What Jira shipped in June 2026

Fix Bugs Faster with Atlassian Rovo MCP

Atlassian introduced a new Rovo MCP server that enables developers to create, fix, validate, and update Jira issues directly from their IDE (e.g., Cursor) without switching contexts. The workflow redu…

Unlocking efficiency with Merge Queues in Bitbucket Cloud now GA

Atlassian announced the general availability of Merge Queues in Bitbucket Cloud, automating pull request sequencing, validation, and merging for Standard and Premium workspaces. The feature eliminates…

How Atlassian and Dropbox are driving effective AI transformation

Atlassian and Dropbox shared their AI transformation journeys at Team ’26, emphasizing that AI success depends on cultural shifts, not just technology. Both companies prioritize asynchronous work, rob…

Bamboo to Bitbucket Pipelines migration tool is now GA

Atlassian announced the general availability of a migration tool to move CI/CD workflows from Bamboo to Bitbucket Pipelines, supporting full Bamboo footprints including build plans, deployment project…

How We Brought Enterprise-Managed Authorization to Rovo MCP with XAA and ID-JAG

Atlassian introduced enterprise-managed authorization for its Rovo MCP server using Cross-App Access (XAA) and the Identity Assertion JWT Authorization Grant (ID-JAG). Admins can now centrally authori…

Accelerating government modernization with AWS

Atlassian and AWS expanded their Strategic Collaboration Agreement to help government agencies modernize infrastructure using Atlassian Cloud or FedRAMP-Moderate-authorized Atlassian Government Cloud,…

From fragmented work to faster public health delivery

California’s DHCS used Jira and Confluence to create a shared source of truth, expanding from 1,000 to 5,000 users across teams like procurement and communications. The platform enabled faster deliver…

Designing for the beautiful mess of modern work

Atlassian blog post discussing the challenges and design principles for managing modern, complex workflows in tools like Jira.

Agentic Pipelines now supports OpenAI Codex

Atlassian expanded Bitbucket Pipelines' Agentic Pipelines to support OpenAI Codex, enabling teams to run Codex agents directly in CI/CD workflows triggered by merges, schedules, or pull requests. Team…

Spec-driven AI Migration: How Nearly 2 Quarters of Work Was Completed in One Week

Atlassian’s engineering team migrated 100+ GraphQL fetchers in one week by turning Jira tickets into structured behavioral specs for AI agents to execute. The approach relied on human-reviewed specs i…

Atlassian’s guidelines for writing with AI

Atlassian released internal AI writing guidelines to balance speed and quality in content creation, emphasizing human oversight and unique thinking. The guidelines were developed by a cross-functional…

Production-grade ingestion with orchestration

Atlassian introduced orchestration features for Teamwork Graph Connectors, enabling production-ready data ingestion with recurring schedules, hierarchical fan-out, failure classification, and resilien…

Bring any data into Atlassian system of work

Atlassian announced the general availability of Teamwork Graph Connectors for Forge, allowing developers to ingest external data into Atlassian’s Teamwork Graph. The connectors enable data from SaaS p…

Bitbucket Packages adds PyPI and NuGet support

Atlassian expanded Bitbucket Packages to support PyPI and NuGet, integrating Python and .NET package management into the same platform where teams write code and run pipelines. This unifies permission…

Transforming teamwork: Unlocking AI-driven success in cloud

Atlassian introduced Teamwork Collection, a suite integrating Jira, Confluence, Loom, and Rovo to unify planning, knowledge, and execution in a connected cloud ecosystem. The launch emphasizes AI-driv…

HR in the age of abundant intelligence – what we believe

Atlassian’s Chief People and AI Enablement Officer argues HR must shift from administrative tasks to architecting organizational capacity, balancing human talent and AI agents. The company proposes fi…

Trace packages back to their source pipeline

Atlassian extended its Bitbucket Pipelines integration to link published package artifacts directly to their source pipeline runs, enabling teams to trace artifacts to the exact CI/CD workflow that cr…

Introducing Package triggers in Bitbucket Pipelines

Atlassian introduced a new package-artifact-created trigger for Bitbucket Pipelines, enabling automatic pipeline execution when package artifacts are created. This allows teams to orchestrate validati…

Introducing @Jira: create work items from any Slack conversation

Atlassian introduced a major upgrade to its Jira Cloud for Slack app, allowing users to create structured Jira work items directly from Slack conversations using natural language commands like @Jira. …

Why AI Agents Drift Mid-Task and How a Multi-Agent System Fixes It

Atlassian detailed a new multi-agent orchestration system for Jira that uses specialist agents anchored to Jira tickets to prevent AI agents from drifting off-spec during complex coding tasks. The sys…

Atlassian announced the general availability of Teamwork Graph Connectors for Forge, enabling developers to ingest external data into Atlassian’s Teamwork Graph. The connectors allow data from SaaS pr

Three ways Atlassian’s Learning Team uses AI, and one way they won’t

Atlassian’s Learning Team integrated Atlassian’s AI tool Rovo into their course-building workflows to automate research, administrative tasks, and writing drafts while maintaining creative control. Ro…

How Anaplan is rebuilding the broken chain between strategy and delivery

Anaplan shared lessons from its strategy-to-delivery operating model transformation at Team ’26, highlighting how disconnected systems break the chain between strategic intent and execution. Atlassian…

Your Jira Board just got a new kind of teammate

Atlassian launched AI agents in Jira that function as assignable, mentionable teammates within existing workflows, eliminating context switching. Agents can be assigned to issues, mentioned in comment…

Introducing Claude Agent for Jira

Atlassian introduced Claude Agent for Jira, an integration that lets teams assign coding tasks directly to Anthropic’s Claude Managed Agents. The agent processes Jira work items, implements changes in…

Atlassian’s HR team leads AI transformation

Atlassian’s HR team is spearheading an AI transformation by embedding AI into daily workflows rather than mandating it top-down. The People team partners with business leaders to foster experimentatio…

Meet the Knowledge Architect: The Role Every AI-First Organization Will Need Soon

Atlassian proposes a new role, the Knowledge Architect, to bridge organizational knowledge and AI adoption by designing context engineering frameworks. The role aims to structure, curate, and deliver …

Atlassian proposes a new 'Knowledge Architect' role to address AI transformation challenges, emphasizing context engineering and knowledge infrastructure. The role bridges human workflows and AI syste

Long Horizon: How Atlassian Built a Reasoning Engine for Complex AI Tasks

Atlassian replaced its multi-agent Hybrid Orchestrator with a single-LLM, iterative Long Horizon architecture to handle complex, multi-step AI tasks. The new system adapts reasoning depth per query, f…

3 ways teams use Rovo and automation in Jira Service Management to speed up resolution

Atlassian published three customer case studies demonstrating how Rovo and Jira Service Management automate workflows for Axpo, SpotOn, and Vodeno. Each customer eliminated manual hand-offs—Axpo autom…

Track Deployment status for your PRs (Beta)

Atlassian launched a Beta feature in Bitbucket that tracks live deployment statuses directly within pull request lists, eliminating the need to switch contexts to check staging or production. The feat…

Atlassian’s DESIGN.md is here: what we learned testing portable design context in practice

Atlassian tested Google’s DESIGN.md format to provide AI agents with portable design context, reducing 'slop' in generated UIs. While effective for quick prototypes, DESIGN.md underperformed their MCP…

Zero to hero: Building Rovo Agents

Atlassian released a video series demonstrating how teams can build AI agents using Rovo Studio without coding, led by Shihab Hamid and Sushant Koshy. The content covers agent design, instruction writ…

Architecting Scalable ML Platforms: The Integrated Infrastructure and Acceleration Behind Rovo

Atlassian introduced ML Studio, an enterprise-scale ML development platform designed to standardize modular development, centralize workflow orchestration, and embed governance for AI systems like Rov…

New research shows honesty about AI use at work is backfiring

Atlassian’s Teamwork Lab found 94% of knowledge workers use AI but face a 10x penalty in perceived laziness when disclosing it, despite transparency. Workers framing AI use as team-supportive mitigate…

From repetitive tickets to instant resolution: How AI agents help reclaim your service desk for the work that matters

Atlassian introduced Rovo custom agents in Jira Service Management to resolve repetitive service desk requests instantly at the point of need, reducing human workload. A case study showed 90,000 ticke…

Improving Code Reviewer with Atlassian PR Context

Atlassian upgraded its Rovo Dev Code Reviewer to include historical context from past pull requests, Jira issues, and review discussions to mimic institutional memory. Experiments showed combining dif…

How switching to Jira Service Management and Rovo helped Neta cut ticket escalations by 35%

Neta, a platform for energy and utilities, cut ticket escalations by 35% by switching to Jira Service Management and implementing Rovo AI agents. The AI-powered system automated triage, routed tickets…

Atlassian named a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Strategic Portfolio Management Tools, Q2 2026

Atlassian was named a Strong Performer in Forrester’s Q2 2026 Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) Wave, earning a 5/5 score in Vision and Innovation. The recognition highlights Atlassian’s evolution …

How Ace Hardware Modernized IT with Jira Service Management

Ace Hardware, a 102-year-old US co-op with 5,200 stores, replaced an outdated email-based ticketing system with Atlassian’s Jira Service Management via partner Stratacom. The rollout included 12,000 c…

Premium self-hosted runners are generally available

Atlassian made Premium self-hosted runners generally available, offering a free forever tier with up to 100 runners and a paid tier at $15/month per concurrent build slot. Existing V5 paid runners are…

How Loom turns customer support into a driver of business growth with Atlassian Customer Service Management

Loom, an Atlassian company, integrated Atlassian Customer Service Management (CSM) with an embedded AI agent to resolve 80% of support inquiries in-product, reducing churn by 11% and increasing video …

Teaching AI to speak our design language

Atlassian introduced 'structured content' to its design system, converting freeform documentation into machine-readable schemas for AI tools. This change improved AI-generated UI accuracy by 52%, redu…

How We Cut up to 80% of Engineering “Chores” Using AI Agents in Jira

Atlassian’s Jira team reduced engineering maintenance chores by up to 80% by deploying AI agents within Jira workflows. Agents now handle tasks like flaky test resolution, feature flag cleanup, and is…

From alert noise to action: How 24 Hour Fitness transformed IT operations with Jira Service Management and Rovo Ops

24 Hour Fitness modernized IT operations using Jira Service Management, reducing alert noise, slashing ITSM costs by 37%, and building a connected Ops platform with change-to-incident traceability. Ke…

Turning AI into infrastructure with Atlassian’s Head of AI

Atlassian's Head of AI discusses how AI is being integrated as foundational infrastructure within Atlassian's products, including Jira.

How Content Assistant raised the design quality bar without slowing us down

Atlassian introduced the Content Assistant, an AI agent built on their Rovo platform, to draft UX copy and enforce content standards across Slack, Confluence, and other tools. The tool reduced content…

Stop counting who uses AI. Start finding who’s transforming with it.

Atlassian evolved its AI adoption metrics over three phases, shifting from weekly active users to function-specific superuser thresholds based on the top 10% of usage within each craft. The company no…

The AI-native SDLC is paying off: 19% more PRs and 2–3 hours saved per developer per week

Atlassian reports that teams using Rovo Dev, its AI-native SDLC tool, merge 19% more pull requests and save developers 2-3 hours per week. The gains are largest when multiple team members adopt the to…