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The best stories related to our favorite topics from all over the Internet. Find links to the best news, blog posts and stories related to Leadership, Management, Design, Requirements, Development, Operations, Test, Security and Atlassian to mention some topics. Stories is a curated section where any story is welcome as long as it fit the categories and are considered useful and interesting to the community.

Security Bulletin - October 15 2024

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confluence.atlassian.com - The vulnerabilities reported in this Security Bulletin include 6 high-severity vulnerabilities which have been fixed in new versions of our products, released in the last month. These vulnerabilities are discovered via our Bug Bounty program, pen-testing processes, and third-party library scans.
To fix all the vulnerabilities impacting your product(s), Atlassian recommends patching your instances to the latest version or one of the Fixed Versions for each product below. The listed Fixed Versions for each product are current as of October 15, 2024 (date of publication); visit the linked product Release Notes

Announcement: SonarQube integration rolling out

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community.atlassian.com - Hey everyone, I'm excited to share a new integration with SonarQube that brings in a new metric for Quality Gates! To setup SonarQube with Compass, head over to "Settings" (Gear icon, upper right corner), then "Incoming webhooks", click "Create", and choose "SonarQube" from the dropdown. Following the setup steps in Compass you'll get a URL and some instructions on how to set up a webhook in SonarQube. You'll then need to setup the webhook for each SonarQube Project or Portfolio so Compass can receive the data. 

Looking for Early Users to Test Our Visual Collaboration App

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community.atlassian.com - I've been working on a new app called FlowSense—it's an AI-powered app that makes it super easy and fast to create user flows and journey maps right within the Atlassian ecosystem.
It provides detailed insights for each step and helps teams collaborate more effectively by using integrated Loom and resources library. It also comes with Rovo sidekick that should help you with creating informed flows. I'm looking for a few people who'd be interested in trying it out and giving some feedback. If you're up for it, just drop a comment or send me a message!

Bitbucket Data Center 9.0 LTS has just been released!

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community.atlassian.com - We've just announced that Bitbucket 9.4 is now live as the latest Long Term Support (LTS) release for Bitbucket Data Center in our earlier post!
Bitbucket 9.4 introduces enhancements that streamline both developer and admin experiences, while also bolstering security and optimizing performance. Whether you're looking to improve code review processes or enhance system resilience, this LTS release has you covered.

Add Jira release views into your Confluence pages to create more meaningful release status reports

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community.atlassian.com - A few months ago, we rolled out Smart Link support for Jira board & backlog and also dashboards & gadgets, letting you embed Jira board, backlogs, dashboards and gadgets directly into Confluence pages. This was a game-changer for creating reports, project updates, and providing commentary on in-progress work for stakeholders and leadership.
We’ve got some great news to share with you: Smart Link support now extends to Jira releases. No more clunky screenshots. Just copy, paste, and configure views of your Jira releases seamlessly in Confluence.

Increased max step time for Pipelines builds

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community.atlassian.com - Hi all - happy to announce that with the completion of our migration to our new V2 runtime we are now able to extend the max execution time for steps in Pipelines.
As of today, we have extended the max execution time to 720 mins (12 hrs). We are able to extend this further if required, but will wait to hear feedback from customers before making additional changes.
Documentation for the max step time has been updated here.

📣 Beta sign up – Introducing Unified Search, the new and improved search experience

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community.atlassian.com - Accessing the right information quickly is key to keeping workflows running smoothly and boosting efficiency across your teams. To help you achieve this, we're excited to share that Unified Search, a revamped search experience for Confluence, is now available for closed beta.
Based on popular requests, Unified Search offers multiple ways to access your company's knowledge and allows you to search across your Atlassian products directly from Confluence with various ways to filter and sort your search results. This feature will be available to Confluence customers next year as part of your existing Free, Standard, Premium, or Enterprise plans.

Our newest update to Help Centers in JSM: Linking Projects to Help Centers!

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community.atlassian.com - I’m excited to announce that the ability to link projects to Help Centers is now available in Jira Service Management Premium and Enterprise 🚀
In July, we released Multiple Help Centers in Jira Service Management, to allow for multiple front doors for different sets of employees or customers looking for support.
The #1 feedback we received was for the ability to associate / link specific projects to specific Help Centers.

Getting started with Jira automation

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community.atlassian.com - Living in today’s fast-paced world, who doesn’t love getting rid of boring manual tasks and letting automation do the heavy lifting? After all, the less time we spend on repetitive chores, the more we can focus on what really matters.
I’ve been working with Jira for quite a while now, and let me tell you—a lot of folks I’ve collaborated with have shared some clever ideas for streamlining processes with automation. (Spoiler alert: I do it too on my private instance!)

User Impact Score for JIRA

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community.atlassian.com - I've been dabbling with Analytics and using the Change Log table associated with each issue to do some of the basics.  (If you know me, you know that means REST API Calls directly into Power BI).
I've been using Atlassian Data for testing and I discovered something called the "UIS" or "User Impact Score".   It is quite intriguing  if you add it to your Issue Navigator you can see which issues are being ranked the highest.   See screen shots below.

ProductGo Now Supports Migrating from Data Center to Cloud Using JCMA

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community.atlassian.com - Atlassian has been evolving its product deployment strategies over the past few years, moving away from traditional on-premises solutions towards more flexible cloud-based platforms. This transition impacts how businesses manage their software development and project management tools.

Using a Free Jira Account is Fine ... Right?

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community.atlassian.com - Atlassian makes it very easy to spin up a Free Jira Cloud account. In fact, you can be in business and using Jira in a matter of minutes. Or course, that assumes that you know what you are doing in Jira, or have some relevant experience. But if you don't, that's the best way to learn. Create a Free account, take some Free Atlassian University Jira courses, and simply start using the tool!

Introducing the summary view in Jira software projects

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community.atlassian.com - If you work in Jira business projects, you may already be a fan of the summary view. We know that gaining a clear snapshot overview of your project is important for all teams to understand their project progress at a glance, so we’ve now enabled the summary view across both software and business projects.
The summary view has been designed to give you a glimpse into how a project is tracking, as well as business performance and workload distribution across team members. Each chart provides an easy-to-digest overview, with the ability to click through to view the breakdown of individual work items.

Paid research opportunity - Custom links in the Application Navigator

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community.atlassian.com - Hi 👋! My name is Niraj and I’m a designer at Atlassian working on ways to improve the user experience of the Atlassian application navigator.
We’re looking to improve how custom links are setup and displayed in the application navigator.
What’s involved
45 min Zoom interview
We may share designs and concepts for your feedback
A $100 USD thank you gift awaits you after the session

Reminder - Upgrade your Pipelines runners to v3

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community.atlassian.com - A quick reminder to everyone using Bitbucket Pipelines runners:
As we shared in September, users of the on-prem runner are required to upgrade their runners to v3 before the deadline tomorrow. Any builds executed on out of date runners after that date may encounter instability in relation to caches and artifacts.
If you are using an out of date version of the runner you will also be seeing in-product prompts letting you know and providing instructions on how to upgrade.

🚨 Restricting source access to atlassian-jwt, atlassian-security, and atlassian-seraph (DC)

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community.developer.atlassian.com - On Monday 25 November, we will be changing the access to the following Atlassian repositories to private:
https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/atlassian-jwt
https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/atlassian-seraph
https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/atlassian-security
In addition, we will stop distributing the sources as part of future product releases of these repositories as well as atlassian-oauth.

What Type of Jira Workflow Transition is Best?

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community.atlassian.com - Well, it's Jira so of course, the answer is, It Depends!
And to be honest, some of the explanation has to do with personality as much as functionality. Some people like definitive paths, others are more free form and like the flexibility. 
So, what are we really talking about here? We are talking about the movement of issues or work items in Jira through the workflow or across the board, if you like. These steps in the workflows and columns on a Jira board relate to Statuses in the workflow. And Statuses are mapped to columns on a board. 

End-of-Year Metrics for Smarter Planning: Insights for Product and Support Leaders

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community.atlassian.com - As the year draws to a close, it’s time to reflect, evaluate, and plan.
Metrics offer a window into your team’s performance, efficiency, and areas for growth. By digging deeper into these key performance indicators, you can not only reflect on the past year but also shape a stronger, better strategy for the future 🌟
Let’s explore these metrics further, including how they impact your team and practical steps to use them for planning 🚀

Security Bulletin - October 15 2024

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confluence.atlassian.com - The vulnerabilities reported in this Security Bulletin include 6 high-severity vulnerabilities which have been fixed in new versions of our products, released in the last month. These vulnerabilities are discovered via our Bug Bounty program, pen-testing processes, and third-party library scans.
To fix all the vulnerabilities impacting your product(s), Atlassian recommends patching your instances to the latest version or one of the Fixed Versions for each product below. The listed Fixed Versions for each product are current as of October 15, 2024 (date of publication); visit the linked product Release Notes

Announcement: SonarQube integration rolling out

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community.atlassian.com - Hey everyone, I'm excited to share a new integration with SonarQube that brings in a new metric for Quality Gates! To setup SonarQube with Compass, head over to "Settings" (Gear icon, upper right corner), then "Incoming webhooks", click "Create", and choose "SonarQube" from the dropdown. Following the setup steps in Compass you'll get a URL and some instructions on how to set up a webhook in SonarQube. You'll then need to setup the webhook for each SonarQube Project or Portfolio so Compass can receive the data. 

Looking for Early Users to Test Our Visual Collaboration App

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community.atlassian.com - I've been working on a new app called FlowSense—it's an AI-powered app that makes it super easy and fast to create user flows and journey maps right within the Atlassian ecosystem.
It provides detailed insights for each step and helps teams collaborate more effectively by using integrated Loom and resources library. It also comes with Rovo sidekick that should help you with creating informed flows. I'm looking for a few people who'd be interested in trying it out and giving some feedback. If you're up for it, just drop a comment or send me a message!

Bitbucket Data Center 9.0 LTS has just been released!

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community.atlassian.com - We've just announced that Bitbucket 9.4 is now live as the latest Long Term Support (LTS) release for Bitbucket Data Center in our earlier post!
Bitbucket 9.4 introduces enhancements that streamline both developer and admin experiences, while also bolstering security and optimizing performance. Whether you're looking to improve code review processes or enhance system resilience, this LTS release has you covered.

Add Jira release views into your Confluence pages to create more meaningful release status reports

100%
1
community.atlassian.com - A few months ago, we rolled out Smart Link support for Jira board & backlog and also dashboards & gadgets, letting you embed Jira board, backlogs, dashboards and gadgets directly into Confluence pages. This was a game-changer for creating reports, project updates, and providing commentary on in-progress work for stakeholders and leadership.
We’ve got some great news to share with you: Smart Link support now extends to Jira releases. No more clunky screenshots. Just copy, paste, and configure views of your Jira releases seamlessly in Confluence.

Increased max step time for Pipelines builds

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1
community.atlassian.com - Hi all - happy to announce that with the completion of our migration to our new V2 runtime we are now able to extend the max execution time for steps in Pipelines.
As of today, we have extended the max execution time to 720 mins (12 hrs). We are able to extend this further if required, but will wait to hear feedback from customers before making additional changes.
Documentation for the max step time has been updated here.

📣 Beta sign up – Introducing Unified Search, the new and improved search experience

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1
community.atlassian.com - Accessing the right information quickly is key to keeping workflows running smoothly and boosting efficiency across your teams. To help you achieve this, we're excited to share that Unified Search, a revamped search experience for Confluence, is now available for closed beta.
Based on popular requests, Unified Search offers multiple ways to access your company's knowledge and allows you to search across your Atlassian products directly from Confluence with various ways to filter and sort your search results. This feature will be available to Confluence customers next year as part of your existing Free, Standard, Premium, or Enterprise plans.

Our newest update to Help Centers in JSM: Linking Projects to Help Centers!

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1
community.atlassian.com - I’m excited to announce that the ability to link projects to Help Centers is now available in Jira Service Management Premium and Enterprise 🚀
In July, we released Multiple Help Centers in Jira Service Management, to allow for multiple front doors for different sets of employees or customers looking for support.
The #1 feedback we received was for the ability to associate / link specific projects to specific Help Centers.

Getting started with Jira automation

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1
community.atlassian.com - Living in today’s fast-paced world, who doesn’t love getting rid of boring manual tasks and letting automation do the heavy lifting? After all, the less time we spend on repetitive chores, the more we can focus on what really matters.
I’ve been working with Jira for quite a while now, and let me tell you—a lot of folks I’ve collaborated with have shared some clever ideas for streamlining processes with automation. (Spoiler alert: I do it too on my private instance!)

User Impact Score for JIRA

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1
community.atlassian.com - I've been dabbling with Analytics and using the Change Log table associated with each issue to do some of the basics.  (If you know me, you know that means REST API Calls directly into Power BI).
I've been using Atlassian Data for testing and I discovered something called the "UIS" or "User Impact Score".   It is quite intriguing  if you add it to your Issue Navigator you can see which issues are being ranked the highest.   See screen shots below.

ProductGo Now Supports Migrating from Data Center to Cloud Using JCMA

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1
community.atlassian.com - Atlassian has been evolving its product deployment strategies over the past few years, moving away from traditional on-premises solutions towards more flexible cloud-based platforms. This transition impacts how businesses manage their software development and project management tools.

Using a Free Jira Account is Fine ... Right?

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1
community.atlassian.com - Atlassian makes it very easy to spin up a Free Jira Cloud account. In fact, you can be in business and using Jira in a matter of minutes. Or course, that assumes that you know what you are doing in Jira, or have some relevant experience. But if you don't, that's the best way to learn. Create a Free account, take some Free Atlassian University Jira courses, and simply start using the tool!

Introducing the summary view in Jira software projects

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1
community.atlassian.com - If you work in Jira business projects, you may already be a fan of the summary view. We know that gaining a clear snapshot overview of your project is important for all teams to understand their project progress at a glance, so we’ve now enabled the summary view across both software and business projects.
The summary view has been designed to give you a glimpse into how a project is tracking, as well as business performance and workload distribution across team members. Each chart provides an easy-to-digest overview, with the ability to click through to view the breakdown of individual work items.

Paid research opportunity - Custom links in the Application Navigator

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community.atlassian.com - Hi 👋! My name is Niraj and I’m a designer at Atlassian working on ways to improve the user experience of the Atlassian application navigator.
We’re looking to improve how custom links are setup and displayed in the application navigator.
What’s involved
45 min Zoom interview
We may share designs and concepts for your feedback
A $100 USD thank you gift awaits you after the session

Reminder - Upgrade your Pipelines runners to v3

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1
community.atlassian.com - A quick reminder to everyone using Bitbucket Pipelines runners:
As we shared in September, users of the on-prem runner are required to upgrade their runners to v3 before the deadline tomorrow. Any builds executed on out of date runners after that date may encounter instability in relation to caches and artifacts.
If you are using an out of date version of the runner you will also be seeing in-product prompts letting you know and providing instructions on how to upgrade.

🚨 Restricting source access to atlassian-jwt, atlassian-security, and atlassian-seraph (DC)

100%
1
community.developer.atlassian.com - On Monday 25 November, we will be changing the access to the following Atlassian repositories to private:
https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/atlassian-jwt
https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/atlassian-seraph
https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/atlassian-security
In addition, we will stop distributing the sources as part of future product releases of these repositories as well as atlassian-oauth.

What Type of Jira Workflow Transition is Best?

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1
community.atlassian.com - Well, it's Jira so of course, the answer is, It Depends!
And to be honest, some of the explanation has to do with personality as much as functionality. Some people like definitive paths, others are more free form and like the flexibility. 
So, what are we really talking about here? We are talking about the movement of issues or work items in Jira through the workflow or across the board, if you like. These steps in the workflows and columns on a Jira board relate to Statuses in the workflow. And Statuses are mapped to columns on a board. 

End-of-Year Metrics for Smarter Planning: Insights for Product and Support Leaders

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1
community.atlassian.com - As the year draws to a close, it’s time to reflect, evaluate, and plan.
Metrics offer a window into your team’s performance, efficiency, and areas for growth. By digging deeper into these key performance indicators, you can not only reflect on the past year but also shape a stronger, better strategy for the future 🌟
Let’s explore these metrics further, including how they impact your team and practical steps to use them for planning 🚀

Security Bulletin - October 15 2024

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1
confluence.atlassian.com - The vulnerabilities reported in this Security Bulletin include 6 high-severity vulnerabilities which have been fixed in new versions of our products, released in the last month. These vulnerabilities are discovered via our Bug Bounty program, pen-testing processes, and third-party library scans.
To fix all the vulnerabilities impacting your product(s), Atlassian recommends patching your instances to the latest version or one of the Fixed Versions for each product below. The listed Fixed Versions for each product are current as of October 15, 2024 (date of publication); visit the linked product Release Notes

Announcement: SonarQube integration rolling out

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0
community.atlassian.com - Hey everyone, I'm excited to share a new integration with SonarQube that brings in a new metric for Quality Gates! To setup SonarQube with Compass, head over to "Settings" (Gear icon, upper right corner), then "Incoming webhooks", click "Create", and choose "SonarQube" from the dropdown. Following the setup steps in Compass you'll get a URL and some instructions on how to set up a webhook in SonarQube. You'll then need to setup the webhook for each SonarQube Project or Portfolio so Compass can receive the data.