What's New in Collaborator 15.0

New Features:

• Add project-level archive option to archive all reviews in a project (COLLAB-10067). Introduced project-level archiving to archive all reviews in a project with one action.

• Introduced a file size limit setting for manual uploads in Admin Settings (COLLAB- 10553). Administrators can now restrict the file size allowed for uploads in a review using the new "Max file size in a review" setting under Access Restrictions, applicable to file and folder uploads.

Improvements:

• Notify defect creators on any defect status change (Fix/Delete/Reject) (COLLAB-7903). Defect creators now get in‑app and email alerts for any defect that is fixed, deleted, or rejected.
• Make long URLs in checklist custom fields clickable (COLLAB-8697).

• Show top 10 most recently updated closed reviews when using closed filter (COLLAB-11071).

• Allow multiline text in user login prompt (COLLAB-11248). You can now add multi‑line login prompt messages, allowing clearer instructions and helpful links to be shown on the login screen.

• Reviews are deleted when the linked bitbucket server PR is deleted (COLLAB-11298). Collaborator now detects when a linked Bitbucket Server PR is deleted and automatically updates the associated review to Deleted or Cancelled, based on its current phase.

• Add confirmation message for unchecking checklist items (COLLAB-11319).

• Add configurable action for reviews when Pull Requests are merged or declined (COLLAB-11324). Introduced new repository hosting configuration settings: "When PR is merged" & "When PR is declined". These control the review state transition when an associated PR is merged or declined prior to review completion.

• Upgraded Collaborator to run on Java 17 (COLLAB-11373)

• Add file masking support to GUI Client to create review for a changelist (COLLAB-11509). File-mask filters are now supported when creating a review for a changelist from the GUI client. This enhancement allows users to selectively include or exclude files, providing greater control over the content of a review. Supported for Perforce, GIT, SVN and TFS.

• Change the label name from "LDAP NameIDPolicy format" to "SAML NameIDPolicy format" (COLLAB-11514).

• Update review deadline logic to treat deadline as an inclusive date (COLLAB-11681).

• Add compatibility recommendation note to client installation page (COLLAB-11709). A recommendation is added to the client installation page advising users to run the client and server on the same version to ensure optimal compatibility and performance.

• Increased the database field size to support Jira Project Lists up to 11,000 characters when logging in via Atlassian Server OAuth (COLLAB-12002).

• Updated the Atlassian OAuth configuration to support Atlassian resource data up to 11,000 characters (COLLAB-11651).