Atlassian Cloud changes Apr 24 to May 1, 2023

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 Administration

Atlassian Administration is where you manage your Atlassian organization, including user access to products, security settings, and billing preferences.

Take control of your domain’s user accounts

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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

More flexible product access for organization admins

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As part of our improvements to centralize your user management experience, we’re introducing changes to the organization admin role and site-admins group.

These changes only apply to new organizations you create (for example, when trialing a new product). We won’t change anything about how you have configured your existing site-admins group today.

Whenever you assign someone the organization admin role, they will no longer automatically get a product access role for every product in your organization. This means organization admins won’t count towards your bill unless you:

  • explicitly assign them a role that gives product access (the user, user (agent) or product admin roles);
  • put them into a group that assigns one of these roles; or
  • add a product access role to the org-admins group.

To better align the site-admins group with these improvements, we’re also renaming it to org-admins.

To make someone an organization admin:

  1. Go to admin.atlassian.com. Select your organization if you have more than one.
  2. Select Directory > Users.
  3. Find a user, then select their avatar or Show details.
  4. From the 3 dot icon at the top-left of the page, select Assign organization role.
  5. Select Assign role.

To assign product roles to an organization admin:

  1. From the organization admin’s user details screen, select Grant access
  2. Select one or more roles from the Product roles column.
  3. Select Grant access.

Prevent users from inviting anyone to your products

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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

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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

Manage product access for your users from a centralized location

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We’re rolling out changes to the navigation and experience when you manage Users and Groups in admin.atlassian.com. You’ll now manage product access for users and groups globally – from your organization’s admin – instead of from your site’s admin. How you do everything else in Atlassian Administration remains the same.

As part of this change, we're deprecating the site admin and trusted user roles in the centralized user management.

All organization and site admins will get an email with a CSV to download outlining the role changes that are specific to your organization. You’ll get this as soon as the centralized user management has been rolled out to your organization.

Review any role changes in this CSV and, if needed, modify product access roles in Atlassian Administration.

To assign a product role:

  1. Go to admin.atlassian.com. Select your organization if you have more than one.
  2. Select Directory > Users.
  3. Select a user.
  4. Select Grant access to view a list of products the user doesn’t have access to.
  5. From the Product roles dropdown for a Product, select a product role.
  6. Select Grant access.

To remove a product role:

  1. Select the user’s name to open their details page.
  2. Under Products, find the product you want to remove access to and select the More menu (⋯).
  3. Select Remove product access. This removes the user from all groups that grant access to that product.

Data residency in Singapore

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We’re launching data residency in Singapore to allow you to control where your data is stored. It ensures compliance with data protection regulations and enhances data security.
Singapore marks the fifth region of our expansion, following Germany, the USA, Europe, and Australia.

We're adding Singapore to the list of supported locations in phases, we aim for it to be 100% rolled out to all of our customers by June 2023.

To schedule a data residency move for Singapore:

  1. Go to admin.atlassian.com. Select your organization if you have more than one.
  2. Select Security > Data residency.
  3. In the data residency table, select Move product.
  4. Go to Select location, you can select Singapore as the location.

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.

Bug fixes to team-managed issues in backlog

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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.

Add status while creating an issue

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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

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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.

Preview smart links by hovering over them

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You no longer need to open another tab to see what’s behind a smart link! Now preview smart links, including links to other issues or Confluence pages, by just hovering over them. To try it out, go to an issue with a smart link and hover over it.

Command palette available in Jira labs

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Early access to Jira's command palette is coming to Jira labs on your Personal settings page. Simply opt in and try out the new experience. Share any feedback you have, to help us make it the best it can be.

Once you've opted in, you'll be able to use your keyboard to quickly find and update issues, navigate around Jira, and switch between themes. Open the command palette from anywhere in Jira by using command(⌘) + K for Apple devices or ctrl + K for Windows devices.

To get started with this change, go to:

  1. Settings > Personal
  2. Scroll down to find Jira labs
  3. Toggle ON the Command Palette.

Sites using custom email domains: batched notifications now available

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Do your Jira notifications come from a custom email address, like myproject@mydomain.com?

You may get notifications when someone adds a comment on an issue or completes a work log entry. These actions tend to happen in short bursts, with a few small, individual changes added to an issue within minutes of each other.

Now, instead of sending one email per change, Jira will consolidate individual updates into a single summary email.

To make sure relevant updates are batched together, notifications could be delayed by up to 10 minutes. Important notifications will come through immediately, like mentions and newly assigned issues.

Use different accounts without logging on/off

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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 watchers to an issue while you're creating it

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You can now add watchers to an issue before you hit Create. Any watchers you add to an issue will get the usual notifications throughout that issue's lifecycle.

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

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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.

Site Import: user migration options will no longer be available

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We’re discontinuing user migration options for Server to Cloud migrations using Site Import: Merge with existing cloud users and Overwrite existing cloud users. You'll need to use the Jira Cloud Migration Assistant to migrate users.

Learn how to migrate users and groups with Jira Cloud Migration Assistant

New 'Team' custom field in Jira

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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

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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,

OAuth upgrade for Microsoft email servers

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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.

No more accidentally removing fields from request forms

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Adding fields to the issue view automatically removed any field already in the request form upon saving any changes. Now, when you select Save changes in the issue view, you'll see a warning modal to confirm this action before any fields are removed.

Learn more about configuring request forms and issue views.

Automation: Create lookup table action

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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.

Productionisation: 'Made for you' in Project create

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When a Product Manager, Project Manager or someone from a service-type team creates a project in any Jira product, we’ll recommend templates that are relevant and useful, from Jira Service Management or Jira Product Discovery.

We have Jira Service Management templates that are designed for managing incidents, taking service requests from internal teams, or triaging work. And we have Jira Product Discovery templates that are designed for capturing and prioritising ideas and work. So we’ll now recommend these more relevant templates, rather than Jira Software templates.

All project templates will be visible for all users, but people will see different, default template recommendations based on the team they tell us they belong to during their onboarding.

Jira Service Management and Jira Product Discovery are not included in your Jira Software account, so people will need to add the product(s), they’re both available to try for free, in order to access the templates. Only admins can add Jira Service Management or Jira Product Discovery. Some end users can ‘request’ to add it via their admin.

Learn more about Jira templates

Jira automation: Get input from users when a Manual automation is triggered

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More changes to Manual trigger rules in Jira automation! When configuring a Manual rule, you now have the option to request input from users before the rule runs.

This allows you to configure input fields, which will pop up when a user triggers the rule. These input fields can also be mandatory, and you can reference the user’s input with smart values in other components of your rule.

To give this a try:

  1. Configure an automation rule
    • For project automation, go to Project settings > Automation
    • For global automation go to Jira settings > Global automation
  2. Select Manual trigger.
  3. Select the Prompt for input when this rule is triggered checkbox.

Jira Software

Destination branch for pull requests in the development dialog

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The Pull requests tab in the development dialog now shows the destination branch (as well as the source branch) for pull requests, so you're always clear on what's changing.

The Build tab has also been updated to use expandable sections so you can quickly find what you're after.

To open the development dialog, go to an issue with linked development work and select an activity (for example, 2 pull requests).

Team-managed projects: Add a comment when flagging issues

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When you flag an issue, this tells your team that it’s important and needs attention. In case your teammates need more context, we’ve added the ability to add a comment when adding or removing flags.

To try it out, right-click on an issue in your board or backlog, and select Add flag.

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

Move data between sites with cloud-to-cloud migration

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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

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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

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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.

Start your first project faster

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Creating a new Jira site is now simpler and smoother. When you’re creating your first project, some settings have been preselected and moved under More details, and it’s also quicker to choose a different template.

Jira Roadmaps - Resize the issue view

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Your issue details panel in the project roadmap is now resizable.

To change the size of your issue view, click and drag you panel to however wide you want it to be.

Advanced Roadmaps New Sidebar Navigation

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We're trying a new navigation design for Advanced Roadmaps that'll make it look and feel more like the rest of Jira Software.

The key change is that the navigation menu in Advanced Roadmaps now lives on the left side of your screen, and has similar functionalities as the nav found in projects and boards.

Read more about these changes in our community post.

Advanced Roadmaps - Toggle the Auto-scheduler off

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Do you use the Auto-scheduler function in Advanced Roadmaps? If you don't, and you want that bit of screen space back, you can disable it in your plan.

To disable it, head to the Auto-scheduler section on the Plan settings page.

Advanced Roadmaps - New grouping options in the Dependency report

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When viewing the Dependency report in Advanced Roadmaps, you can now group issues' dependencies by Project or by Epic.

Expandable sections added to the development dialog

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We've used your feedback to help improve the development dialog in the issue view.

Instead of switching between code tools one at a time in the Branches, Commits and Pull requests tabs, now everything's listed on one screen in expandable sections to help you quickly find what you need.

The source branch also now appears next to each pull request for easy tracking.

To open the development dialog, go to an issue with linked development work and select an activity (for example, 2 pull requests or 1 branch).

Changes to epic fields in company-managed projects

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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

Improved colors in epic and version panels

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We’ve updated colors in the epic and version panels to better match Jira’s light and dark themes. You’ll notice a more accessible and visually appealing experience when hovering over and selecting cards.

New check to identify invalid filters in your projects before you run a migration

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The check to find invalid filters in your projects will reduce the chances of migration failure and help you run a smooth migration. We’ll outline the steps to take to remove invalid filters from your migration and give you a CSV file to download that lists the affected projects.

To view this check:

  1. Go to your Jira instance.
  2. Select Settings > System.
  3. Under IMPORT AND EXPORT, select Migrate cloud site.
  4. Under Create and manage your migrations, select Go to dashboard.
  5. Select Create a new migration and follow the steps.

If the projects selected for migration contain invalid filters, they will show up on the Check for conflicts screen as Some projects contain invalid filters.

Burndown chart tooltip and summary info for issues that aren't estimated.

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When no issues are estimated at the start of a sprint, you can now view helpful information on the burndown chart's summary and tooltip.

The summary will let you know how many issues need estimation.

The tooltip will show you how many issues with no estimates exist on a specific date.

Select the Insights button and scroll to the burndown chart. Underneath the Sprint burndown title, you'll find the summary to see how many issues you need to estimate. Hover over specific dates on the chart for a tooltip on how many issues with no estimates exist on that date.

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.

Replace the workflow of a request type with a workflow from outside your current project

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Earlier this year we released the ability to replace the workflow and issue type of any of your request types with another workflow or issue type within your current project.

We're now updating this feature so that you can access workflows from any project on your Jira Service Management site.

When you replace the workflow of a request type, we'll bulk move all your existing issues to the new workflow, and ask you to select new statuses for any current statuses that don't exist in the new workflow.

Head to your Project settings, then Request types, then select the 'more' menu (...) on one of your request types to check it out.

Learn more about replacing workflows

Updates to how you create projects in Jira

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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

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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.

Updated project creation experience

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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)

Jira Service Management: new unified authentication experience at your help center

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Introducing Jira Service Management’s new unified authentication experience at your help center — combined login and signup into a single page to provide a direct, dynamic, and contextual path for your new and existing customers to get help or send requests faster. Learn more

Embed request forms, portals and articles into Confluence or Jira

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Use embeddable Jira Service Management links to let your customers raise requests, view a portal and read help articles right from Confluence or Jira.

You can now simply copy and paste the URL of a request form, a portal page and/or a knowledge base article to embed them into a Confluence page or Jira issue. Customers or employees can then raise requests, read help articles or access the portal without having to go to the help center.

When you’ve pasted the required link into Confluence or Jira, it displays as an inline link by default. To change how it is displayed, select the link and choose the appropriate display option (URL, inline, card, or embed) from the floating toolbar that appears.

Customers and employees will be able to view and access all request forms, articles and portal pages that they have permission to view and access in the help center.

Updated empty queue illustration

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We've updated the illustration that appears when a queue is empty in projects where no work categories have been enabled. This is in response to customer feedback that when new projects are created, they land in the queues screen with no context of where they are or what they need to do next.

The updated illustration includes:

  • Brief text explaining how queues work
  • A link to a help article to learn more about queues
  • A button that launches the 'Create issue' screen.

New automation action: Restart Virtual Machine in Azure

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When this action is executed, the selected Virtual Machine in Microsoft Azure will be restarted by Atlassian Automation.

Learn more about restarting Virtual Machines in Microsoft Azure

Jira Work Management

Get an aggregated view of multiple business projects

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Overviews are collections of projects that help you get a high-level and aggregated view of work spanning across multiple business projects.

We know that it's uncommon for many business teams to be working on only one project and it can be hard to stay on top of your work when it's spread across multiple projects. Now you can create an overview to get a holistic view of your or your team's work.

Overviews is a cross-project planning feature for Jira Work Management that’s only available for:

1. Jira Service Management Cloud Premium and Enterprise licences
2. Jira Software Cloud Premium and Enterprise licences

There are a few reasons you may want to create an overview:

  • To get an aggregated view of work spanning across multiple Jira Work Management projects
  • To understand dependencies between work that’s happening in separate business projects
  • To get visibility over your teams' workload and to make sure that work is equally and correctly distributed across your team to ensure your projects are properly resourced
  • To get a holistic view of how work is being prioritized, the status of all items, and the different types of work.

Learn more about managing project overviews.

Jira Work Management - Confluence linked page in list view

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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.

Changes to epic fields in company-managed projects

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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

Add Mentioned Links to List View

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You’ll automatically be able to view mentioned pages in the issue view in Jira Work Management. This means not only will you see any linked confluence pages but also those pages where the issue has been mentioned.
Deleting a mentioned page won’t remove the mention of the issue but simply remove it from your issue view in Jira Work Management.

Jira Product Discovery

Preview smart links by hovering over them

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You no longer need to open another tab to see what’s behind a smart link! Now preview smart links, including links to other issues or Confluence pages, by just hovering over them. To try it out, go to an issue with a smart link and hover over it.

Use different accounts without logging on/off

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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

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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.

Confluence

Confluence Cloud Theme Selector - Light, Dark, and System themes are here!

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You will now have Theme as a new option on the user profile menu.

This lets you select a theme from these options: Light, Dark, System, or Original (the current default Confluence theme).

To check if you have access to themes, click your profile menu in the top right of your screen, select Theme, and choose your preferred theme.

Express yourself with reactions

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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

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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

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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

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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

Sort resolved comments by recency

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

Format table cells from the floating toolbar

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When creating and formatting tables, many users gravitate to the floating toolbar to access format options. As such, we've now made it possible to select cell background colors, merge or split cells, distribute columns (and more!) from the floating toolbar underneath your table.

Learn more

Create a new team on behalf of others

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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

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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

Connections Panel for supported macros and tables

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We are adding a Manage Connections button to the Table toolbar for tables and macros that support referentiality. This lets users connect a table as a data source to a macro such as a pivot table or a data visualization. In addition to our native macros, this feature will also support the development of Connect macros that will introduce more functionality.

For more, please see our Community post.

To try out the basic functions:

  1. Create a table and add data.
  2. Click the table to show the floating toolbar.
  3. Click the Manage connected data button.
  4. Set your data source and macro options in the right-side panel.
  5. Edit the data and watch your macro update in real time.

Use different accounts without logging on/off

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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.

Introducing the newly upgraded Daily Digest

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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.

Export spaces to CSV for cloud imports

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Single Confluence spaces can now be exported into CSV format, which is the preferred and more reliable option for re-importing to cloud sites.

XML exports should only be used to import spaces into Confluence server.

  1. Go to Space settings.
  2. Select Export space from under Manage space.
  3. From the available formats, select CSV.

Automation: Create lookup table action

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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 SettingsGlobal automation
  2. Either create a new rule, or edit an existing rule.
  3. Select the Create lookup table action.

Bitbucket

Enable admins to review 'Submitted' issues in the issue tracker

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We've added a Submitted status to Bitbucket Cloud Issues. Now, any issues created by users who are not members of the workspace will be placed in a Submitted status to ensure they are not malicious or contain spam.

Updated navigation experience and single workspace view

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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

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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.

Compass

Use different accounts without logging on/off

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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.

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