Jira just got its first genuinely new field type in over a decade. What formula fields do, six worth building this week, and where they still fall short.
Month: August 2026
Your Documentation Might be Answering the Wrong Question. Here’s “Why.”
Your Jira already documents itself. The admin screens are a live, accurate, zero-maintenance inventory of every field, scheme, and workflow you have, and any page you write that duplicates them starts rotting the moment you publish. What the config will never tell you is why any of it is there. That gap is the only documentation you were ever actually responsible for, and it’s the one nearly everybody skips.
Did Atlassian Just Admit the Pace Is the Problem?
Atlassian shipped 510 changes to my instance in the first seven months of 2026, three every working day, and four in ten arrived with no date attached. The seasonal release program is the right idea. Here is the distance still to cover.
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