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Suggestion
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Resolution: Won't Fix
We’re making updates to confluence.atlassian.com that will impact your weekly Cloud Release Notes email.
At Atlassian, we keep your security top-of-mind. As part of improvements to increase customer security and privacy, we’re making some changes to our documentation website confluence.atlassian.com that will impact your ability to log in, watch pages, and will change how you receive the Cloud Release Notes email.
Cloud Release Notes page on our documentation site:
What’s changing
From February 15, 2023 you won’t be able to log in to confluence.atlassian.com, watch pages, or be notified about pages you’re watching.
We’re also changing Cloud Release Notes so they are handled the same as other communications you may choose to receive from Atlassian. It will also get a new email subject line: Cloud Release Notes <start date> to <end date>
What you need to do
You’ll need to update your email preferences to keep getting Cloud Release Notes. To update preferences:
- Go to your Email and Privacy Preferences.
- Check the box for Cloud Release Notes. You can add other subscriptions too!
Screenshot of Email and Privacy Preferences page with Release Notes highlighted:
How this change affects Data Center release notes
If you’re watching the Release Notes landing page for Jira applications, Confluence, or Bitbucket you will no longer get an email notification when that page is updated.
To continue to get updates when new product versions are available, head to Developer Community and subscribe to the announcements category for your product. We will be posting regular updates in these categories.
How this change affects other pages you may be watching
We removed the ability to watch documentation and knowledge base pages several years ago. Anyone who had previously watched pages will no longer be notified when pages change. Many of these notifications were low value, and you should see a little less clutter in your inbox as a result.
Workaround
If you still want to know when pages change, an RSS feed might be useful to you. You can use Confluence's RSS feed builder at https://confluence.atlassian.com/dashboard/configurerssfeed.action.
You'll need to remove the os_auth parameter from the RSS feed URL, as you won't be logged in. Here's an example RSS feed URL for the JIRASOFTWARE space where Jira Software release notes are published.
https://confluence.atlassian.com/createrssfeed.action?types=page&spaces=JIRASOFTWARE&title=Jira+Software+release+notes+feed&labelString%3D&excludedSpaceKeys%3D&sort=created&maxResults=10&timeSpan=7&showContent=true
Other spaces include SERVICEDESK (for Jira Service Management release notes), DOC (for all Confluence updates, including release notes), BAMBOORELEASES (for Bamboo release notes), CROWD (for all Crowd updates, including release notes), and SUPPORT (for changes to the support end of life page). You could also follow knowledge base spaces such as JIRAKB and CONFKB, if that is useful to you.
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[CLOUD-11536] Important changes to the weekly Cloud Release Notes email
9f4ac742e4d6 if this problem is ongoing, we recommend creating a Support Ticket with us. Thank you!
9f4ac742e4d6 I apologize for the delay with the new cloud release notes email. We ran into a few issues with the automations that produce and send it. You should start receiving it by early May. Thank you for your patience as we sort this out.
I have not received any cloud release notes since this changed. I do have Cloud Release Notes selected and I am not finding anything in my spam folder.
Has anyone from Atlassian actually TRIED using the space selector tool at RSS Feed Builder - Atlassian Documentation? Good luck.
Strongly suggest Atlassian creates RSS links for each of the products and publish those on a Confluence page.
The communication assumes that people watch spaces in regards to release notes only. That's not correct. I have a bunch spaces that I watch because I have these account before custom theming was added.
Mainly the Jira & Confluence KB related spaces. As I work as a consultant, a notification for "newly created KB articles" ensures that I'm aware of new knwon issues pro-actively. Oh there is a serious issue in version xyz, then let's postpone this update. Without that I would find the article when I have the problem.
Also historically, I can search my e-mails inbox, store useful articles, etc.
Something that are the strength of Confluence when you have an account! A lot of core features of Confluence are already removed / hidden because of the custom theming.
"Browsing" trough a space is impossible (e.g. https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/jira-knowledge-base-781397172.html).
And also the fixed width of 920px (page title) & 613px (page content) also doesn't help to increase readability specially on large complex articles.
Hi everyone,
Thank you for bringing this suggestion to our attention.
As explained in our new feature policy, there are many factors that influence our product roadmaps and determine the features we implement. When making decisions about what to prioritize and work on, we combine your feedback and suggestions with insights from our support teams, product analytics, research findings, and more. This information, combined with our medium- and long-term product and platform vision, determines what we implement and its priority order.
Unfortunately, as a result of inactivity (no votes or comments for an extended period of time), this suggestion didn’t make it to the roadmap and we are closing it.
While this issue has been closed, our Product Managers continue to look at requests in https://jira.atlassian.com as they develop their roadmap, including closed ones. In addition, if you feel like this suggestion is still important to your team please let us know by commenting on this ticket.
Thank you again for providing valuable feedback to our team!