JIRA 6 beta available today!

We're excited to announce the beta release of JIRA 6, now available for download! If you develop a JIRA plugin or simply can't wait to get your hands on the new design, read on. Check out the New Design The JIRA look and feel is being redesigned in JIRA 6.0 according to the new Atlassian Design Guidelines. If you are a developer, these changes will affect you; start making changes to your plugins now. The following documents are designed to help you with this transition: Preparing for JIRA

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Keep your Product Owner happy with GreenHopper 6.2

We're very excited today to announce the availability of GreenHopper 6.2! We've satisfied a whopping 850 votes with this release, and no matter how long you've been using JIRA & GreenHopper, you'll find some exciting stuff in all the reporting goodness of GreenHopper 6.2: New Epic Report - track progress toward larger feature work spanning multiple sprints New Version Report - projected completion dates calculated per-day based on historical velocity, giving you confidence as you get close

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Charlie Dusts Off his Passport! Charlie loved New York City.  He had a great time meeting the customers there and filling up on thin crust pizza.   He got a new passport and headed off to Toronto and London for week three of the roadshow.  He's enjoying taking photos with our customers.  Charlie had an awesome time seeing the Toronto Blue Jays as well as the CN Tower.   He also got a good dose of the London weather on the other side of the Atlantic.  He particularly liked Big Ben as well

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The Stash team recently released the Stash-Bamboo plugin, which surfaces pass/fail results from Bamboo builds inside Stash. The main use case for the plugin is to let people reviewing a pull request see whether tests are passing on the development branch before they give the thumbs-up for merging it into master. Pretty cool. So I asked Build engineering to install the plugin on the Bamboo instance we use to build and test Confluence. For now, Bamboo is configured to notify Stash only for "A1.

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The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. Hey JIRA Mavens! It's time for another tip from Atlassian University. Almost everyone on the project team has the question, "How are things going?" Looking sprint to sprint it's easy to see progress at the sprint level but what if you want to take a step up and see the larger picture? Measuring Progress Every project

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The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series aimed to help you master Atlassian's tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. It's been almost a month since we released Confluence Blueprints, ready-made best practices to common business problems. The response has been overwhelmingly positive as users everywhere discover the power of Confluence for solving their everyday problems. One of the most frustrating of these problems is

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