🎅 Weekly Atlassian News Roundup | 12th December 2022

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Good morning everyone! ❄️

Let's dive into the last batch of this year's news and updates from across the Atlassian Universe.

Jira team prepared some great presents for us - Jira dark mode, a festive Jira icon on iOS, and global fields in team-managed projects!

But before we jump to the news - we're going to be taking a short break and will be back with you with our news roundups on January 9th, 2023. I hope you enjoy your winter holidays with loved ones 💫

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🚀 New improvements to the Atlassian products

Jira Dark Mode - Early Access

Jira Dark mode is available in the early access program! You can already switch the dark theme on in your personal settings and give it a try.

 Log4j 2 Live For Jira Server & DC

The Atlassian team announced their own fork of Log4j. This version isn't vulnerable to Log4Shell and the update is now available in Jira Software 9.5 and Jira Service Management 5.5.

Festive Icon For Jira Mobile App

Jira mobile app has gone festive! You can update your Jira Cloud app icon on iOS in your app settings.

Team-Managed Global Custom Fields

Soon you'll be able to reuse global custom fields in team-managed projects! Jira admins will be able to create global custom fields that can be then reused by project admins.

👀 Important announcements

New Event - Atlassian Unleash

The Atlassian event is going to happen in Berlin on 9th February 2023 and you can join either in person or digitally for free! Atlassian is also looking for speakers for this event so if you run or build software products, or collaborate using Jira and other Atlassian tools have a look at this post and apply to be a speaker!

Developer App Week 23 Announced

App Week is returning early next year. Developer App Week has been around for a while, is a full-week in-person hackathon where app developers get together and build cool useful apps or bring innovative concepts.

🗓 Events

Find this week's events on 👉 Events roundup

📚 Article of the week

ITSM 2022 Product Highlights

If you missed the High-Velocity ITSM event you can read this roundup and get all the important information and announcements at once. At the event, Atlassian announced they're on a mission to end Bad service management - expensive, slow and sluggish. And introduced a new feature that you can find in JSM.

And that's about it for this week's news. See you in 2023!

Happy new year! 🎊 

[Dave Mathijs]

Thanks for all the Monday morning coffees in 2022. Happy holidays!

[Anna Nathason]

My team is excited about the Jira dark mode! Thanks for the updates. Happy Holidays! 

[Taranjeet Singh]

@Nikki Zavadska [Appfire] , @Biro Thank you for sharing this last amazing news roundup of 2022.

I will surely miss these updates for the next 3 weeks.

Wish you too happy holidays and a happy new year in advance!

Enjoy your winter break!

[Tuncay Senturk]

Thanks for the content @Nikki Zavadska [Appfire] 

Happy holidays! See you on Jan 9th!