Bitbucket Data Center 9.0 has been released and delivers platform-level improvements

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Hey there, Data Center Community!

We’re excited to announce Bitbucket Data Center 9.0 – the newest platform release since May 2022. Based on Bitbucket 8.19, the latest long-term release, Bitbucket 9.0 includes loads of useful features for:

• Improving the individual developer experience

• Streamlining team collaboration

• Providing more flexibility for administration

• Enhancing security and compliance on your end.

With Bitbucket 9.0, you’re getting dark theme, draft pull requests, code owners, auto-merge, support for SSH keys and X.509 certificates, websudo for secure administrator sessions, and more.

Check out the release notes for an even more detailed overview of the release.

Bitbucket Data Center 9.0 is a platform release

As a platform release, Bitbucket 9.0 also includes an upgrade to Atlassian Data Center Platform 7. This upgrade enhances the security of the Bitbucket application and ensures its compliance with the latest industry standards. Data Center Platform 7 introduces a number of under-the-hood changes and improvements, including, but not limited to, Java 17 as the minimum supported JDK, the removal of some third-party libraries, and the revised definition of Java API.

Read on to explore how Bitbucket 9.0 enables growing enterprises to remain confident in their security posture, while offering users features optimized for productivity.

Secure administrator sessions (websudo)

Strengthen your data protection and instance sustainability with secure administrator sessions (websudo), which require administrators to re-authenticate before performing sensitive operations or accessing the Global administration settings page.

User directory password encryption

To enhance Bitbucket’s security posture, we’ve introduced robust encryption for storing plaintext external user directory passwords, like LDAP passwords, in the database.

When configuring user directories, the supplied password will be automatically AES encrypted. For existing instances that have user directories already configured, passwords will be encrypted automatically upon upgrade to Bitbucket 9.0.

Bitbucket will automatically generate encryption keys and store them in the shared home directory. Make sure these keys are included in your backup strategy.

Add reviewer groups as code owners

You can now set reviewer groups as code owners instead of manually adding each reviewer. Having a whole group of experts who own the particular code will ensure a higher quality of code review and feedback, improve the integrity of the team’s input, and just save you time in selecting the right reviewers.

Administrator page redesign

Bitbucket Data Center admins can check out a more modern, consistent, and convenient view of the Administrator page.

Filter out merge commits to view commits only

Tired of figuring out where is a commit and a merge commit on the Commits page? Just uncheck the new Show merge commits box, and you’ll see your teams' commits only.

To find out more about Bitbucket 9.0, check out the release notes.

[Sebastian Schmidt]

Hello @Brent P  - Im missing any information on when the Plattform Release 9 will be entering LTS Release and with what version number. Could you please provide this too? Many organizations can only upgrade LTS to LTS.

[Imran Khan]

Hi @Sebastian Schmidt

We are planning for the next LTS release on the Bitbucket platform 9. As soon as we finalize the version number, we can share it here, along with the anticipated timelines.

Kindly stay tuned for updates.

--Imran