There is a bug in JIRA's 'project table' portlet, the effect of which is that JIRA appears to hang for certain users directly after login (accessing the dashboard page). The JSP does not handle the case where the 'numofentries' portlet property is null, due to having upgraded from an earlier version when this property didn't exist.

The fix for 2.3, 2.4 and 2.4.1 is to copy the attached JSP to:

• atlassian-jira/portlets/dashboard/projecttable.jsp (standalone distribution)
• webapp/portlets/dashboard/projecttable.jsp (webapp distribution)

Versions of the JSP for JIRA 2.3 and 2.4.x are attached.