• Atlassian Cloud
• Jira platform
• Jira Software
• Jira Service Management
• Confluence
• Bitbucket

Discover products your users create outside your organization

You’ll now be notified when your managed accounts administer products outside your organization. If you subscribe to Atlassian Access, you can also see details about these products. From your organization at admin.atlassian.com, go to Security > Discovered products. Learn more about discovered products

Advanced Roadmaps for Jira - New dependency features

Advanced Roadmaps for Jira has new ways to create and visualize dependencies on your timeline.

You can now create a dependency by clicking and dragging between two issues, and Advanced Roadmaps for Jira will do the rest. To learn more, check the Dependencies page in our docs.

If you want to change how dependencies show on your timeline, you can do that, too! Choose between the default badges, badges with numbers that show how many dependencies an issue has, and lines that connect dependent issues on your timeline. To learn more about the different ways Advanced Roadmaps for Jira displays dependencies, head on over to our Monitoring dependencies page.

Advanced Roadmaps for Jira - Create new plans with ease

It’s never been easier to create a plan with relevant issues for your planning needs. With the new plan creation wizard, we’ve streamlined the process and redesigned the look and feel. We’ve also added new pages to the Configure menu so you can easily edit the plan’s scope at any time.

Add custom fields to all your screens in Jira

You no longer have to check each and every screen to associate it to a custom field. We’ve introduced a checkbox on the custom field screen association page so that you can add your custom fields to all the screens on your instance. Learn more about adding a custom field to a screen.

Additionally, you can search for the screens by their names to narrow down the list of screens to associate them to the custom field.

New issue view: Estimates for time tracking apps

The new issue view now displays a field for the estimated time remaining when you use time tracking apps. To try it out, install your favorite time tracking app, go to an issue, and check it out yourself.

Advanced Roadmaps for Jira - Selective Scheduling

Along with helping create an entire plan, you can now tell the Auto-scheduler to only schedule specific issues.

To use this new feature, select which issues you want Advanced Roadmaps to automatically schedule using the checkboxes in the Scope section of your plan. Then use the auto-scheduler like normal and it will only work its magic on those issues.

Learn more about how to use the Auto-scheduler.

Protect your data from cross-origin export link leaks

We rolled out a security patch on 2021-01-18 to keep your data safe from leaks by cross-origin export links. This security patch rollout will take up to two weeks and may break custom tooling that fetches data from export links. If you’re a site admin or technical contact of an impacted instance, we’ve sent you an email with instructions for fixing any affected workflows. If you haven’t received an email, then there’s no action required.

Insights directly on your next-gen board and backlog

Premium plan customers, look out for Insights on your board and backlog. This new, data-driven feature helps you adapt existing processes, drive better outcomes, and plan with confidence.

It’s really fresh and the team behind it's eager for feedback. Get in there, give it a go, and share your experience. It honestly changes things.

Learn more about insights in next-gen projects.

Devops Container Linking

When creating a Jira project, you’ll see an option to “connect work across your tools” which allows you to easily create and connect containers from other tools, including:

• Bitbucket repositories
• A Confluence space
• An Opsgenie team

Get insights into your cycle time for deployments

Do you struggle with the latest information on how much time you take work to get from branch to production? Here you go with an advanced Insights panel inside your Deployments view. Get a thorough understanding of the Cycle time in the palm of your hand. Learn how to make the best use of the Insights panel.

Updates to how you create projects in Jira

Creating projects in Jira is now simpler with our new template library. Browse templates across the Jira products you own, with additional information to assist you in finding the template that best fits the way your team works.

Additionally, we’ve renamed our project types (next-gen and classic) to make them clearer and more descriptive:

• Next-gen projects are now named team-managed projects. The functionality itself remains the same and continue to be ideal for independent teams who want to control their own working processes and practices in a self-contained space.
• Classic projects are now named company-managed projects. Setup and maintained by Jira admins, company-managed projects remain the best choice for teams who want to work with other teams across many projects in a standard way, such as sharing a workflow.

Replacing the media picker with your system's file upload

We're removing the media picker dialog, which appears when you click the Files and images button in Bitbucket Cloud, Confluence Cloud, and Jira Cloud products, and replacing it with your system’s built-in file upload dialog. We’ve observed that very few people use the media picker, with most people preferring to drag and drop or paste files onto pages and issues. You’ve also shared feedback with us that, in some cases, the media picker doesn’t work the way you’d like it to.

Importantly, you can still link to files from services like Dropbox and Google Drive. Paste a link on your page or issue and we’ll create a handy smart link to it so the latest version is always available.

You can read more about this change and leave feedback for the team in the Community post.

Improved look and feel when starting a new Jira Software, Opsgenie, or Statuspage trial

We’re gradually rolling out some improvements to your experience when starting a trial from within an Atlassian product. There will be more accurate information and an improved look when starting a trial for Jira Software, Opsgenie, or Statuspage. Functionally, starting a trial is staying the same.

Improved security for the Get Filters REST endpoint

We’ve rolled out a security patch to keep your data safe from anonymous access while using the deprecated Get Filters REST API. This REST API will no longer return your project names and owner information to unauthenticated users.

New issue view: Save time configuring multiple projects by copying field layouts

No more duplicate field configuration work for admins! Jira admins can now copy field layouts for the new issue view in one project to any other that uses the same screen.

More specifically, in Jira Software Cloud, an issue layout can be copied to other projects that use the same screen. And In Jira Service Management Cloud, a request type's layout can be copied to other request types (including those in other projects) that use the same screen.

New issue view: Comment bar now adjusts depending on activity sort

In the new issue view's activity section, the comment bar will now automatically adjust positions depending on whether you sort activity by oldest or newest first. In particular, we now ensure that you can always comment right above or below the newest comment. This means that when you're updating your team, you'll always have the latest context right in front of you.

Roadmap: Now with current and future sprints

Say adios to the context switching and extra clicks, and give a warm welcome to current and future sprints on the roadmap.

This extra layer of context means you can easily manage and understand the connection between epics and sprints. It’s easy on the eyes AND good for productivity. Just how we like it.

Learn how to enable sprints in team-managed projects.

Learn how to plan a future sprint in company-managed projects.

Enhanced release notes functionality

Access the enhanced release notes functionality by navigating to Releases > Version > Release notes. The revised Release notes page in your Jira Software project provides you with the following options:

• Create release notes in the markdown format
• Regenerate release notes based on layout and issue types
• Format and update release notes in the editor
• Copy the release notes to the clipboard

Learn how to create release notes.

Advanced Roadmaps for Jira - Create new plans with ease

It’s never been easier to create a plan with relevant issues for your planning needs. With the new plan creation wizard, we’ve streamlined the process and redesigned the look and feel. We’ve also added new pages to the Configure menu so you can easily edit the plan’s scope at any time.

Anonymous access check for Jira Site Import

This new security check will notify in advance if projects, dashboards, and filters are prone to anonymous access post migration. Anonymous access means that the data will be available to the public and searchable online. You can choose whether or not to grant public access before the migration.

To review affected projects, dashboards, and filters, you can download the .csv file.

Next-gen: Assign multiple statuses to a single column

Like humans and their dogs, or keyboards and computers, columns and statuses have always been inseparable.

Until now. (Kinda.)

This feature gives you the ability to add more than one status to a single column. This supercharged, board-sorting experience means you can group together similar statuses and free up your board. It also means you can drop work into a new status, within the same column.

Less scroll. A neater board. And advanced config—this could be the best separation in a long time.

Learn more about configuring columns and statuses in your next-gen project.

Insights directly on your next-gen board and backlog

Premium plan customers, look out for Insights on your board and backlog. This new, data-driven feature helps you adapt existing processes, drive better outcomes, and plan with confidence.

It’s really fresh and the team behind it's eager for feedback. Get in there, give it a go, and share your experience. It honestly changes things.

Learn more about insights in next-gen projects.

Get insights into your cycle time for deployments

Do you struggle with the latest information on how much time you take work to get from branch to production? Here you go with an advanced Insights panel inside your Deployments view. Get a thorough understanding of the Cycle time in the palm of your hand. Learn how to make the best use of the Insights panel.

Updates to how you create projects in Jira

Creating projects in Jira is now simpler with our new template library. Browse templates across the Jira products you own, with additional information to assist you in finding the template that best fits the way your team works.

Additionally, we’ve renamed our project types (next-gen and classic) to make them clearer and more descriptive:

• Next-gen projects are now named team-managed projects. The functionality itself remains the same and continue to be ideal for independent teams who want to control their own working processes and practices in a self-contained space.
• Classic projects are now named company-managed projects. Setup and maintained by Jira admins, company-managed projects remain the best choice for teams who want to work with other teams across many projects in a standard way, such as sharing a workflow.

Create and schedule future sprints

Sprint planning is great when it’s done every couple of weeks.

But how satisfying (and helpful) is it when you can line up the work that needs to happen straight after? Create the sprint and pencil in the start and end dates. Your future self will thank you later.

To plan a future sprint:

1. Navigate to your Jira software project.
2. Select Backlog in the project menu on the left.
3. Click Create sprint.
4. Add dates to your sprint by selecting Add dates (✏️ ). Ta-da!

Learn more about adding dates to future sprints for team-managed projects.

Learn more about adding dates to future sprints for company-managed projects.

Enabled the Deployments feature for all projects with deployments data

When you have a code development tool integrated with your Jira project, the Deployments feature will be enabled to give you visibility into your deployment pipelines against issues over a time scale.

Learn more about deployments and make the best use of this feature.

Knowledge base settings refresh

The Knowledge base settings page has been updated - we’ve made some layout adjustments to refresh the page. Go to Project settings > Knowledge base to check it out.

Get started quicker with the 'Quickstart' panel

Knowing what to do first when you create a new kind of project can be tricky. That’s why we’ve introduced the Quickstart panel - a handy side panel filled with easy-to-follow steps and links to documentation to get you up and running as quickly as possible.

If you’d rather look at it later, then simply select Close Quickstart at the bottom of the panel - you can always open it back up through your Settings (cog) in the top right.

Enhanced view of knowledge base articles for agents

Your agents can now get a better view of knowledge base articles. Images in your articles will expand when you select them and videos can be played inline. We’ve also made many more improvements in styling and formatting to match the Confluence experience.

Updates to how you create projects in Jira

Creating projects in Jira is now simpler with our new template library. Browse templates across the Jira products you own, with additional information to assist you in finding the template that best fits the way your team works.

Additionally, we’ve renamed our project types (next-gen and classic) to make them clearer and more descriptive:

• Next-gen projects are now named team-managed projects. The functionality itself remains the same and continue to be ideal for independent teams who want to control their own working processes and practices in a self-contained space.
• Classic projects are now named company-managed projects. Setup and maintained by Jira admins, company-managed projects remain the best choice for teams who want to work with other teams across many projects in a standard way, such as sharing a workflow.

Managing global permissions just got easier

We’ve upgraded the global permissions page to make it easier for site and product admins to read and make changes to these site-level permissions.

Now there are no more dense tables to pore through! We’ve reorganized the page into tabs by type of user — User groups, JSM access, Anonymous access, and Apps — and refreshed the look within each tab to make the information cleaner and easier to scan.

We’ve also added the ability to filter lists by permission type granted. For example, if you want to see all user groups that have permission to create spaces on your site, you can click on the Filters button next to the search bar and select the box for Create space.

Finally, we made the groups expandable, so you can see exactly which individual users are members.

Learn more about global permissions

Modernized move page dialog

Moving your published pages and blogs is an important decision. To help you feel more confident when doing this, the experience has been simplified and updated. A link to our product documentation was also added to support you in digging deeper into the details of the behavior.

Control when your page or blog gets published

Sometimes a page or blog needs to published at the right moment to coincide with a project start, a product release, or a company announcement. Rather than relying on a calendar reminder or a sticky note, you can schedule it in Confluence.

Before you publish the first time or the twenty-first time, you can set the date and time by going to ••• > Schedule publish. No notifications are sent to those you’ve mentioned or those watching the page, blog, or the space until the content is actually published.

To make it really clear that the page or blog is set to be published at a certain day and time, the Publish button will change to Scheduled. A [ PUBLISH SCHEDULED ] indicator will be displayed at the top of the page and next to the page title in your list of Recent pages.

Replacing the media picker with your system's file upload

We're removing the media picker dialog, which appears when you click the Files and images button in Bitbucket Cloud, Confluence Cloud, and Jira Cloud products, and replacing it with your system’s built-in file upload dialog. We’ve observed that very few people use the media picker, with most people preferring to drag and drop or paste files onto pages and issues. You’ve also shared feedback with us that, in some cases, the media picker doesn’t work the way you’d like it to.

Importantly, you can still link to files from services like Dropbox and Google Drive. Paste a link on your page or issue and we’ll create a handy smart link to it so the latest version is always available.

You can read more about this change and leave feedback for the team in the Community post.

Improvements & updates to Bitbucket webhooks

Improvements

• Extended webhook history - from 12 hours to 1 week
• Improvements to the overall delivery of webhooks

End of support and feature removal

• Webhooks that are larger than 256 KB will no longer be supported. This change may affect integrations that consume these webhooks.
• The Resend request button has been removed.

Valid IP addresses for webhook delivery

To ensure Bitbucket webhooks are delivered successfully to the destination URLs you configured, add the IP address ranges we use for outgoing connections to the internet made on your behalf to your allow list. The exact list of IPs is in the Outgoing Connections section of the Atlassian cloud IP ranges and domains page.

Bitbucket Pipelines Step Metrics

Step metrics allows you to get visibility into your builds CPU and memory usage, and also provides you with memory usage warnings when your build is running. Learn more

Edit your PR title and description inline

You can now edit the title and description of a pull request inline. Click in the title field to display the cursor, make any necessary edits to the title or description, and select the checkmark to confirm your changes. This feature also supports the use of HTML in your titles and descriptions.

Replacing the media picker with your system's file upload

We're removing the media picker dialog, which appears when you click the Files and images button in Bitbucket Cloud, Confluence Cloud, and Jira Cloud products, and replacing it with your system’s built-in file upload dialog. We’ve observed that very few people use the media picker, with most people preferring to drag and drop or paste files onto pages and issues. You’ve also shared feedback with us that, in some cases, the media picker doesn’t work the way you’d like it to.

Importantly, you can still link to files from services like Dropbox and Google Drive. Paste a link on your page or issue and we’ll create a handy smart link to it so the latest version is always available.

You can read more about this change and leave feedback for the team in the Community post.