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[Free virtual event] How to balance admin governance & team agility in Jira
How do you give teams the freedom to customize how they work, without creating configuration chaos and administrative bottlenecks? You don’t have to choose between tight control and team flexibility. With the right guardrails in place, admins can protect instance health and consistency while empowering teams to confidently…
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SmartBear’s BearQ Agent Powers Autonomous Testing in Jira ✨
Close the loop between the code you build and the quality you ship with autonomous test authoring and execution right where your work happens. AI coding tools make it possible to write code at lightning speed, but testing is often left playing catch-up. When testing is disconnected from where work is planned, teams…
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General Availability: The New Jira Work Item View
Hey Everyone, Back in August we shared that a redesigned Jira work item view was on its way, and thank you to everyone who turned on the Beta and sent us feedback. We are moving to General Availability, with the new view rolling out from October 19, 2026, through the end of the calendar year. This is a visual refresh only.…
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📣 Upcoming: Modernised Software boards in Jira (Company-Managed spaces)
Hi Atlassian community! We’re excited to announce that we’ve officially kicked off the Early Access Program (EAP) for the modernised Jira board for company-Managed spaces. Here we’ll cover off the upcoming changes to the board experience and how you can sign-up for early access. We're keen to invite 2-3 customers in the…
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The new issue transition screen toggle - choosing your experience (new vs old)
Hi everyone, Thank you for your patience while we worked through your feedback on the new transition experience within Jira. We've heard your concerns, and we want to share a new toggle that allows you to switch experiences. You can choose your screen We have now rolled out this experience. From now on you'll be able to…
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But first #Wordle…then some coffee ☕️
Are you as wordle obsessed as the Agile and DevOps team at Atlassian is? 💁♀️ 💁♂️ We can’t get enough of the web-based word game. It quickly has become part of our daily routines and Slack conversations. We’re a competitive bunch so you better believe we enjoy sharing our daily results and debating the best guessing…
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✨ Jira dashboards are getting an upgrade - learn more
Calling all dashboard enthusiasts! Over the coming months, we’re upgrading Jira dashboards to give teams a more flexible, visual way to understand work, spot risks, and share progress across Atlassian. For years, Jira dashboards have helped teams keep an eye on projects, work items, and progress. But as teams rely on more…
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Preview Panels will soon replace the detail view in Jira’s Global Search and List views
Hello Atlassian Community 👋 We’re excited to announce a more convenient and efficient experience to preview your work in Jira. A new preview panel experience is coming to Jira’s global search and List views that will replace the detail view. ⏱️ A more efficient way to preview work quickly Previewing work and related…
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Introducing the new, streamlined Create experience in Jira
Hi Jira Community, We're updating how work items are created in Jira Cloud through the Global Issue Create button and wanted to give you a heads up on what’s changing. Why this change? Today, creating a work item from Jira Cloud’s top navigation Global Issue Create (GIC) button opens the large full form create screen. Over…
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How to Sync Jira Versions Across Projects Using Jira Automation
Creating a version in Jira once is fine. Doing it three more times? Not so much. If your teams share a release but work across multiple projects, you know the pain: manual version creation, updates everywhere, and plenty of room for errors. Some teams avoid this mess by not using Jira versions at all. Instead, they track…
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How to split your Jira spaces for release management
Most people ask this question the same way: should we have one Jira space per application? It's a reasonable instinct and it's usually close to right. But it's answering the wrong question, and the difference matters more the larger your estate gets. Here's the rule I'd use instead, and what it looks like in practice. The…
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What a Year of Forge Workshops With Data Center Teams Taught Me About Where They Actually Struggle
I spend a good part of my year in rooms with experienced enterprise developers taking their first steps on Forge, usually with a Data Center deadline somewhere behind them. Full transparency: running these workshops is part of my job at Seibert. This post is not about the workshops though. It is about the pattern I did not…
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Introducing Individual Capacity Planning in Jira — Live for premium and enterprise.
Individual Capacity Planning is now live for Jira Premium and Enterprise!! Hi Community, We have made significant updates since the EAP so check out the launch notes to see what’s new, and get started using our demo video or written steps here. You can also try out the in preview Capacity Planning API. Please share your…
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How to integrate ServiceNow and Jira in 2026
Atlassian Jira drives development workflows, backlog management, and release tracking. ServiceNow manages incidents, service requests, and IT operations. Both systems reflect different parts of the same lifecycle. The disconnect begins when these systems are not integrated. Incidents are recreated manually as Jira issues…
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Two ways to update the Team field
Hello Community! As we approach the new year I am trying to get a jumpstart on one of my Community New Year's resolutions. Specifically contribute to the community more through articles in 2024. In my first contribution I offer up two ways of automatically update the team field. I got the idea for this article while…
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Jira Image of the Day: Keeping Up With the Atlassians
Concept Relates To Application Type Jira, Jira Service Management, Jira Product Discovery, Confluence, Platform apps, and more Deployment Type Jira Cloud, Jira Data Center What is shown? A public list of the latest and upcoming Cloud and Data Center changes. Visit: https://www.atlassian.com/roadmap What can we learn? While…
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Upcoming Changes to Software Boards in Team-Managed Spaces
Update Aug 2026 Hi everyone, We're pleased to announce that the modernised Jira board is now GA and rolled out to the vast majority of team-managed Software boards! Read about this in our Summer Release blog post. Thank you to everyone who's left feedback - this has been valuable and allowed us to ship a number of…
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Jira release readiness is a mess
You know how it all goes before the big release that includes bug fixes, new features, UI improvements and complete revamp of your whole application. Alignment with engineering, QA, design, marketing going back and fourth with meetings and piling Confluence pages doesn't lead anywhere. It's stuck and the time is running.…
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Introducing Rovo Search for Jira
Update 3rd December 2025 Hi all, again thanks for the feedback on this post and via in app feedback. I am reaching out to people who have submitted in app feedback and have left contact details. So if you have commented on this post and would like to talk to me please use the 'Give feedback' link in search. Noted on the…
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Now GA - try the new issue transition experience in Jira!
Update on October 23, 2024Thank you, community, for your feedback and comments on this post. To address the top 3 asked questions below: (1) Support for Asset field: The old transition screens will continue until the Asset field is supported on the new transition screens. (2) Shortcuts: We’re working on improving the…
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A clearer, more focused Jira work item view is coming
Hi everyone, Starting 10th August, we’re opening a Beta of the redesigned Jira work item view: the screen your teams use every day to view and update work. The redesign brings your most important actions and information front and center, reduces the steps to get common tasks done, and makes the overall experience clearer…
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Upcoming: Unified, More Powerful Timeline for Jira Software Spaces
We’re excited to announce a major upgrade to the Jira Software project timeline. Soon, you’ll experience a better timeline that designed to help software teams plan, track, and deliver work with greater clarity and speed. When? We will roll this out starting in July month. What’s changing? ✅ Display all levels including…
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Jira Snippet Library: JQL - Simplifying Complex Queries
JQL queries combine multiple clauses, fields, operators, functions, values, and keywords to help us filter work quickly and with precision. But sometimes, we ask Jira to do too much. If queries are too complex, Jira may have trouble determining which data is included. Further, it might not be able to check the needed user…
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🚀 Introducing Jira Planner: now in early access
We're excited to share that Jira Planner is now open for Early Access. It's the missing layer between what your team decides to build and how your agents execute it, guiding you from a rough idea to a structured, agent-ready plan without ever leaving Jira. Jira Planner is particularly useful for tech leads, senior…
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Shenandoah GC myth or reality on the production ?
Hi awesome community, Today I would like to share with you so small topic about usage Garbage Collectors in production (GC Strategies). At the moment, most popular in Hotspot JVM is G1 GC, after CMS and rising star is Shenandoah GC. So in this topic I will describe how to migrate to Shenandoah GC. If you already on…