jira’s hour/day configuration when presenting time (eg. 8 hours = 1 day) (Again thank you Adam Conway (@slarti-b))
Posting worklog will always round up recorded time to nearest minute.

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Jira StopWatch 2.1.0

New Features / Improvements

HTTPS connections are now forced to use TLS 1.1 or newer.
Optional display of issue’s project name.
Added ellipsis for long issue summaries.

Bugfixes

Fixed random disappearing issue summaries.
Submit worklog accepts 0 without any unit as remaining time.

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Jira StopWatch 2.0.1

Bugfixes

System tray icon missing when minimizing to tray.
Always use current screen instead of main screen for calculating maximum height of main window.

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Jira StopWatch 2.0.0

New Features / Improvements

Added keyboard shortcuts to operate most important functions.
Moved user credentials into settings window instead of separate login window.
Added Jira’s default filter “My open issues” as hard-coded first filter.
Added a help button, that links to the new documentation homepage.

Bugfixes

If the user config file got corrupt, StopWatch would not start.
Worklog could not be submitted, if user’s regional setting was set to eg. Swedish because of a different date format.
When manually editing timer, total time was not updated instantly.

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Jira StopWatch 1.9.0

New Features / Improvements

Issue rows are now added/removed directly from the UI instead of from inside the settings dialog. (Thanks to Adam Conway (@slarti-b) for this)
When posting worklog, remaining estimate can now be edited the same way as in Jira. (Thanks to Adam Conway (@slarti-b) for this)
Display version info on title bar.
Keep existing settings on version upgrade.
Misc. UI improvements (coloring, repositioning UI items, etc.)
Optionally autostart an issue (setting “In progress”) when pressing play on timer.
Optional logging of Jira API communication for debugging purposes.
Copy/paste of Jira URL into issue combobox now extracts the issue key.
Click on “Not connected” will now display the connection problems in a dialog.

Bugfixes

Active timers total time did not get stored when using the setting “pause active timer”.

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Jira StopWatch 1.8.0

New Features / Improvements

When submitting worklog, StartTime will also be set. The value will be equal to “now minus logged work-time”. Kudos to Lee Houghton (@asztal) for making this PR.
UI now handles Windows’ zoom settings much better.
Timers and settings are now saved continuously instead of only at program exit. So no data loss if you get power-outs or PC crash.
Issue dropdown box will now retrieve up to 200 issues, instead of the API-default of 50.

Bugfixes

Fixed random startup crashes.
If issue keys are very long, they could be cropped in the dropdown box. This has been fixed, so the key column width adapts to the widest key.

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Jira StopWatch 1.7.0

New Features / Improvements

Edit timer is now always enabled - you edit by double-clicking the time field.
StopWatch now only runs single instance - it detects at startup if another instance is running, and brings it into focus.
New icon that is visible on dark Windows 10 taskbar theme.
Timers now also support days - eg. 2d 13h 34m

Bugfixes

After version 1.6.1 the Jira session might timeout. If this happens, StopWatch will now automatically re-authenticate and retry the requests.
When you activate many timers, the StopWatch window might be too big for the screen. Now the window will not be higher than desktop size, and instead a scrollbar gives access to the remaining issues.
Minimize to tray sometimes did not show the system tray icon.
Dropdown box with issue list only updated the description below when leaving the field. Now it happens on selection + on <enter> if you manually write a key.
Requests to Jira API did not work, if the issue key had leading spaces eg. " OPS-14". This has been fixed.

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Jira StopWatch 1.6.1

New Features / Improvements

Changed filter- and issue-loading from Jira API, to only happen when combo boxes are opened, instead of every 30 seconds as before.

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Jira StopWatch 1.6.0

New Features / Improvements

Allow multiple timers to run at the same time
Choose if worklog text should be posted on worklog track or comment track
Display total time in bottom of window
Remade project structure to make cross platform building easier
Refactoring of internal Jira communication (including NUnit test-coverage)

Bugfixes

Issue description was not updated when manually typing an issue key or deleting a key
notifyIcon is not available on Mono, so on non-Windows platforms, disable all minimize-to-tray code
Fixed thread UI issue

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Jira StopWatch 1.5.0

New Features / Improvements

Option for pausing timer when locking your PC (eg. for lunch breaks)
Application can now be minimized to the system tray
Several bugfixes - for details see the commit history

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Jira StopWatch 1.4.1

New Features / Improvements

Added About dialog

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Jira StopWatch 1.4.0

New Features / Improvements

Worklog comments can now be saved without posting to Jira immediately. Useful if your task takes a long time and you want to note down your progress while waiting to submit the worklog until the end.
New option to enable timers to be editable. Useful if you forgot to start the timer when starting work. Times can be entered both Jira style like 1h 15m and the “classic” way like 1.25h.

Thanks goes to Seth Feldkamp (@sfeldkamp) for the ideas to both features and for testing.