v1.8.0

What's Changed

New Features

The most important feature in this release is the support for editing rich text-based fields when creating or updating work items. These fields include an issue's description, environment, comments' body and any custom field with type textarea.

JiraTUI is now able to convert ADF to Markdown and Markdown to ADF. The tools supports CommonMark syntax.

Important: this feature is still in beta.

The second important feature is a revamped UI for creating new work items. The new layout displays text-based fields in a separate column for easy access.

In addition, this release adds a new configuration variable text_editor to specify an external text editor to use for editing Markdown of text-based fields. The default value is the value of the system's EDITOR env variable.

The full list of new features follows:

• Support editing rich-text fields such as Description by @whyisdifficult in #235
• Add support for deleting work items when viewing search results by @whyisdifficult in #189
• Update results after delete by @whyisdifficult in #205
• Use autocomplete feature for selecting users (assignees and reporters) by @whyisdifficult in #192
• Add support for updating reporters by @whyisdifficult in #196
• Support the type number when adding new work items by @whyisdifficult in #203
• Improve handling of comments, links and attachments by @whyisdifficult in #233
• Use tabs to display text-based fields within the Info tab by @whyisdifficult in #242

Minor Improvements

• fix: use python-magic-bin on Windows for libmagic support by @anton-stadler in #178
• Add Nix flake for building and developing JiraTUI by @chrstnwhlrt in #179
• Simplify use of user-based autocomplete widgets to pass a search function by @whyisdifficult in #195
• Use puremagic instead of python-magic by @NSPC911 in #188
• Bump aiohttp from 3.13.3 to 3.13.4 by @dependabot[bot] in #193
• Bump pygments from 2.19.2 to 2.20.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #190
• Bump pillow from 12.1.1 to 12.2.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #200
• Bump gitpython from 3.1.47 to 3.1.50 by @dependabot[bot] in #237
• Bump click by @whyisdifficult in #228
• Bump mistune from 3.2.0 to 3.2.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #238

Other Changes

• Integrate changes related to work item creation and consolidation of widget definitions by @whyisdifficult in #199
• Refactor code to integrate changes from PR 163 related to viewing and updating work items by @whyisdifficult in #210
• Refactor some CSS classes by @whyisdifficult in #225
• Generate labels widget dynamically by @whyisdifficult in #229

Bug Fixes

• Use relative URLs when fetching attachment contents when using Jira DC instance by @whyisdifficult in #197

New Contributors

• @anton-stadler made their first contribution in #178
• @chrstnwhlrt made their first contribution in #179
• @NSPC911 made their first contribution in #188

Full Changelog: v1.7.0...v1.8.0