Feature Focus 2026 Vol. 4 (April)

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Get your tickets now for Team '26, May 5-7 in Anaheim, California. Go beyond examples and demos with deep technical sessions, hands-on labs, and real-life AI use cases focused on human-AI collaboration at scale. Register now for the live experience, or catch the action online with a free digital pass. Reservations are required for some sessions so sign up now! To view your saved sessions and manage reservations, sign in to your account and navigate to My schedule.

Collections & Apps

Collections (Teamwork, Service, Software, & Strategy)

Teamwork Collection

• Addressing Blockers to Effective Knowledge Management: Q&A Highlights and Next Steps: This session covered practical patterns and real-world stories from Michael’s work with teams across industries.

Service Collection / Jira Service Management

• Webinar Recap: Faster response times with JSM’s AI‑powered Knowledge Base (AMA): During the session, we covered many questions live and this page covers those that we couldn’t answer within the allotted time. For those who weren’t able to join, you can access the recording here.

• Rovo Service is now GA! We’re thrilled to share that Rovo Service, the latest in agentic AI for Jira Service Management, is rolling out this week for internal employee support workflows like ticket resolution and HR onboarding.

• Set up Multi-space work in seconds with the new Space filter: You can now configure Multi-space work directly from the Multi-space work page using a new Space filter with no JQL required.

• Introducing native surveys in JSM: Build surveys with our no-code builder, or get started in minutes using templates for HR, business, and IT teams. Choose from multiple question types, including ratings, multiple choice and free text to customize your feedback collection.

• Agent releases that make self-service use cases in JSM even MORE powerful: The Rovo team has been working on enhancements that unlock new levels of access, precision, and integration for Rovo agents. Here's a roundup of recent releases that make custom Rovo agents even more powerful for self-service goals. 

• Workforce Optimization in JSM closed Beta: This is a Beta launch for Workforce Optimisation in JSM. We're excited to make scheduling, capacity planning, availability and work assignment more intelligent and efficient. Watch the AMA recording here. Closed Beta

• AI Risk Assessment is now generally available: This new capability brings AI-driven risk scoring directly into your change issues, so approvers can quickly understand how risky a change is before it goes live and take action to prevent incidents from occurring. Premium & Enterprise

• Action required: Upgrade to the latest Data Manager Clients (v2.0.0+ by 31-Aug-2026): Please plan to migrate to 2.0.0, or later, as soon as possible. You’ll be aligned with our ongoing work to move Data Manager onto Atlassian’s Trusted Data Platform, so your data is stored, protected, and managed with more consistent, enterprise‑grade controls across Atlassian Cloud. And you’ll avoid compatibility issues as we deprecate older client versions and continue to ship new adapters and improvements. Premium & Enterprise

• A Primer on Assets Dashboards: This feature lets you create custom dashboards that help you visualize data relating to your assets. Premium & Enterprise, Community Champion

Strategy Collection

• Your Guide to Team '26 Anaheim: 3 Curated Days for Strategy Collection: We’ve got you covered with a day-by-day guide personalized with Strategy Collection programming so you can make the most of your time in Anaheim.

• You’re Invited to the April Jira Align Customer Forum: This month, we'll cover our Jira Align product roadmap, what’s next, and why it matters; what's being announced at Team '26 in Anaheim across Strategy Collection; and a live discussion where you connect with your peers and influence what we build next. April 23 | Register for 8AM PT / 11AM ET or 2PM PT / 5PM ET

• Strategy Collection: March 2026 Innovation Spotlight: Read the wrap-up of all of the new innovation we’ve delivered to our Strategy Collection customers since Team ’25 Europe.

  • Find quick links to try some of the spotlit releases in the corresponding Community article.

• Epics grid page is now generally available in Jira Align: We’re excited to introduce the ability to save views on the new epics grid page and beta features grid page. A view saves your filters, sorting, and display options so you can quickly return to a curated grid between sessions.

• A More Flexible Align Dependency Object in Jira Align: Dependencies are one of the most important mechanisms that ensure teams are working on the right things, at the right time, in the right order. With this update, dependencies become much more flexible and better aligned with how large organizations actually plan and deliver work.

Atlassian Platform

• A more powerful way to update and view your Goals: We’re introducing bundled updates in the Goals app - a new way to update and view goals and success measures together in one view. We’ve also redesigned the right-hand sidebar to make key goal details easier to scan.

• Making data security easier to configure at scale: The organization-level data security policy evolves what was previously separate data security policies into one unified policy. This makes data security easier to configure and manage, especially for large organizations that want to operate closed-by-default.

• Performance and Scale Digest | 2026 Q1: Read about new limits, guardrails, and data management tools for the Jira Cloud family of apps, and about performance mode for Confluence.

• Cloud Enterprise capabilities to help you govern cloud growth at scale: 80% of Enterprise cloud customers use Guard Standard. Cloud Enterprise includes Guard Standard for that reason, but also goes even further to help you establish proactive governance at scale. This article highlights three capabilities exclusive to Cloud Enterprise to help you strengthen your security posture. Enterprise

Confluence

• Introducing Atlassian teams to Confluence permissions: Across spaces, content, and more, you can now manage access using teams just like you do with users or groups today. This makes giving the right access to the right set of collaborators easier than ever.

• Improved inline macro support in the Confluence mobile app: With this update, many macros now render directly in the page on mobile, so you can read, scan, and understand rich content without leaving the page or live doc.

• Listen on the go: Audio Briefings now with Mobile, Playlists, and Sharing! For those new to Audio Briefings, it's your hands-free way to consume Confluence content. We've launched Mobile support, Playlists, and Sharing capabilities across Confluence Pages, Live Docs, and Blogs.

• Confluence admin hack: centralize site, space, and apps settings with iframes: If you’re a Confluence admin and try to change space settings here, Confluence settings there, simply use the iframe macro to embed those specific pages on a single Confluence page. Community Champion

• Company Hub: A Centralized Homepage for Teams in Confluence: Company Hub is a customizable, company-wide homepage powered by Confluence that centralizes announcements, resources, and quick links. It’s designed to be the top-down “company bulletin” curated by your org to keep everyone aligned and to help every employee find what they need, fast. Premium & Enterprise

Jira

• 3-5 min. survey on adapting Jira to how your team works: Getting Jira to fit your team isn't always easy, especially when you don't have full admin access. We want to understand that experience better, and improve Jira for teams like yours. Feedback Opportunity

• Changes coming to Timeline views in Jira’s mobile app: As we invest in new views designed around how teams actually use Jira on the go, we’ve made the decision to remove the current timeline view in Jira’s mobile app. Timelines are still fully accessible via web at any time. This change will gradually rollout over the next 6 months.

• Help us reimagine Jira Admin workflows with agents: We’re exploring how AI agents can help Jira Admins automate more of their daily work and spend less time on repetitive tasks - such as Jira configuration updates, user requests related to Jira configuration, or any other time-consuming workflows. We’re inviting Jira Admins to directly influence Jira’s roadmap, shape what an “admin agent” should (and shouldn’t) do, and help us design solutions that meaningfully reduce admin toil. (45-60 min. call) Feedback Opportunity

• 🎉 Celebrating your custom user onboarding creations with Jira + Loom: A few weeks ago, we invited you to share how you're using Jira's custom onboarding feature to welcome new users. We're thrilled to spotlight some of the submissions. Each one brings a unique perspective on how to make onboarding smoother, more personal, and more effective. Premium & Enterprise

• Delegate space creation from custom templates: We know that empowering your teams with the autonomy to move quickly is critical to your organization's success. Delegated space creation from custom templates is now available for all Jira Cloud Enterprise customers. Enterprise

Loom

• 📣 Get Early Access: Loom Playlists and our new video system of record experience: We're looking for a small group of customers to join an Early Access Program (EAP) for a set of new Loom features designed to transform Loom into your central video hub for work. This EAP is a good fit if your team already uses Loom for onboarding, training, or updates, and you're happy to try beta features and give us feedback. EAP

• Loom Fundamentals Certificate is LIVE: This certificate is designed to make recognition easier, faster, and more inclusive for every Loom user. Free and open-book means there’s no barrier to getting started. If you use Loom at work, you’re already on your way.

Rovo + AI + Automation

• Inside Rovo: A High-Level Tour of Atlassian’s AI Teammate: Watch this high-level tour of what Rovo can do and how you can actually use it day to day to find what you need fast;rom your org’s knowledge with natural-language Q&A; and act on work through AI teammates (agents), apps, and automations.

• Rovo at Work video 🎥 New ways to move work forward with AI: In this episode, Atlassian teammates walk through what it actually looks like to use Rovo day-to-day by bringing AI directly into your flow, grounded in your context, and actually helping move work forward. YouTube, 1.5 min.

• Create with Rovo Prompt Library: Try out these 10 scenarios built for Marketing, Product, HR/HR Ops, Program Management, and IT teams.

• Your Bi-Monthly Update of What's New in Rovo Agents: Every two months we highlight the latest features, key updates, and give you a preview of what’s coming next.

  • Extended Testing Window for New Rovo Agents Backend Model Until April 14: So far, around 30% of existing agents traffic is using the new model. Across those agents, we’re seeing a large reduction in errors compared to the previous model, and better stability overall.

  • Introducing Evaluations for Rovo Agents: Rovo Agent Evals provide three complementary ways to validate how your agent behaves. Open your agent in Studio and look for the Evaluations tab on a published agent to upload a CSV and kick off a run.

• From Blank Page to Flowchart in Seconds — My Skip the Blank Page Month Journey: I've been using Rovo for nearly six months now creating pages, experimenting with whiteboards, exploring what it can do. But Skip the Blank Page Month pushed me to go further than my usual use cases and actually stress test it with structured, real-world scenarios. Community Champion

• The new, unified AI building experience for Rovo Studio is now in open beta 🎉 The new Studio experience goes beyond agents and becomes a unified building space where you can compose, customize, and control all your AI-powered workflows in one place. Open Beta

• Rovo Skills are now available: You can now leverage a growing library of skills that encode decades of opinionated best practices for tasks across Jira, Confluence, JSM, and more.

• Action Required: SharePoint Connector Auth Upgrade: If your organization already uses the Microsoft SharePoint connector in Rovo, an admin needs to complete an updated authentication flow as soon as possible. Both steps usually take a few minutes. You do not need to create a Microsoft app registration, generate certificates, or manage client secrets.

• Are you one of our Rovo Competition WINNERS!? Real teams shared how they're using Rovo to cut through busywork, break down silos, and get more done - together. The votes are in, see which Rovo examples have been selected as winners by our community.

• Rovo Dev

  • Jump‑start Code Reviewer customization with auto‑generated instructions: When Code Reviewer runs on a repo for the first time and finds no customization instructions, it automatically raises a one-time PR pre-filled with your repo's own coding standards and good patterns. Teams can review and merge it to put those standards to work immediately, edit it to make it your own, or close it if it's not for you.

  • Ship faster from Jira with Rovo Dev: Rovo Dev is now available directly inside Jira! This means you can now orchestrate multiple Rovo Dev sessions right from Jira to move from task item to merge-ready PR in the background while you stay focused on the hard problems.

  • Updates to Rovo Dev access and credit limits: These changes are designed to bring more clarity and consistency to how access is managed.

Additional Updates

• Atlassian Analytics Enterprise

  • Two new tables to simplify Jira queries - Work Item Sprint mapping and Work Item Hierarchy: Both tables are meant to simplify the current query logic if you need to report on Sprint<>Work item or Jira work item hierarchy.

  • Upcoming removal of the "Download activity" button in dashboard settings: Dashboard activity logs will continue to remain accessible in the Audit log section of the Administration tool, where you can view and download them.

• Bitbucket

  • Bitbucket Cloud is now available on the Atlassian Rovo MCP server: AI clients like Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and VS Code can now browse repositories, create commits, open pull requests, and check pipeline results  all through the same secure MCP connection that already works with Jira and Confluence.

  • Bitbucket will now remember your pull request list filters: It will re-apply them any time you visit the list page. When you update your filters, we'll remember your choices. This works on both the workspace-level and repository-level PR list pages.

  • Bitbucket Pipelines

    • Introducing Final Steps in Bitbucket Pipelines: Final steps in Bitbucket Pipelines is a straightforward yet powerful mechanism to guarantee that your most important end-of-pipeline tasks execute regardless of earlier step outcomes.

    • Larger Cache and Artifact Support in Pipelines: We’ve launched larger cache and artifact support in Bitbucket Pipelines for paid plans to make builds faster, more reliable, and better suited to monorepos and dependency-heavy workflows.

    • Introducing the Bamboo to Bitbucket Pipelines Importer Tool: We’re announcing the Bamboo to Bitbucket Pipelines Importer Tool, and published a blog post detailing our recent announcement to migrate from Bamboo to Pipelines using the automated tool. Open Beta

    • Protecting Your Pipelines from the Axios Dependency Vulnerability: On March 31, 2026, a critical supply-chain vulnerability was identified in versions 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 of the axios npm package. This is not a vulnerability in Bitbucket Pipelines itself. However, if your pipeline builds, installs, or depends on a compromised version of axios (directly or transitively), your pipeline environment and the secrets accessible to it may have been exposed, just as your local environment could have been.

• Data Center

• • New Security Insights for Data Center: Move from vulnerable to verified: We’re introducing Security Insights, available soon through Portfolio Insights. This is your new security dashboard that shows which Jira and Confluence Data Center instances need immediate attention.

  • Announcing OpenSearch in the 'Plan your upgrade' experience: Switching to OpenSearch gives you faster search and indexing, better scalability, and a more resilient infrastructure. If you're using Jira, you can also reduce your node count and save on hardware costs.

  • Get inspired by Rovo connectors for Data Center use cases: Rovo connectors for Data Center let cloud users who collaborate with apps and teams still on Data Center tap into knowledge from both environments in one place, across search, chat, and Rovo agents. This is for Data Center customers who also have active Standard, Premium, and Enterprise Cloud plans.

  • Reminder on changes to Data Center products: As of March 30th, new customers are unable to purchase or request a quote for impacted Data Center products or associated Data Center Marketplace app licenses; and customers and partners can no longer self-generate Data Center product trials.This milestone does not impact existing customers’ ability to purchase Data Center licenses or expansions.

• Jira Product Discovery

  • Trigger manual automations directly from your JPD ideas: We've added the Automation icon to support running manually triggered automations directly from the idea view, just like in Jira Cloud. 

  • Help fellow product teams & grab a $25 gift card 🎁 If Jira Product Discovery has helped you prioritize with confidence or align your stakeholders, we’d love for you to share that experience with a G2 review. Feedback Opportunity

  • 📣 The tree view is now available in early access + updates on hierarchies: The tree view helps you visualize your hierarchy with more levels. We're currently working on the new tree view (this post) and support for one more level of hierarchy in the timeline view. EAP, Premium

• Trello

  • New! Labels for your Inbox cards: We designed the Trello Inbox as a place to capture new cards quickly. We heard feedback that if you have a lot of cards, the Inbox can feel overwhelming to triage. To date, the Inbox didn’t offer the option to add a label but, starting this week, now it does! PS: You can also add a divider card to your Inbox to organize it into sections. Just type “---” into the title field of a new card and you’ll see it pop up.

  • Refreshing our Trello icons: These changes are intuitive and shouldn’t disrupt your workflows. One change to note is the Power-Ups icon. It’s gone from being a little rocket ship to an electrical plug 🔌 💡 but nothing else about the Power-Up menu or functionality has changed.

  • Move or copy up to 20 cards at once: Now you can select multiple cards (up to 20!) and move or copy them in one go. This feature allows you to bulk edit cards across both the Inbox and an active board.

• Your Guide to Site Transfers and Org Consolidations: This article is for org admins planning or executing a consolidation of Atlassian Cloud sites and organizations, and IT, security, and business stakeholders who need to understand the options, risks, and trade-offs of making these changes.

• Certiverse is live for all Atlassian credential exams: Atlassian transitioned exam delivery to Certiverse in March to provide a seamless, flexible, and modern experience for all credential exams.

• Announcing Kudos points for Atlassian Learning courses! 📚 When you complete a learning course, you’ll receive 300 kudos points as well as a badge. These points per course will only apply to courses completed from March 23 on and do not apply to the courses you completed prior.

• App Rationalization Framework: A Guide to Assessing Marketplace Apps: Before and after an Atlassian cloud migration, sites often accumulate unused apps. The Atlassian State of Teams 2025 report states that 89% of executives believe their organizations must accelerate to remain competitive. Excessive app usage can slow teams and risk this goal. Community Champion

Learning Opportunities + Events 

Live Learning

• April 7-16 | Live Events with Atlassian Experts, April 7-16: These sessions cover Rovo/AI, Migrations, Jira, Loom, Confluence, and Government/Cloud.

• April 8-22 | April Workshops & Migration Sessions: If your Jira instance is feeling cluttered or your Confluence pages are looking a little lackluster, don’t worry! Whether you’re facing a cleanup or finally making that leap from Data Center to Cloud, our goal is to help you build a workspace that feels light, organized, and ready for growth.

• April 15 | 3 sessions for APAC, AMER, & EMEA at 11AM Discover the benefits of AI for customer service: This webinar is geared towards helping you intentionally and effectively use AI to deliver support that's faster, smarter, and tailored to every customer.

• April 20-July 6 | Jira Administration for Cloud (ACP-120) Study Sessions: This will be spread over 11 sessions and cover everything you need to know to pass the exam. These are interactive sessions and include a free companion course that with quizzes, labs and the like. All the sessions and the recaps will be recorded and posted for reference.

On-Demand/Async Learning

• Unlocking the Value of a System of Work (both recordings are on the linked page): A two-part workshop series including Part 1: The What and the Why; and Part 2: The How.

• ACE Recording | Demystifying the Atlassian Team Playbook: In this event, Atlassian Community Champion Amanda Barber walked through an overview of the Atlassian Team Playbook, an awesome, free resource Atlassian publishes to help teams overcome challenges and work better together. Community Champion

• Rovo Dev ships the small tasks while you tackle the cool stuff: Learn how Rovo Dev in Jira offloads repeatable tasks so your team can focus on high‑impact work, taking issues from spec to ready‑to‑review PRs without leaving Jira. Follow up by reviewing the post-webinar Q&A.

• Streamline grant management with Jira, Confluence, and Loom: This session showed how to use Jira, Confluence, and Loom for grant management, the second webinar in our Small teams, big impact series (scroll to the bottom of the Resources for nonprofit teams page.)

• Catch up on Team on Tour: Government (12 sessions available): In February, Atlassians Rob Bissett and Brian Duffy presented in Washington, DC on how Atlassian is investing to better support our public sector customers. They talked about bringing the full power of the Atlassian System of Work to Atlassian Government Cloud, and our ongoing work toward additional compliance requirements like FedRAMP High and IL5 to help agencies protect sensitive workloads.

Events

• May 5-7, 2026 | Anaheim, California Register today for Team '26!

• June 23-24, 2026 | Bengaluru Atlas Camp: AI at the heart of developer innovation: This year, we’re welcoming all builders to Atlas Camp, whether you ship Atlassian apps, deliver software on Atlassian tools, or create with AI. Come together with experts from across the Atlassian developer community for two days of learning and connection. Whether you’re building your first integration, scaling an enterprise solution, or experimenting with AI-powered workflows, Atlas Camp gives you the tools to ship your next big idea, faster. Register now to take advantage of early bird pricing until 11 May 2026!

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

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