Bitbucket cleanup of free unused workspaces: what you need to know

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Hello Bitbucket Community. 

At Atlassian, we’re committed to delivering a secure, high-performing Bitbucket Cloud experience for all our customers. As part of our ongoing platform improvements, we’re taking steps to clean up unused or empty free workspaces.

Why are we doing this?
Removing unused free workspaces helps us:

• Unblock critical Atlassian platform migrations and improvements

• Ensure a smoother experience for active users

• Adopt Atlassian platform and its security and compliance features

What’s changing?
Starting November 2025, we’ll notify administrators of empty or unused free workspaces.

• If your workspace doesn’t contain any repositories

  • it will be deactivated and scheduled for deletion on December 9, 2025. No action is needed.

• If your workspace contains repositories but hasn’t been logged in over 6 months, or content hasn’t been accessed or updated in over 6 months

  • You must login and update your content before January 15, 2026 to keep your workspace.

What will happen after January 15, 2026?

• Your workspace will be deactivated.

• You can recover it until May 15, 2026

• If not accessed or recovered by May 15, 2026, the workspace and its content will be permanently deleted.

Note: Atlassian will attempt to notify all impacted users via email. If your information is not up to date or you have unsubscribed from Atlassian emails, you may not receive these notifications.

What if I need a workspace later?

You can create a new Bitbucket workspace anytime at admin.atlassian.com and follow the steps outline in Add a new Atlassian app or collection to your organization | Atlassian Support.

Your Bitbucket user profile, other active workspaces, and all your other Atlassian apps are not affected by this cleanup.

What about workspaces with content or recent activity?
Workspaces with recent logins or repository updates are not affected.

Our commitment
We’re making these changes to keep Bitbucket Cloud fast, reliable, and ready for what’s next.

Thank you for being part of our community and helping us build a better platform for everyone.