What’s new in
Jira Software Cloud

Create custom roles and assign permissions to these roles in next-gen projects. Now, in addition to the standard roles you get out-of-the-box (Administrator, Member, and Viewer) you can create roles of your choice. Once you’ve created the new role, you can: view and change its associated permissions, clone it, and a delete it. 

We've given you the ability to break work down within an issue by creating child issues; for example breaking epics down into tasks, and breaking tasks down into subtasks. You'll soon be able to rank this work so that everyone is clear on what's most important, no matter what view they are looking at - whether it be the board, the backlog, or the issue itself.

We’ll be delivering versions, along with the fixed version field, so you can plan and track multiple issues going into a release, reflecting the way you actually ship software. Versions can also be helpful for better understanding release readiness as well as reviewing what’s been released after the fact, for example to investigate problems or celebrate accomplishments.

Get a better sense of what your team is working on, at a glance, right from the roadmap. With the addition of roadmap hierarchy, you'll be able to see all the stories, tasks, and other child issues that roll up to your Epics.

New filters enable you to find exactly what you need on the roadmap, whether that’s work items from a specific person, that are in progress, or that you’ve completed. Once you find the right view of the roadmap, you can easily export it to PNG through the roadmap’s share feature.

You can now create smaller pieces of work, with a single click, right from the Jira roadmap. This will help teams move faster, by doing more with fewer clicks

This new custom field lets you capture detailed text responses in the main body of your issues. Add bullets, numbering, heading styles, and more to create the rich content needed to describe your team's work.

We’ve added breadcrumbs in the issue view to facilitate actions for adding, changing, and removing epics. In addition, the ordering of child issues in the issue view now matches the ordering on the Board and Backlog, and any updates on the Board or Backlog are reflected immediately in the issue view.

The Jira Roadmap Macro lets you embed a live Jira Software roadmap right into Confluence. ‘Live' in this case means that as you update your roadmap in Jira Software, those updates come through in real-time to Confluence. This feature is great for surfacing your roadmap with additional context to teammates or leadership who may not regularly access your Jira Software site. It’s also great for sharing the roadmaps of multiple teams in a single place. And it’s easier than ever to use: Simply drop your roadmap URL into Confluence and watch the magic happen.

We’ve merged the sprint report and burndown chart into a single report in next-gen. The sprint burndown chart shows the amount of work that has been completed in a sprint, and the total work remaining. It’s also great for understanding scope creep, and for providing a summary in sprint retrospectives.

Create issues with less hassle by adding them inline in the backlog (as well as on the board and the roadmap).

We’ve added in subtasks to help people break down their work.

Help signal how your teammates should fill in the description field on your Jira issues by adding in pre-written default values.

We’ve added time tracking so you can log the hours you work on issues. This can be particularly helpful for people that need to keep track of how much time they’re spending on issues or bill clients for the work they’re doing.

The cumulative flow diagram helps teams see issue statuses in aggregate over time, which can be helpful for identifying bottlenecks in your team's workflow. In this report, you’ll see new legends for toggling columns to improve usability, as well as performance improvements for projects with large amounts of data, and some fresh new colors.

Stay ahead of blockers and dependencies on your team by mapping out relationships between Epics on the Jira Software roadmap.

Track progress on all your roadmap items at a glance by seeing what percentage of the issues in your Epics are complete.