# Changelog

## Surveys (Beta)

January 8, 2025

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Developer Experience Surveys (Beta) enables teams to gather valuable feedback about their development processes. This new feature combines with our existing metrics to create a complete picture of team health and productivity. Managers can now track both data-driven measurements and team sentiment in one place.\
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Interested teams can [reach out to support](https://growth.usehaystack.io/n/schedule-booking/370714/W9xn7L) to get started.

### MS Teams Integration (Beta)

Haystack’s MS Teams integration sends real-time alerts for blockers, progress, risks, and SLAs. Alerts include issue status, bug SLA risks, PR link issues, sprint overcapacity, mid-sprint reviews, cycle completions, release notes, and epic completions.\
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Interested teams can reach out to support to have it enabled. To integrate, go to `Settings > Integrations > Alerts` and click `Connect MS Teams`.

### Dynamic End Date in Reporting

You can automatically update the 'End Date' for your reports. By setting a fixed 'Start Date' (e.g., October 1st), the 'End Date' will dynamically adjust to today's date.

Dynamic end date is available in [Metrics](https://delivery.usehaystack.io/hub/metrics) and [Reports](https://delivery.usehaystack.io/reports)

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**Improved**

* `Expanded Date Range for Epics` (Beta): The `Epics` view can now include the option to filter data by the past quarter. Reach out to our support team to enable this functionality.
* `Improved User/Deployments Management`: A search box has been added to manage `Users` and `Deployments`, along with the ability to change a user's full name and sort by name or access level.

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## **Sprint Completion Rate metric without injections**

**November 19, 2024**

Now you can track Sprint Completion Rate excluding injections, which we called Commitment Reliability.

We also added Commitment Reliability (Issues) and Commitment Reliability (Points) as a metric option to Metrics and Reports.

Go to **team settings -> Sprint success metric,** to enable tracking Commitment Reliability. [Learn more](#sprint-success-metrics)

**New**

* `User settings` added ability to change user names
* `User settings` added search through the list of invited users
* `Deployments` added search through the list of services

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## Q3 summary

**October 9, 2024**

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We have compiled a review of your key accomplishments from the last quarter. You can view it [here](https://delivery.usehaystack.io/performance-report).

### Filter by no value

You can now filter by property values that are empty. This feature is available for all properties that can have empty values across the app.

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**Improveed**

* `Epics calculation` Epics are included in the metrics and reports calculation even if they are not added to a sprint.

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## Hide GIFs from alerts

**September 19, 2024**

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While GIFs in alerts provide more fun during your working hours, we realized that if you use Alerts for a long time, they become less exciting and more of a distraction. If you want to hide GIFs from the UI, do it in T**eam Settings -> Alerts -> Show GIFs** (at the bottom of the page).

**Improved**

* `Settings` we have hidden the "Show member's work outside of the board" in UI and enabled it by default.
* `Integrations` new UI when you integrate Jira. Now it should be easier to understand how to integrate your Jira.

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## Q2 Summary improvement

**September 12, 2024**

**Improved**

* `Q2 Summary` We now hide the epics slide in the Q2 summary if you didn’t use epics for the past quarter

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## Labels for PR metrics

**September 10, 2024**

**New**

* `PR metrics labels` Added labels for grouping PR metrics

**Improved**

* `Exclusions` We now hide the excluded information when 0 issues are excluded

**Fixed**

* `Data fetching` Fixed an issue where data fetching was frozen for some users during onboarding
* `Investments setup` Fixed an issue where the priority field would be empty if "High" or "Highest" priorities weren't found in Jira, which broke the investments setup
* `Slack notifications` Fixed an issue that caused removed Slack notification recipients to reappear when multiple entries were removed in quick succession

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## Faster log in

**September 3, 2024**

**Improved**

* `Performance` Your account now loads faster after logging in
* `Onboarding` Large teams (100+ engineers) can now set up their account without scheduling a call
* `SLAs settings` We removed "time-sensitive issues" from the description in SLA settings to reduce confusion

**Fixed**

* `Investments` Fixed a bug where manually selected investment categories were being overwritten by investment rules