Admin Digest: July 2026

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Hey admins 👋

This is Betty from the Enterprise product marketing team. We’re excited to welcome you to the Admin Digest. This bi-monthly roundup gives you a look at what’s new and upcoming in Atlassian Administration. Each edition covers a different admin focus area, from protecting and governing your environment to scaling your org structure and governing AI, and more!

This month, we’re sharing updates that help you keep your environment resilient, test and roll out changes safely, and manage users and apps across your org from one place.

Let’s dive in.

Table of contents

• Resilient business continuity
• Trusted change
• Centralized administration at scale
• Team '26 US highlights

Resilient business continuity

These updates help you protect critical data, quickly understand service impact, and keep teams moving when incidents occur.

Backup and Restore for Cloud

Atlassian Backup and Restore protects against customer-initiated disasters, such as accidental deletion, by letting you schedule backups and restore data when needed. For admins, this means having an always-on safety net that protects your org from customer-owned disasters and lets you recover quickly without interrupting your team’s work.

• Now generally available: Backup and Restore is now generally available as an add-on for all Premium or Enterprise customers.

  • Automated scheduled backups. Set daily or weekly backup policies and let them run. No manual effort required.

  • Backup and Restore APIs. Automate backup operations and integrate them into your change management or compliance workflows programmatically.

  • Restore to sandbox. You can now restore a backup into a sandbox to validate your recovery before touching your live environment.

• What’s coming next: Deeper protection across your Atlassian ecosystem, with backup coverage expanding across more Atlassian and Marketplace apps.

Learn more about Backup and Restore

System Health

System Health gives org admins visibility into incidents affecting your specific environment right inside Atlassian Administration. No more waiting for end-user complaints or guessing whether an outage applies to you. With this personalized dashboard, you can confirm the impact instantly and update stakeholders before the first ticket even arrives.

• Now generally available, System Health allows you to:

  • Monitor the operational status of your Atlassian apps

  • Get automated alerts for Jira, Confluence, Jira Service Management, and Bitbucket

  • View site-level incident and resolution data

  • Access a 90-day incident history

  • Review postmortems for large incidents

Enterprise customers also get better maintenance policies through System Health, which routes disruptive maintenance updates to low-traffic windows with 5 days’ advance notice.

• What’s coming next: The ability to receive System Health alerts via webhooks or user-specified email addresses, ensuring the right people are notified on the platforms they use most.

Learn more about System Health.

Trusted change

These updates give you transparency and control over changes. With sandbox deployments and release notes on Community, you can see what's changing, test it on your terms, and roll out to your teams with confidence.

Sandbox Configuration Deployment

Sandbox Configuration Deployment lets you test and validate configuration changes in a sandbox, then promote them directly to production (or another sandbox) instead of rebuilding them from scratch.

• Now in open beta: Available to all customers on Premium and Enterprise plans for Jira and Jira Service Management.

  • Selective deployment. Choose exactly which configurations to promote without pushing everything at once.

  • Side-by-side comparison. Review differences between sandbox and production before deploying, so you know exactly what's changing.

  • Dependency detection and pre-flight checks. Understand what's connected and catch issues before they reach production.

Release notes on Community

Big news for anyone who’s wanted to track every cloud update in a single place. Available to everyone now, Release Notes on Atlassian Community is a public, real-time hub where you can browse, filter, and search every Atlassian cloud update in one place. No more piecing together changes from blog posts, support docs, and scattered articles.

• Now in open beta: Previously, release notes were only accessible to org admins via App Updates in Atlassian Administration. Now, anyone in your org can discover what's changing across the entire Atlassian cloud.

  • Real-time updates: Release notes appear as soon as feature teams publish them.

  • Permanent, shareable links: Every change comes with its own URL you can share with stakeholders or end users.

  • Expanded descriptions: Each release note now includes key changes, benefits, and rollout context.

  • Search and filter: Browse every Atlassian cloud product from a single page and filter to find exactly what you need.

• What's coming next:

  • A dedicated tab to review changes released via Release tracks.

  • A dedicated tab to review upcoming seasonal release changes.

  • Scores and contextual tags to highlight the most impactful changes and add helpful context.

Centralized administration at scale

We’re also introducing updates that let you manage users, groups, and apps at the organizational level, centralizing visibility and control in one place.

Org-level user and group management

If you manage users across multiple sites, you know the drill of clicking into each site one by one to find and manage people. Starting in July, we're rolling out new Users and Groups pages that show everyone across your entire organization in one view:

• Under Directory, you’ll find two new pages, Users and Groups, that show all users and groups in your organization.

• The updated user profile shows a user’s app access and group memberships across sites from a single profile. This gives you a centralized place to quickly review and manage their individual access.

• The Managed accounts page will be moved from the left navigation to the new Users page under Directory, so going forward, you won’t have to look in two different pages for user accounts. Simply use the “Account type” filter on the Users page to find managed accounts. What are managed accounts?

Org-level app management

Today, managing your apps requires navigating into each site individually to view, update, or configure them. Coming soon, we're bringing app management to the organizational level so you can see and manage all your installed apps across sites from one place. Additionally, you’ll soon be able to configure all pre-installation settings at the org-level.

ℹ️ Installed apps on your Atlassian site are Marketplace apps, third-party integrations, or private apps your organization uses to extend Atlassian products like Jira and Confluence.

Coming soon: A new org-level app listing and details page under Apps in Atlassian Administration, starting with Forge apps, with additional app types to follow.

Today, viewing & managing apps requires visiting individual sites

Coming soon, you will be able to view and manage all apps at the org-level

Team '26 US highlights

If you missed our Team ’26 US roundup for administration, check out Team ’26 US: Master the four shifts of modern administration for a recap of the latest Atlassian Administration announcements and what they mean for modern admin teams.

☕ That’s a wrap for the July Admin Digest, and we hope you enjoyed this update! We’d love to hear from you. Drop a comment below if you have questions or suggestions for what you’d like to see us cover next.