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title: "1.8 Release Notes"
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**<span style="color: #003366">17 December 2015</span>**

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> The Botron team announces the release of **Issue Matrix 1.8**.

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 **1.8** is free to all customers with active software maintenance.

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**<span style="color: #003366"> 1.8 yet?</span>**

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## Highlights

- Issue Links mode now supports filtering on issue link direction
- Issue Link direction can be shown as a column in the matrix ("Show Link Description" option)

## Updates and fixes in this release

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 1.8 includes the following bug fixes:

[https://appfire.atlassian.net/issues/?jql=project+%3D+ILV+AND+fixVersion+%3D+1.8+](https://appfire.atlassian.net/issues/?jql=project+%3D+ILV+AND+fixVersion+%3D+1.8+)