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Maintain approval history when bypassing approvals

✅ Rollout Complete

Product: Jira Service Management

Announced1 Dec 2025
Rollout started1 Dec 2025
Rollout ended1 Dec 2025
SourceAtlassian blog ↗

This change allows users to bypass approvals while preserving approval data, preventing data loss and improving history tracking. During an approval state of a workflow, an issue can’t transition to the approved or declined status until all approval decisions are finalized. However, transitions other than ‘Approve’ or ‘Decline’ can be used to manually transition issues and bypass the approval state. Previously, if you transitioned an issue’s approval state to a status other than ‘Approve’ or ‘De

DateStatusWeek
1 Dec 2025🆕 Rolling Out — New This Week
19 Jan 2026✅ Rollout Complete