Atlassian ICYMI January 2025
Happy New Year everyone!!
What an amazing 2024 we had in regards to all of the changes we saw for Atlassian. But what is next for this brand new year for the Atlassian cloud platform? We certainly know that AI & their new systems of work approach will be key, but how does this translate into releasable functionality for the likes of you and me to get our hands on.
With the new year, comes a slight change to the ICYMI blog to help keep it in line. Alongside the highlight video, you’ll also get the full writeup to read at your leisure. So let’s get started.
Highlights
Work Management & Collaboration
Atlassian announce Jan17, 2025 that Confluence is getting a UI & Visuals refresh. Some of you may have even started seeing some of these changes. All of this work is being built on since the Brand refresh at Team 24. For all information on the brand refresh, read here. This announcement for Confluence visuals refresh, announced over the community, is being worked on to achieve four main objectives:
Cross-product cohesion — The visual refresh will roll out across several Atlassian products so that navigating from one product to the next feels coherent and becomes easier than ever before.
More productivity — Through a clear and consistent visual language we’re reducing visual noise and making it easier for users to focus on the task at hand.
More visual appeal — One of our goals was to create a brand experience that feels human and tangible, despite being digital, to make our products more modern, relatable, and engaging for users.
Increased usability — Our modernized icons provide clearer navigation and our type choices and colors provide better accessibility.
Everything from, typography & iconography to components and colours is getting a refresh. To have a look over the majority of changes, below are before and after photos.
Before
Confluence visual update - Before
After
Confluence visual update - After
Service Management
Towards the end of December, Atlassian made a new announcement. JSM & Slack will come ever closer with the use of the new Atlassian Intelligence functionality. The new Summarise incident option is designed to help new incoming support engineers to get up to speed much quicker. It will create a clear incident timeline that will show off a step by step recording of the incident from messages from both JSM & Slack. All of this work, designed to get new teams up to speed quick & ultimately have your incident resolved faster.
For more information take a look at summarizing incidents and creating incident timelines in Slack using Atlassian Intelligence.
Platform
App management is changing in Atlassian Cloud. As of the end of Jan 2025, the ability to apps will be moved into Atlassian Guard. You can read the full community announcement HERE. Atlassian are making this change to make it easier for admins to centrally manage all apps, regardless of product. The Universal Plugin Manager (UPM) found within Jira & Confluence, WILL be switched off as of Jan 31, 2025.
New plugin manager experience
SCMI API Keys will now be limited to ONE year. No longer unlimited. While his change was implemented just before Christmas, it has only just been announced through product updates. So who may this affect? This change applies only when you:
Set up user provisioning for the first time
Regenerate an existing SCIM API key
Atlassian have stated “This change does not affect existing SCIM API keys for now.” Be aware that this will mean you and your admins need to be putting in calendar reminders or having a break glass account to not have any authentication problems.
SCIM expiration date
Goals & Projects officially become part of the platform. What was once Atlas is now fully part of the cloud platform, meaning it is FREE for all customers.
As part of the system of work movement, Atlassian will be releasing these features to help make sure that no matter who how and where the work is done, anyone who needs to know can track the work to keep moving the company forward. These revitalised features will be moved to Atlassian Home. Read about Atlassian Home.
Atlas in Atlassian Home
Full product updates
Below are all release notes found within the product update list. Let me know which one is your favourite!!
| Product | Release Note | Status | Change Type | Rollout Schedule |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jira | Introducing 'work' as the new collective term for items tracked in Jira Cloud | Rolling Out | Announcement | March 2025 |
| Jira Service Management | See breaching SLAs in the board insights panel | Rolling Out | Improvement | Jan - Feb 2025 |
| Jira | Verify if the app can be installed on the instance by checking the license status of the app to be activated and the instance on which it has to be activated | Rollout Complete | Improvement | Jan 29, 2025 |
| Confluence | Improved PDF export | Rollout Complete | Improvement | Jan 29, 2025 |
| Confluence | Upcoming changes to the incoming webhook trigger in Atlassian automation | Rollout Complete | Announcement | Jan 29, 2025 |
| Jira | Automatically clone an issue when it’s done | Rolling Out | Improvement | Starting on Jan 29, 2025 |
| Jira | The 'Show sum' functionality has moved in Assets in Jira Service Management | Rolling Out | Improvement | Starting on Jan 11, 2025 |
| Confluence | Bulk duplicate and delete components in the automation rulebuilder | Rollout Complete | Improvement | Jan 29, 2025 |
| Jira | Due date now appears on company-managed boards (CMP) and backlog cards | Rolling Out | Improvement | Starting on Jan 26, 2025 |
| Jira | Highlighted search terms in in-product help | Rolling Out | Improvement | Starting on Jan 11, 2025 |
| Jira | Two more rules are coming to the new workflow editor! | Rolling Out | Improvement | Starting on Jan 23, 2025 |
| Confluence | Confluence Recap GA | Rolling Out | Experiment | Starting on Jan 26, 2025 |
| Jira | Create new statuses from the list view | Rolling Out | Improvement | Starting on Dec 17, 2024 |
| Jira | We're making it easier to get started with Jira Service Management templates | Rolling Out | Improvement | Starting on Jan 23, 2025 |
| Confluence | An easier and more beautiful way to view where your content is within a space | Rolling Out | Improvement | Starting on Jan 8, 2025 |
| Atlassian Administration | Prevent people who are not logged in from viewing Confluence pages | Rollout Complete | Improvement | Jan 23, 2025 |
| Atlassian Administration | Detect potentially sensitive data in Jira in real time | Rollout Complete | Improvement | Dec 2024 - Jan 2025 |
| Atlassian Administration | Track activities for Atlassian Analytics in the audit log | Rollout Complete | Announcement | January 2025 |
| Jira Service Management | Add permissions to detail fields for customers and entitlements | Rollout Complete | Improvement | Nov 2024 - Jan 2025 |
| Jira | Improvements to how fields display in custom tabs in the issue view | Rolling Out | Improvement | Starting on Jan 14, 2025 |
| Jira Service Management | Get an overview of your project with the Summary page | Rolling Out | Experiment | Starting on Jan 17, 2025 |
| Confluence | Updates to Confluence's daily digest | Rolling Out | Improvement | Starting on Jan 20, 2025 |
| Jira | Import CSV data into service projects with ease | Rolling Out | Improvement | January 2025 |
| Confluence | Visitors can now edit public whiteboards | Rolling Out | Improvement | Starting on Jan 17, 2025 |
| Jira | Highlight work with color in your list | Rollout Complete | Announcement | Jan 17, 2025 |
| Jira | Updates to filter name searches | Rollout Complete | Improvement | Jan 17, 2025 |
| Jira | Edit the name or icon of a business project | Rollout Complete | Improvement | Jan 17, 2025 |
| Jira | New additions to the More (•••) menu on an issue | Rollout Complete | Improvement | Jan 17, 2025 |
| Confluence | Editor: media interaction improvements | Rollout Complete | Improvement | Jan 17, 2025 |
| Confluence | Add Company Hub as a default landing page | Rolling Out | Improvement | Starting on Jan 11, 2025 |
| Confluence | Helpful ways to find the link to use for your Smart Link | Rollout Complete | Improvement | Jan 17, 2025 |
| Confluence | Collaborate more easily on whiteboards by following your teammates | Rollout Complete | Experiment | Jan 17, 2025 |
| Jira | An improvement to the Jira search experience | Rollout Complete | Improvement | Jan 17, 2025 |
| Jira | Update story points directly in the issue navigator list view | Rollout Complete | Improvement | Jan 17, 2025 |
| Confluence | Import Miro boards to Confluence whiteboards | Rollout Complete | Improvement | Jan 17, 2025 |
| Confluence | Whiteboards voting improvements | Rollout Complete | Improvement | Jan 17, 2025 |
| Jira | Accessibility improvements in the project timeline | Rollout Complete | Improvement | Jan 17, 2025 |
| Confluence | Editor: Add media from web links | Rollout Complete | Improvement | Jan 17, 2025 |
| Confluence | Summarize differences between versions of a page | Rolling Out | Improvement | Starting on Jan 11, 2025 |
| Jira | Filter form-related requests in Jira | Rollout Complete | Improvement | Jan 17, 2025 |
| Jira | Create a child issue from your plan timeline | Rollout Complete | Improvement | Jan 17, 2025 |
| Jira | Efficiency improvements in the calendar view | Rollout Complete | Improvement | Jan 17, 2025 |
| Jira | More text formatting for Jira paragraph custom fields | Rollout Complete | Improvement | Jan 17, 2025 |
| Confluence | Task editing permissions for Live Pages | Rollout Complete | Improvement | Jan 17, 2025 |
| Jira | Quickly view images directly from your board issue cards | Rollout Complete | Announcement | Jan 17, 2025 |
| Confluence | Import HTML content into Confluence spaces | Rolling Out | Improvement | Starting on Dec 14, 2024 |
| Confluence | Sticky note authors in whiteboards | Rolling Out | Announcement | Starting on Jan 11, 2025 |
| Atlassian Administration | Defer the rollout of specific changes | Rollout Complete | Announcement | Jan 17, 2025 |
| Jira Service Management | View Assets objects across change management features | Rollout Complete | Improvement | Jan 17, 2025 |
| Confluence | Editor: Spotlight for inline comments | Rollout Complete | Improvement | Jan 17, 2025 |
| Jira | Summary view now available in software projects | Rollout Complete | Improvement | January 2025 |
| Confluence | Mentions in databases | Rolling Out | Improvement | Starting on Jan 11, 2025 |
| Jira | Plans summary page visual refresh | Rolling Out | Improvement | Starting on Jan 14, 2025 |
| Atlassian Administration | Turn your information into action with new AI capabilities | Rollout Complete | Announcement | Jan 11, 2025 |
| Atlassian Administration | SCIM API keys expire in one year | Rollout Complete | Improvement | Jan 11, 2025 |
| Jira | Background and card cover images from Unsplash | Rollout Complete | Improvement | Jan 11, 2025 |
| Confluence | Curved lines in whiteboards | Rolling Out | Improvement | Starting on Jan 6, 2025 |
| Jira | Create and edit status names from the project summary | Rollout Complete | Improvement | Dec 2024 - Jan 2025 |
| Atlassian Administration | Scroll and filter Atlassian product changes with ease | Rollout Complete | Improvement | Jan 1, 2025 |
| Atlassian Administration | Data security policies have a fresh new look | Rollout Complete | Improvement | Jan 1, 2025 |
| Atlassian Administration | Keep on top of sensitive data in your organization with redaction | Rolling out | Improvement | Dec 2024 - Jan 2025 |
