Atlassian Cloud changes Jul 9 to Jul 16, 2018

These changes have been made or are being made to your Atlassian Cloud products and services.

Anything with a (star) is new this week.

Changes with a (plus) are steadily rolling out and may not be on your site just yet.

Atlassian Cloud

Your cloud-hosted products are supported by the Atlassian Cloud platform. This section usually includes changes related to multiple Atlassian Cloud products, site administration, and user management.

New platform for outgoing mail (plus)

Jira and Confluence have started to use a new mail platform to deliver outgoing email. This will be rolled out progressively over the coming weeks. For administrators who whitelist IP ranges, you should update the list of IPs that Atlassian mail will be sent from as found on this page: Atlassian Cloud IP ranges and domains

Mail from Jira and Confluence will appear as being sent from the following addresses according to product & region. If you have automation rules that are triggered based on these emails, you may need to update your rules:

  • jira@mail-us.atlassian.net on behalf of Sender <jira@your_instance>
  • jira@mail-eu.atlassian.net on behalf of Sender <jira@your_instance>
  • confluence@mail-us.atlassian.net on behalf of Sender <confluence@your_instance>
  • confluence@mail-eu.atlassian.net on behalf of Sender <confluence@your_instance>

Hiding Usernames in User Management (plus)

We're phasing out the use of usernames, as we introduce unified profiles based on Atlassian accounts across all of our cloud products. This current change means that you won't see usernames when you go to Site administration > Users, but ongoing work will remove support for usernames elsewhere in future. For more information and updates on these changes, you can watch this blog post.

Confluence

Atlassian profile and people directory (plus)

We're bringing the new Atlassian profile to Confluence. Soon you'll have a single profile for all the Atlassian products you use on your site, including Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket. To do this, we've consolidated the information in your Atlassian account and your Confluence profile and removed or replaced redundant fields. We've also moved the profile tab out of Settings and into the menu you access from your avatar.

Finally, we've deprecated the Confluence people directory and replaced it with a one that works across all your Atlassian products. You can access the new people directory via the App Switcher.

Blogs are getting the first round of editing improvements (plus)

If you've ever thought 'I wish it was easier to read blogs on mobile.... or on other devices', then this change is for you. Blogs are getting fixed-width layouts to improve readability across all devices. We're making a bunch of other updates to improve editing reliability and clean up your editing experience, so some macros may be temporarily unavailable while they're under maintenance. You can read more about these changes on our docs site.

All collaborators now get credited as page authors (plus)

The person who starts a page isn't necessarily the same person who finishes it, and if more than one person have been working on something together, we think they all deserve credit for what they created. That's why we're changing the byline on Confluence pages so that they now include all the collaborators, not just the person who first created them.

Meeting notes are getting a makeover (plus)

We're continuing to work on improving your editing experience, and next in line for an upgrade is meeting notes. In addition to being faster and more reliable, your new meeting notes are also responsive, optimized for readability, and have advanced tables. Some macros are still temporarily missing as we rebuild them, but you can check the list and find more details on all of these changes from our docs site.

Jira Service Desk

Meet the new help center (plus)

We have exciting things happening in the help center. Check out our blog to learn what's coming!

Jira Software

We're rolling out a new type of project and a new global permission. By default, any licensed user can create their own independent project. These projects don't affect existing Jira projects or shared configurations. You can manage who's allowed to create independent projects with the new Create independent projects global permission. Read more about independent projects.

New issue view for Jira Software (plus)

Get a consistent view and edit experience with our new issue view for Jira Software. Click an issue to see its details, edit any field with a click, and add content with the quick-add buttons (under the issue summary). We're rolling this out gradually, so you may not see it on your site just yet. Take a look at the documentation for more info and watch the page to be updated when we release new features.

We're adding new features and refining the design all the time, so click Give feedback on the issue view to let us know what you think.

New issue view: full-page issue view (plus)

The new Jira issue view, which we already released for boards and the backlog, is now here for the full-page issue view. Quickly add attachments and subtasks, link issues, and click to edit any field you see. Check out this page for more info.

Agility boards: Add repository is moving back to its old home

Due to a problem we've run into, we've temporarily moved the Add repository button on agility boards back to its old home. To add a repository on your agility board:

  1. Navigate to your board.
  2. Hit Add item in the sidebar.
  3. Select Add repository.

We're rolling out this update gradually, so if the update hasn't reached your Jira site yet it'll be in its old home in the project sidebar.

For more information, check out our agility boards documentation.

Jira platform

Changes in this section usually apply to all Jira products. We'll tell you in the change description if something is only for a specific Jira product.

Log time using your own time zone (star)

Use your time zone when logging time, rather than the Jira system time zone. This change resolves the issue JRACLOUD-67502.

Search for any board from the project sidebar (star) (plus)

We added a search bar to the boards listing on your project sidebar. If your project has more than one board, select the board's name in the sidebar to see a list of recently-viewed boards. Use the new search bar to search for boards in any project on your site.

Preview how to manage issue types in your independent agility projects (plus)

Check out the new issue type settings to get a sneak peek into how you'll customize your independent projects. Soon, you'll be able to set up your own issue types and customize their workflows and fields. Let us know what you think!

New Jira experience: Updated project issue navigator (plus)

As part of the new Jira experience, we've updated the project issue navigator. There's a new, cleaner design, and it includes the new Jira issue view to help you quickly find and update important issue info.

Check it out by navigating to your project and selecting Issues in the sidebar.

Note: Create issue, list sorting, and navigation with keyboard shortcuts aren't available in the new navigator just yet, but we hope to add them very soon. The + in the sidebar is always there for when you need to create new issues.

Atlassian profile page (plus)

We're bringing the new Atlassian profile to Jira, so that you'll soon have a single unified profile for all of your Atlassian products, like Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket. This means some options that used to be in your profile have moved to your avatar > Personal settings:

  • Language
  • Time zone
  • Autowatch (whether you're automatically set as a watcher for issues you create or comment on) 
  • Email type (HTML or plain text)

As part of this change we've removed the option to disable keyboard shortcuts, as it was rarely used.

Boards that were located in your profile have also moved. They're now under your avatar > Your boards.

Switch and search for boards in your project's sidebar (plus)

We improved the board switcher in your project's sidebar. Now, you can switch between the boards in your current project and recent boards from other projects. And, you can search for boards across your entire Jira site.

To try it out, select your board's name in your project's sidebar.

Bug fix: Deleting labels custom fields

This fixes a problem where deleting a custom field of the type label would move any labels in the custom field over to the Labels system field. See JRACLOUD-68003 for more info.

Star recently-viewed projects, boards, filters and more (plus)

Create shortcuts and find your work faster with Starred and recent. Click the star in your sidebar to see a list of your recently-viewed projects, boards, filters, and dashboards. Star something in the list to keep it pinned there. Starring helps you create your own shortcuts for what's important to you.

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