How to get notified about Atlassian feature deprecation warnings?

[Asier Vadillo]

Hi everyone,

I want to know if Atlassian provides any official way to get notified when features are deprecated or planned for removal.

Details:
We are working with Jira and Confluence Cloud, and sometimes we find that features or APIs we rely on are deprecated without us noticing until much later. This creates some risk for us when maintaining integrations, automations, or certain workflows.

I’ve seen the Atlassian Cloud changes and deprecations documentation, but what I’m looking for is something more proactive, such as:

• Automated notifications or alerts when we are actively using a soon-to-be deprecated API/feature.

• A central dashboard or health check that highlights risky dependencies.

• Any best practices or tools provided by Atlassian to help administrators track and react to deprecations.

Does Atlassian offer any mechanism for this, or is it up to us to manually follow release notes and the deprecation hub? If not, what strategies do other admins/teams use to stay ahead of upcoming deprecations?

Thanks in advance for any insights!

[Lucas Knorr]

Hi @Asier Vadillo
we use the RSS feed of https://developer.atlassian.com/changelog/ to keep track of the API changes. 

[Benjamin]

Hi @Asier Vadillo ,

Not sure about thing getting removed or deprecated. I know you can subscribe to the Atlassian roadmap for anything that's coming. Perhaps, in that notification, there maybe times, it may mention something getting replace. 

Another place I usually find sources of new information is the blogs on specific apps in this forum. 

One other thing that can be done is switch to bundle track, so the changes are not roll out as the are release. This bundle to the changes to once a month and then you can also view what actual changes are coming and prepare your team and end users.

https://support.atlassian.com/organization-administration/docs/view-all-changes-to-an-atlassian-app/

[Asier Vadillo]

Hi @Benjamin , thanks for the reply.

The thing is, we have integrations with the Jira Rest API in third party apps and I wanted to check if there is a thing like a deprecation: true, sunset : 25/08/20 or something like that.

For what I have seen it does not seem to be the case, so we will need to star making notice of the blogs and information mails.