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Join us for a What’s New in Jira 3.13 Webinar
As I announced yesterday, we’ve just released Jira 3.13. If you like to see 3.13 in action, and get a chance to talk to us about it directly, then join us for a What’s New in 3.13 Webinar next week. We’re offering two sessions, doing our best to span the time zones. You’ll need to […]
Dan Hardiker webinar video now on-demand
You can now watch our inaugural plugin of the month webinar on-demand. Dan Hardiker, Adaptavist, has written more than 25 plugins for Confluence. In this webinar, he describes the Form Mail plugin and Rating macro and gives a preview to an upcoming Advanced Search macro. Along the way, he gives advice to others interested in […]
Announcing Jira 3.13
Atlassian is happy to announce the release of Jira 3.13! With this release, we’ve gone back to basics, and took a long look at jira.atlassian.com, a.k.a. JAC, our public Issue Tracker. We picked some of the most popular requested features, and put them into Jira 3.13. Those features include: Shareable Dashboard (JRA-2509) Our top vote-getter, […]
Jira Issues Bucket 2.0 released
Just in time for Jira 3.13 release (release notes), Jira Issues Bucket plugin version 2.0 of this plugin is released as well (release notes). This is a major productivity improvement. Some of the annoyances are taken care of now: Filter out updated issues where the author of the last update is current user In a […]
Crowd 1.5 Now Supports Google Apps
Today we’re happy to announce that the newest version of Crowd now includes single sign-on support for Google Apps and OpenID 2.0. This new release extends Crowd’s identity management capabilities to Google Apps, allowing a user to authenticate directly to Google Apps with the one username and password they use to log on to other […]
Let’s get personal… Jira and Confluence Personal Licenses
In 2006, we created a free, “personal” license for Confluence for collaborating with your friends and peers. It has been a big hit. Over 17,000 people have generated a personal Confluence license to date. WOW. Over the years, several customers had asked for a Jira personal edition, too. The wait is almost over. Jira 3.13 […]
Atlassian named Sydney’s Business of the Year
Atlassian took home two awards from the City of Sydney Business Awards including being named winner of the City of Sydney’s Business of the Year. The ceremony took place at Doltone House and was presided over by Lord Mayor Clover Moore MP. Atlassian competed with 260 other Sydney-based businesses to win the Information and Communication […]
The many faces (and uses) of Jira
Excerpted from Cerberus Help Desk Blog. noun: “Send this over to Jira.” verb: “That’s a strange bug, go ahead and Jira it.” metaphor: “Jira’s a giant to-do list for the developers.” present participle: “Be right back I’m Jira’ing a bug from the forums.” preterite: “I just saw your post half hour ago, I Jira’d it […]
At your service
The number of customers we support has doubled every year since Atlassian started just over six years ago. Today, we support 12,000 customers. That’s a lot of legendary service. To ramp things up to meet the demands of small 5-person teams to mega customers, we took a number of steps: Increased the number of support […]
Inaugural Plugin of the Month Webinar
Just a quick reminder that this coming Tuesday marks our first ever ‘Plugin of the Month’ webinar by renowned plugin developer extraordinaire Dan Hardiker of Adaptavist. The webinar has been rescheduled for 12pm PST. Dan is a Chief Technical Architect and founding member of Adaptavist.com (running on Confluence!), a company that does Confluence customisation, hosting, […]
SF Atlassian User Group and Open House September 18th!
It’s hard to believe that my first day at Atlassian as the new event coordinator was just two weeks ago. I was impressed by the beautiful new office space. Located in the Mission District of San Francisco, this renovated warehouse has lots of space, natural light, and, when you’ve had enough of your desk, there […]
Form Autocomplete
What is autocomplete? Autocompletion, which was first introduced by Microsoft Internet Explorer, is the browser feature of remembering what you entered in previous text form fields with the same name. So, for example, if the field is named name and you had entered several variants of your name in other fields named name, then autocompletion […]
Introducing the Atlassian Integration Guide
Introducing the Atlassian Integration Guide. Do you have Jira and Confluence, and you want to make them play together? Did you know that Jira, Confluence, Fisheye and Crucible can get intimate with each other, and Subversion can join the party too? Do you ask yourself, what else do the Atlassian applications get up to when […]
Calling all Atlassian Users in the San Francisco Bay Area!
I would personally like to extend the invitation for our upcoming San Francisco User Group to any Atlassian users in the Bay Area. Thursday, September 18th at 3pm we will host an event that will be unlike any other User Group we have had to date. This is going to be a lot of fun! […]
Atlassians in the City to Surf Fun Run
The City to Surf race in August 2008 was awesome.

We ran in a moving crowd of 70,000 people through 14 kilometres, witnessing many strange and hilarious costumes. Almost all finished the race in under two hours.
As a team, we donated money to the Shepherd Centre, a charity that helps kids with cochlear implants. Together we donated $974, and Atlassian matched our donations, creating a total donation of $1,948.
