Atlassian Community Round-up: November 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!

• First up, unfortunately there is another CVE that affects Confluence DC. As always, be sure to read this ASAP and do what you need to do to protect yourself and your company.
  🚨Patch your Confluence Server/DC instances! (CVE-2023-22518)

• Next, there is actually two CVEs that have been posted this month. The second one, is for Bamboo DC. You know what you need to do!
  CVE-2023-46604 - Apache ActiveMQ RCE Vulnerability impacts Bamboo Data Center and Server

• Are you excited for Team '24? It will be taking place at the end of April 2024. As of putting this together, the deadline to submit a talk is now closed. But hopefully (as has happened in the past) the deadline will be extended and you will still have an opportunity to submit you proposal if you wish to speak at Team '24.
  Speak at Team '24 - 2 weeks left to submit your session

• If you have been logged into the Community recently, this update should be no surprise. There is a new banner menu with a number of helpful options to help you find the information you are looking for.
  UPDATED Community release notes for November 16, 2023

• Next, we all know that the end of the server line of products is inching closer and closer. Atlassian has put together another comprehensive update of everything that Atlassian is doing to support those that still need to migrate to the Cloud. If you are in this group, you are going to want to check this out.
  End of server sale & support - November 2023 update

• Speaking of migrations, @Hana Kučerová has shared a recent merger of three Atlassian Cloud sites she was involved in. While it isn’t directly a server to cloud migration there is some very useful information in here that’s worth checking out.
  Merge of three cloud sites

• Have you been keeping up with the Team Shaping tour by @Sven Peters & @Mark Cruth, they have been VERY insightful. @Becky Mueller has provided some tips on one of the highlighted plays that you should check out.
  👥 5 tips to run the Roles and Responsibilities play

• In addition, if you make a recording about your experience running an Atlassian play, you have a chance to win some SWAG! This contest is on until the end of the year, but that will be here before you know it.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Teamwork-Lab-articles/Share-a-video-testimonial-about-the-Atlassian-Team-Playbook-and/ba-p/2525926

• Opsgenie can be a little challenging to get started with.  John M has made a wonderful post with very insightful tips about a number of common mistakes that newcomers to Opsgenie make. Be sure to check it out!
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Opsgenie-articles/Top-Ten-User-Mistakes-in-Opsgenie-and-How-to-Overcome-Them/ba-p/2522476

• Speaking of great information, @Daniella Latham has shared some useful tips on one of Atlassian’s internal use cases for Atlassian Intelligence. If you haven’t signed up for the beat yet, her experiences may encourage you to do so. Also, this was posted in a brand new group for Marketing Professionals you might be interested in joining.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Marketing-Professionals/How-I-use-AI-as-a-product-marketer-top-tips-and-prompts/ba-p/2525884

• Finally, @Gal Fatal shares his journey to becoming an Atlassian Certified Expert with a ton of extremely helpful information for anyone looking to start their own certification journey.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Training-Certification-articles/My-Journey-to-be-Atlassian-Certified-Expert/ba-p/2516957?utm_source=atlcomm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=immediate_general_article&utm_content=topic

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, for all of my friends on Cloud Enterprise, a number of new changes have been released for analytics and a few more have been announced as coming soon.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Atlassian-Analytics-articles/Atlassian-Analytics-Updates-October-2023/ba-p/2524402

• Next up, Jira Product Discovery (which if you haven’t tried on the free plan you totally should) now allows you to calculate delivery progress based on story points instead of issue count which has been the default.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Product-Discovery-articles/Introducing-Calculate-delivery-progress-based-on-story-points/ba-p/2532191

• Have you checked out a Jira Work Management project template yet? Now might be the time to do it with a number of new features and improvements being delivered this month. Be sure to check out this article for the details!
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Work-Management-Articles/Bundle-up-with-November-updates-Approvals-colorful-categories/ba-p/2533184

• Jira Service Management has had their Customer Service capabilities out for Enterprise and Premium customer for a little while now. They are now rolling out for standard and free customers. If you are on one of those two plan levels you might be interested in learning more about these capabilities.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Service-Management-articles/Announcing-new-Customer-Service-capabilities-across-all-Jira/ba-p/2533520

• Advanced Roadmaps (which is a Cloud Premium+ feature), https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Advanced-planning-articles/Update-Issue-status-directly-in-Advanced-Roadmaps/ba-p/2534687

• Last month the Compass GA announcement was made. This month, if you have started using Compass, you might want to consider signing up for early access to Atlassian’s new enhanced integration between Compass and Jira Software. Check out the post for details!
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Compass-articles/Sign-Up-Today-Early-access-to-the-new-Compass-x-JSW-integration/ba-p/2525868

• Next, Bitbucket Cloud now allows you to batch comments on pull requests into a single “review“. This is a great quality of life improvement that will prevent miscommunication between author and reviewer, when the author starts fixing things before the reviewer is finished.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Bitbucket-articles/New-in-pull-requests-Batched-comments/ba-p/2534448

• For my Bitbucket DC friends, don’t think you have been forgotten. You will want to check out this article on the 10 newest features that have been delivered to Bitbucket DC.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Bitbucket-articles/10-of-the-newest-features-to-level-up-your-Bitbucket-Data-Center/ba-p/2521603

• Have you tried the Confluence Mobile app? I have. In fact, a number of my first drafts of posts are usually written while I’m on the go in the mobile app and reviewed and edited once I’m back at home at my desk. Anyway, you now have more page permission options from the mobile app.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-Cloud-articles/Confluence-Mobile-Update-Introducing-upgraded-page-permissions/ba-p/2532266

• Finally, Confluence Whiteboards has a number of new features have have come out. Smart sections, more templates and international character support, just to name a few. Check out the full article for everything else.
  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-Whiteboards/%EF%B8%8F-What-s-new-and-what-s-coming-to-whiteboards/ba-p/2536171

Trending discussions you should join:

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

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Watercooler-discussions/Friday-Fun-Could-Your-Job-Roles-BE-Any-More-Friends/td-p/2530072

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Work-Management-Discussions/Jira-Work-Management-is-growing/td-p/2513839

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Program-Management-Professionals/Oh-my-most-favourite-decision-and-risk-register-flavours/td-p/2533171

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Training-Certification/ACP-520-Atlassian-Cloud-Organization-Admin-Certification-Journey/td-p/2526292

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Watercooler-discussions/Miscellaneous-Monday-What-s-your-favorite-recent-recipe/td-p/2525759

Questions left out in the cold:

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

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/Sprint-End-Date-inconsistency/qaq-p/2518306

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Service-Management/Automatically-trigger-daily-reoccuring-task-for-a-month-at-a/qaq-p/2519821

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Bitbucket-questions/Where-to-find-a-list-of-emoticon-names-for-reacting-to-PR/qaq-p/2517558

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Trello-questions/trello-Info-to-Blue-Cat-Forms-and-back-to-a-trello-card/qaq-p/2508595

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-use-the-Calendar-with-the-Trello-Premium-subscription/qaq-p/2520270

Automation Corner:

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

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Automation-articles/Automation-Rules-backup-version-control/ba-p/2533732

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/DevOps-articles/The-Developer-s-Edge-How-to-enhance-your-technical-diagramming/ba-p/2539937
• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/DevOps-articles/The-Developer-s-Edge-How-Lucid-integrates-with-Jira-and/ba-p/2542203

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!

[Bill Sheboy]

Thanks for the information, @Jimmy Seddon !

As a yes, and to trying out Jira Product Discovery, I suggest people read this article on the product transition from Beta to general release.  The licensing and user configuration is different than Jira, and so understanding how to configure usage is valuable to avoid problems...particularly with billing.

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Product-Discovery-articles/ACTION-REQUIRED-how-to-move-from-Beta-to-the-Free-or-Standard/ba-p/2355268

Kind regards,
Bill

[Hana Kučerová]

Thank you very much @Jimmy Seddon 

[Summer Hogan]

Thank you @Jimmy Seddon! As always, another great roundup! I always miss stuff throughout the month so thanks for doing this! 

[Carlos]

Thanks for the roundup, @Jimmy Seddon

[Varunish Garg]

@Varunish Garg You should see this. 

[Irina Mosina _TechTime_]

@Ed Letifov [TechTime - New Zealand] have a look at this roundup post.