December Feature Focus 2025

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Atlassian Solutions Updates

Atlassian Platform

• Introducing editor permissions for Goals: With editor permissions for the Goals app, you control who can update strategic content, while everyone else can safely view, follow, and connect work.

• Goal Types and better support for OKRs are coming soon: We’re excited to announce updates to the Goals app: Goal types and Success Measures. This gives your organization the flexibility to define and use your own goal terminology - whether that’s Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs), Big Rocks, or simply Goals. Success measures provide more robust tracking of outcomes, plus enhanced charts for even better visibility.

• New Organization APIs to power admin automation: We’re excited to announce the general availability of new public Organization APIs, empowering all organization admins to automate their workflows! These APIs are available to organizations on both the original and centralized user management experiences.

• Atlassian’s new System Health feature is now in open beta! System Health is a new reliability monitoring and incident communication feature in Atlassian Administration. It helps you stay aware of incidents by using personalized dashboards and alerts to surface incidents that are only relevant to your sites and apps. Beta

• Atlassian Teams

  • Centrally view and manage teams in your new teams directory in Atlassian Administration: The Teams Directory in AdminHub is your new, unified home for all things Teams. With this feature, you can see all teams in one place and effortlessly manage and update your teams.

  • Archive Teams: Keep your workspace clean without losing your history: Inactive teams clutter your workspace and make it harder to find what matters. Previously, deleting was the only way to remove them. Now archiving lets you hide inactive teams to keep your workspace clean, while preserving all important data and connections.

  • How to easily visualize team hierarchies in Atlassian: Team Hierarchy is gradually rolling out to all customers. It helps you mirror your org structure, manage parent and sub-team relationships, and navigate teams at scale.

  • Beta: Teams now in Confluence permissions: This new feature allows you to manage space and content access using Atlassian Teams, making collaboration and permission management much simpler for people working together. Beta

Confluence

• 📣 Announcement! A new phase of role-based access in Confluence is here: We’ve announced the next phase of our Confluence roles rollout, which has 3 parts:

  1. Tools to plan your roles rollout

  2. A roles-only access experience for new Confluence sites

  3. Changes to Cloud data migrations experiences to ensure backward compatibility across access modes

• Notice: Removal of Jira Report Macro Template: We removed the Jira Report Macro template from Confluence on December 1st as part of our work to transition the Jira Legacy macro to the Jira Data Center macro in the cloud editor. Existing pages created from this template will remain unaffected and continue to function normally.

• Introducing Confluence Race Mode: To celebrate our Atlassian Williams Racing partnership and ultra-fast speed improvements to Confluence, we’re rolling out a fun racing game during the Grand Prix in Las Vegas. Get ready to put your skills to the test and race around the track in a time trial experience. Race Mode will be available in Confluence whiteboards for a limited time!

Jira

• Introducing Development feature in Jira: The Development feature in Jira is now generally available to all customers! This brings all your team’s software delivery activity into a single, unified view. Offering valuable insights into your team's development work and performance metrics, the Development feature connects key development insights directly to your team's work.

• Deprecation notice: We’re removing Overviews for more powerful planning and tracking in Jira: As we continue to evolve Jira to better support your planning and reporting needs, we’re announcing the deprecation of the Overviews feature from navigation by the end of 2025. This change will allow us to focus on delivering more powerful, unified experiences through tools like Plans and Dashboards, as we invest in advanced solutions for planning and reporting.

• Champion better teamwork with the Jira Adoption Guide: This guide is designed to help you champion Jira for your team by planning a strategy, getting your team started in the app, and helping everyone truly integrate Jira into their workflow.

• Organize Your Work, Your Way: New Group By Options in Jira List View: Jira’s List View (All work tab) is now even more powerful and flexible. You can now group your work by a wider range of fields, across both business and software projects, making it easier to organize, visualize, and take action on your work items.

• Multiple Sandboxes Now Generally Available! With Multiple Sandboxes, you can now accelerate safe change management with isolated sandboxes linked to one site. Atlassian apps on an Enterprise plans will include 5 complimentary sandboxes, and apps on a Premium plan can get access to multiple sandboxes per production site by purchasing additional sandboxes. Premium & Enterprise

• Custom Onboarding in Jira: We’re releasing the ability for non-admins to create and edit content for custom onboarding in Jira Cloud. Premium & Enterprise

Jira Product Discovery

• Fixing Connections after Renaming Types: If you rename an idea Type in Jira Product Discovery and it was used in a Connection field, but you didn't update the connection field, it will appear as if the connections are gone. Don't worry! Even though you can't see the connections in the UI they're still there, they're just not visible anymore. This article explains how to fix this!

• Jira Product Discovery integration with Jira Data Center is live: Now from the Delivery tab of Jira Product Discovery, you can create or link work items in your Jira Data Center instance.

Jira Service Management

• 📣 Expression of Interest: Closed Beta for JSM Config Promotion: We’re excited to announce that we are preparing a Closed Beta for Jira Service Management Sandbox Config Promotion, enabling you to safely deploy configuration changes from your sandbox to production (or from sandbox to a higher sandbox) for key JSM entities. Beta

• 🎁 JSM Advent Calendar series: Day 1 covers the HR Portal (your digital front door). Find the rest of the series linked in the Related Community content section on the lower right of this page!

• Portal-only account - SCIM available now: Learn about how to configure SCIM for Portal-only accounts here. Today we're leaving a quick note that SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) for Portal-only accounts is now available for all sites.

• 🎉 [Get Early Access] Try out the new JSM Summary Page: Sign up to get access and provide direct feedback to our product team, which will go into shaping this feature for everyone! EAP, Premium & Enterprise

Rovo + AI + Automation

• 🤖 Rovo Office Hours: Weekly (Tues. & Wed.) admins, champions, and curious builders can connect live with Rovo experts. These small-group sessions are your fast track to answers, clarity, and next steps.

• What's New in Rovo Agents: Your Bi-Monthly Update: Curious about what the Rovo Agents team has been up to? You’re in the right place! Every two months, we’ll highlight the latest features, key updates, and give you a preview of what’s coming next.

• How to Create a High-Impact Rovo Agent: Lessons from NORA, Atlassian’s Onboarding AI ✨ Atlassian’s own journey with NORA, the Newlassian Onboarding Rovo Agent, offers a blueprint for success. In this post we’ll walk you through the steps to create your own Rovo agent, share the impact NORA delivered, and provide practical tips to maximize value for your teams.

• Article: Reimagining software delivery with AI-powered workflows in Jira & Bitbucket

• AI series ep #2: The Atlassian Approach to AI in Service Management Q&A: Answers to questions asked during The Atlassian approach to AI-powered service session, now available on-demand.

• Tips and Tricks: Level Up Your Rovo Agent’s Prompts! 🚀 This guide is your shortcut to better results: inside, you’ll find actionable tips, real-world examples, and advanced techniques to help you craft smarter, more reliable agents.

• Supercharging Rovo with Unito connectors, now available in the Atlassian Marketplace: Unito’s enterprise connectors (Salesforce, ServiceNow, Asana, Wrike, etc.) stream external data into the Atlassian Teamwork Graph so Rovo sees the full picture in real time.

• New Rovo MCP Server features:

  • Track Atlassian Rovo MCP server tool usage in your organization’s audit logs: This update gives admins more transparency and helps meet security and compliance requirements by recording each tool invocation event.

  • Manage your own allowlist: You can now control which domains are allowed to connect to your Atlassian apps via the Rovo MCP server. This means you decide which AI tools and integrations can access your organization’s Jira, Confluence, and Compass instances.

Additional Updates

• Atlassian Community Release notes for December : Today we shipped some forum fixes and small enhancements. These include some improvements for our members that use the community from mobile devices and the ability to give kudos to article authors whose content you value.

• Update on Confluence within Trello 🔨 As Atlassian continues to improve how our products work together, we’re making some changes behind the scenes. Because of these updates, we’ll be retiring the old Confluence Power-Up beginning early January 2026. Your Confluence links will still work in Trello, and you’ll be able to use new, built-in ways to connect your work across both tools.

• Data Center: Now available: Confluence Data Center 10.2 Long Term Support (LTS) release: If you manage complex systems that require infrequent upgrades with careful planning, we recommend upgrading to Confluence 10.2 LTS.

• Teamwork Collection: Article: 6 new ways Teamwork Collection is bringing AI magic to Jira, Confluence, and Loom — powered by Rovo

Upcoming Learning Opportunities + Events 

Live Learning Schedule

• Dec. 9 | 12-1:30pm EST Data Center vs Cloud: free Jira class 🚀 Thinking about moving or in the process of migrating to Cloud? Join these free, expert‑led Atlassian sessions for fast, friendly walkthroughs of what changes (and what gets even better) in Cloud (recordings will be sent if you sign up!)

• Dec. 9 & 10 | multiple times Rovo Real Talk: AI use cases for Product, Engineering, IT, and more: Join Rovo Real Talk for a live, interactive session spotlighting real AI use cases from Product, Engineering, and IT teams. Connect with Atlassian’s AI experts to see practical demos, ask questions, and learn how Rovo can streamline your daily work.

• Dec. 9 & 11 | Dec 9 registration link; Dec 11 registration link From Rollout to Results Webinar: Guiding your Team’s Adoption Journey: Learn strategies to plan and launch a successful Atlassian adoption initiative; discover practical ways to engage your team and build training plans; and get tips on supporting ongoing learning and building a culture that maximizes your Atlassian investment.

• Dec. 10 | multiple times Don't miss our final AI for service teams webinar: AI-powered ITSM: from concept to reality This is your last chance to earn the AI-Powered ITSM Pro kudos badge! 

• Dec. 10 & 11 / | multiple times 2025 Cloud & AI: Actionable insights for leaders webinar: Leaders from Atlassian and AWS will share the latest trends and proven approaches for cloud and AI transformation, based on responses from over 500 IT and business executives in the 2025 Executive Insights Report.

• Dec. 15 | 1-2pm EST Ask us anything: How can you be a Team Changer with the Teamwork Collection? How can we help you be a Team Changer and get your teams off to a fresh new start in 2026? Our Teamwork Collection product experts are here to answer your questions, brainstorm solutions, and share team-changing tips with Jira, Confluence, and Loom. Submit questionsand stay tuned as we will be answering anything and everything about being a Team Changer.

• Dec. 16 & 17 | multiple times [AI Workshop] Supercharge your Service Management with Rovo: Kickstart your journey with AI in Jira Service Management and supercharge your service workflows. Learn how three ready-to-use Rovo agents can streamline requests, triage, and incident operations, all without custom builds.

• Dec. 17 | 2-2:45pm EST Live demo! How to build Rovo agents for smart, automated self-service: Learn how Rovo can transform your service workflows, seamlessly integrating with Jira Service Management. Join a hands-on demo of building, testing, and optimizing a Rovo agent designed for service teams, and empowering employees to self-serve support quickly.

Events

• ITSM: High Velocity in Person: Empower development, IT, and teams across the business to deliver exceptional, AI-powered service experiences for employees and customers. Live in-person events in February and March 2026 in Frankfurt, London, & Atlanta.

• Atlas Camp, Atlassian’s flagship dev conference, is fast approaching and we want you there! In past years, sessions focused on practical ways to accelerate software delivery, with workshops, demos, and collaborative build time with Atlassian engineers. Atlas Camp is now designed for customers as well, focused on building with Rovo Dev and exploring how AI can streamline the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Expect a mix of deep dives, lightning talks, and interactive workshops, plus plenty of opportunities to connect with the people behind the products. February - June 2026 in Amsterdam, New York, and Bengaluru

• Registration for Team '26 is open! 🎉 Get your pass at the lowest price for our biggest event of the year! - in Anaheim, California.

• See all Global Events & Conferences and Community ACE Events. Find one near you or join a virtual event (hint: filter to the virtual options under the Event types drop-down).