Summary

After the release of Project Types and new Application Access (Core and Software) in JIRA 7, there are two problems to access Release pages for anonymous users:

1. Anonymous users no longer can see the icon to go to the Releases page of this project, though they strangely can use URL to go to it (if they know it).
2. When they access this page via URL, clicking any version leads to an unaccessible page (the version hub for that version)

This is probably because development features are now only visible to Software users. However, this is highly inconsistent as an icon to an accessible page is gone, and once we manage to access the page, the links in it are not accessible.

Also, shouldn't public projects allow access to these pages to anonymous users?

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a public software project (change Permission Scheme to add 'anyone' to the 'Browse Projects' permission)
2. Access the project as an anonymous user (not logged in)
3. In the project's left menu, the releases icon is not visible (problem 1):
   
4. Since navigating to it is not possible, copy the URL to it and paste it (replace instance and project key):

   https://instance.atlassian.net/projects/PROJECTKEY?selectedItem=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:release-page
   

   • Now we can see the page we couldn't access before
5. Clicking a version leads to a page like this (problem 2):
   

It reads:

Expected Results

1. All these pages are accessible (as this is a public project)
   • The icon is visible
   • The link to the version lead to an accessible page

Actual Results

The ones described in the Steps to Reproduce.

Notes

Also, the documentation is not reflecting these changes. What should public project show now to anonymous users? Only JIRA Core features or should it include JIRA Software?

Workaround

None so far.