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🚀 Product Releases

Welcome to the release notes for Middleware.
Here you'll find major and minor product updates across all three of our products:
Middleware Cloud, Open Source & Jira Sprint Reports

April 2025​

🔐 Magic Link-Based Logins Middleware Cloud Major Update​

  • Log in using just your work email — no need for Google or Microsoft accounts.
  • Especially useful for teams with third-party login restrictions.

🚦 YouTrack Integration Middleware Cloud Major Update​

  • Adds project flow, sprint retrospectives, story points velocity, and roadmap planning support for teams using YouTrack.
  • Expands support beyond Jira to more platforms.

March 2025​

🧪 GitLab Self-Hosted Agent Middleware Cloud Major Update​

  • Enables data synchronization for self-hosted GitLab accounts without requiring access tokens.
  • Built-in heartbeat system to monitor agent health and catch errors.
  • Supports issuing commands to force data sync, clear the buffer, and reset stored repo data.

🏷️ Ad-hoc Exclusion Based on Labels Middleware Cloud Minor Update​

  • Users can now configure Middleware to exclude tickets with specific labels from ad-hoc analysis.

February 2025​

🗺️ Roadmap & Team Enhancements Middleware Cloud Major Update​

🗓️ Roadmap​

  • Enables users to plan their work more effectively.
  • Plan and track engineering resource allocation across projects.
  • Visualize what types of work devs are taking up — features, bugs, maintenance, etc.
  • Estimate work more accurately using devs and story points.
  • Predict and avoid work spillage.

☁️ Azure DevOps Integration​

  • Track deployment frequency if your team uses Azure for deployments.
  • Full DORA metrics support with Azure DevOps (ADO).

🔁 Workflow Deployments Webhook​

  • Sync workflow deployments data using a custom webhook integration.
  • Ideal for environments where you cannot directly integrate a workflow provider (e.g., GitLab self-hosted, Devtron, etc.)

👥 Team v2​

  • Introduces a revamped team management interface.
  • Create and manage teams more efficiently, without unnecessary back-and-forth navigation.
  • Designed for an intuitive experience and seamless collaboration within the platform.

🟢 Progress Tracking for Data Sync Middleware Cloud Minor Update​

  • Users can now track the progress of data syncs directly in the app.
  • Useful for both first-time syncs and new integrations.
  • No need to guess or reach out — users are informed when sync starts and completes.

January 2025​

🚀 New Onboarding Experience Middleware Cloud Major Update​

  • A streamlined and guided onboarding flow to get started within minutes.
  • Includes a built-in product tour for those not ready to link integrations.
  • Invite other users via email.

📊 Reports & Trends Middleware Cloud Major Update​

  • View trends for any metric across teams or managers in your org.
  • Supports weekly, monthly, or quarterly cadence.
  • Compare org-wide trends or split views by individual teams.
  • Share reports with stakeholders using the “copy link” feature.

🧩 1 Year Historical Data Sync Open Source Major Update​

  • By default, OSS syncs only 30 days of data.
  • Now, you can configure it to sync up to 1 year of historical data.