Atlassian News Roundup | 24th January 2022

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Good morning community ☀️,

last week was eventful in the Atlassian ecosystem. We've got several calls for feedback participation, new event announcement, and great features that are being released to Jira Cloud!

News roundup 👇

🚀 Latest new improvements and announcements to the Atlassian products

A new way to Smart Link in Jira

With the latest smart links improvements in Jira and across the Atlassian products you can now easily embed Confluence pages. No more tabs and screens switching!

 Broadcast with banners in Jira

You can now create announcements banners on Jira Cloud! To set one up go to Settings > System > Announcement banner.

✨ Important announcements

Team Tour Government event

3-day digital event for government agencies starting on 1st March. Get your tickets today!

Announcement: Sunsetting the Jira Cloud for Mac App 

Starting in February 2022, Atlassian is sunsetting support of the Jira Cloud for Mac app. The app will still be usable, but there won’t be any new features or updates.

Partner Webinar Opportunities: January 2022

A place to go to see the Atlassian partner organized events.

📯 Feedback opportunities

There are a few new opportunities to give feedback to the Atlassian team. Especially focused on Server and DC customers and Jira Cloud admins 👇

• Calling Bitbucket Data Center customers to participate in research
• Calling all Enterprise Server and Data Center customers: what do you think about our Roadmap design
• Help make a better workflow editor in Jira Cloud

🚀 Latest acquisitions

 Appfire acquires Numbered Headings from Avisi Apps

📚Article of the week

Which should you focus on first: monthly active users or revenue?

Great article explaining how to use MAU (Monthly active users) as your key metric.

We run Monday coffee with Jexo podcast weekly on Youtube and Spotify, subscribe so you don't miss the next episode!

Have a great week everyone! 👋

[Taranjeet Singh]

@Nikki Zavadska _Appfire_ Thanks for sharing this wonderful Atlassian News Roundup!

[Andy Gladstone]

As always @Nikki Zavadska _Appfire_ a great summary of last week’s activity, and a reminder for me to follow up on items I may have bookmarked but not yet read or acted upon. Thank you. 

[Anna-BigPicture]

Good job@ Thanks @Nikki Zavadska _Appfire_