{"company":{"name":"Jira","slug":"jira","website":"https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira","category":"productivity"},"question":"What has Jira shipped recently?","answer":"In the last 30 days, Jira shipped 18 tracked updates. The most recent was \"Global sponsor\" on 2026-09-19.","window":{"days":30,"updateCount":18,"returned":18},"generatedAt":"2026-09-20T18:11:51.294Z","updates":[{"title":"Global sponsor","summary":"Atlassian is hosting a virtual credentialing event in Boise for Rovo, an Atlassian product, on September 29. Attendees will review key concepts, take a 30-minute open-book exam, and earn a free certificate. The event targets practitioners and admins seeking structured learning and career-relevant credentials.","date":"2026-09-19","dateIsEstimated":true,"signalType":null,"signalTypeLabel":null,"sourceUrl":"https://ace.atlassian.com/events/details/atlassian-boise-presents-get-credentialed-rovo-fundamentals/","publisher":"ace.atlassian.com"},{"title":"Making Cloud Migration Work: Practical Lessons from the Field (US and European Perspective)","summary":"Atlassian is hosting a live event on September 23, 2026, featuring experts from Isos Technology and Deviniti to share practical lessons from real-world Atlassian Cloud migration projects in the US and Europe. The session will cover enterprise architecture, data, integrations, organizational alignment, and Marketplace app migration strategies.","date":"2026-09-19","dateIsEstimated":true,"signalType":"event","signalTypeLabel":"Event","sourceUrl":"https://ace.atlassian.com/events/details/atlassian-cloud-migrations-presents-making-cloud-migration-work-practical-lessons-from-the-field-us-and-european-perspective/","publisher":"ace.atlassian.com"},{"title":"Autonomous testing with Jira and BearQ","summary":"Atlassian announced BearQ for Jira, an AI agent that integrates directly into Jira workflows to autonomously test code, generate test cases, and catch defects early. The integration parses acceptance criteria and technical requirements from Jira work items to create adaptive test coverage, reducing manual handoffs and accelerating validation.","date":"2026-09-16","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"integration","signalTypeLabel":"Integration","sourceUrl":"https://www.atlassian.com/blog/jira/introducing-bearq-for-jira","publisher":"atlassian.com"},{"title":"From plan to presentation in minutes: How Gamma brings your Atlassian work to life","summary":"Atlassian and Gamma launched a deep integration using the Atlassian MCP Server, enabling Gamma to pull live Jira and Confluence context to auto-generate presentations, Confluence pages, and Jira issues directly from Gamma. Teams can now move from planning to polished presentations without switching tools, leveraging AI to structure and design content based on real-time work data.","date":"2026-09-14","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"integration","signalTypeLabel":"Integration","sourceUrl":"https://www.atlassian.com/blog/rovo/gammapartnership","publisher":"atlassian.com"},{"title":"We’re bringing governed agent loops to the AI-Native SDLC","summary":"Atlassian unveiled governed agent loops in Jira to scale AI across the software lifecycle, addressing gaps where 94% of engineering leaders use AI but only 6% can scale it. New features include shared context layers, always-on agentic execution, and accountability tools to measure AI impact, rolling out gradually to paid customers.","date":"2026-09-10","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"feature_update","signalTypeLabel":"Feature","sourceUrl":"https://www.atlassian.com/blog/jira/governed-agent-loops","publisher":"atlassian.com"},{"title":"Atlassian’s Chief AI Officer on building products for humans and agents","summary":"Atlassian’s Chief Product and AI Officer Tamar Yehoshua explains how the company designs software for both human users and AI agents, emphasizing the 'teamwork graph' for organizational context and accountability in agent workflows. She also discusses measuring AI spending with the CFO and dismisses concerns that AI agents will replace SaaS.","date":"2026-09-09","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"content_marketing","signalTypeLabel":"Content","sourceUrl":"https://www.atlassian.com/blog/videos/atlassians-chief-ai-officer-on-building-products-for-humans-and-agents","publisher":"atlassian.com"},{"title":"The Agentic Pivot: Why the work around code matters more than ever","summary":"Atlassian unveiled 'The Agentic Pivot,' a research report showing 94% of engineering leaders use AI but lack governed systems for team delivery. The company argues AI accelerates code generation but creates bottlenecks in planning, governance, and context-sharing, with only 19% having formalized systems. Atlassian proposes a 'system of record' for AI agents to document decisions and context.","date":"2026-09-03","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"content_marketing","signalTypeLabel":"Content","sourceUrl":"https://www.atlassian.com/blog/company-news/the-agentic-pivot","publisher":"atlassian.com"},{"title":"Atlassian’s usage-based pricing: AI value with predictability and control","summary":"Atlassian is shifting to expanded usage-based pricing for AI capabilities, effective December 3, 2026, giving customers visibility and control over AI usage meters. Paid cloud plans already include built-in allowances, with org-level pooling for Bitbucket and expanded asset availability.","date":"2026-09-01","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"pricing_update","signalTypeLabel":"Pricing","sourceUrl":"https://www.atlassian.com/blog/company-news/expanded-usage-based-pricing","publisher":"atlassian.com"},{"title":"Want more confidence in AI? Give it more context.","summary":"Atlassian’s Teamwork Lab found that AI’s helpfulness in the workplace is 6x higher when it deeply understands a worker’s business context, not just usage volume. Only 12% of workers say their AI understands their organization like a senior colleague, while 45% compare it to a junior hire. Context-rich AI also reduces rework by 48% and correlates with 64% more work shipped in engineering teams.","date":"2026-09-01","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"content_marketing","signalTypeLabel":"Content","sourceUrl":"https://www.atlassian.com/blog/ai-at-work/want-more-confidence-in-ai-give-it-more-context","publisher":"atlassian.com"},{"title":"Put your conversations to work with the Teamwork Graph connector for Microsoft Teams","summary":"Atlassian launched a Microsoft Teams connector for its Teamwork Graph, integrating Teams conversations and meeting transcripts into Rovo Search, Chat, and Agents alongside Jira and Confluence data. The connector respects Teams permissions and allows natural-language queries to surface Teams context for project reviews, risk tracking, and meeting summaries.","date":"2026-08-27","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"integration","signalTypeLabel":"Integration","sourceUrl":"https://www.atlassian.com/blog/context/microsoft-teams-teamwork-graph-connector","publisher":"atlassian.com"},{"title":"Put your conversations to work with the Teamwork Graph connector for Microsoft Teams","summary":"Atlassian introduced a Microsoft Teams connector for its Teamwork Graph platform, enabling Teams conversations and meeting transcripts to be searchable and actionable within Rovo Search, Chat, and Agents alongside Jira and Confluence data. The integration respects existing Teams permissions and allows admins to control indexing scope.","date":"2026-08-27","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"integration","signalTypeLabel":"Integration","sourceUrl":"https://www.atlassian.com/blog/ai-at-work/microsoft-teams-teamwork-graph-connector","publisher":"atlassian.com"},{"title":"How one leader rebuilt his feedback loop with an AI agent","summary":"Atlassian’s Head of Cloud Storage Engineering built AI agents named Smedley and Brundle to audit his Slack communication across a 70+ person team, flagging missed recognition opportunities and suggesting rewrites. The experiment revealed small communication gaps that compound into team disconnection, reshaping how he approaches leadership and AI adoption.","date":"2026-08-27","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"content_marketing","signalTypeLabel":"Content","sourceUrl":"https://www.atlassian.com/blog/ai-at-work/how-one-leader-rebuilt-his-feedback-loop-with-an-ai-agent","publisher":"atlassian.com"},{"title":"Opening the door to agent autonomy: The architecture behind Rovo’s agent harness","summary":"Atlassian’s Rovo Chat evolved from a search tool to an always-on digital assistant capable of end-to-end workflows. The new agent harness uses a split-plane architecture with isolated sandboxes, asynchronous multi-agent coordination, and automated self-evolution to enable true autonomy. Dynamic model selection and programmatic tool calling reduce latency by over 50% for complex queries while improving accuracy by 30%.","date":"2026-08-27","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"feature_update","signalTypeLabel":"Feature","sourceUrl":"https://www.atlassian.com/blog/rovo/agent-autonomy","publisher":"atlassian.com"},{"title":"From prototype to production: lessons learned taking AI-built software to enterprise scale","summary":"Atlassian’s engineering team used multi-agent orchestration to turn a weekend prototype into an enterprise-grade product in 5 months, achieving 5x output per engineer. The process revealed that AI accelerates execution but humans must own domain knowledge, planning, and review to avoid architectural pitfalls.","date":"2026-08-26","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"technical","signalTypeLabel":"Technical","sourceUrl":"https://www.atlassian.com/blog/jira/ai-built-prototype-to-production","publisher":"atlassian.com"},{"title":"Atlassian Rovo + Microsoft 365: Turn conversations into completed work, tracked in Jira","summary":"Atlassian Rovo now connects Microsoft 365 directly to the Teamwork Graph, enabling natural language actions in Jira Cloud for Microsoft Teams and AI agent workflows in Copilot and Teams. Over a million users already rely on the Jira Cloud for Microsoft Teams app, now enhanced with Rovo’s intelligence.","date":"2026-08-26","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"integration","signalTypeLabel":"Integration","sourceUrl":"https://www.atlassian.com/blog/rovo/rovo-jira-microsoft-365","publisher":"atlassian.com"},{"title":"AI polish makes it harder to spot problems. But there’s a quick fix.","summary":"Atlassian’s Teamwork Lab found AI-polished drafts make it harder for reviewers to spot fundamental flaws, with 903 participants across three conditions confirming the effect. An 'Early Draft' label largely negates the issue while maintaining perceived effort.","date":"2026-08-25","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"content_marketing","signalTypeLabel":"Content","sourceUrl":"https://www.atlassian.com/blog/ai-at-work/ai-polish-makes-it-harder-to-spot-problems-but-theres-a-quick-fix","publisher":"atlassian.com"},{"title":"Jira goes where spreadsheets can’t","summary":"Atlassian introduced new Jira features including individual capacity planning, formula fields for budget calculations, and space insights for live dashboards, all integrated with AI tool Rovo. These updates aim to consolidate planning, budgeting, and reporting into Jira to reduce manual syncing and improve real-time alignment.","date":"2026-08-25","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"feature_update","signalTypeLabel":"Feature","sourceUrl":"https://www.atlassian.com/blog/development/planning-and-budgeting-in-jira","publisher":"atlassian.com"},{"title":"When is AI useful, or just a habit? A Play/Pause break helps teams decide.","summary":"Atlassian’s Teamwork Lab ran a two-day experiment with 123 employees to test AI’s impact on work. On the 'Play' day, AI use made priority work 44% easier and reduced stress by 22%, though 44% noted verification costs. On the 'Pause' day, 82% felt the urge to use AI, 47% found tasks harder, and teams gained clearer shared judgment on AI’s value.","date":"2026-08-21","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"content_marketing","signalTypeLabel":"Content","sourceUrl":"https://www.atlassian.com/blog/ai-at-work/when-is-ai-useful-or-just-a-habit-a-play-pause-break-helps-teams-decide","publisher":"atlassian.com"}],"attribution":{"source":"Spyingbee","url":"https://spyingbee.com/updates/jira","citation":"Spyingbee, \"Jira updates\", https://spyingbee.com/updates/jira (retrieved 2026-09-20)"}}