Community FiveByFive Round-up: June 2025

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Hello Everyone!

It’s that time once again to take a look at everything that has happened in the past month! From major events, to product announcements, to amazing people providing great tips & best practices to help the Community, I guarantee there is something here for everyone. Let’s get started!

Announcements & Highlights:

As always, there are a TON of amazing things happening and here is just a small sample of all the great things you don’t want to miss out on!

• First up, Jira Product Discovery has turned 2 years old and to celebrate that milestone each week of June has a new article about JPD with a Community badge you can earn. You have until July 3rd to earn them all, so if you are quick there’s still time if you missed out.
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-Product-Discovery-articles/Get-excited-for-Jira-Product-Discovery-June/ba-p/3032869

• Next up, starting today is the 2025 edition of Likes 4 trees! Please be sure to start liking content in the Community to help try and break last years record. Additionally, be sure to check out this article to vote on where the trees should be planted.
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Community-Kudos-Feedback/4-ways-you-can-help-Likes-4-Trees-break-records-this-year/ba-p/3041838

• Have you been looking for more learning opportunities outside of Jira? Well look no further as there is a brand new learning path for Confluence Administration. Be sure to check it out!
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Training-Certification-articles/New-learning-path-Administer-Confluence-to-improve-the-user/ba-p/3047985

• Next, Bitbucket Cloud will be moving to API tokens from passwords. This will be a phased deprecation and if you are a Bitbucket Cloud user, you should make sure to read this announcement.
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Bitbucket-articles/Deprecation-notice-Bitbucket-Cloud-shifts-to-API-tokens-from-app/ba-p/3040975

• Finally, another deprecation notice, the “Create feature flag in LaunchDarkly“ action in Automation has been deprecated. If you make use of this action type, you should read the article for details as soon as possible to prevent interruption to your workflows.
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Automation-articles/Notice-Deprecation-of-the-LaunchDarkly-Action-in-Atlassian/ba-p/3047143

Member Article Highlights:

As always, there are a TON of amazing articles written by many of your fellow community members. This is just a small sample of all the great content you don’t want to miss out on!

• First up, @Akhand Pratap Singh has a wonderful story all about the first app he built in Forge, and his experiences while building it. If you would like some inspiration on how you can use Forge to enhance your own Cloud site, you might want to check this out.
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-Cloud-Admins-articles/My-First-Forge-App-Creating-Jira-Tickets-on-Workflow-Updates/ba-p/3044733

• Next, @Rob Mkrtchian _CAIAT_US_ shares a great use case about how they automated a QA process using JSM, Automation, Confluence & Rovo. If that has piqued your interest, you should check out some of the details on the full article.
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/JSM-News-Discussions-articles/How-We-Automated-QA-for-a-30-Agent-Service-Desk-in-JSM-and-What/ba-p/3036614

• Speaking of JSM, if you would like some further tips on building escalations into JSM, @Robert Nadon has shares some of his expertise in this great guide!
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/JSM-News-Discussions-articles/Tips-amp-Tricks-with-JSM-Escalations-in-JSM/ba-p/3035815

• Do you consider yourself a JQL Guru? I thought I did until I read this fascinating piece by @Dick that breaks down the various elements of a query. He does an excellent job of providing a new way of thinking about queries that I would encourage everyone to read.
  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Data-Center-articles/Automation-Assisted-JQL-Querying-When-and-how-it-can-improve/ba-p/3044402

• Finally, if you haven’t checked out Loom yet and you need more convincing to give it a try, @Laura Campbell shares her awesome personal experiences about how Loom allows her to quickly and efficiently create content to connect with her globally distributed teammates.https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Loom-articles/Why-I-love-Loom-with-Confluence-and-Jira-as-a-Marketing-Lead/ba-p/3049552

New Features & Product Updates:

Want to keep up to date on all the cool things Atlassian has announced about their products? Be sure to read through these, then go check out all the others for your favorite product!

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Trello-articles/Views-filters-and-more-Mirror-cards-are-better-than-ever/ba-p/3035985

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Confluence-articles/Say-Hello-to-Real-Time-Syntax-Highlighting-in-Code-Blocks/ba-p/3037696

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-Align-articles/Connecting-Atlassian-Goals-in-the-platform-to-Jira-Align-Work/ba-p/3040677

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Atlassian-AI-Rovo-articles/Brand-Rovo-as-your-company-s-search-amp-chat-company-theming-now/ba-p/3040952

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-Service-Management-articles/New-Journeys-are-now-available-in-Features-lab/ba-p/3043052

Feedback Opportunities:

What’s the best way to get what you want out of the Atlassian Apps? Share your feedback often! Atlassian’s Product Managers are always looking to hear from customer about our thoughts on what they have delivered and what they are planning to deliver in the near future. If you want to be an active participant, be sure to check these out!

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Navigation-Refresh-articles/Join-our-research-study-Seeking-participants-to-help-us-improve/ba-p/3036166

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Data-Center-articles/Research-Opportunity-for-DC-Customers-100-Gift-Card/ba-p/3036896

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Advanced-planning-articles/Seeking-Research-Participants-Let-s-talk-about-how-unsaved/ba-p/3038119

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Enterprise-articles/Help-Shape-the-Future-of-Capacity-Planning-in-Jira/ba-p/3038444

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-Product-Discovery-articles/Help-shape-the-future-of-JPD-Views/ba-p/3044254

Automation Corner:

Looking for inspiration to optimize your processes? Check out some of the cool things people are doing with automation!

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-Service-Management-articles/New-features-for-Forms-in-Automation-across-Jira-Service/ba-p/3037990

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-Cloud-Admins-articles/Enhancing-Reliability-A-Python-Script-for-Retrying-Jira-Cloud/ba-p/3044432

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-articles/How-to-Sync-Jira-Versions-Across-Projects-Using-Jira-Automation/ba-p/3045656

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Automation-articles/Automation-concepts-Find-Overlaps-Between-Lists/ba-p/3045704

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-Cloud-Admins-articles/A-Python-script-to-remove-unwanted-columns-from-user-export-CSV/ba-p/3046380

It’s hard to believe another month has already come and gone. Please be sure to stay healthy, stay safe and I’ll see you back here next month.

Take care!

[Andy Gladstone]

25 links to opportunities to Like 4 Trees. Thanks for the roundup, as always, @Jimmy Seddon! 

[Andrew Zimmerman]

Awesome! Thanks, @Jimmy Seddon! 

[Amanda Barber]

Great round up as always, @Jimmy Seddon! 

[John Funk]

Thanks for the update @Jimmy Seddon !!

[Susan Waldrip]

Excellent and oh-so-helpful rundown of what's been happening, @Jimmy Seddon -- as always!

[Brita Moorus]

Great overview, thank you! 🙏✨

[Stephen_Lugton]

@Andy Gladstone the first few days of likes for trees are not too bad with round ups like this, but in a couple of weeks we'll all be trawling through whatever necro-posts we can find!

[Ehlers_ Chad]

As a newcomer to the community, this was very helpful. Thank you.

[Daria Kulikova_GitProtect_io]

Great round-up! Thanks for the update!