Data Center LTS and platform releases are a-coming 🚞

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Howdy, Enterprise Community! 👋

Three quick things:

1. I'm thrilled to be posting a non-CVE post. 🙏🔒
2. It's Friday - TGIF! 🎉
3. If you're using Data Center products, there's a lot that has shipped, and are coming soon. Read more in Mel's quarterly Data Center post.

Don't feel like reading? Here were my takeaways from Mel's post:

• Jira 9 is out - and Jira 9.4 (an LTS - a Long Term Support release!) will drop by EOY (End of Year, if you're into TLAs... Three Letter Acronyms.).
• Jira Service Management 5.0 is out! JSM 5.4 (also an LTS) is coming by EOY also.
• Confluence 8.0 is coming.
• Bamboo 9.0 is coming.

The above releases continue Atlassian's trend towards crushing bugs, increasing stability, and reducing technical debt. If we're lucky (like really really lucky) hopefully a user-facing feature is released? For sure, the DC development teams have been working to improve performance and accessibility of the above products.

Be well, and enjoy your weekend.

- Dave, one of your friendly neighborhood Enterprise group leaders

[Craig Castle-Mead]

Time to start testing Jira 9! 

[Dave Liao]

@Craig Castle-Mead - right?

Jira 9.2 actually dropped last week!

[Carmen Bullock]

Hello Dave

I am an Jira Admin and I would like to know if you have a more definitive date for the release of 9.4? I need to do some testing because I am currently using 8.13. I can't test on the other 9 versions because they are  not compatible with my current add-ons.

[Dave Mathijs]

Any update on the LTS release date?

[Dave Liao]

@Dave Mathijs @Carmen Bullock - I don't work for Atlassian (I wish!) but Jira 9.4 LTS was released on the 15th!

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftware/jira-software-release-notes-776821069.html

[Dave Mathijs]

Thanks @Dave Liao , I missed that post.

[Dave Liao]

And worth mentioning, Confluence 8 came out this month! https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-8-0-release-notes-1127254402.html