Introducing Rovo Search for Jira

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We’re introducing Rovo Search in Jira and rolling it out gradually so we can gather feedback and iterate quickly. You’ll start by seeing the new result recommendations as you type in the search field. If you want to search across all your Atlassian and connected apps press Cmd+Enter (Mac) or Ctrl+Enter (Windows/Linux). You will still get the normal Jira issue navigator results page by default when you press Enter.

What’s new

• Find what you need quickly: See recommended, relevant results as you type - no more digging through navigation or remembering exact issue keys

• Smarter, intent-aware results: Rovo understands what you mean, not just the keywords you type

• Personalized suggestions: Get contextual suggestions based on your recent work and collaborators

• AI search: Suggested queries based on your previous activity
• See recent work from Jira and selected admin-connected apps

• Jira-first, cross-app when you choose: Press Enter to get Jira’s issue navigator results page. Press Cmd+Enter (Ctrl+Enter on Windows/Linux) from the search field to open Rovo Search, searching across all your Atlassian and connected third-party apps

Before	After

Simplified filter UI

Commonly used filters moved to the top of the search box. Other filters are available via the filters icon.

A new way to search

Jira work item search is still the default when you hit 'enter', but you can now choose to search across all your selected Atlassian and connected apps.

Cmd+Enter (Ctrl+Enter on PC) takes you to the new Rovo search in Jira experience.

Quality you can trust

Our goal is to deliver latency and relevance on par with the current Jira search experience from day one. But we’re not stopping there - just as we’ve done in Confluence, we’ll continue to improve speed, accuracy, and engagement over time. In Confluence, Rovo Search has already improved our primary quality metric (+10%) and reduced latency while loading results. You can learn more about how we measure and improve Rovo Search quality here.

What’s next

• Gradual rollouts to a subset of Standard, Premium, and Enterprise customers who have AI enabled. Customers in highly regulated industries, customers that have enabled a release track, and those on Free plans are excluded for now. Selection is randomized.

• We will start broader rollout for eligible Jira customers starting September 22nd, and aim to be complete for eligible customers by end of October.

Future planned improvements

• Search attachments (https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-1210)
• Sorting (https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-80173)
• Comments search (https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-84332)
• App filter (to let you select which product you wish to search for in Jira - i.e. Confluence)

• Add more types into Type Filter (i.e. epic, bug, story etc)

• Filter results to only show the Work items that I have commented on

• Filter results by work items I am watching

• Save filters (i.e. save Project, Status and Reporter

We can’t wait for you to try Rovo Search in Jira and see how much faster and easier it is to find your work!

[Yatish Madhav]

Thanks @Owen Wallis 

We have not enabled or used AI or Rovo as yet ...

Is this something that will still come to our instance (on Premium)? Or is it dependant on having AI enabled?

Thank you

Yatish

[Owen Wallis]

Hi @Yatish Madhav

Thanks for the question

While you won't need AI enabled for the core experience, some features like the AI suggestions are powered by AI - thus would need AI enabled

[Wachi _ K36]

The ‘before’ version was already more complicated than the earlier one, and now after the update it’s gotten even more complicated (with at least one extra step). How can you even call this a ‘Simplified filter UI’?

[Matyáš Buček]

Hello, would it be please possible to reconsider adding back the Confluence search directly in Jira Search bar as it was before? Or is there any other way to search confluence directly from Jira? Now the only way I see it is that I have to click on "Search all apps" which is pretty impractical.

[Brian Dunk]

How do we revert back to the old way?

[Arash_Derakhshani]

Removing the ability to search Confluence directly from Jira negatively impacts our team's workflow, adding extra steps where the process was simple before the update.

Can you please add back the ability to search Confluence from Jira? 

[Owen Wallis]

Thanks @Matyáš Buček @Arash_Derakhshani for the feedback - we are actively working on the ability to search Confluence from Jira asap

[Owen Wallis]

Hi @Wachi _ K36

We reviewed the most used filters (Project and Assignee) and kept them front and centre.

We have many more features we want to add to Jira (I've just added a 'Future planned improvements' section above).This design lets us deliver faster search performance and add filters without clutter, while also weaving in AI powered search to Jira

We hear the concern over the new UI (thank you @Brian Dunk) and we are exploring simpler onboarding and tooltips so new flows feel natural.

[Travis Nelson]

This new search is terrible. Rovo is awful. Please let us revert back to the old search.

[Justin Liu]

seriously, have you ever reach out to customers before put this one out? 

rovo is fine but not takes ages to find anyting in confluence now. too many steps to even start searching in confluence

and what's that keyboard shortcut next to it ? are you assuming all your customers are using a mac? 

[Sophia Karunwi]

please roll back to how it was. I just want to see my project every time. that's it. 

[ChandraShekhar M Chenna]

Need help to switch to old search type.

[Mohamed Yahia]

It would be amazing if you can allow us to revert back to the old search, it was much more efficient - no argument can be made there. Having the filters on the side directly in front of me is much easier than clicking multiple times through the dropdowns to find what I need.