• Atlassian Administration
• Jira platform
• Jira Software
• Jira Service Management
• Jira Work Management
• Jira Product Discovery
• Confluence
• Bitbucket
• Compass

Take control of your domain’s user accounts

We’re giving you more flexibility to manage user accounts for your domains. You’ll be able to control how and what specific user accounts you’d like to manage.

When you verify your domain, you can:

• Choose how to claim new users for a domain — automatically or manually

• Choose to claim all users or some new users for a domain

Learn how you currently verify a domain

Prevent users from inviting anyone to your products

We’re giving you the ability to prevent user invites for your products. You’ll have more control over who can invite people to your products and how they do it.

When you prevent user invites, existing users are unable to invite people through that product. Organization admins can still invite anyone and give product access from admin.atlassian.com.

To prevent user invites:

1. Go to admin.atlassian.com.
2. Select Products > User access settings > User invites.
3. Select the Don’t allow invites dropdown option for the product.

User counts helps you plan your Enterprise subscriptions capacity

User counts shows you how many users you have in each product instance in an Enterprise plan. This tells you how many users you can still add, whether you’re nearing your user tier limit, or if you've exceeded your user tier limit.

To help plan your Enterprise subscriptions capacity you can:

• View User count growth trend - For each Enterprise product, view the number of unique users in each of the past 12 months, and how it changed from one month to the next.
• Receive email notifications - Choose to be notified when your user count reaches 80% of the user tier for that product.
• Export users - Export the list of users who are included in the user count for a product instance in your Enterprise plan.

To view the user counts for your Enterprise plans:

1. Go to admin.atlassian.com. Select your organization if you have more than one.
2. Select Products > User counts.
3. Select View to see the user counts for each individual product instance in an Enterprise plan.

From here you can see the growth trend, export your users, and opt out of getting email notifications when you reach 80% of the user tier limit.

Learn more about monitoring your user counts

Prevent user logins with third-party accounts

Organization admins can now control whether users can log in to Atlassian products using third-party accounts. A new authentication policy setting lets admins block logins from Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Slack accounts.

To update your third-party login settings:

1. Go to admin.atlassian.com. Select your organization if you have more than one.
2. Select Security > Authentication policies.
3. Select Edit for the policy you want to update.
4. Select Block third-party login or Allow third-party login.
5. Select Update.

Learn more about authentication settings

View offline sandboxes on the Sandbox page

When you delete a sandbox, it is pending deletion. It goes into an offline state for 30 days, where you can't edit the sandbox. We permanently delete it after 30 days or as soon as you create a new sandbox from the same production environment.

All offline sandboxes now show on the Sandbox page with the Status set as DELETING. You can track all your deleted sandboxes from this page. If you don’t want to delete the sandbox, you can restore it with all its data before it is permanently deleted.

Filters: Add individual users as viewers

As a creator or editor of a filter, you can add individual users as viewers when you share the filter. This was already possible when adding editors, but now the same granular control is available when adding viewers.

To add a user as a viewer to a filter:

1. Go to the filter you want to share.
2. Select Filter details or Details.
3. Under Viewers, change Private, which is the default option, to User.
4. For every person you want to add as a viewer:
   1. Type the name of the person you want to add then select them from the list.
   2. Select Add.

Learn more about managing filters.

Automation: Create lookup table action

You can now create lookup tables in your Automation rules. This allows you to create key-value mappings for your automation rules, giving you more power and flexibility.

Learn more about the Create lookup table action

To give it a try, follow these simple steps:

1. Navigate to automation in Jira.
   • For project automation, go to Project settings > Automation
   • For global automation, go to Settings > System > Global automation
2. Either create a new rule, or edit an existing rule.
3. Select the Create lookup table action.

Dashboards: Add individual users as viewers

As a creator or editor of a dashboard, you can add individual users as viewers when you share the dashboard. This was already possible when adding editors, but now the same granular control is available when adding viewers.

To add a user as a viewer to a dashboard:

1. Do one of the following:
   • For new dashboards, select Dashboards > Create dashboard from the global navigation.
   • For existing dashboards, select More actions (...) > Rename or share or Copy.
2. Under Viewers, change Private, which is the default option, to User.
3. For every person you want to add as a viewer:
   1. Type the name of the person you want to add then select them from the list.
   2. Select Add.

Learn more about managing dashboards.

New request type configuration experience

Configure your request forms with ease, using a fresh drag and drop experience!

Learn how to configure your request types.

Advanced Roadmaps - Group by custom fields

Advanced Roadmaps allows you to group issues on your timeline according to assignees, projects, component, teams, sprints, releases, and labels.

We're extending this feature to allow you to group by custom fields that have been added to your plan. The custom field types currently supported are: single-select, multi-select, custom label and user picker fields.

To group your issues, navigate to the View settings menu of your plan, click the Group by drop-down and select a custom field.

Learn more about grouping issues on your Advanced Roadmaps timeline.

Bug fixes to team-managed issues in backlog

This bug fix corrects unexpected behavior with issues in team-managed projects. Bug fix details:

• Team-managed epics and base-level issues on company-managed backlogs will render the same way as issues from company-managed projects.

• Team-managed base-level issues now show in the backlog (previously they were not included).

• Team-managed base-level issues are displayed in the same way as company-managed base-level issues. Previously, team-managed base level issues with a parent were displayed in the same way as subtasks.

Issue view: Maximum number of displayed child issues increased to 500

We heard feedback that some of you needed to display more than 100 child issues on an issue. That's why we're increasing the maximum number of child issues you can see from an issue to 500. You can still have more than 500 child issues, but you'll have to view them in search.

Add status while creating an issue

You can now select the status of an issue while you're creating it. For example, you could make an issue with the "in progress" status.

When selecting the status of an issue while creating it, you'll only be able to select statuses that don't have screens, actions, rules, validations or conditions in your workflow.

The new global issue create experience is enabled for all instances

We’ve modernized and optimized the experience to create issues to make it fast and scalable. Note that you won’t be able to switch back to the old experience.

Issue view: Apps are moving to collapsible groups

Marketplace vendors can put their apps in a collapsible group on the issue view. This means you can show or hide groups without obscuring other fields on the issue view. An app will only be in a group if a Marketplace vendor has put it there.

Team-managed workflows: Group rules to further restrict your transitions

You can group Restrict transition rules to further control who can move issues from one status to another. To try it out, go to a workflow and add a rule in the Restrict transition category. It should come in a group that you can edit.

Sorting pinned fields in an issue

If you've pinned multiple fields, you can now drag and drop your pinned fields to change the order and keep your favorite ones at the top.

Access more fields in team-managed service projects

While configuring request types in team-managed service projects, you can now add and reuse fields from your company-managed service projects.

On the Request types page in your Project settings, use search to find fields from your current project or any of your company-managed service projects. You can also use the Suggested fields section to browse recently created and recently used fields.

Add comments to issues on behalf of your users

Default reporters on a mail handler for Jira incoming mails can add comments for their users who don’t have permissions. Learn more about default reporters.

Use different accounts without logging on/off

We’re implementing site-scoped sessions for our users on Jira Software, Confluence, Jira Service Management, Jira Work Management, Jira Product Discovery, and Compass.

You can now use different accounts to access different sites at the same time, without needing to switch accounts or use different browsers.

For example, let’s say you have a personal Confluence site and a company Confluence site. With scoped sessions, you can use account A to access your personal Confluence site and account B to access your company Confluence site - at the same time, in the same browser.

Use the GitHub for Jira app to connect GitHub Enterprise, instead of DVCS

Jira admins making a new GitHub connection for a new organisation now need to install the GitHub for Jira app. The app functions just like the DVCS Connector, but with better security features and improved performance.

This only applies to new GitHub connections in new organisations. Existing connections using DVCS are not affected.

Learn more about the GitHub for Jira app.

New 'Team' custom field in Jira

Admins can now enable a new ‘Team’ custom field from project settings. This allows project users to assign Jira issues and tasks to Atlassian teams.

Read more about Atlassian teams in Jira

Made SLA time formats consistent with locality

Previously, the date and time formatting for SLAs did not match the formatting of other displayed dates and times in Jira Service Management. SLA date and time formats will now display correctly based on each user's locality,

Adding a product via Jira project templates just got easier

When you’re creating a new project and want to use a project template you need to have the product that the template is for. If you don’t have the product, you need to add it. For example, if you have Jira Software but you want to use a Jira Service Management template for a project, you need to add Jira Service Management first.

We’re making this process easier by removing unnecessary steps you see when adding the new product, in order to use the template.

These are the changes we’re making to the process:

• We’re removing the lock icon from the template’s ‘Try this template’ button

• You now only need to select the template you want to use once

• We’re cutting out any duplicate content so that you’re not seeing things more than you need to

• The whole process will take place in the same tab instead of opening up new tabs

OAuth upgrade for Microsoft email servers

With Microsoft deprecating basic authentication, all Microsoft mail servers need to be reconfigured using OAuth. OAuth simplifies your sign in process and is more secure compared to basic authentication.

To configure your Microsoft mail server using OAuth:

1. In the Navigation bar, select Settings > System.
2. Select Incoming mail.
3. Select Add incoming mail server.
4. Give your mail server a name and description.
5. Select Sign in with Microsoft.
6. Select Add.

Learn more about how to configure your mail server.

Create smarter forms with new smart links

Customize the way links display in Forms to create more valuable requests and internal processes.

Paste from a range of supported links, and choose to render inline, show descriptive cards, or fully embed. You can even add images using Dropbox or OneDrive public links.

Add Jira boards, Confluence pages, Figma files, or even YouTube videos to assist your customers and team in richer ways.

Learn more about forms.

Plan work for scrum teams using dates in the roadmap view

Before this change, you could only plan work for scrum teams using sprint dates on in your project roadmap view. This update allows you to set explicit dates on issues on your project roadmap while preserving the sprint assignments.

Learn how to plan work for scrum teams.

Move data between sites with cloud-to-cloud migration

We're introducing cloud-to-cloud migration to make it easier for you to move users and projects from one cloud site to another. Cloud-to-cloud migration can help you combine data between two or more cloud sites, split a cloud site into multiple cloud sites, duplicate a cloud site, or move specific projects from one cloud site to another.

Org and site admins can access this feature by logging in to the cloud site you want to move your users and projects from, then going to Settings > System > Migrate cloud site.

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 continues 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.

Advanced Roadmaps - Sample Plan

Advanced Roadmaps can do so many different things that it's hard to describe it succinctly. It's easier to show you.

With this update, you can create a sample plan using simulated data. Then you can manipulate that data to learn how Advanced Roadmaps lays out your project and helps you plan.

To create your sample plan, select Create sample plan from the Plans dropdown menu.

Simplifying how you view issues in a version

We’ve given versions in the Releases feature a more streamlined interface for easy issue tracking.

Instead of switching between status tabs in the Issues section, now use simple filters and sorting to quickly find what you’re looking for.

Plus, decide which information is most important to you (like assignee, development info, or feature flag status) and hide the rest.

To see the new Issues section:

1. Select Releases in your project sidebar
2. Select your version from the list.
3. Scroll to the Issues section.

To decide which info to show and hide, look under Display information in the actions menu (...).

Team-managed projects: Split issues into smaller pieces of work

When a task seems larger than originally planned, you can split the issue into smaller, and more manageable, pieces of work. To try it out, right-click on an issue in your backlog, and select Split issue.

Previously, this feature was only available on company-managed projects.

Learn more about splitting issues

Advanced Roadmaps - Add Labels in bulk to issues

Advanced Roadmaps comes with the ability to perform changes in bulk to your issue such as reassigning issues to individuals, teams, or sprints, or updating issue details.

Now you can also add a label to multiple issues at one time. Select the issues you want to update, then select Labels from the bulk update menu.

Learn more about editing issues in bulk.

Advanced Roadmaps - Add multiple releases to issues

No more having to choose which release you want to assign to an issue in Advanced Roadmaps! Now you can have many releases!

That's right, the Releases field on your timeline view now supports assigning multiple releases to one issue. It still works the same way as before, except you can now add more than one entry.

Learn more about releases in Advanced Roadmaps.

Advanced Roadmaps - Duplicate existing plans

Create a new plan from an existing Advanced Roadmaps plan!

With a few clicks, you can now duplicate a plan. Your new plan inherits all of the following:

• plan settings such as issue sources, exclusion rules, things like that
• view settings
• saved views
• filters

Learn more about duplicating plans.

Changes to epic fields in company-managed projects

We've made changes to epics on your board and backlog to more closely align epics across company-managed and team-managed projects.

Epics on your board and backlog will now display the epic’s Issue summary in their lozenge and on the epic panel. Additionally, the epic color on the board and backlog will now use the epic’s Issue color.

These updates will also apply to the Epic link field in the issue view. Learn more about these changes

Sprint burndown insight defaults to storypoints when issues aren't estimated

When issues don't have any estimates before the start of your sprint the sprint burndown insight will be calculated using storypoints. This is a change from the insight defaulting to an empty state.

Select Insights to open the panel. Scroll down to the sprint burndown graph. If your issues weren't estimated at the start of your sprint the burndown will display story points on the Y-axis.

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 continues 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.

Simplified object schema configuration and streamlined importing

Configuring an object schema is now streamlined and simplified. When configuring an object schema, you can create new reference types and statuses by selecting Create a reference or Create a status.

We’ve also simplified how imports are created. To create a new import, select Create import, select your import type, and then select Create. Object types and attributes will be automatically created for you.

On the other hand, if you’d like to create object types and attributes manually, you can turn off Automatically create object types and attributes and map your object types and attributes yourself.

Finally, Process Results has been moved into the Imports tab, where you can see the history of your completed imports by selecting View history.

Learn more about importing objects into Jira Service Management.

Quickstart onboarding added to business templates

We've added the Quickstart onboarding panel to all of our project templates with instructions for key tasks to help you get set up in your new Jira Service Management project.

Get step-by-step instructions for:

• customizing request types
• reviewing request channels
• reviewing customer notifications
• inviting team members

Updated project creation experience

We've simplified the process of creating new projects to make it easier to get started. When you select a project template, you will now go straight to the screen where you can add your project's details instead of viewing the details for the template. You can still view the details of the template by selecting See details.

We've also redesigned the form and put some of the more advanced settings in an accordion.

For company-managed projects, these settings include:

• Project key (auto-generated using your project name)
• "Use settings from an existing project"

For team-managed projects, these settings include:

• Access settings (set to private by default)
• Default language (set to the site language by default)
• Project key (auto-generated using your project name)

We've standardized the buttons in Assets

We've made some changes to the buttons in Assets to make things a little easier.

The position of the buttons will now be the same in every screen: the "Cancel" or "Back" button will always appear on the bottom-left, and "Create" or "OK" button will always appear on the bottom-right.

Jira Work Management - Confluence linked page in list view

You can now add a new column to show the Confluence pages that are linked to a specific item in Jira Work Management. Not only that, but you can link, unlink, or view the Confluence page directly from the list view.

Jira Work Management - Software releases in Jira Work Management's calendar integration

Get a clear picture of an engineering team's progress, then plan what work needs to be done on the business side in Jira Work Management with shared release dates.

Stay informed when the engineering team changes their release estimates and better plan marketing campaigns or customer-related tasks.

If your project has releases enabled, you’ll be able to access release details from your software teams such as status, dates, and progress directly in the calendar view. Integrate this with your team’s planning to set work accordingly.

JWM Embed Tab

An embed view within Jira Work Management allows you to stay in context and interact with any content or third-party links added as a shortcut. You'll also be able to copy and paste shortcut links or open them in a new tab.

Comment count in list view

You can now see the number of comments on an issue in the list view.

Learn more about comments on an issue

Changes to epic fields in company-managed projects

We've made changes to epics on your board and backlog to more closely align epics across company-managed and team-managed projects.

Epics on your board and backlog will now display the epic’s Issue summary in their lozenge and on the epic panel. Additionally, the epic color on the board and backlog will now use the epic’s Issue color.

These updates will also apply to the Epic link field in the issue view. Learn more about these changes

Use different accounts without logging on/off

We’re implementing site-scoped sessions for our users on Jira Software, Confluence, Jira Service Management, Jira Work Management, Jira Product Discovery, and Compass.

You can now use different accounts to access different sites at the same time, without needing to switch accounts or use different browsers.

For example, let’s say you have a personal Confluence site and a company Confluence site. With scoped sessions, you can use account A to access your personal Confluence site and account B to access your company Confluence site - at the same time, in the same browser.

Use the GitHub for Jira app to connect GitHub Enterprise, instead of DVCS

Jira admins making a new GitHub connection for a new organisation now need to install the GitHub for Jira app. The app functions just like the DVCS Connector, but with better security features and improved performance.

This only applies to new GitHub connections in new organisations. Existing connections using DVCS are not affected.

Learn more about the GitHub for Jira app.

Automation: Create lookup table action

You can now create lookup tables in your Automation rules. This allows you to create key-value mappings for your automation rules, giving you more power and flexibility.

Learn more about the Create lookup table action

To give it a try, follow these simple steps:

1. Navigate to automation in Confluence.
   • For space automation, go to Space settings > Automation
   • For global automation, go to Settings > Global automation
2. Either create a new rule, or edit an existing rule.
3. Select the Create lookup table action.

Express yourself with reactions

Reactions are an interactive, lightweight way to express yourself on content in Confluence. Now, instead of being able to only like or comment on a page, you and your teammates can choose from dozens of emoji reactions (including custom ones).

At the bottom of a page or blog post, choose an existing reaction, or select the "Add a reaction" icon to add your own. You can also react from the activity feed.

Improved PDF export

We've improved the way Confluence Cloud exports to PDF so that the exported PDF more accurately matches what the Confluence page actually looks like. For example, tables, mentions, dates, and other elements will all render the same way they do on the Confluence page.

Be more expressive with panels

In addition to the five preset panel options, you can customize panels by choosing one of the 20 background colors available.

Panels can have emojis, or you can remove the emoji to meet the needs of your content. The emojis available to you are the same set that you already use in Confluence; this includes custom emojis you and your teammates added.

1. Add a panel to a page by typing /custom panel or by selecting Custom panel from the insert menu.

2. Use the floating toolbar to choose a background color and pick an emoji if you want one.

Automatically get a personal space

A personal space in Confluence is a place of your own to jot down new ideas, introduce yourself to your team, keep track of tasks, store important items or files, polish content before sharing with others, and more.

You can choose to leave the space open for others to visit and collaborate, or you can restrict the pages so that no one else can see them.

If you don't already have a personal space, one will be created for you after you've logged in and viewed a page. There are three ways to get to your personal space:

• Select Spaces in the global navigation bar. Your personal space is automatically starred for easy access.
• Select your profile icon at the top right of the global navigation bar and select Personal Space.
• Select Home in the global navigation bar. All starred spaces are shown on the right.

Learn more about personal spaces

Confluence Premium: Automation for site and space admins

Admins of Confluence Premium and Confluence Enterprise can leverage automation to manage content as it scales. By creating rules in an “if this then that” format, admins can automate recurring processes that keep spaces organized and up to date.

• Confluence site admins can create and edit automation rules to run at the global or space level
• Confluence product admins can create and edit automation rules in the spaces they manage
• Confluence space admins can create and edit automation rules in the spaces they manage (this includes end users with a personal space) — unless a site admin turns off rule permissions

Confluence site admins, to open Global automation, go to Settings and select Global automation from the sidebar. Product and space admins, to open automation for a space that you manage, go to Space Settings > Automation and select Rules.

Learn more about Confluence automation

Sort resolved comments by recency

You can now sort resolved inline comments by newest and oldest order. By default comments will be sorted newest first.

Create a new team on behalf of others

Users who create a new team have the option to remove themselves as a member. Previously, any user who creates a new team becomes a member by default.

To create a new team and remove yourself as a member:

1. Select People from the top menu.
2. Select Start a team.
3. Under Invite people to your team, select X beside your name.

Indent and outdent content easier from the toolbar

The editing toolbar now includes indentation buttons, making indenting and outdenting content easier for those unfamiliar with the existing tab and shift + tab keyboard shortcuts.

You can use the buttons to indent the following content:

• Top-level paragraphs and headings
• Bullet lists
• Numbered lists
• Task lists

Learn more about indenting content in Confluence Cloud

Copy content with ease via the floating toolbar

We’ve updated the floating toolbar experience within the editor. The floating toolbar now includes a copy button, which makes copying page elements easier than ever!

You can use the button to copy the following content:

• Tables
• Panels
• Expands
• Media (images & video)
• Links
• Layouts
• Code snippets
• Extensions and Macros (like the Table of Contents)

Space creation refresh

The new space creation experience shows what a space will look like while you’re creating it so that you can choose the right space for you and your team. Space keys and space icons will be automatically generated for you and can be customized.

In addition, each space template has been improved with better, more relevant information and sample content.

From the top navigation, select Spaces and then Create a new space.

Discover which template was used to create a page

You can now see the template that was used to create a page in the byline next to Created by.

This improves discoverability of popular templates, enabling you to quickly get started creating your own pages.

1. Go to a page that's been created with a template
2. Hover over the "with a template" part of the byline to see the template name and a description
3. Select View to open the template in the template browser, then Use template to create a page with that template

View all of your tasks in one place on Confluence Home

You can now view all of your tasks in one place on Confluence Home.

Finding key tasks, staying updated, and closing the loop on action items has never been easier.

Review your tasks conveniently on your homepage via a new “Task” option on the left-hand side.

You can use new categories to filter and find tasks. Selecting one or more users for the “Creator” filter will display tasks assigned to you by specific people, and the “Due Date” filter allows you to find tasks that are due within a specific time frame.

You can also combine filters to pinpoint tasks with greater precision. Use the new sorting features to sort alphabetically or by due date.

Marking a task complete will automatically check it off on its respective Confluence page. You can also select or click on the title of the source page of a task to get more contextual information.

Although checking off a task will remove it from your task list, you can always use the “Status” filter for completed tasks to see what you’ve finished in the past.

Use different accounts without logging on/off

We’re implementing site-scoped sessions for our users on Jira Software, Confluence, Jira Service Management, Jira Work Management, Jira Product Discovery, and Compass.

You can now use different accounts to access different sites at the same time, without needing to switch accounts or use different browsers.

For example, let’s say you have a personal Confluence site and a company Confluence site. With scoped sessions, you can use account A to access your personal Confluence site and account B to access your company Confluence site - at the same time, in the same browser.

Add excerpts to your page with ease via dropdown menu

The Excerpt Include macro now allows you to select your desired excerpt using a dropdown menu, once you've specified its source page.

When you insert the Excerpt Include macro, enter the name of the source page containing the excerpt you're looking for, as usual.

You'll then be able to use the dropdown menu to select the excerpt by name and add it to your page.

Introducing the newly upgraded Daily Digest

The Daily Digest email, an overview of updates on the pages and blogs that matter to you, has a fresh new look.

The Daily Digest now offers a richer, more detailed snapshot of updates about new page or blog creation, and comments, reactions, and edits to pages and blogs that you watch and/or collaborate on. You can now opt to review a page’s version history directly from the email.

Updates about new comments and reactions across your workflow will appear in the digest in tandem with individual notification emails that are sent out separately.

In May 2023, we plan to stop sending individual emails about newly created pages to users who subscribe to the daily digest. Our goal is to help cut down on inbox overwhelm. However, if you’d prefer to keep receiving individual alerts about newly created pages, along with the digest, you’ll be able to mark that preference in your email settings.

Announcing Bitbucket Cloud Workspaces

Workspaces is replacing Team and User accounts to provide a single default user experience for how you collaborate across your organization. Along with providing you a workspace, we also moved your personal settings, previously known as Bitbucket settings, to your profile and settings icon menu. Learn more

Users can add a .gitignore file when creating a new repository

You can now add a .gitignore file when creating a new repository, so common large file types (that don’t usually belong in a repository) will not be retrieved or displayed - meaning those files will not be added to the repository. By default, the Include .gitignore option is set to "Yes".

Updated navigation experience and single workspace view

We have made some updates to our current global navigation, as well as scoped the top navigation bar to one workspace so you can stay focused on the work within a single workspace. Other navigation bar improvements consist of direct access to the Pull requests page, the People tab which takes you directly to your workspace members directory, and the Settings cog where all your personal settings are now consolidated. This is also where you can access Bitbucket Labs, and if you are a workspace administrator, you will access your Workspace settings from here as well. Remember that your workspace settings are now scoped to a single workspace. For more information on the changes to Bitbucket Cloud's global navigation, refer to Improving navigation for Bitbucket users.

Note: If you need to switch workspaces, select Your profile avatar in the upper-right corner of the top navigation bar and either select a workspace from the list of Recent workspaces or select All workspaces to open a list of all the workspace in which you are a member.

Project permissions are here. Now you can grant access across all repos in a project

We will be incrementally rolling out project permissions over the next few weeks. Project permissions allows admins to grant access to all repositories, old and new, within a project without having to manage each repository individually. Projects have four hierarchical levels of permissions: Admin, Create, Write, Read. Each permission in the hierarchy includes all permissions below it. For example, ‘Admin’ includes ‘Create, Write, and Read’ and ‘Create’ includes ‘Write and Read’.

For more information on project permissions in Bitbucket Cloud, refer to our community post.

Syntax highlighting is now available

We are incrementally releasing a beta version of syntax highlighting for your diffs. Once this feature is available, you can enable Syntax highlighting in Bitbucket Labs, by going directly to this feature in Labs: Go to Labs. You can also access Bitbucket Labs via the Settings dropdown menu and enable the feature there. Thank you to all of you for your input on this feature and your patience as we've worked to get it implemented in Bitbucket Cloud. For more detailed information about syntax highlighting, refer to our community post.

Use different accounts without logging on/off

We’re implementing site-scoped sessions for our users on Jira Software, Confluence, Jira Service Management, Jira Work Management, Jira Product Discovery, and Compass.

You can now use different accounts to access different sites at the same time, without needing to switch accounts or use different browsers.

For example, let’s say you have a personal Confluence site and a company Confluence site. With scoped sessions, you can use account A to access your personal Confluence site and account B to access your company Confluence site - at the same time, in the same browser.