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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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Jira Cloud - Total Work item size limit (500 MB)
Applies to: Jira Cloud Audience: App developers, integrators, automation owners, and teams operating automated systems or planning large migrations. Customers using Jira interactively for day-to-day work are highly unlikely to be affected. Summary Starting in November 2026, Jira Cloud is introducing a total work item size…
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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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[Free virtual event] How to balance admin governance & team agility in Jira
How do you give teams the freedom to customize how they work, without creating configuration chaos and administrative bottlenecks? You don’t have to choose between tight control and team flexibility. With the right guardrails in place, admins can protect instance health and consistency while empowering teams to confidently…
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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 Cloud work item field size and voter/watcher count limits
Summary Audience: App developers, integrators, and teams operating automated systems or planning large migrations. Customers using Jira interactively for day-to-day work are highly unlikely to be affected. Jira Cloud is enforcing limits on work item field sizes and on the number of voters and watchers per work item. These…
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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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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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Atlassian Jira/JSM/Confluence Free Tier Inactivity & Data Deletion Timeline
Estimated time to read: 5 minutes TL;DR: Atlassian deactivates inactive free Jira and Confluence sites after 40 days, providing warnings on days 26 and 33, with permanent data deletion occurring on day 55. Users can prevent deactivation through UI activity and request data restoration within 14 days of deactivation via…
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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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📣 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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✨ 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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Atlassian Answered: What is Jira? Find out more to earn a kudos badge! 💡
Do you want to learn more about Atlassian? Then take a look at our video series: Atlassian Answered ⭐️ With Atlassian Answered, the amazing @Kevin Lee answers your top questions about Atlassian in an easy to understand way. Jira is commonly used across lots of teams, but what is it? Watch Kevin’s video for an introduction!…
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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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📢 Introducing hierarchy in the All work view in project navigation!
👋 Hi Jira community! I'm Amira, a Product Manager in Jira Cloud. I am excited to announce we are bringing hierarchy to the All work view in project navigation! 🎉 This update makes it easier to visualise relationships, organise tasks, and collaborate efficiently—all without the need to switch contexts or opening a different…
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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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🚀 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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Watch ondemand: "Jira for Marketers" Community-Led Class series
We are excited to announce a new, 4-part Live Learning series “Jira for Marketers”. Led by Community Instructor and Atlassian Creator Alex Ortiz, these 60-minute courses are designed to help marketing professionals understand how they can use Jira to collaborate, align, and deliver work, all in one place. 1️⃣ Jira for…
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Jira now offers smart replies in work items
Acknowledging work or starting a conversation in Jira has just become faster and easier. Say hello to smart replies! With the touch of a button, you can add a comment to a work item and instantly save it, or use it as a starting point to type more details before saving: Work smarter, not harder Jira’s real superpower lies…
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🥇We’re merging List and All work – one powerful view for all teams
List and All Work become one We’re simplifying how you manage work in Jira. You may have noticed that List and All work have started to feel similar lately. (Good catch! You were onto something.) That’s because we’re preparing to merge List and All work views, creating one powerful, unified view for managing work items:…
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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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Linking Related Jira Work: Hierarchy, Dependencies, and JQL
This article explains how to connect related Jira work using Sub-tasks, the Parent field, and Linked work items. Understanding these relationships helps you organize work and retrieve related items with JQL. Note: The new Atlassian Community website does not currently support images or canonical links. To ensure the…
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Workflow Properties in Jira: Restricting Status Transitions to Specific Groups
Disclaimer: This is a recurring question in the Community — variations of “how do I lock this transition/status to a specific group?” come up regularly. Two tools people often confuse In the new Jira workflow editor there are two different mechanisms for controlling who can do what: Tool Current name Scope Where to…
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Turn any Microsoft Teams conversation into Jira work with natural language
The Jira Cloud for Microsoft Teams app now understands natural language. Your team can now create, update, and assign work to teammates or AI coding agents without leaving the chat. Take a look How to get started Requirements Make sure you have: Rovo enabled for your site The Jira Cloud for Microsoft Teams app installed…
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Calculating Team Capacity
This article explains how to calculate realistic team capacity by accounting for productive hours, planned absences, team composition, unplanned work, dependencies, and other factors that can reduce the amount of work a team can actually complete. Note: The new Atlassian Community website does not currently support images…