December 2020 update: What’s new and what’s coming to Jira Cloud for Mac
Hi there, Community people!
Well, the year is officially drawing to a close. And what a year it’s been.
Over here, we’ve been working hard to bring you great new features in Jira Cloud for Mac, so you can continue moving work forward in the most effective, enjoyable way possible.
Here’s a brief overview of what’s new, what’s improved, and what we’re working on:
New & improved features
Dev tool integrations: Link your issues
Interacting with many 3rd-party development tools* from within your Jira issues is a reality! You no longer need to navigate between multiple 3rd-party products in order to update your pull requests, commits, repositories, and builds. Instead, link your code to your Jira issues and have the dev info sitting right there, within your Jira issue, (figuratively) smiling and waving at you. Even specific code within individual branches will be there, ready for you to interact with it.
Support is already in place for Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket Pipelines, CircleCI, Azure Pipelines, Octopus Deploy, Travis CI integration for Jira, Jenkins, and TeamCity. This feature will continue growing as support for more 3rd-party dev tools is established.
Want to learn about integrating 3rd-party dev tools? Check out How to link code to Jira issues.
*Support is only for 3rd-party development tools focusing on repositories, commits, pull requests, and builds.
Filtering: See what you need (and hide what you don’t)
We’ve added some extra sparkle to Jira’s filtering feature. Now you can:
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Filter issues without epics on your board and backlog
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Filter by multiple epics on your board
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Filter by unassigned issues on your board and backlog
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Clear all active filters instantly (yes, a single click!) on your board and backlog.
Star your projects: Find them faster
Like to save time? (Silly question?) Find your favorite projects faster by ‘starring’ them. Hit the ⭐ next to a project’s name and it’ll be pinned to the top of your project list until you ‘unstar’ it. You’ll automatically see starred projects in Jira’s web experience too (and vice versa).
Features we’re working on
Dashboards: A personalized overview of your crucial work
Cue excitement: Dashboards are coming! Dashboards (otherwise known as one of the most-requested features in the Jira apps) deliver a streamlined, personalized overview of everything you’re working on. Tracking the status of projects is easier than ever.
Beta dashboards will be available very soon. Want to join the beta program? Send us an email at jira-cloud-native@atlassian.com with subject: ‘Beta tester for dashboards: I’m in!’.
Gadgets you’ll be able to add to your dashboard include pie charts, two-dimensional tables, and filter results. We’ll build more gadgets in future, too.
Roadmaps in classic projects
Who doesn’t love a good roadmap? Being able to plan work in advance, craft your goals to perfection, and connect the dots between multiple moving parts is a game-changer when it comes to big projects. (And small projects, too!)
Roadmaps arrived in next-gen projects earlier this year, and now they’re coming to classic projects, too. Want to learn more about roadmaps? Check out this webinar from Jira Cloud for web.
Roadmaps can display multiple epics for entire teams; the roadmap is a single source of truth, maximizing visibility and accelerating progress toward a shared goal. Everyone – stakeholders included – can see the big picture, which means identifying scope creep is easier than ever, and gaining insights into large pieces of work can be done ahead of time.
That’s it from us. We’ll see you in the new year!
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