Feature Focus 2026 Vol. 8 (July)
New Rovo: Atlassian's Secure AI Architecture Whitepaper v2: We have published the second edition of our Rovo Security & Trust White Paper. This is a comprehensive, technically rigorous yet accessible document designed to assist your security, privacy, and compliance stakeholders in confidently assessing Rovo.
Apps & Collections
Platform Apps
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Teamwork Graph CLI Generally Available: GA delivers OAuth support, audit logs, granular scope controls, admin self-serve, and more commands.
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How Teamwork Graph Improves Agent Code Review YouTube | <5 min.
Administration
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Atlassian Isolated Cloud is now generally available: This details our next phase of deployment options designed for customers who face regulatory or internal risk-management challenges with multi-tenant cloud. Check our documentation for the latest information on which apps and capabilities are supported.
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Two new ways to stay on top of Atlassian Cloud release notes: Last month, we launched the beta of Release notes on Atlassian Community. Based on early beta feedback, we’re rolling out two new improvements to Release notes on Atlassian Community. We've added a new New this week filter that shows release notes published in the last 7 days, and a new Release tracks changes view to help customers using Release tracks understand which changes are included in each Release tracks bundle.
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Track automation changes in the [Admin] audit log: Organization admins can now get better visibility and traceability for automation flows. We’ve added new events to the audit log so you can see exactly when and how automation flows are changing across your organization.
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Seeking feedback on a new way to view your Atlassian footprint: If you’re an admin, we'd like to hear how a footprint feature could work for you and what would make it more useful. 45 min. session | $100 digital gift card | Feedback Opportunity
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Performance and Scale Digest 2026 Q2: This quarterly post spotlights our latest investments in Atlassian Cloud performance, scale, and reliability.
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Secure AI adoption with data loss prevention (DLP): The teams getting this right are closing visibility gaps, strengthening existing controls, and adding protections designed for AI. Premium
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Discover, classify, and protect sensitive data with Guard Premium (live webinar w/ Q&A): During the session, a Senior PM for Guard will review full-site scanning; enhanced out-of-the-box detections; automatic data classification; and reclassification controls. July 21/22| 11 AM AEST/CEST/PDT
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Goals & Projects
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New ways to bring Rovo to your Goals and Projects workflow: We’ve launched two new capabilities: new AI skills in Rovo Studio for building custom agents, and a contextual Rovo button.
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More ways to filter and find your Goals: We’ve added four new filters to the Goals directory to help you surface the goals that need your attention most: Score; Last Updated; Target Date; and Goal Type.
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Set your own landing view in the Goals Directory: You can now set a default saved view in the Goals directory to see the specific slice of data you care about most. This is a per-user setting.
Teamwork Collection
Confluence
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Introducing more flexibility to the Confluence roles system: Fewer forced permissions dependencies, more room to build custom roles that match how your team actually works, and no more requirement to have a full Admin in every space.
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📣 Role-based access control in Confluence GA: The feedback has been clear: the ability to have a simpler, more scalable way to manage space access is a game changer.
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Ready to roll out roles? Let the transition tool do the heavy lifting: Built for Confluence admins managing complex sites, this tool replaces the space-by-space updates approach with centralized, targeted bulk role assignment capabilities, so you can quickly move your entire site from custom access (permissions) to roles.
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Page Template Tips and Tricks: From Community Champion Rob Hean: Page templates are a great tool for helping content creators and content consumers navigate content. Many folks (myself included!) run into challenges using Templates, so I figured I’d share some tips and tricks I’ve found.
Jira
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Changes to Software Boards in Team-Managed Spaces: We're harmonizing the board experience across team-managed Software and Business spaces. Please note that this does not include company-managed software Boards.
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Unified, More Powerful Timeline for Jira Software Spaces: The timeline now shows all work items, even if they aren’t linked to an epic, so nothing gets missed. Subtasks now appear as individual items, making it easier to track progress and update them directly.
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Create and save multiple views in Jira List and Timeline: You can now create multiple named views within a single space, each with its own saved configuration.
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Introducing the new, streamlined Create experience in Jira: This gives you a focused quick-create flow by default, while keeping the full form available whenever you need it.
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Jira Filters: What We've Shipped, What's Next & the Future of AI Filtering: We recently shipped four improvements to the filter panel in one bundled release. Additionally, we're running 30-min. customer interviews to better understand how you search for and filter work in Jira and what would make AI Filtering efficient and reliable. Feedback Opportunity
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Capture, assign, and execute work in Jira from Slack
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Introducing @Jira now in Jira Cloud for Slack app YouTube | <2 min.
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Synced Slack thread in Jira work items YouTube | <2 min.
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Announcing General Availability of Field Schemes: We're streamlining how fields are configured across spaces. Field Schemes are the new single layer that act as a source of truth for which work types a field can appear on within a Space. Field Contexts will solely define a field's default values and available options.
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🚀 Launch your local AI coding agents, straight from Jira: How many times a day do you copy-paste from Jira into your AI coding tool? You can now launch your AI coding agent directly from any Jira work item, context included.
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Claude Agent for Jira YouTube | 1 min.
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Assign Jira work items to Cursor: You can now assign work to Cursor via the UI, mention Cursor in comments to collaborate and get status updates, or trigger Cursor to kickoff work automatically through workflows.
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Cursor is now connected to Jira YouTube | 1 min.
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How to install and configure Cursor for your Atlassian Cloud Site YouTube | <2 min.
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Final notice: old workflow editor deprecation in July 2026: We're beginning the final removal of Jira’s old workflow editor, and focus on improving a single, modern workflow editing experience for Jira admins. This rollout will complete by 26 July through Jira’s seasonal releases.
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Reporting on Subtasks in Jira: Jira can report on subtasks, but they’re not the focus in classic agile reports. If you need deeper visibility, you usually get there through filters, dashboards, and careful workflow design. What job are subtasks doing for your team?
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Bringing Goal Context into Jira Plans 🚀 We’ve updated the static goal headings in Jira Plans to Smart Links so that goals are now interactive. Premium/Enterprise
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Deploy configuration changes from Sandbox - now in Open Beta! With Sandbox Configuration Deployment, you can review configuration changes made in a Jira or JSM sandbox, understand dependencies, and deploy selected changes to production or to another sandbox linked to the same production environment. Open Beta, Premium/Enterprise
Loom
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Loom Playlists is now available! Loom Playlists lets you curate, sequence, and share groups of Loom videos all in one place, with one link.
Rovo/AI
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See, Edit, and Control What Rovo Remembers About You: Profile Memory in Rovo Chat is now GA, giving every user a clear view of what Rovo knows about them and simple controls to shape, correct, or delete that memory. Watch the 4 min. Loom.
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How Atlassian thinks about AI-native SDLC: Senior Trust Analyst Kevin Wang shares insights on how Atlassian thinks about security in AI-enabled software development.
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Build Rovo Agents: Q&A and Instruction-Writing Tips from the Rovo Studio Class: This article collects and answers the excellent questions from the June webinar and includes a practical guide to writing useful agent instructions.
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How Rovo helps finance close the books faster YouTube | <3 min.
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Check out five things you may not know about Rovo + plant a tree!
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How to build and deploy a Rovo agent for self-service: This guide walks you through setting up your first Rovo agent for self-service in your JSM Portal, both from a template and from scratch in Studio.
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Rovo MCP, Teamwork Graph CLI, Rovo Dev CLI: sorting out the name game: Atlassian’s naming has changed over time, but the underlying picture is simpler than it looks. Community Champion
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Rovo MCP
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Introducing new MCP capabilities that turn context into action
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Fix Bugs Faster with Atlassian Rovo MCP: Developer Advocate Reign Nelson walks through an end-to-end workflow using Rovo MCP.
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[Preview] Atlassian Rovo MCP v2: This is a preview release of the Atlassian Rovo MCP v2. Please share any feedback, bugs or learnings you have in this thread.
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Service Collection
Jira Service Management
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🎉 You can now reopen closed alerts in JSM Operations: Reopen a closed alert without losing any of its history, links, conversation, or audit trail. This is the most-upvoted alert lifecycle request we've ever received, and we're thrilled to finally ship it.
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Webinar: How Atlassian Williams F1 Team manages their assets: Join Richard Sworder, Head of Product Ownership at Atlassian Williams F1 Team, to learn how they established full asset visibility from the garage to the race track with Assets and JSM. July 15th at 11 AM AEST/CEST/PDT
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New Microsoft Teams ChatOps capabilities to manage incidents directly in JSM: For JSM Cloud customers using the Microsoft Teams ChatOps integration, update incidents directly from your MS Teams incident chat.
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New in JSM: 6 Rovo automation templates to kick-start your agentic workflows: We're shipping a set of ready-to-use automation templates right inside the Rovo Ops settings page.
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What's new in Playbooks and Automation: This recaps five feature updates, including: Create with Rovo; AI-generated summaries; Images and files in Playbook steps; Cleaner Actions Menu; and Smart Values in Loop.
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Setting up sequential approvals for change management in JSM: If you're a JSM project admin trying to configure approval workflows, this guide walks you through how to do it using workflow statuses, conditional transitions, and approver fields.
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Assets Common Data Model (CDM) Open Beta: Our CDM provides reusable structures, relationships, and governance patterns that support asset and service configuration management processes to improve consistency, reduce operational overhead, and help teams to understand, manage, and act on the assets and services they support. EAP, Open Beta
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Services + Assets: One source of truth with two new purpose-built schemas: Since making Services native to Assets, your old Services schema is being split into two new Assets schemas: Software Registry and Business Portfolio. Atlassian will perform the entire data migration, so we’re asking customers to move all their references before Feb 2027.
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Say hello to the Jira Service Management with AI certificate exam: We’re evolving the ITSM with JSM Foundations Certification into the new ACH-815. This certificate is designed for JSM agents, help desk support specialists, project coordinators, and business users who rely on JSM to manage requests, collaborate with teams, and deliver better service experiences.
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Discover why Atlassian customers win in the AI service era: We just published Shatter the service quo, a white paper that digs into what AI-native service actually looks like in practice.
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What's New for Status Pages in JSM: Automation, Email Subscribers and Custom Domains: We've shipped three new capabilities that customers have been asking for, each one aimed at a specific moment of pain in the status-page lifecycle.
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Register your interest for early access to Solution Composer: Built on Rovo, Solution Composer lets you have a conversation to set up a service desk. Early access starts on 3 August 2026. EAP, Beta
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Workforce Management in JSM is Now Generally Available! Workforce Management brings native schedule management, real-time availability tracking, and intelligent ticket routing together inside JSM, no third-party tools required. Premium/Enterprise
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New Features Rolling Out Now + EAP: New capabilities include a coverage gaps view; capacity rebalancing; forecasting, and reporting. Sign up here for anEAP focused on making WFM smarter and more automated. EAP, Beta, Premium/Enterprise
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Early access of Private Status Pages: Private Status Pages let you share real-time incident updates and service health information with only the people you choose. This EAP is open to customers on the Service Collection Enterprise plan. EAP, Enterprise
Customer Service Management
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Customer Service Management Setup Guide for New Teams: Do you need to set up a helpdesk for your customers, but you aren’t sure where to begin? This article will provide everything you need to get started!
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💬 Live Chat in Customer Service Management in Open Beta! This highly requested feature brings real-time, synchronous human support directly into your CSM app. Beta, Premium/Enterprise
Product Collection
Jira Product Discovery
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Rovo can now understand your JPD views, here's what that unlocks: When you open Rovo while looking at a JPD view, it automatically understands the view title and description, applied filters, and the ideas displayed, including their fields and metadata.
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🖼️ Card Covers Now Live in JPD! You can personalize idea cards with images or colors, making boards more visual, easier to scan, and a bit more delightful to work with.
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Global Views Closed Beta sign-up: We’re opening early access for Global Views in JPD and looking for customers willing to share feedback, especially teams managing multiple spaces and looking to scale consistent ways of working. EAP, Beta
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📣 The tree view is now GA: Example use cases include working with opportunity/solution trees; demonstrating how product work ladders up to strategic objectives; a better view of how things connect at different levels to prioritize; and more visual ways to discuss outcome-based roadmaps with stakeholders. Premium
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Now in EAP: Publishing in Roadmaps is here! Publishing in Roadmaps converts a working cross-spaces view into a live roadmap that stays up to date and can be shared with stakeholders. It provides visibility into cross-team progress, priorities, and direction without granting access to all JPD spaces. EAP, Premium
Software Collection
Bitbucket
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Fraudulent Recruitment Assessments Delivering Malware: Scammers are posing as recruiters and asking candidates to complete what looks like a legitimate coding assessment or technical interview task, but the repositories they share contain malware, and some of these malicious repositories have been hosted on Bitbucket. Learn more about what we're doing about it and how you can protect yourself.
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Fix flaky tests with AI, and track future test work in Jira
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Bitbucket Tests just got more actionable: Act on test problems without ever leaving Bitbucket.
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Join our research study: Seeking participants to help us improve test management in Bitbucket: We're exploring how users manage tests in their CI/CD pipelines, especially when tests behave unpredictably. 60 min. session | $100 digital gift card | Feedback Opportunity
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Unlocking efficiency with Merge Queues in Bitbucket Cloud now GA: Merge Queues let teams handle the entire pull request merge workflow natively in Bitbucket. Bitbucket takes care of sequencing, validation, and merging automatically.
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The Bamboo to Bitbucket Pipelines Importer is now Generally Available: This tool automatically converts your Bamboo Deployment Projects into Bitbucket Pipelines custom pipelines alongside your build plans.
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Introducing Pull Request Deployment Tracking: Watch as your code moves through deployment, staging and production exactly where your code lives at a single glance. Check out the launch blog for the story behind the release and a look at our future roadmap. Beta
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New Pipeline Triggers: In the latest video in the Bitbucket Blitz series, walk through how to add variable sharing and dynamic step conditions to a Bitbucket Pipeline. YouTube | 4+ min.
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Embracing the AI-native SDLC with Bitbucket: This talk is targeted to engineering leaders setting their team’s AI strategy; DevOps / platform teams thinking about CI/CD in an agent-first world; and anyone using Bitbucket Cloud at scale who wants to see what’s next. On-demand
Strategy Collection
Focus
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Introducing Focus Public REST APIs: Now you can connect strategic priorities to your financial systems and business analytics tools without manual data entry or workarounds.
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Manage your Focus Area financials with Funds! Funds brings budgets, costs, and benefits directly into the Focus areas where your work, goals, and teams already live, connected through the Teamwork Graph.
Additional Updates
Analytics (Enterprise)
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Key Jira Configuration tables available on Analytics and Data Share: A group of key Jira configuration tables are now available.
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Controls update: a new look + removal of the date slider: Add a control title directly from the control form. You can use existing controls until they are fully removed starting on 1 Aug.
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Jira Board and Filters tables and Sprint 'Activated at' column available in Analytics + Data Share: These additions make it possible to understand Jira Board attributes, Board/Project relationships, and the moment a Sprint started.
Community / Learning
- Your team is using AI differently and no one's talked about it yet: The AI Working Agreements Play is a low-effort, high-impact ritual to run with your team.
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Start earning Kudos for Learning Paths! 🎓 Community members who complete a Learning Path will receive a dedicated Kudos badge and 500 Kudos points.
Forge
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New ways to build Forge apps in Rovo Studio: Build visually, stay in the flow: Learn about the five new enhancements you can start using today to level up app building in Studio.
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Building a Jira Security Info Provider app in Forge: Learn how to implement a Security Info Provider app to surface vulnerability information to a Jira space.
- Jira Forge Custom Fields on Analytics and Data Share Enterprise
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