Our epic page has been revamped to offer a brand new design and much needed usability improvements. You can now work right out of your epic page and:
You will soon be able to add desired dates to your epics and have them populated on the roadmap.
Happy Monday/Tuesday! A quick update to close the loop on some more noteworthy bug fixes we've shipped over the last week (and thank you for reporting them).
GitHub UI changes
GitHub had a big UI update recently which we were able to jump on quickly to fix the ZenHub tab and have now finished cleaning up in the rest of the app. If you notice anything still out place, give us a shout!
The Ideal Burndown Chart
The ideal completion slope of Burndown chart was a little bit too aggressive at the start of your sprint vs the end. Maybe we wanted you to push hard in the first half to enjoy a more relaxed second half or it was a math error on our side. Who knows but the Burndown chart now shows an equal ideal completion slope in the first half vs the second half (PS. It was a math error).
Assignee dropdown in New Issue
A glitch in calculating the position of the dropdown was causing the Assignee dropdown to freeze when opened in the New Issue page. Thank you to those that caught this one and my sympathies go out to all of the frontend developers who have to deal with JavaScript in multiple browsers.
Narrowed ZenHub layouts
GitHub has been updating their website to be more mobile friendly which means the elements we hook into to display your ZenHub Workspace have disappeared (oh no!). In this case, the Projects and Security tabs were the latest victims but have since been fixed.
Repo switcher in the extension
The Repo quick switcher in the header of GitHub (beside your org/repo name) was cut off for small repos name. We've adjusted where and how we show this dropdown to work with all lengths of repo names - yay!
ZenHub’s new tutorials and onboarding experience gives new users the basics, and helps existing users level up.
We’ll show you in-app tutorials personalized for you, whether you’re a developer focused on committing and tracking your code changes, or a project manager looking for a better way to prioritize and collaborate on your work.
Looking to brush up on your ZenHub knowledge? Access our new personalized tutorials via the “View Tutorials” section in your sidebar.
Two weeks ago we released another large piece of our new backend, "Raptor". Did you notice it? Nothing changed visually but we did see performance improvements across the app, up to 96%! Here were the top 5 most time consuming GET requests.
With this release, we've also removed the 500 closed Issue limit (self-imposed to stay within GitHub's rate limit) on both the Cumulative flow and Control chart. Want to know more about the technicals? Our Head of Engineering, Ev Haus, explains more about our move to Ruby and Postgres.
What's next? More performance improvements, of course!
Since ZenHub supports both multi-repo and multi-org Workspaces, we show considerably more data than a regular GitHub view. And now ✨with our sparkling new backend ✨ we will continue to add to it by first focusing on progressively rendering dropdowns (assignee, labels lists) followed by progressively rendered Boards, full text search, and completely searchable closed Issues directly within the app.
Stay tuned on our open product roadmap.
Happy Canada Day 🍁from the North
Today we're thrilled to ship a feature that will surely help with sprint planning and organizing your Board. Once in multi-select mode, you can now select up to 50 Issues in a pipeline!
With this initial release, we're limiting the amount of selected Issues to 50 as we scale up and improve the queuing system to handle a greater number of requests.
We're excited to release a bug fix that will now allow file uploads up to 15MB across issue posting and commenting within ZenHub.
Take advantage of the change in the latest version of the extension (v2.42.16) and, if you're a web app user, it's already live!
Two caveats:
Red, Yellow, Green Project Status and Predicted End Dates for Epics
We’ve introduced an option to enable color-coded projects, determined by their progress. A red, yellow, or green color instantly indicates status, communicating whether a project is on track (green), at-risk (yellow), or falling behind (red).
We’ve also added the option for teams to enable “predicted end dates” for Epics in their Roadmaps. Predicted end dates provide a visual indication when a project is running behind schedule and can help teams proactively have conversations around reducing scope.Read more about these exciting changes here
As always, share your feedback with us in our product portal here!
As of today, your personal Roadmap settings will be saved and updated on every visit to get back to the information important to you:
These changes are live on the web app and extension (for extension users: make sure to update to the latest version, v2.42.10)!
[insert bad May the 4th pun]
You can now customize your Roadmap view so that progress is shown by the number (#) of Issues or Story points completed, or the percentage (%) of Issues or story points completed. Click on the gear icon to toggle between options, then these settings are saved for when you return to the Roadmap or navigate to a different Roadmap in your organization.
Invite your team into ZenHub using the shareable invite link!
Invite large groups quickly and easily by sharing a single link, rather than inviting users one-by-one. Team members who follow this link will be taken directly to your specific ZenHub Workspace.
Still prefer to invite large groups via email? No problem--the invitation field now supports copy & paste for multiple email addresses. Let us know what other invitation improvements you'd like to see in our product portal here.
