Discussions
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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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Creating subtasks within epics in the work item panel
Hello Jira Community, We're making an important update to how subtasks are created within epics. In work item view, you can no longer create subtasks within epics via the subtask panel. Instead, all existing subtasks will be merged into the work item panel, alongside other child work items. New work items can still be…
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Help us make Jira’s keyboard shortcuts feel like a superpower
Hi everyone, I’m a Product Manager on the Jira Cloud team currently looking into our keyboard shortcut experience. Based on recent feedback, we recognize that keyboard shortcut coverage is inconsistent across Jira and often feels secondary to mouse-based navigation. We are working to improve this and want to ensure the…
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Jira Cloud issue view: Insert attachments already on an issue
Hi Community, I’m Ahmud, a product manager working on the issue view in Jira Cloud (Jira Software, Jira Service Management, Jira Work Management). Today we’re announcing a feature many of you have been asking for: the ability to insert attachments already on an issue in the new issue view. How it works To try it out, just…
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It’s now easier to configure fields for child issues
Hi Jira Community, We’ve made it easier to keep on top of your work by introducing configurable fields for child issues to the issue view. What’s changing? From the issue view, you can now: * Customize fields: Choose which fields you want to see for your child issues and we’ll save your configuration for the same issue…
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Easier status updates for work items
Update on October 13, 2025Sharing this update here — originally posted by Dave Myer, Head of Product for Jira, in JRACLOUD-96247. Hello everyone, After further consideration and listening to your feedback, we’ve decided to revert the change to the status button location in the work item view. The feature request…
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Calling Jira Admins: We’d Love Your Input on a New Fields Experience
Update 8/12 Hey Everyone, Thanks for the customers who have sign up! We currently have met our interview target for this round. I've removed the calendly for now. Hi everyone I’m part of the team working on modernising the Work Item View, specifically how fields are shown, ordered, and surfaced. We’re exploring a couple of…
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Introducing Action items in Jira
Hello Jira Community, We’re thrilled to announce an exciting new feature coming to Jira—Action Items the end of November! Designed to help you manage simple tasks seamlessly within your issues, this feature aims to enhance your productivity by eliminating the need to create separate subtasks or navigate the complexities of…
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Linking Issues will require the "Link Issues" permission on both inward and outward issues
Hello Everyone, As part as our ongoing efforts to improve usability and management of Jira Cloud, we will soon require the “Link Issues” permission on both inward and outward issues. This will ensure the same level of permission is required on both issues. There are no changes to the issue-viewability requirements (e.g.…
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We’re removing the default text renderer in Jira
Hello Jira Community, We’re making an important change to the way field text is rendered in Jira. To improve consistency, reduce bugs, and provide a better editing experience across all of Jira Cloud, we’ll be removing the default text renderer (which renders a field's content as plain text). Going forward, the wiki style…
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Quick Add Menu is Getting Decluttered
Hello Community, I'm Ahmud, a product manager on the issue experience team in Jira Cloud. Today, I'm thrilled to announce a change that is coming soon. We are streamlining the quick-add buttons in the issue view to reduce clutter, enhance clarity, and improve scalability. You will now find buttons like “Attach” and “Linked…
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Making the new issue view work for you
Hi, Atlassian community, We’ve read your comments about the new issue view, gathered common themes, and wanted to address them in its own post. We understand that this likely won’t solve all your problems with the new issue view, but hopefully, it’ll help you work with it in a way that better fits your team. Request more…
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Rethinking Issue View Field Configuration
Hey Admins, We've heard consistent feedback that the Issue View can feel cluttered and overwhelming, making it difficult for people to efficiently find and update field. Too many fields, disorganised layouts, and excessive empty fields contribute to cognitive overload for users, while admins face complex processes to…
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👋 Jira Cloud’s old issue view is going away soon
Hi everyone, We’ve read your comments, and there’s a lot to address, so we’re putting them in their own community post. We’ve published the new post here. For further discussions, check out the updated post. See you there, Ahmud Hi Community, I’m Ahmud, a product manager working on the issue view in Jira Cloud. Today we’re…
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Link issues to an epic you can’t edit
Hello, I'm Ahmud, a product manager from Jira Cloud. We've been speaking with customers who have been affected by this bug. Adding an issue to an epic silently fails if the user doesn't have Edit Issues permission for both the epic and the child issue. In our conversations with our customers, we have consistently heard…
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Code wrapping in Jira Editor
Hello Atlassian community, I'm Ahmud, a product manager on the issue experience team in Jira Cloud. Today, I'm thrilled to announce a highly requested update to improve code readability within Jira. Introducing Code Wrapping! We have heard your feedback and understand the frustration caused by long code blocks requiring…
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Update to how the issue view handles a large number of attachments.
Hello Atlassian community, I’m Ahmud, a product manager on the issue experience team in Jira Cloud. Today we’re announcing an update to how we handle more than 150 attachments on the issue view. Right now, if you exceed a certain number of attachments on an issue, you can’t preview them, see them as a thumbnail, or…
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More space for apps on the issue view in Jira Cloud
Hello Atlassian community, I’m Ahmud, a product manager on the issue experience team in Jira Cloud. Today we’re announcing a change in how we display app information on the issue view. What’s happening? From March 13, 2023, issues will no longer display app information in glances. Instead, app information will be in…