📚 Your Weekly Stack of Tech News! | 24th October 2022

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Hi Everyone! 👋

Welcome to our Weekly Stack of Tech News! Where we bring you the weekly dose of what's going on in the Atlassian Tech world, so you never miss out on important announcements or exciting news.

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💼 Product Updates & Tech News

Bitbucket pipelines Stages is now in open beta

Stages allow grouping pipeline steps with shared properties, such as grouping deployment steps.

 New Feature: Editing Atlassian Data Lake Connections

“We’re excited to announce that it’s now possible to edit existing Atlassian Data Lake connections!”

October 2022: Latest features in Jira Cloud for iOS and Android

“Here’s a look at the latest features and performance improvements in Jira Cloud’s iOS app and Android app.”

Introducing new project templates to help finance, marketing and analytics teams get started in JSM

“Over the next few weeks, we’ll be rolling out three new project templates to help finance, marketing, and analytics teams set up their service projects and manage incoming requests.”

Early Access Program for Jira Service Management- All fields available in request types page

“We have an upcoming release of a new request type configuration experience in Jira Service Management, and we’d like to invite you to join a limited Early Access Program!”

Product Update: Capturing the Correct Information on your Jira Software Team-managed Project Issues

“Team-managed project admins now have the ability to make fields* required upon issue creation.”

Forge Will Continue to Be Free Through 2024

“That's why today, we're announcing that Forge will continue to remain free for another year, until December 31, 2024.”

📰 Atlassian News & Announcements

Deactivation of user accounts that lack an Atlassian account begins after October 20th

After 20th October, Atlassian will begin deactivating all user accounts that lack an Atlassian account which also means these accounts will lose access to Bitbucket.

Wallet-friendly pricing is here! Paid on-demand courses are now just $39

“All 21 (and counting!) paid courses in our on-demand catalog are now available for just $39 (up to 90% off what they used to cost).”

Introducing the Authorized Instructor Program

“Atlassian University is excited to announce a brand new program designed for certified independent consultants.”

Bringing on-call and incident information into Compass

“Compass now has Opsgenie & PagerDuty apps AND there’s a new kid on the block in the Activity Feed - Incident Events!”

🗞 Partner News

(Further Updates) Update on Addressing issues with Marketplace reporting and APIs

“Last week, on October 13th, we successfully onboarded 3 Marketplace Partners onto the new data pipeline.”

(Further Updates) Codegeist 2022 IMPORTANT UPDATE Coding & Judging

Further updates on the concerns from marketplace partners on the new guidelines for judging imposed by Atlassian.

Forge will continue to be free through 2024

“Forge will continue to remain free until December 31, 2024, extending the free period for Forge an additional year.”

New batch of REST APIs for Jira Priorities released in Jira Cloud

“We’re glad to announce that we’ve recently published new REST APIs for issue priorities management.”

“Assets” custom field will be renamed to “Legacy Assets”

What’s changing: Custom field label: Assets will be replaced with Legacy Assets --- Custom field descriptor: Link assets to an issue will be replaced with Link assets are available via Marketplace apps and the legacy assets platform.

Confluence macros can now be inline in Forge

“We are happy to announce that we are making “inline macros” support available for Forge modules on Confluence”

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Well, that’s it for this week! Thanks again for reading and see you next week!

Sean

Head of Marketing at Izymes - our mission is to eliminate boring from work. We build apps such as Workzone: PullRequest Workflow // Global Pull Request Organizr // Reminders for Bitbucket // AI Insights for JSM - to turbo-charge team velocity through contextual automation.

[edwin vasquez]

Thanks for sharing! Have a great week.

[Taranjeet Singh]

@Sean Manwarring _Izymes_ Thank you for sharing this weekly tech news article! A lot of great information to go through.