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

Secure your organization’s data with data security policies

We’re introducing data security policies to help protect your organization’s data. Right now, a data security policy can prevent data exports in Confluence.

For example, an organization that stores sensitive financial information in Confluence may want to prevent employees from exporting pages. An organization admin can create and activate a data security policy, which will prevent users from being able to export any Confluence page to PDF or Word files.

We’re still working on data security policies, so keep an eye out for new functionality in the future.

Learn more about data security policies

 To create and activate a data security policy:

1. Go to admin.atlassian.com. Select your organization if you have more than one.
2. Select Security > Data security policies.
3. Select Create policy.

You’ll then be able to configure what data your policy will cover and add rules to protect that data.

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

Protect your product data with external user security

We’re giving you the ability to control external user access to your organization’s products.

These are your available external user security settings:

• Two-step verification
• API token access

To try out external user security:

1. Go to admin.atlassian.com. Select your organization if you have more than one.
2. Select Security > External users.

More flexible product access for organization admins

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.

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

Delegate the responsibility of managing users with our new admin role

We’re giving you more flexibility to delegate administrative tasks to other people with the new user access admin role.

This new role allows you to assign specific people to manage product access for your organization’s users from admin.atlassian.com on a per product basis. This means you can have one person managing your users' access to Confluence and a different person for Jira.

User access admins have limited access to Atlassian Administration, so you can delegate tasks without granting full organization admin permissions. The user access admin role doesn’t give any product access, so users won’t count towards your bill (unless they’re assigned another role that gives product access).

Learn more about the user access admin role

To assign someone the user access admin 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 Add products to view a list of products the user doesn’t have access to.
5. From the Product roles dropdown for a Product, select User access admin.
6. Select Grant.

If the user already has a role for the product, assign the role by selecting User access admin next to the product under Products.

You can also assign the user access admin role in the same way you assign any other product roles – by adding the user to a group that contains that product role or assigning the role when you invite a new user to your organization.

Data residency in Singapore

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.

Connect Microsoft Azure AD to Atlassian with an option that works for you

When you connect your Microsoft Azure AD identity provider to an Atlassian organization, you now have two options.

Option 1: Manually set up user provisioning

Recommended when you need:

• flexibility in setting up your Microsoft Azure Active Directory identity provider with SCIM and SAML
• to sync groups and users with no flattening of nested group structure
• to sync when you add users to your Azure AD

Learn how to add an identity provider for this option

Option 2: Automatically set up user provisioning

Recommended when you need:

• easy set up by allowing access to groups and users in your Microsoft Azure Active Directory
• to flatten your nested group structure and keep group memberships
• to sync automatically (every 4 hours)

Learn more about Azure AD for nested groups

To connect your identity provider:
1. Go to admin.atlassian.com. Select your organization if you have more than one.
2. Select Security > Identity providers.

Learn more about identity providers

Release notes are now easier to scan on Release tracks

Get a concise view of the release notes for products on Release tracks. When you select Next release or Last release in the release tracks table, you’ll see a list of release notes that also link to Product updates. This makes it easier for you to access the most up-to-date release information, including images/gifs, so you can dive deeper into the changes that affect you.

Learn more about managing product releases with Release tracks
Learn more about keeping up with Atlassian changes to products

Quick search: Filter by label

We've added a label filter to quick search, allowing you to further refine your search results and quickly find the work you need. Learn more about using quick search

To filter your results:

1. Select Search in the navigation bar (or press / on your keyboard).
2. Type your search query.
3. Use the Filter by label filter to find and select the label you want to see results for.

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.

Searching for issues just got faster in Jira Cloud

We’ve modernized, optimized, and redesigned the way you search for issues. With features like smart syntax highlighting and enhanced autocomplete, the new JQL editor lets you build powerful queries for accurate search results. Configure and reorder columns to see what’s most important to you. Learn more about the new issue search in Jira Cloud

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.

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.

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.

Site Import: user migration options will no longer be available

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

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,

Control what you see in your products

Product recommendations now have controls, so now you can dismiss them or learn more about why you’re seeing them. These controls are being added to the recommendations in the app switcher menu which means you'll have more control and receive better product recommendations.

You can select the three dots next to the recommendation to learn why we have recommended it or to dismiss it entirely.

The recommendation controls will first be released to both Free and Standard teams of up to 50 users. Note: Only admins will be able to add a new product by clicking on the recommendation.

Replace workflow using a template

We've introduced a new way to change the workflow of a request type. You can now replace the current workflow with a new workflow from the Request types screen. The workflow has the following statuses: TO DO, IN PROGRESS, PENDING, DONE. You can add more statuses to this workflow after adding it.

To replace a workflow of a request type with a new workflow:

1. Go to Project settings, then select Request types.
2. Next to the request type select More (•••).
3. Under Workflow, select Replace with new.

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.

Make quick edits to cards on the board

We’re rolling out a new feature that allows edits to be made directly to cards on the board without needing to open them up into a full screen view.

The 4 fields that are currently rolling out with this functionality are: summary, parent (epic), estimate, and assignee. Just click on the field you’d like to edit and it will become editable, there’s no preparation needed.

SLA success rate will be 100% for time periods when no issues are created

Thanks to feedback from customers, we learned that the SLA success rate is currently reported as 0.0% for time periods when there are no issues created which isn't the expected result.

Now that we've fixed it, the SLA success rate for time periods when no issues are created will be reported as 100% instead of 0.0%.

Attachments now available in forms

Collect all kinds of attachments from your customers using the new attachment field in forms. Attachments can be documents, images, or video files.

Your customers can browse to upload files when filling out this field in their form.

These attachments will appear both in the form itself for full context, and under Attachments in the portal and issue view with all other attachments for quick and easy access.

Learn more about how fields work in forms.

Update to the create issue mini window

We've updated the look and feel of the create issue mini window.

Next time you're creating an issue, you can use the icons on the top right of your issue to exit full screen and use the re-designed mini window. You can also click the background outside the issue you're creating to exit the full screen view.

With the mini window, you'll be able to create work in context and navigate your project without losing progress on your new issue.

Smart queries in quick search are now optional

Smart query is a feature that allows you to find issues through shorthand notation when using quick search. Learn more about using smart queries

Previously, you were unable to turn this off and would need to edit your search query if the results were not what you intended. To improve this experience, we've made smart queries optional for all users.

By default, smart queries will be turned off. To turn them on:

1. In the top right corner of your Jira site, select Settings > Personal settings
2. Scroll down to Jira labs > Quick search smart queries
3. Select the toggle to enable smart queries

Improved attachment management on issues with over 150 attachments

We’ve improved your experience when dealing with issues that have large numbers of attachments.

Now, when an issue has over 150 attachments, attachments will be automatically displayed as a list.

In this list view, you’ll be able to upload and delete attachments, download a single attachment, and download all the attachments on the issue at once.

Learn more about adding attachments to issues.

Developers can now quickly determine what to work on next with automated suggestions

When you're in the middle of a sprint and you finish a task, it can be hard to know exactly what to do next. Automated suggestions from connected tools are specifically chosen for you based on work on your board. This will help you decide which tasks to do next and keep momentum. This is an alpha release available in team-managed projects.

1. Go to your Jira board and select your avatar.
2. What to work on panel will slide open with your customized suggestions. Hover over any of the suggestions to see tooltips with more information.
3. Select the call to action if you want to work on the suggestion.

Streamlined product access and licensing for users assigned the customer role

In this update, your users will receive the appropriate product license when they access your site if the settings in your organization's approved domain have:

• Customer role for Jira Service Management
• User role for any other Jira products (for example Jira Software, Jia Work Management), and no admin approval is required

This streamlined process directs the user to the relevant Jira product, rather than the Jira Service Management portal, enhancing overall user experience. Learn more about configuring user access settings

Quick search: Spelling suggestions

We're improving how you find work in Jira by introducing search suggestions in quick search. Now, if a query seems incorrect or misspelled, quick search will suggest corrected or alternative spelling for your search.

Learn more about using quick search

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.

Get the detailed summary of your migration with steps to fix the problems

The post migration report provides details about your migration, including descriptions of any problems with Jira entities and steps you can take to fix them. You can use the information to take corrective actions or share it with the support team for quicker resolutions. 

We’ll give you a .zip file to download that lists two CSV files:

• Requires Attention - A detailed report of what’s been migrated, partially moved, or unsupported, along with the next steps. 
• Summary - A summary of the entities included in the migration, how many were successfully migrated, and how many were not. These reports can help you quickly verify the status of your migration and make informed decisions.

The report is generated after every migration and you can download it from the migration summary page.

Advanced Roadmaps - New navigation

Advanced Roadmaps has a new look that makes it look and feel more like the rest of Jira Software.

To state it simply, the nav now lives on the left-hand side. This new layout opens Advanced Roadmaps up to a whole new world of designs and new features (whoops, not sure if I was supposed to say that 🤭).

Even though this is rollout to all users, we'd still love to hear your thoughts about how it effects your work, or your ideas for improvements. Use the Give feedback button which is still located in the upper right of your screen.

If you opted in the Early Access Program from last month, you won't notice a change. However, this layout is now the new default view for Advanced Roadmaps and can no longer be disabled.

Read more about these changes in our community post.

Advanced Roadmaps - Create issues in workflows that require validation steps from your timeline

Customers with workflows that include validation steps can now create issues from their Advanced Roadmaps timeline.

Previously, the issue creation function would fail if your workflow included validation steps. With this change, Advanced Roadmaps opens a modal allowing you to complete the required steps to create an issue from your timeline.

This feature relates to the Jira Feature Request ticket: Cannot create issues when required fields are configured in workflow validator rather than field configuration

"Create child issue" from all level 1 hierarchy issues

All issue types at the 1 level now show the Add a child issue button in the issue view. This replaces the Create subtask button on custom issue types.

Learn more in our community post.

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

Improved colors in epic and version panels

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.

Make simple bulk edits to issues in the backlog

You can now make bulk edits to priority, assignee, labels, and estimate all from the backlog.

To select a group of issues, hold "shift" while you select the issues. To select multiple issues, one at a time, hold "command" (for Apple devices) or "control" (for Windows devices) while you select each issue.

Right-click on any of the selected issues and choose the bulk action you'd like to perform. You can perform these actions on up to 50 issues at a time.

Advanced Roadmaps - Use team-managed projects in your plan

Add team-managed projects to your new and existing Advanced Roadmaps plans!

This feature relates to the Add support for EPICs from Team Managed projects into Advanced Roadmaps feature request ticket.

Advanced Roadmaps - New filters and minor improvements in dependency report

We've made some small improvements to the dependency report! You can now filter by Project or Sprint as well as Group by Sprint.

There's also been a small design update to make it look more fancy!

Company-managed projects: New and improved context menu in the board and backlog

We’ve refreshed the contextual menu for issues in your board and backlog. Related actions are grouped together so they’re easier to find, and you can now open the menu by right-clicking on an issue.

View the contextual menu by going to your board or backlog, and right-clicking on an issue.

Increasing the visibility of the create issue mini window

We want to help people discover the new create issue mini window, which has recently been re-designed. We’ll open the mini window by default the next time you create an issue.

It’s easy to switch back to full screen with the icons on the top right of the mini window. We’ll remember the state you prefer for the next time you create an issue after that.

However, we encourage people to try using the mini window. It has significantly more flexibility than the full screen window as you can move around your instance and interact with other issues without losing progress on the issue you're creating.

Show and hide sections in the releases feature

We've heard some people like more space to look over related work or issues for their release. So we've made the release description, related work, and issue sections collapsible.

That means you can hide one section away so the others get more room (or hide them all at once, we won't judge).

To get started:
1. From your project's sidebar, go to Releases.
2. Select a release from the list.
3. Next to the section's name, select the chevron to show or hide that section.

The project 'Roadmap' is now called 'Timeline'

We've changed the name of the Roadmap view in Software projects to Timeline. This change will be reflected in your project sidebar and on the view itself but does not impact the functionality. The Timeline continues to be your home for planning work, tracking progress, and mapping dependencies.

Learn more about this update

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.

Get the detailed summary of your migration with steps to fix the problems

The post migration report provides details about your migration, including descriptions of any problems with Jira entities and steps you can take to fix them. You can use the information to take corrective actions or share it with the support team for quicker resolutions. 

We’ll give you a .zip file to download that lists two CSV files:

• Requires Attention - A detailed report of what’s been migrated, partially moved, or unsupported, along with the next steps. 
• Summary - A summary of the entities included in the migration, how many were successfully migrated, and how many were not. These reports can help you quickly verify the status of your migration and make informed decisions.

The report is generated after every migration and you can download it from the migration summary page.

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)

Introducing a smart way to find similar incidents

On an incident, we’ll now show some incidents from the past that are similar to the one you’re viewing, so you can use past information to investigate and resolve the incident faster.

These results are AI-powered, so some results may not be relevant or helpful to you. To help improve results, you can give feedback by reacting 👍 or 👎 to a result.

Object schema templates for Assets

Get started quicker than ever in Assets with 3 new object schema templates - IT Assets, People, and Facilities. These templates contain a variety of use-case-relevant object types and attributes - giving you a head start to focus on building out a useful and effective database. Learn more about how to build an IT asset management database.

For more information, check out our Community post on this feature launch.

To get started using this change - select Create schema, choose your template, then start building or bringing in your objects.

Added new variables for canned responses

We’ve added two new variables - Request URL and Portal URL that you can use while creating canned responses. The details of these two variables are as follows:

Request URL - The URL of the request in the portal.

Portal URL - The portal URL, which can be seen on the Portal settings page.

Learn more about using variables in canned responses

Restore invalid issue types

If there’s a request type with an invalid issue type in your project, you can now restore the issue type from the Request types page in your Project settings.

When you select the invalid issue type, we'll let you know which issue type was previously connected to that request type. Select 'Restore' to add that issue type back to the request type.

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.

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

Increasing the visibility of the create issue mini window

We want to help people discover the new create issue mini window, which has recently been re-designed. We’ll open the mini window by default the next time you create an issue.

It’s easy to switch back to full screen with the icons on the top right of the mini window. We’ll remember the state you prefer for the next time you create an issue after that.

However, we encourage people to try using the mini window. It has significantly more flexibility than the full screen window as you can move around your instance and interact with other issues without losing progress on the issue you're creating.

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.

Display media files inline

When inserting media files onto a Confluence page, you now have the option of displaying them inline. Previously, media files always displayed as a card.

Files will display inline by default when inserted in:

• the middle of a paragraph
• a bullet/numbered list
• an action item

When inserted anywhere else, the media file will display as a card.

Once you've inserted a media file, you can switch between the two display options by clicking the media file and selecting Change view.

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

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.

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)

Transfer of page ownership between users

When a page is created, the person who creates is now known as the owner of that page. We've made it possible for page owners to transfer ownership of their page to another person at any time. Space and site admins can also transfer page ownership from one user to another.

This way, if a current page owner leaves a project, team, or company, ownership of the page can then be granted to whomever is most appropriate, and maintenance and validity of the page remains fresh.

A page owner is the ‘point person’ for a given page and their name appears in the byline, under the page title.

Learn more about page ownership and how it can be transferred

Control what you see in your products

Product recommendations now have controls, so now you can dismiss them or learn more about why you’re seeing them. These controls are being added to the recommendations in the app switcher menu which means you'll have more control and receive better product recommendations.

You can select the three dots next to the recommendation to learn why we have recommended it or to dismiss it entirely.

The recommendation controls will first be released to both Free and Standard teams of up to 50 users. Note: Only admins will be able to add a new product by clicking on the recommendation.

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.

Pick the product theme that works best for you

You can personalize the way Confluence looks to best suit your needs. The options include Light, Dark, System, or Original (the current default Confluence theme).

To check if you have access to themes:

1. Select your avatar at the top right of the global navigation bar.
2. Select Theme.
3. Choose your preferred theme.

Manage and configure your beta features

We are adding a new page in Confluence settings for product admins to manage and configure beta features. You will be able to opt into the whiteboards beta in Confluence from this page soon.

To navigate to this page, select the settings cog in the top right corner of Confluence navigation and go to Beta features in the sidebar.

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.

Bitbucket Pipelines variable description

Now you can add a variable description for your Bitbucket Pipeline by configuring the 'description' field for the variable in the bitbucket-pipelines.yml file. The variable description you have provided is displayed under the variable in the Run Pipeline dialog. Now your teammates don't need to go back and forth to the Readme in order to get this information.