December Update - What's new and what's coming

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It’s been a really exciting few weeks in the world of Bitbucket Cloud and Forge. We’ve released a series of enhancements to the core Forge implementation as part of our Early Access Program (EAP) and Bitbucket Cloud featured heavily at the combined AtlasCamp and App Week events in Copenhagen.

This culminated with the App Week hackathon where Bitbucket Cloud featured in the winning App submission, with the team from Mibex Software taking home the win with their AI-infused Review Assistant app for Bitbucket Cloud.

Speaking of AtlasCamp, we announced some exciting news coming to the world of Bitbucket Cloud x Forge during the conference.

• Custom Merge Checks, powered by Forge will be entering open beta in late December.

• Forge for Bitbucket Cloud will be entering GA in January 2024.

• Dynamic Pipelines will be entering open beta in the first quarter of 2024.

• And finally, Custom Checks will be coming to Bitbucket Pipelines later in 2024.

Let’s get into the details of what we released since our November Update.

As a reminder, the Atlassian developer changelog is the source of truth for all changes so but we we still wanted to highlight a few changes here. Even if most of them only contain the link to the related changelog entry.

UI Kit 2 supports Bitbucket Forge modules

You can find the changelog announcement here.

Enhanced Forge CLI integration with Bitbucket app development

You can find the changelog announcement here.

Bitbucket apps distribution in developer console

You can find the changelog announcement here.

Icons for Bitbucket Forge modules

You can find the changelog announcement here.

workspaceId now available in custom UI and UI Kit 2 invocation context

Previously, workspaceId was not present in the app's context from view.getContext() of the Forge bridge or the resolver context. This should no longer be the case.

No package upgrades are required to see the workspaceId property. However, to have the workspaceId present in type hints of context types, upgrade to version 3.2.0 of @forge/bridge.

You can find the changelog announcement here.

Example apps

Example apps demonstrating Forge for Bitbucket capabilities are now available on Example apps for Bitbucket.

Workspace settings module

A new module bitbucket:workspaceSettingsMenuPage is now available.

You can find the changelog announcement here.

Thank you all for your feedback so far and see you all with a lot of news in 2024!

- @Edmund Munday (Bitbucket Product Manager), @Hillary Chan (Bitbucket Software Engineer) and @Caterina Curti  (Developer Advocate)

[Saxea _Flowie_]

@Hillary Chan  Thanks! Great to see the progress on Bitbucket/Forge!

Is it expected that Forge for Bitbucket Cloud will have feature parity with Connect by its January 2024 GA? I've started porting our apps to Forge but still need some modules. Specifically, I'm interested in the following functionalities:

Web panel: org.bitbucket.pullrequest.overview.informationPanel
AP.{request,resize}
Scope: webhook

Any insights or updates on this would be much appreciated.

Cheers,
Renato

[Caterina Curti]

Hi Renato,

We aim to give you a more comprehensive response early in Jan 2024, most people are taking time off at this time of the year.

Regarding the AP.request, this is a topic that has already been brought up in the past so I went ahead and raised this ticket for it:
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BCLOUD-23027


Cheers,
Caterina