What's New in Zephyr Enterprise Release 8.7.0

May 12, 2026 

Introducing Zephyr Enterprise 8.7.0. This release includes new capabilities, reporting enhancements, and usability improvements. It also resolves multiple issues to improve stability, performance, and user experience.

Important Announcements

Starting release 8.7, Zephyr now supports:

  • MySQL version 8.4.7

  • MSSQL version 2022

  • Elasticsearch version 8.19.13

New Features

The following updates bring significant enhancements, security improvements, and fixes:

2D Report

Introduced the 2D Report capability, which enables advanced data analysis across two dimensions. This feature helps users explore and analyze test data with deeper insights and precision while maintaining real-time accuracy.

Improvements

The following updates bring significant improvements and fixes in the ZE 8.7 Release:

Mandatory Testcase Creation 

Added enforcement of mandatory field validation for test cases at the project level. It prevents the creation of manual and automated test cases and the import of test cases when the mandatory fields are left blank.

  • The Create Test Case form now requires users to complete all mandatory fields.

  • The import feature now prevents users from importing test cases unless they map all mandatory fields.

  • The automation section includes fields for mandatory information that apply to the test case used in automation.

Improved Most Failed Test Cases Report 

Added the Last Failed Execution configuration option to the Most Failed Test Cases report, which allows you to view only the latest failed executions or all historical failures. This enhancement allows you to switch between recent failure insights and historical trend analysis for more informed decision-making.

Audit Logs Module Enhancements 

Rebuilt the Audit Logs module with standardized and consistent audit messages, ensuring more accurate and complete tracking of user and system activities across the application.

Enhanced Traceability Export 

Enhanced the traceability export to include custom fields from requirements, improving visibility of requirement metadata and reducing manual reporting effort.

Bug Fixes

The following table lists the bug IDs, fixed issues, and error resolution.

Bug

Resolution

ZEPHYR-44534

Fixed an issue where the All Executions view experienced slow load times due to the inclusion of hidden test cycles. 

ZEPHYR-44480

Fixed an issue where a NullPointerException occurred due to a missing field (updateAuthor) in the Jira response.

ZEPHYR-44479

Fixed an issue where release clone failed for a project due to a NonUniqueObjectException. The system now handles duplicate parent entities correctly during the clone operation.

ZEPHYR-44294

Fixed an issue where the system did not allow selecting all test cases when adding test cases to a phase using the search.

ZEPHYR-44207

Fixed an issue where the breadcrumb in the Test Repository was inconsistent and appeared blank.

ZEPHYR-44197

Resolved search issues in the internal defect tracking system.

ZEPHYR-44196

Fixed an issue where creating and searching for defects by full user name failed in the internal defect tracking system.

ZEPHYR-44084

Improved indexing performance in JobRunner by increasing the check interval time. 

ZEPHYR-44076

Resolved an issue that prevented users from adding emojis in the requirement description.

ZEPHYR-43971

Fixed an issue where defect creation failed when the Priority field was updated with a custom value, even though the field was not mandatory.

ZEPHYR-43825

Fixed an issue where the test cycle status percentage showed two decimal places instead of rounding to a whole number.

ZEPHYR-43790

Fixed an issue where the User Details page automatically scrolled to the top, causing incorrect scroll behavior.

ZEPHYR-43757

Fixed an issue where Most Executed or Most Failed Testcase reports did not include test case ID, count, and test case name in the PDF export.

ZEPHYR-43756

Fixed an issue that prevented data from being rendered in theTrends by Status report when the Discrete option was selected during chart configuration.

ZEPHYR-43755

Fixed an issue where PDF, ZIP, and Print options were incorrectly displayed on the Reports Overview page.

ZEPHYR-43611

Fixed an issue that prevented users from entering notes for unexecuted test steps in the Test Execution section when test cases were nested beyond two folder levels.

ZEPHYR-43099

Fixed an issue where the system did not allow adding attachments through the Automation API.

ZEPHYR-42930

Fixed an issue where the User Preference API did not validate input values, resulting in incorrect field values being processed and displayed.

ZEPHYR-38337

Fixed an issue where audit logs showed inconsistent entries for test case import and test case reorder operations due to two spaces between the project name and the word “release:” instead of a single space.

ZEPHYR-38333

Fixed an issue where the audit logs displayed inconsistent entries for the test case assignment operations, where the project name is preceded by the marker“projectName:” rather than the standard “project:”.

ZEPHYR-38332

Fixed an issue where audit logs were inconsistent for the Jira requirement import operation, where the project name was displayed as“Project:” instead of “project:”.

ZEPHYR-37690

Resolved an issue where audit logs were displaying incorrect messages when assigning or removing users from a project.

ZEPHYR-36657

Fixed an issue where audit logs did not capture create, delete, update, and clone operations on releases. Audit logging is now capturing these operations.

ZEPHYR-35633

Fixed an issue where the specified date range was ignored when retrieving and exporting audit log data.

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