Atlassian Community Round-up: December 2023

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Hello Everyone!

It’s that time once again to take a look at everything that has happened in the past month! From major events, to product announcements, to amazing people providing great tips & best practices to help the Community, I guarantee there is something here for everyone. Let’s get started!

Announcements & Highlights:

As always, there are a TON of amazing things happening and here is just a small sample of all the great things you don’t want to miss out on!

• If you missed it, you will want to take action as soon as possible. Near the beginning of December, Atlassian posted multiple critical vulnerabilities. As I have said in the past, and I’ll say again, please check to see if they affect you and do everything you need to in order to protect yourself and your company.
  Action Required: RCE Vulnerabilities Identified in Multiple Products

• As of writing this article, Community notification emails are still being marked as spam. Hopefully this has been corrected as of this being published. If not, don’t forget you can use your activity feed in the community to help you keep up to date on things.
  Community emails marked as spam

• The end of a community era is upon us. The old badge system is going away as kudos is the future. If you have been around long enough to have earned at least 50 of the old badges. You will be awarded a special kudos badge in honour of the old system.
  Happy little circles: a new hope (aka some community badge announcements)

• Are you new to the Atlassian Community and trying to figure out where you should start? Or maybe you are a veteran who enjoys welcoming the new members to the community? Either way this article will very much help new folks find their footing.
  Find your path with the Atlassian community

• What’s better than sharing some great moments from 2023? Sharing those moments for a great cause. Every comment helped clean 10 pounds of plastic form the ocean and provided a wonderful look at some of the best memories from the past year.
  Share your favorite community moments of 2023.... and clean up the ocean 🐠

• What else could you have done for a great cause? Shared a pic of yourself in a holiday sweater! The winner getting the opportunity to donate $250 to their local food bank. Not to mention, there are some amazing sweaters in the comments!
  Show off your holiday sweaters for a good cause!

• Did you know that there was an open community social event? Were you able to attend? I unfortunately was celebrating my daughter's birthday, but I hope everyone had a wonderful time, and hopefully this will be something we’ll see more often in the future!
  Our first-ever Atlassian Community Holiday Social + Festive Sweater Contest

• Atlassian’s upcoming event Team Tour: Government is looking for people with excellent stories to share. As of this article being published, there are still a couple of days left to get your submissions in.
  Call for Speakers: Share Your Transformation Story at Atlassian Team Tour Government 2024!

• Atlassian Presents: Unleash happened at the beginning of December in Amsterdam. Where you able to be there live? If not, you have another opportunity, a number of local Atlassian Community will be hosting mini Unleash post events through the month of January. Be sure to check and see if there is one close by as you won’t want to miss it.
  Free agile & DevOps event coming to a city near you!

• Finally, there is a new series of virtual events coming in the new year. A number of people who regularly create content will be hosting a number of live learning sessions about getting started with a number of the Atlassian products. If you would like the opportunity to learn and ask questions in real time be sure to sign up for these events!
  ⚡ Introducing free “Live Learning” courses for Atlassian products, coming January 2024

New Features & Product Updates:

Want to keep up to date on all the cool things Atlassian has announced about their products? Be sure to read through these, then go check out all the others for your favorite product!

• First up, in case you missed the big announcement at Unleash, Atlassian Intelligence is now Generally Available. It looks like it will be available for Premium or Enterprise plans, however anyone that was a part of the beta on Free or Standard will still have access to AI features until June 30th, 2024.
  Atlassian Intelligence (AI) capabilities are now available

• Next, there are a number of new things that have come out for Confluence Cloud in the past quarter. Be sure to check out the article for features you could start taking advantage of.
  What's new in Confluence Cloud -- Oct, Nov, & Dec 2023

• Continuing with Confluence Cloud changes, as of December 14th, there is now a 100 item limit on any move operation that is performed. If you (like me) have been known to moved large page trees, you are going to want to come up with a plan for this going forward from now on.
  Changes to moving content in Confluence Cloud

• Next, there are new slash commands that will allow you to create Jira issues or other Confluence pages directly from a Confluence page or comment.
  You can now create Jira issues and Confluence pages directly from Confluence pages and comments

• Over on the Jira side of things, you are now able to create Confluence pages without having to leave your Jira issue. I love these tighter integrations that allow you to continue working where you are without having to leave.
  Create Confluence pages without leaving your Jira issue!

• Also in Jira, you can now find Atlas goals. You can find these displayed in your Advanced Roadmaps plans which will be very helpful during planning.
  Atlas goals in Jira Software Cloud timeline and plans

• Over in Jira Service Management, Custom domains for help centers, new reporting capabilities for Assets & the Virtual Agent moving to GA are just a few of the new features you can take advantage of. Be sure to read the full article for all the other great things that are available.
  What's New in Jira Service Management -- December 2023

• Jira Work management has new templates for nonprofit program management. If this is something you are currently working on or considering starting soon, you might want to have a peek and see if JWM might be the right type of project for you.
  New nonprofit templates in Jira Work Management

• Finally, Jira Work Management closes out 2023 with a round of of recent features that have been delivered. Be sure to check it out!
  Send off 2023 with a December wrap-up from Jira Work Management 🎁 Approvals, importers, and more

Trending discussions you should join:

Want to join in on some trending discussions? Be sure to check these out!

• December "Vibe" Check-in

• Escape, As A Team!

• What holiday traditions do you enjoy with family and friends?

• Help us do more with JWM’s Summary

• Atlassian Start is getting new features powered by Atlas

Questions left out in the cold:

Why not lend a hand to another fellow Community Member and try answering some of these questions!

• jql query for a parameter value combination used in Dataset for issue test

• Download bulk attachments

• Can I generate a report from a checklist to track when tasks were completed?

• AQL to get size of select list in Insight

• I can't create an repo on the bitbucket with administrator access.

Automation Corner:

Looking for inspiration to optimize your processes? Check out some of the cool things people are doing with automation!

• Bite-sized Learning: Trello Automation

• Assign requests to agents based on the hour of the day/on-call schedule

• How to create a "global hidden variable" on Automation?

• Auto-Add Watchers When User Is Mentioned

• Creating Multiple Projects and Issue in Jira Cloud using ScriptRunner

• Improving the Developer Experience with the Team Playbook

• Emoji shortcuts in Slack just got a lot more powerful

It’s hard to believe another month has already come and gone. Please be sure to stay healthy, stay safe and I’ll see you back here next month.

Take care!

[Amanda Barber]

Great roundup as always, @Jimmy Seddon - thank you!!

[Andy Gladstone]

I have been under the weather this weekend and today, but catching up on this video and article in the community has been like a shot of Vitamin-C. (C being for Confluence of course). 😃

[Dave Mathijs]

Thanks for the roundup @Jimmy Seddon 

[Svenja Lorenzen]

So very helpful! As always! Thank you for your work @Jimmy Seddon!!! 

[Kristján Geir Mathiesen]

Thanks for a good roundup and for all of them during 2023, @Jimmy Seddon  And a happy new year to you.

[Peter Van de Voorde]

Thanks for the roundup and the mention @Jimmy Seddon !

[Huwen Arnone _Deiser_]

This was much needed to catch up! Thank you, mate @Jimmy Seddon 😎

[Taranjeet Singh]

Thanks for sharing this amazing roundup, @Jimmy Seddon !

[Nikki Zavadska [Appfire]]

Thank you for the roundup Jimmy!

just came back from a month-long break so this comes in handy :)))

[shyna bugcrowd]

nice.

[BHUSHAN PATIL]

Thanks for nice RoundUP.

[Aaron Geister]

I caught up to this a little late but still awesome wrap up. Thanks @Jimmy Seddon 

[Phil Nguyen]

good update