Blog from September, 2019

S/Notify 3.0 Beta Test
Metin Savignano posted on Sep 17, 2019

The features discussed are now released. No beta testing any more. I mean, not for these features, but other ones are coming soon!

S/Notify 3.0 is now considered feature-complete and has entered public beta testing.

There’s an amazing number of new features to be coming in our new major release:

  • Inbound decryption: S/Notify now supports encrypted replies to Jira emails, so they will be decrypted and attached as new comments to the Jira issue

  • Email signatures: all outgoing emails can now be signed for improved trust and security

  • Email anyone: emails will be encrypted, even if there is no user account associated with the addressee

  • Per-project and per-space encryption: it is now possible to switch encryption on and off separately for each Jira project or Confluence space

  • Support of PGP keyrings as keystores

In addition to that, we have added many improvements all over S/Notify, like for example:

  • Support of the veryifying PGP keyserver at keys.openpgp.org

  • German localization

  • Automatic removal of signature attachment from incoming emails

  • Self-checking to verify that S/Notify has not been modified for increased security

  • Improved PGP key and S/MIME certificate management in the user profile

  • Improved global administration user interface

  • Improved information in Get Started and added self-checking

Thanks to all who contributed their ideas and helped with the requirements analysis!

Now to make sure that all these features meet your requirements, we’d love your help to verify that we’ve done a good job.

Beta Testers Wanted!

We are now at a point where these new features work well, for both S/MIME and PGP, but we would love to hear your judgement!

  • Does the new functionality fit in your environment?

  • How well does it meet your requirements?

  • Can you use it intuitively?

  • Did we overlook anything?

  • Do you have any other suggestions?

If you are interested in trying the new features out, just follow the instructions below. Please also drop us a line, so we know you are checking out our new features. That would be extremely helpful!

How to Install the Public Beta

Please note that you should not use beta versions in a production environment. Our public beta versions have not been fully tested yet, come without any warranty and have no SLA.

Here’s a list of Known Issues in the Current Beta.

The procedure is basically the same as for the release version, only that the plugin is installed from our snapshots download site rather than from the Atlassian Marketplace.

The beta uses the same license management as the release version, so please obtain an evaluation license from your Atlassian account for it.

If you run into any problems, feel free to contact us anytime through our service desk!

Jira

Install the Add-on GUI

Install the Mailer Library

Confluence

Install the Add-on GUI

Install the Mailer Library