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General Availability: The New Jira Work Item View
Hey Everyone, Back in August we shared that a redesigned Jira work item view was on its way, and thank you to everyone who turned on the Beta and sent us feedback. We are moving to General Availability, with the new view rolling out from October 19, 2026, through the end of the calendar year. This is a visual refresh only.…
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SmartBear’s BearQ Agent Powers Autonomous Testing in Jira ✨
Close the loop between the code you build and the quality you ship with autonomous test authoring and execution right where your work happens. AI coding tools make it possible to write code at lightning speed, but testing is often left playing catch-up. When testing is disconnected from where work is planned, teams…
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✨ Jira dashboards are getting an upgrade - learn more
Calling all dashboard enthusiasts! Over the coming months, we’re upgrading Jira dashboards to give teams a more flexible, visual way to understand work, spot risks, and share progress across Atlassian. For years, Jira dashboards have helped teams keep an eye on projects, work items, and progress. But as teams rely on more…
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Jira Image of the Day: Keeping Up With the Atlassians
Concept Relates To Application Type Jira, Jira Service Management, Jira Product Discovery, Confluence, Platform apps, and more Deployment Type Jira Cloud, Jira Data Center What is shown? A public list of the latest and upcoming Cloud and Data Center changes. Visit: https://www.atlassian.com/roadmap What can we learn? While…
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📣 Upcoming: Modernised Software boards in Jira (Company-Managed spaces)
Hi Atlassian community! We’re excited to announce that we’ve officially kicked off the Early Access Program (EAP) for the modernised Jira board for company-Managed spaces. Here we’ll cover off the upcoming changes to the board experience and how you can sign-up for early access. We're keen to invite 2-3 customers in the…
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Preview Panels will soon replace the detail view in Jira’s Global Search and List views
Hello Atlassian Community 👋 We’re excited to announce a more convenient and efficient experience to preview your work in Jira. A new preview panel experience is coming to Jira’s global search and List views that will replace the detail view. ⏱️ A more efficient way to preview work quickly Previewing work and related…
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Upcoming Changes to Software Boards in Team-Managed Spaces
Update Aug 2026 Hi everyone, We're pleased to announce that the modernised Jira board is now GA and rolled out to the vast majority of team-managed Software boards! Read about this in our Summer Release blog post. Thank you to everyone who's left feedback - this has been valuable and allowed us to ship a number of…
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Jira release readiness is a mess
You know how it all goes before the big release that includes bug fixes, new features, UI improvements and complete revamp of your whole application. Alignment with engineering, QA, design, marketing going back and fourth with meetings and piling Confluence pages doesn't lead anywhere. It's stuck and the time is running.…
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Introducing the new, streamlined Create experience in Jira
Hi Jira Community, We're updating how work items are created in Jira Cloud through the Global Issue Create button and wanted to give you a heads up on what’s changing. Why this change? Today, creating a work item from Jira Cloud’s top navigation Global Issue Create (GIC) button opens the large full form create screen. Over…
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Introducing Rovo Search for Jira
Update 3rd December 2025 Hi all, again thanks for the feedback on this post and via in app feedback. I am reaching out to people who have submitted in app feedback and have left contact details. So if you have commented on this post and would like to talk to me please use the 'Give feedback' link in search. Noted on the…
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The new issue transition screen toggle - choosing your experience (new vs old)
Hi everyone, Thank you for your patience while we worked through your feedback on the new transition experience within Jira. We've heard your concerns, and we want to share a new toggle that allows you to switch experiences. You can choose your screen We have now rolled out this experience. From now on you'll be able to…
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Now GA - try the new issue transition experience in Jira!
Update on October 23, 2024Thank you, community, for your feedback and comments on this post. To address the top 3 asked questions below: (1) Support for Asset field: The old transition screens will continue until the Asset field is supported on the new transition screens. (2) Shortcuts: We’re working on improving the…
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A clearer, more focused Jira work item view is coming
Hi everyone, Starting 10th August, we’re opening a Beta of the redesigned Jira work item view: the screen your teams use every day to view and update work. The redesign brings your most important actions and information front and center, reduces the steps to get common tasks done, and makes the overall experience clearer…
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Upcoming: Unified, More Powerful Timeline for Jira Software Spaces
We’re excited to announce a major upgrade to the Jira Software project timeline. Soon, you’ll experience a better timeline that designed to help software teams plan, track, and deliver work with greater clarity and speed. When? We will roll this out starting in July month. What’s changing? ✅ Display all levels including…
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Jira Snippet Library: JQL - Simplifying Complex Queries
JQL queries combine multiple clauses, fields, operators, functions, values, and keywords to help us filter work quickly and with precision. But sometimes, we ask Jira to do too much. If queries are too complex, Jira may have trouble determining which data is included. Further, it might not be able to check the needed user…
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🚀 Introducing Jira Planner: now in early access
We're excited to share that Jira Planner is now open for Early Access. It's the missing layer between what your team decides to build and how your agents execute it, guiding you from a rough idea to a structured, agent-ready plan without ever leaving Jira. Jira Planner is particularly useful for tech leads, senior…
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Shenandoah GC myth or reality on the production ?
Hi awesome community, Today I would like to share with you so small topic about usage Garbage Collectors in production (GC Strategies). At the moment, most popular in Hotspot JVM is G1 GC, after CMS and rising star is Shenandoah GC. So in this topic I will describe how to migrate to Shenandoah GC. If you already on…
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Jira Snippet Library: JQL - Hierarchy
In Jira Cloud Free and Standard plans, Epic is the highest level of hierarchy. But if you have Jira Premium or Enterprise, you can add additional custom levels. You can add levels above the Epic but not levels below it. The Sub-task level will always be the lowest. As an application-level administrator, access the…
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Jira Snippet Library: JQL - For Boards
Board Queries and Subqueries A board is a status-based view of items. Items on a board are determined by one main JQL query. Items can be further organized using optional swimlane queries or quick filter subqueries. A swimlane is a horizontal grouping of items on a board. A quick filter is a one-click segmenting function…
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Jira Snippet Library: JQL - For Dashboards
Queries For Dashboards As a project manager, owner, or team lead, it’s often your job to ensure work is measurable in Jira. But without important data, like assignees, estimates, and due dates, reports are often blank or useless. Instead, I create dashboards to alert me to undesired data conditions. E.g., Work has started…
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Out with the old (workflow editor) and in with the new (workflow editor)
Hello Jira Admins, It’s been a long time coming, but today I can announce a major milestone in Jira Cloud: after years of development and feedback, the New Workflow Editor now matches the capabilities of the old editor. You can fully configure your workflows including all the rules, transitions, and properties you love.…
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Jira Snippet Library: JQL - Plans
A Jira Plan is a multi-space planning and forecasting feature available in Jira Cloud Premium and Enterprise. Use them as another way to view work in progress, to plan and schedule future items for teams to work on, and to model if-then scenarios before selecting a specific path. Data Source All plans have a scope which…
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Introducing Individual Capacity Planning in Jira — Live for premium and enterprise.
Individual Capacity Planning is now live for Jira Premium and Enterprise!! Hi Community, We have made significant updates since the EAP so check out the launch notes to see what’s new, and get started using our demo video or written steps here. You can also try out the in preview Capacity Planning API. Please share your…
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Stop exporting your work to figure it out. Jira now does it for you.
Hi Community! We just shipped a batch of updates to Jira that we're really excited about, especially if your team has been managing capacity, budgets, or reporting outside of Jira. When your plans, people, and calculations live alongside the work itself, everyone stays aligned, the data stays current, and your teams and AI…
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Jira Image of the Day: Your Application’s Release Tracks
Concept Relates To Application Type Jira, Jira Service Management, Jira Product Discovery, Confluence, Platform apps, and more Deployment Type Jira Cloud What is shown? Settings on the Release tracks administration page. Visit: admin.atlassian.com > Apps > Release management (Under “Platform experiences” header) > Release…