Discussions
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Announcement: Templates feature to be removed from Compass on December 1, 2025
What’s changing? We’re deprecating and removing Templates in Compass, effective December 1, 2025. This change is part of our ongoing effort to focus on features that bring the most value to our customers. This page explains: What’s happening and when How this affects you What you need to do Where to get help What are…
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🚀 New in Compass: Vertical Dependencies (“contains/contained by”)!
We’re excited to announce the launch of vertical dependencies in Compass! 🎉 What’s new? You can now model hierarchical relationships between your components using the new “contains/contained by” dependency type. This means you can represent how components are grouped by application, capability, etc. right alongside…
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Introducing Package Dependency tracking in Compass
Update June 16 2025 Automatic syncing has been enabled for linked Bitbucket, GitHub, and GitLab repos, via the SCM apps. Also, scorecards now support package dependencies. Next up - support for more package managers! After integrating Compass with their repository to track development events and metrics, customers look for…
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Introducing Scorecard Maturity Levels: A More Motivational Path to Software Health
Hi Compass community! We’re excited to announce a major update to Compass scorecards: Maturity Levels. This new feature improves how teams track and celebrate progress toward software health, making the journey more motivating and actionable for everyone. Why maturity levels? Until now, Compass scorecards have used a…
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New vulnerability and alert derived metrics in Compass
About derived metrics Derived metric values are automatically calculated based on the events received for your Compass component. For example, the Deployment Frequency metric is derived from deployment events. As you ingest deployment events on your component, you'll see the metric automatically recalculate. Compass has…
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Introducing the Security metrics library scorecard and enhanced Snyk Integration for Compass
We recently added a new Security metrics library scorecard backed by an enhanced Snyk integration. These new features are designed to help teams of all sizes implement, measure, and improve security standards across their software components. Why Security Scorecards? Security is a top priority for every engineering…
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Keep your team aligned with scheduled scorecard summaries in Slack
Keeping your team aligned and informed about your progress improving software health can be challenging. Many organizations struggle with ensuring that all team members are aware of the current status of their software health, especially when it comes to understanding which components are not meeting expectations. This…
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Get to passing faster with simplified metric setup for component scorecards in Compass
We are excited to introduce the first release of a new Component Scorecard Data Connection feature. This enhancement is designed to simplify the process of connecting and configuring metric sources for components, ensuring that scorecards are fully set up. The Problem First, some background: scorecards evaluate criteria to…
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Introducing Criterion Score Traceability for scorecards that use derived metrics
Compass scorecards play a vital role in tracking metrics, and among these, some are known as derived metrics. These metrics are calculated based on events like builds and deployments, creating a meaningful connection between the events and the scores we evaluate. When a new event occurs, Compass recalculates the metric…
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Introducing Compass JQL metrics to track Jira issue counts
You can track all sorts of things in Jira, so issue counts provide lots of signals about state of your product or team. Given that Compass is the place that customers can implement and track adherence to standards and practices, and since you can attach Compass components to Jira issues across multiple projects, it makes…
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Expanding scorecard Easy Fix to all fields and scorecards in Compass
We are excited to announce that we have expanded the UX to update component fields inline inside the Scorecard drawer - a feature we call “Easy Fix” - to support custom fields and custom scorecards in Compass. This enhancement is designed to streamline the process of fixing failing criteria on Compass Scorecards, making it…
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Track component health with expanded scorecard history now available in Compass
Scorecards provide an up-to-date view into the health of a component based on component metrics and attributes. They are a great way to improve operational health across your org’s software. Compass has two built-in scorecards (Component Readiness and DevOps Health), and you can create your own to track the metrics that…
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Try out the new Bitbucket Cloud pull request experience today!
Greetings Bitbucket Cloud community, I am thrilled to share exciting news about how we're making code review easier in Bitbucket Cloud! Code review is a critical part of the development workflow. To help reviewers assess changes quickly, we’ve historically taken a “code first” design approach for the pull request view,…
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Atlassian for VS Code now supports Jira Server and Bitbucket Server
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riPHeYKgIfQ Earlier this year, we released the Atlassian for VS Code extension, bringing Atlassian products closer to where you work every day. With the VS Code extension installed, you don’t have to leave your IDE to view and create issues, pull requests, and pipelines. The extension speeds…