Release Notes for Helix Plan Web Service

Version numbers

Helix Plan releases are named e.g. 2024.1/002, where 2024 is the release year, 1 is the release number and 002 is the build number.

Any version includes all changes of previous releases.

Versions prior to 2024.1 use the older format, for example 11.1055.

Release notes for the Helix Plan and Hansoft products

• Helix Plan Client & Server
• Helix Plan Web Service
• Hansoft API
• Hansoft Helix ALM integration
• Hansoft Jira Cloud integration
• Hansoft Jira Server integration
• Hansoft LDAP integration

2024.1/002

Release date: 2024-03-12

New features

• Helix Core integration hashtag in changelists is now: #helixplan

Fixes

• 9074 A: Slack integration cannot connect to Slack

Compatibility

• Requires Helix Plan 2024.1/006 or higher

2024.1/001

Release date: 2024-02-27

New features

• Hansoft Web Service is now Helix Plan Web Service. Read more

Upgrade notes

• When upgrading from Hansoft Web Service, no extra steps should be needed. See: Upgrading the Hansoft web service

Compatibility

• Requires Helix Plan 2024.1/005 or higher

11.1026

Release date: 2024-02-13

New features

• Support for custom permissions for priority columns

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft 11.1056 or higher

11.1025

Release date: 2023-11-21

New features

• Improved error handling for incorrect URLs (404 page)

Fixes

• 9011 B: Unable to edit a comment that contains an embedded image

Upgrade notes

• The Hansoft Web Service now uses curl 8.4.0.

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft 11.1049 or higher

11.1024

Release date: 2023-10-25

New features

• New Links pane in item details.

Fixes

• B 8978: Non-bugs can be opened by qa users in the web client using a direct link
• B 8979: Items in archived projects can be opened in the web client using a direct link

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft 11.1046 or higher

11.1023

Release date: 2023-09-11

New features

• Changed look of droplists to follow dark theme

Fixes

• A 8957: "Date and time" values do not get saved

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft 11.1040 or higher

11.1020

Release date: 2023-06-20

New features

• Base permissions (see Hansoft 11.1028 release notes)
• Added metadata to avoid public facing web clients to be indexed by search engines

Fixes

• D 62468: In the web client, the "Assign to" search bar appears in black, and the Ok button is misaligned vertically

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft 11.1028 or higher

11.1009

Release date: 2023-04-25

New features

• The top bar with filters and column headers sticks to the top when scrolling down the To Do list

Fixes

• A 8914: Web service crash in nginx on Ubuntu 22.04
• B 8898: The create bug pop up is not working when no project is assigned to a user
• B 8899: No project is preselected in the create bug pop up if the user's To Do list is empty
• C 8915: Cover images in the To Do list don't expand when clicking on them

Upgrade notes

• Light mode is no longer available in the web client.

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft 11.1013 or higher

11.1008

Release date: 2023-03-28

New features

• New SSO login capability in the web client
• Requires Helix Authentication Service: https://www.perforce.com/downloads/helix-authentication-service
• Integrate with an identity provider using SAML 2.0 or OpenID Connect.
• Choose whether to enforce SSO or to also allow password login.
• More information on how to configure SSO in Hansoft: https://help.perforce.com/hansoft/current/admin/Content/admin/integrating-identity-providers-for-sso.htm

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft 11.1013 or higher

11.1007

Release date: 2023-02-28

New features

• "CheckForInvalidHost" option to support load balancers and reverse proxies.

Fixes

• B 8621: QA Permissions are ignored when you change "Status" in the web client
• D 8661: "Time spent" column is still visible on the web when inactivated in the project

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft 11.1009 or higher

11.1006

Release date: 2023-02-14

Fixes

• C 8848: "Detailed Description" is required when creating a bug
• C 8862: "Incorrect type" error when editing "Time Spent" columns
• C 8867: "Time spent" columns must be named "Time spent"
• C 8868: "Time spent" columns do not work properly when using a Japanese or Chinese translation

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft 11.1004 or higher

11.1005

Release date: 2023-01-31

New features

• New /healthcheck endpoint that responds 200 when the web service is up and connected to Hansoft.

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft 11.1004 or higher

11.1004

Release date: 2023-01-17

Fixes

• C 8754: Refresh on Firefox logs you out
• C 8830: Cannot open tasks in new tab using Chrome
• D 8813: A very wide cover image displaces the item description in item details

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft 11.1004 or higher

11.1003

Release date: 2022-12-14

New features

• Support for new column permissions (read-only, hidden or always editable columns for specific users).

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft 11.1004 or higher

11.0030

Release date: 2022-11-15

New features

• New look and feel of filter mechanism in To Do List and To Do Board
• "Show" menu offers control over what shows in the To Do list and To Do board

Fixes

• C 8765 - "Estimated days" and "Points" cannot be cleared in item details
• C 8766 - Values are not reset after entering invalid values in numerical columns
• D 41353 - The "Database ID" column is not visible in item details
• D 8757 - The size of the "Description" text field is very small while editing

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft 11.0052 or higher

11.0028

Release date: 2022-10-04

Fixes

• D 8403 - The "ID" column shows an incorrect value when viewing a sub-project
• D 8386 - A soft-deleted user can be assigned a task from the web

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft 11.0046 or higher

11.0027

Release date: 2022-09-20

New features

• Show/hide pipeline items that cannot start yet in the To do list and To do board. They are now hidden by default.
• "Assign to me" option in the assign dropdown in item details.
• Show start date, finish date and duration for scheduled tasks on the To do board.

Fixes

• B 8384 - "Assigned to" on the web is not showing all users due to paging errors
• C 8727 - An active free text query is not shown after closing and reopening the filter bar
• C 8741 - Hiding completed items removes the ability to unselect the Completed filter
• D 8691 - The browser Title bar is not reset when you go from an item to To Do List
• D 8700 - When filters applied show no items, list says no items are assigned

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft 11.0045 or higher

11.0026

Release date: 2022-09-06

Fixes

• 8731 B: Attachments do not show after you refresh an individual item or dashboard
• 8730 B: Attachments do not show if you log in directly to an item details view
• 8735 B: Web client crash after deleting attachments shown in comments
• 8690 C: Attachments do not show in the Helix Core integration

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft 11.0043 or higher

11.0025

Release date: 2022-08-23

New Features

• New filter to show only four weeks of scheduled tasks and sprint tasks
• New filter to show/hide completed items
• New look and feel of show/hide items in menus

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft 11.0043 or higher

11.0024

Release date: 2022-07-19

New Feature

• More detailed error messages in case of file access problems

Fixes

• B 8672: Client crash when selecting more than one filter in a filter drop down

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft 11.0041 or higher

11.0021

Release date: 2022-06-14

New Features

• Click to sort the To Do List and dashboard Item Views, by any column heading.
• Resize columns in the To Do List and dashboard Item Views.
• Performance improvements.

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft 11.0038 or higher

11.0019

Release date: 2022-05-17

New Features

• Cover image shows in the Item Details page.
• Each lane in To Do Board has a counter for the number of items.
• Added an error message for client-side exceptions
• Added a message when a board or list is empty
• Escape key closes popups, such as droplist selection

Fixes

• B 8624: Client-side exception when going from an item not in your To Do list, to the To Do list.

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft 11.0033 or higher

11.0017

Release date: 2022-04-19

New Features

• Show which sprint an item belongs to, in the list view or board view. Hover over the sprint icon for details.
• Completed tasks are not "overdue".

Fixes

• B 8596: "Detailed Description" does not show if the "Steps to Reproduce" column is disabled
• C 8506: Comments are not visible when moving between tasks in the item details page

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft 11.0031 or higher

11.0016

Release date: 2022-03-22

New Features

• To Do Board view:
• The To Do Board offers a board view of the tasks in your To Do List.
• Cards are grouped in lanes by their workflow.
• Cards without a workflow are shown in the top lane where the default statuses are used.
• Cards can be moved between columns to change their status.
• Cards are automatically sorted in the same way as in the To Do List, i.e. by Due date and Priority.
• Cover images can be shown on the cards.
• The same find filters as in the To Do List are available.
• New option to Show/Hide completed items.

Fixes

• C 8579: The Helix Core integration exits out of integration mode when you click tabs on the top menu

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft 11.0024 or higher

11.0012

Release date: 2022-02-01

New Features

• Additional information displayed in "Linked to item", such as status and assigned users.
• Item views on dashboards offer links to the items listed
• Tooltips for truncated text in item views and item details
• Hit control-enter to submit a comment
• Improved layout for items that have no multi-line text fields
• In the To Do list, click anywhere on an item to view it.
• Unified behavior of the top menu bar across views

Fixes

• 8384 B:"Assigned to" is not showing all users due to paging errors
• 8532 C: Web links do not work if the Hansoft hostname is not set.
• 58594 D: The "no icon" icon shows as a white box

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft 11.0024.

11.0011

Release date: 2021-11-30

New features

• Japanese and Chinese localization
• QA Users can authenticate and create bugs in web client
• Show item color to the left of each item in the To do list
• Show sub project path (the sub project path depth is configured in More > Customize project > E-mails)
• Show units on custom number columns

Fixes

• B 8427: Cannot set values in a multi select droplist from the web
• C 7803: The text in the link editor dialog is not visible in dark theme
• C 8438: The "due date" filter in the web To do list does not work
• C 8446: The status "To be deleted" in the web client, is shown as "(No status set)"
• D 42030: Units are not shown on custom number columns or function columns in the web to-do
• D 46133: The text in the colour picker dialog is invisible in dark theme
• D 51281: Measure name is shown twice in a chart with historical data and no other dimension

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft 11.0014.

10.2009

Release date: 2021-08

New features

• If you have many URLs for a changelist in the Helix Core integration, each of them is clickable in Swarm.

Fixes

• 8417: Multi-line Text field updates from the web do not get sent to the server (Severity B)

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft 10.2069.

10.2008

Release date: 2021-07

New features

• Custom sprint priority columns now show in the To Do list.
• The Hansoft Helix Core Integration now show the changelist number when you select Hansoft tasks for your changelist.

Fixes

• 8354: When mentioning a user in a comment using @, not all users in the project were listed (Severity B)
• 7806: Fixed layout issue with long text in a hyperlink field (Severity D)
• 8377: Fixed layout issue with long dashboard names (Severity D)

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft 10.2069.

10.2006

Release date: 2021-06

New features

• New integration to Perforce Helix Core allows you to maintain linkage between Helix Core changelists and Hansoft tasks
• Do your time reporting in the list view of the To-Do list on the web. This requires that you have a "time spent" column enabled in your project.

Fixes

• 8357: When editing Work remaining twice in the To do list on the web, the default value is the previous value (Severity C)
• 8363: The link to Web Service "help" page is incorrect (Severity C)

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft 10.2066.

10.2004

Release date: 2020-09

New Features

• URL to open the "Create bug" dialog. The dialog can be opened by appending "?create_task" to a Hansoft web URL. This can be used to facilitate entering bugs in Hansoft from another tool.

10.2003

Release date: 2020-07

Fixes

• 7824 Date entered in web client shows up as a different date in Hansoft (Severity B)

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft Server 10.2024 or higher

10.2002

Release date: 2020-05

New Features

• Run multiple Hansoft Web Service instances on the same machine using the LocalPort setting.
• People and Release selection widgets in the Hansoft web client offer a search filter
• Toggle the "Watch" property for a task directly from the web client

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft Server 10.2020 or higher

10.2001

Release date: 2020-

New Features

• "New bug" option in web client to create items in the Quality Assurance section for the projects you have access to.
• Create Quality Assurance items (bugs in general) using the Web Service API.

Fixes

• 7713 In the web client, invalid values for "Estimated Days" are not reverted.

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft Server 10.2011 or higher

10.1022

Release date: 2020-01

New Features

• The Hansoft Slack integration can now expand links to Hansoft items on the web, using https URLs.

Fixes

• 7791 Hansoft links are displayed incorrectly in Slack due to semicolon in URL (Severity B)

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft Server 10.1039 or higher

10.1019

Release date: 2020-01

New Features

• The web service scales with large databases by only downloading data for those projects where the user has items in their todo
• Faster loading of items, by loading large lists of users on demand.

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft Server 10.1035 or higher

10.1018

Release date: 2019-10

New Features

• The web service now respects the setting "Dashboard access" which allows an administrator to disable the dashboard function for a user.

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft Server 10.1024 or higher

10.1017

Release date: 2019-10

New Features

• Read-only dashboards on the web You can now view all your dashboards and those dashboards shared to you, in a web browser.
• View any item on the web Each Hansoft item now has a unique URL. You can paste this link into a web browser or an e-mail, and you'll be able to view the item in the web, as long as you are allowed to view that item.

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft Server 10.1022 or higher

10.1013

Release date: 2019-09

Fixes

• 7702 Pipeline tasks in the web client list view do not respect the setting "Tasks must be completed in sequential order" (Severity B)
• 42305 Web service crash when subscribing to an action with incorrect parameter syntax (Severity B)
• 41949 "NaN" is shown instead of function column errors in the web to-do (Severity D)

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft Server 10.1018 or higher

10.1010

Release date: 2019-08

New Features

• The To-Do list can now show a cover image for each task in the list ** To show cover images in the To-Do list, click your username and select "Show cover images" ** To select a cover image, right-click an attachment in the Hansoft client and toggle "Use as cover image"
• Your browser title bar now displays the name of the task open in the current tab
• Improved load times in the web client

Fixes

• 7711 Comment subscription fails for some QA items (Severity B)
• 41941 You can enter unlimited points after you enter an out-of-bounds value for points (Severity C)
• 42095 Images do not refresh when edited (Severity D)

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft Server 10.1012 or higher

10.1009

Release date: 2019-06

New Features

• Light and dark theme. You can now change between light and dark theme in the user menu at the top right.
• Show pipeline parent task name on items in a pipeline. To get more context for items inside a pipeline, the name of the main pipeline item is now shown both in the list view and in item details.
• Filters in the list view improved and moved to the top.

Fixes

• 7683: "Unique identifier is not valid" exception prevents the ProjectSprints subscription from running
• 41878: Need to manually refresh the browser when running a new version of the web client
• 41989: Committed bugs show bug priority at the top, even though they show sprint priority in the list view
• 42151: Columns configured with "Members with delegated rights and main managers" permissions, cannot be edited for uncommitted bugs
• 42257: Work remaining is visible in the list view for scheduled tasks
• 42295: It is possible to change the name of pipeline steps in the web To-Do

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft Server 10.1008 or higher

10.1007

Release date: 2019-06

New Features

• Mentions in comments on the web. If you type "@" while writing a comment, you will be prompted to name a team member. That team member will receive a notification about your comment.
• Link to items in your web to-do. You can now copy/paste links to individual tasks in your web to-do. If you paste this link into a browser where you are currently logged in to the web to-do, that item will be opened.

Fixes

• 42234: Read-only date and date/time columns show 1970-01-01 1:00:00 if the value is empty
• 41950: The "Work Remaining" column does not disappear until refresh, if disabled in QA.
• 41997: "User Story" was referred to as "Detailed Description" in some error messages

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft Server 10.1008 or higher
• The 8.4001 and 10.0006 versions of the Hansoft LDAP integration do not support authentication for the Hansoft Web Service.

10.1004

Release date: 2019-05

New Features

• Web To-Do: Introducing a new web interface for Hansoft where users can initially see and update their To-Do lists. The web-based To-Do list offers a prioritized list of tasks cross-project with easy filtering and ability to send in status and work remaining updates. Click on each task to see all the details related to the specific task, including comments and attached documents.
• Slack Integration: When you paste a link to a Hansoft task in Slack, the Hansoft Bot will automatically present status, description and assignee in the channel where it was pasted. Learn more about the Hansoft Slack Integration.
• Some additional subscriptions are now available in the Hansoft Web Service. See documentation for details.
• Version Control Access is now supported in the Hansoft Web Service. See documentation for details.

Compatibility

• Requires Hansoft Server 10.1008 or higher
• The 8.4001 and 10.0006 versions of the Hansoft LDAP integration do not support authentication for the Hansoft Web Service.