Atlassian Cloud changes Aug 16 to Aug 23, 2021

These changes have recently been rolled out to Atlassian Cloud sites.

Changes labeled ROLLING OUT are being gradually rolled 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.

Receive product changes monthly

NEW THIS WEEK

We’ve heard that teams need more than 2 weeks to prepare for Atlassian changes in cloud. That’s why products on the bundled release track are now receiving changes once a month. Learn more about release tracks

Add products to your Enterprise plan

ROLLING OUT

If you have an Enterprise plan for Jira Sofware, Jira Service Management, or Confluence, you no longer need to contact Atlassian to add another product to your plan. From your organization on admin.atlassian.com, go to Products and click Add product.

Insight in Jira Service Management: Add attachments to your objects

ROLLING OUT

To help you make sure that your team has all the information they need when accessing an object in Insight in Jira Service Management, we’ve added the ability to attach any relevant files, pictures, or other information directly to an object.

You must have edit permissions to add an attachment to an object:

  • Navigate to the object you want to add an attachment to.
  • Drag and drop the file directly onto the object panel or select Attach Files under the Attachments dropdown.

Note: Attachments must be 20mb or under in size.

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.

Issue view: Fixed bugs with the Participants field

ROLLING OUT NEW THIS WEEK

You can see the participants (reporter, assignee, and commenters) on an issue if it has the Participants field. If you don't see the field on an issue, try asking your admin to add the Participants custom field. Learn more about custom field types.

Subtasks on cards in classic boards

NEW THIS WEEK

See the total number of subtasks, including tasks that are already done, on your classic Jira Core business project boards.

Add custom fields to all your screens in Jira

ROLLING OUT

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.

Removal of non-paginated get filters endpoint from REST API v2

ROLLING OUT

We previously announced the deprecation of the non-paginated get filters endpoint in Jira’s REST API v2. Starting in December (2020), we’ll begin removing the endpoint. We expect to complete this work before the end of 2020.

Instead of the non-paginated endpoint, you can use the paginated endpoint, which is more scalable and can deliver lower response times.

Before we remove the endpoint, you should:

Updates to how you create projects in Jira

ROLLING OUT

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 subtasks in the timeline view

ROLLING OUT

You can now break down items into smaller subtasks in your timeline view. Subtasks are smaller items that relate to the overarching objective.

Advanced Roadmaps for Jira - Horizontal Scrolling

ROLLING OUT

Advanced Roadmaps lets you see into the future!

Not like… next week's lottery numbers, more like the future of your plans. You can now use your mouse or trackpad to scroll forward and backward on your timeline. This new feature also comes with new time increments of Weeks, Months, Quarters, and Years (as opposed to the old 3 months, 1 year, etc).

Users of Jira’s Project Roadmap feature might recognize this new functionality. Give it a scroll and see what your future holds!

Read our documentation for more information: View your plan

Jira Work Management is the next generation of Jira Core

ROLLING OUT

We’ve rebranded from Jira Core to Jira Work Management. Stay tuned for updates, and more documentation on exciting new features.

View start date in calendar view

View the start date for your items in the calendar view.

Issue view: Link an issue by pasting its URL

ROLLING OUT

When linking one issue to another in the issue view, along with searching for the issue, you can now also copy and paste the issue's URL. To try it out, select the Link issue quick action while viewing an issue and copy and paste another issue's URL.

Object Schema Import enabled

ROLLING OUT

We’ve added the ability to import one or more complete object schemas from the Insight Asset Management Cloud app to Insight in Jira Service Management Cloud. Learn more about importing an object schema.

Trusted users: UI changes for inviting new users

ROLLING OUT

We’ve made some minor UI changes – the Administration button in the Switch to… menu is no longer available for trusted users. Instead, they can navigate to the People menu in the top navigation to invite new users.

Improvements to your project menu

ROLLING OUT

We’re improving the project menu to help you navigate your projects with ease and find work fast. As part of this work, we’ve made the following initial updates:

  • Menu items are now grouped into categories that describe the software development lifecycle: Planning, Development and Operations.
  • In company-managed projects, the Board switcher has had some visual updates to better delineate board-scoped views like the backlog and reports.

Project pages: minor UI improvements

ROLLING OUT

We’ve made some minor UI changes to project pages.

  • You’ll see a message that says Powered by Confluence at the bottom of the screen. Selecting this will take you to Confluence.
  • The icon and UI for your connected space or page have been updated.
  • Information about your pages Name, Contributors, and Last modified has been retained, but the labels have been removed to improve readability.

Code in Jira: Support for Bitbucket Data Center OAuth provider

ROLLING OUT

Jira admins can add OAuth credentials for Bitbucket Data Center—the external source code management app. Read more about linking Bitbucket with Jira.

Then you’ll be able to see your team’s activities (development information) on the Code page for your project. Learn more about adding issue keys in your commits, branches, and PR summaries.

Insight in Jira Service Management: Add attachments to your objects

ROLLING OUT

To help you make sure that your team has all the information they need when accessing an object in Insight in Jira Service Management, we’ve added the ability to attach any relevant files, pictures, or other information directly to an object.

You must have edit permissions to add an attachment to an object:

  • Navigate to the object you want to add an attachment to.
  • Drag and drop the file directly onto the object panel or select Attach Files under the Attachments dropdown.

Note: Attachments must be 20mb or under in size.

Advanced Roadmaps for Jira: Create issue when grouped by sprint or release

ROLLING OUT

Creating issues on your timeline just got easier!

You can now create new issues from your timeline view using the + Create issue button when grouping by sprint and by release. To learn more, check out our documentation here: Issues

Jira Software

From March 31, 2021, we’ll begin moving all users to the new issue view in Jira Cloud products (Jira Software, Jira Service Desk, and Jira Core). Shortly after that, we’ll remove access to the old issue view. We’ve made great improvements to the new issue view in the past year and will continue to make it better before we remove the old one. For key dates, what’s next, and more details, check out our official announcement.

Project pages: connect project with a page

ROLLING OUT

We’ve updated project pages so it’s possible to connect a single Confluence page, rather than an entire space. You can do this by selecting the Connect to different space or page icon (represented by two arrows). Learn more.

Updates to how you create projects in Jira

ROLLING OUT

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

ROLLING OUT

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.

Team-managed projects: reopen a closed sprint

ROLLING OUT

If you’ve accidentally closed a sprint in your team-managed project, you can now reopen it via its report in the Reports section of your project. We’ve been working on this after hearing it’s something many of you have asked for. Learn more about reopening sprints.

Improvements to your project menu

ROLLING OUT

We’re improving the project menu to help you navigate your projects with ease and find work fast. As part of this work, we’ve made the following initial updates:

  • Menu items are now grouped into categories that describe the software development lifecycle: Planning, Development and Operations.
  • In company-managed projects, the Board switcher has had some visual updates to better delineate board-scoped views like the backlog and reports.

Jira Service Management

Jira Service Desk is now Jira Service Management! We’re in the process of rolling out some exciting new features for all users. Learn more about these new features.

Link multiple Confluence spaces to your knowledge base

ROLLING OUT

It’s here! You can now link more than one Confluence space to your knowledge base. Organize your articles more efficiently and help your customers faster than ever with the redesigned knowledge base settings page. Admins can now create a space from their service projects, link multiple existing spaces at once, set individual space permissions, and manage article suggestions better. And agents can now filter articles by linked spaces.

Link spaces from Confluence server sites to your knowledge base

ROLLING OUT

Jira Service Management in Cloud, but Confluence on Server? No problem, you can now bring articles from spaces in Confluence server sites to your knowledge base in Jira Service Management Cloud.

When creating or linking spaces to your service project, you can choose between spaces from your Confluence cloud and server sites. Learn more about linking Confluence spaces to your service project.

Get help with company-managed projects in Jira Service Management

ROLLING OUT

We’ve improved our help experience for company-managed projects. Now, Jira Service Management recommends articles associated with the page you’re viewing, making it easier to find relevant help for the task at hand.

To try it out:

  1. Navigate to your company-managed service project.
  2. Select Help (question) from the top navigation bar.

Updates to how you create projects in Jira

ROLLING OUT

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.

Improved view of knowledge base articles in the portal

ROLLING OUT

Your customers can now view your knowledge base articles in the portal on a wider canvas. The increased width will not just improve the readability of your articles, but will also help images and tables in them to render better.

Insight in Jira Service Management: Add attachments to your objects

ROLLING OUT

To help you make sure that your team has all the information they need when accessing an object in Insight in Jira Service Management, we’ve added the ability to attach any relevant files, pictures, or other information directly to an object.

You must have edit permissions to add an attachment to an object:

  • Navigate to the object you want to add an attachment to.
  • Drag and drop the file directly onto the object panel or select Attach Files under the Attachments dropdown.

Note: Attachments must be 20mb or under in size.

Jira Work Management

Create subtasks in the timeline view

ROLLING OUT

You can now break down items into smaller subtasks in your timeline view. Subtasks are smaller items that relate to the overarching objective.

View start date in calendar view

View the start date for your items in the calendar view.

Create subtasks in the list view

ROLLING OUT

You can now break down items into smaller subtasks in your list view. Subtasks are smaller items that relate to the overarching objective.

Confluence


Jira issue URLs are converted to smart links

ROLLING OUT

When you paste a Jira issue link into a Confluence page, the URL is converted to a smart link that displays the page icon and the page title. This works if the Jira and Confluence sites are linked or if they are both cloud versions.

Share a page with anyone on the internet using a public link

ROLLING OUT

We’re gradually rolling out the capability to use public links on Confluence. A public link is a unique URL that can be used to share a view-only version of a page with anyone on the internet. This is a simple way to share your pages with people like clients, vendors, and contractors without needing to pay for extra seats.

To keep things secure, public links are disabled by default. They can only be used if a product admin first allows the feature via Confluence settings. Learn more

Browse or search for page elements

ROLLING OUT

Aside from the text you write, it’s nice to be able to browse through all the elements that you can add to a page when editing.

  • If you want to see more options at once and even look at them by category, select + > View more from the toolbar
  • If you know exactly what you want to add, type / and start typing the name of the element to narrow the list to the elements that match what you typed

The elements you can add to the page include:

  • Basic formatting like headings and bulleted lists
  • Graphic elements like status lozenges and info panels
  • Powerful Confluence macros like the table of contents or a list pages based on your parameters
  • Third-party macros from the Atlassian Marketplace

Hiding the Like button on archived pages

ROLLING OUT

When you archive a page, you’re signaling to your team that this page is outdated or otherwise no longer relevant to current work. Since no one should be paying attention to or engaging with these pages, we’ve hidden the Like button so no new likes can be added.

You’ll still be able to see all likes the page accrued up until it was archived.

Archive all nested pages in one action

ROLLING OUT

Page archiving enters its next phase with nested archiving. For any page you archive, if it has any nested pages, you’ll have the option to include all of them with the original page selected. Pages archived together will maintain their visual hierarchy to preserve the context in which they were organized in the page tree.

You’ll have the same option to include all nested pages when restoring any page in the archive back to the page tree.

You can use nested archiving on the Premium plan.

Invite guests for external collaboration (early access)

ROLLING OUT

External collaboration is a Confluence feature that lets your team collaborate with people that are “external” in some way, such as a client or a contractor. It’s a secure way to open your Confluence instance to anyone you need to work with.

And the way you do that is you invite them as guests.

Guests have limited access to your instance. Unlike regular users who have a broad level of access by default, guests only have access to the spaces to which they have been specifically assigned access.

Guests also have limited access to user information for your regular “internal” users.

Note: External collaboration is in the process of rolling out as part of an early access program for customers on the premium plan.

Learn more about external collaboration.

Recommending pages to archive

ROLLING OUT

We’ve added a notification email that’ll recommend archiving pages excluded by a bulk archiving action.

With the ability to archive a page and all of its nested pages (a whole branch of the page tree), sometimes not all pages in the branch can be included. This happens when the archiver either doesn’t have permission to view a nested page or doesn’t have permission to archive a nested page, which results in these pages being left behind in the page tree.

If you created any of these “left behind” pages, we’ll let you know in the email and give you a quick way to archive them!

Bulk archive up to 500 pages at a time

ROLLING OUT

To ensure Confluence performs at the highest level, we’ve limited the amount of pages you can bulk archive or bulk restore to 500 pages at a time. We hope to increase the limit soon!

Add emojis to your page or blog title

ROLLING OUT

Give the titles of your pages and blogs a bit more personality by adding emoji. Emoji shows up with the page title when people see the page in the page tree of a space or on page cards.

Add a header image to your page or blog

ROLLING OUT

Now, you can make your page or blog pop with a header image! Just hover over the title when you’re editing, then select Add header image to give your content that little something extra.

View the pages you've visited most recently

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You can now view the page tree in any space based on when you viewed the pages, with the most recent visit at the top of the list.

Take action quickly from the sidebar

ROLLING OUT

To make it faster and easier to do common tasks, quick actions have been added to the page tree in your space sidebar. Because you can take action without selecting a page and moving away from the sidebar, it will take less time and effort to get your job done.

When you hover over the page title, a More actions ( ••• ) menu appears giving you the choice to:

  • edit
  • rename
  • star
  • get link
  • copy
  • move
  • archive

If the person logged in doesn’t have permission to do one of the actions, the action will be greyed out along with info that there are restrictions preventing those actions.

Create blogs and top-level pages from the sidebar

ROLLING OUT

Create blogs and top-level pages in your space quickly by using the + button next to the Blog or Pages sections in the space sidebar.

Trusted users: UI changes for inviting new users

ROLLING OUT

We’ve made some minor UI changes – the Administration button in the Switch to… menu is no longer available for trusted users. Instead, they can navigate to the People menu in the top navigation to invite new users.

Bitbucket

Bitbucket Pipelines Step Metrics

ROLLING OUT

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

Compass

Enhance your components with labels

NEW THIS WEEK

Add labels to enrich your components— labels can be used to track additional data on components. You can find labels on the component’s catalog listing.

In the future, you will be able to search components by their label and include labels as a criterion in component scorecards.

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