Product News

The EAP (Early Access Program) involves being part of a small group of admins who receive an early release of the new workflow editor. Currently, Atlassian is looking for Jira Cloud admins who manage workflows in company-managed projects and use Jira Software Cloud or Jira Service Management Cloud. 

Databases are coming to Confluence! Atlassian has acquired Orderly Databases by K15t, a Platinum Marketplace Partner, and the teams are hard at work integrating the app into Confluence. According to Atlassian, they are preparing to launch a free public beta soon. If you're eager to be among the first to access this feature, join the waitlist.

Atlassian has made some notable improvements to Jira Service Management that we believe will enhance your experience. Some of the noteworthy changes to know about include support for 10K+ agents on a single cloud instance, user experience upgrades to Assets in JSM, and some more.

Atlassian has released Atlassian Together, a work management solution offered as a comprehensive cloud-based subscription for their most popular work management apps, including Trello, Confluence, Jira Work Management, and Atlas. 

Atlassian has made some notable improvements to Confluence that we believe will enhance your experience. Specifically, Atlassian has simplified the process of embedding content into Confluence using Smart Links.

Tempo Software just announced an integration of Timesheets with Atlassian's Jira Align. This integration allows leaders of product and software organizations to calculate developer investments across product portfolios automatically. 

AI technologies have become a popular topic these days, but their most anticipated and promising application, providing meaningful answers to inquiries, has numerous applications in service desk support. AI can empower virtual agents to handle routine support requests, freeing human agents to focus on more complex issues. 

Attention security teams! Beacon is now available for open beta testing. Beacon is a smart threat detection engine designed for Atlassian cloud products. It monitors your Atlassian cloud products for unusual user activity, including data exfiltration events, integration changes, and more across Jira, Confluence, and your Atlassian admin hub. 

At their inaugural annual event, Atlassian Presents: Unleash, focused on empowering agile & DevOps teams, Atlassian has announced three significant improvements to their Jira suite of products that enable seamless collaboration among teams and tasks from inception to completion.

You may have already been introduced to Jira Product Discovery (Atlassian's new stand-alone product), which is currently in beta but will go into GA soon. It's a centralized platform that collects and organizes product input and leverages data-driven decision-making to help product managers transform their product ideas into reality. 

On January 10th, 2023, Atlassian announced changes to their Server and Data Center products pricing as of February 15th, 2023. Miles Faulkner of Blended Perspective breaks down the changes and summarizes everything you need to know to help you navigate.

If you prefer to work in dark mode, get in on an early access preview of a dark theme for Jira Cloud products. This is Jira’s highest-requested feature – according to Amira Badran, Product Manager for Jira Software. And even though there are many limitations as of now, you can check it out in Jira Labs. Many already did, and love it!