What Jira shipped in July 2026

How Design Ops built an AI teammate with no engineering lift

Atlassian’s Design Ops team launched DOT, an AI agent built in Rovo Studio to answer common tooling questions in Slack, reducing unanswered queries from 20% to near zero. The project required strength…

Turn knowledge in Google Drive and Microsoft SharePoint into connected context

Atlassian introduced Teamwork Graph connectors for Google Drive and Microsoft SharePoint, enabling Rovo Search, Chat, and Agents to surface and act on document knowledge from these platforms. The conn…

The Board Should Work For You

Trello introduced seven AI-driven features for Standard, Premium, and Enterprise users, including AI-generated boards from prompts, card merging, checklist suggestions, calendar scheduling, image gene…

Budget Allocation at Scale: Building an ML Optimization System for Paid Marketing

Atlassian developed a two-stage ML system to dynamically allocate marketing budgets across channels, geographies, and products, replacing manual processes. The system uses a payout model to predict ou…

Shattering the service quo starts with context

Atlassian was named a Leader in both the Forrester Wave™: Conversational AI Platforms for Employee Services (Q3 2026) and the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for IT Service Management Platforms. Analyst…

Forge LLMs API is now GA: Here’s how you can build AI-native apps on Atlassian

Atlassian announced the general availability of its Forge LLMs API, enabling developers to embed large language models directly into Forge apps while keeping data within Atlassian’s cloud boundary. Th…

From prompts to orchestration: Scale AI coding agent impact with Jira Automation

Atlassian introduced native support for GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Claude within Jira Automation, enabling event-driven workflows that trigger agents based on Jira events. This turns Jira into an ope…

The Events Rail: Inside Atlassian’s Webhook Delivery Platform

Atlassian introduced a multi-tenant 'events rail' infrastructure to reliably deliver webhooks from Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Forge apps at scale. The system splits processing into two stages—ma…

Scaling StreamHub: Transitioning from Kinesis to Kafka for 145 Billion Daily Events

Atlassian’s Jira transitioned its StreamHub event streaming platform from Amazon Kinesis to Apache Kafka (via AWS MSK) to handle 150 billion daily events, up from 22 billion. The move leveraged Kafka …

Meet the new Rovo Chat: One prompt, multiple steps, zero hand-holding

Atlassian replaced Rovo Chat’s multi-agent routing system with a single Long Horizon reasoning engine that maintains full context across Jira, Confluence, Slack, and other tools. The new system plans,…

Online index migration and shard-scaling in OpenSearch with AOSC

Atlassian introduced AOSC, an open-source OpenSearch plugin designed to enable zero-downtime index migration and shard scaling for live, user-facing search clusters. The tool addresses challenges face…

Inside AI Builders Week: How teams work in the AI era

Atlassian’s latest AI Builders Week shifted focus from individual AI tools to team-level workflow reinvention, with 1,500 participants building 120+ new workflows in days. 92% of attendees reported in…

Bitbucket Tests now supports tracking tests from multiple branches

Bitbucket Tests now tracks tests from up to 5 branches per repository, not just the default branch, aligning test insights with real delivery workflows. The feature is available on Standard and Premiu…

Give AI agents the full picture with Loom video prompts

Loom launched video prompts to let users record screen actions and narration, which are automatically converted into structured, machine-readable instructions for AI agents. The feature integrates wit…

Connect Trello to Your Favorite AI Assistants with Trello MCP

Trello introduced MCP (Model Context Protocol) to connect directly with AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini, enabling users to manage boards, lists, and cards via natural language prompts. …

Share packages across your workspace with internal packages

Atlassian introduced internal packages in Bitbucket Packages, allowing repository admins to share packages across all workspace repositories without granting repository access. Previously, sharing req…

Leading with Context: Lessons from Atlassian’s AI Journey

Atlassian published research revealing gaps in AI ROI perception among executives and detailing its internal AI transformation journey. The report highlights five guiding questions, tested frameworks,…

“You Should Be A Little Uncomfortable”: How Cursor Is Navigating the New Shape of Product Craft

Atlassian and Cursor introduced a new integration enabling Jira teams to assign work directly to Cursor, where an AI agent automates task execution. The integration aims to streamline workflows by bri…

Custom deployment permissions for your environments (Beta)

Bitbucket Pipelines introduced custom deployment permissions (Beta) to restrict environment access to authorized users and groups, addressing the all-or-nothing access problem. Repository admins can n…

The Future of Jira Isn’t Just Tracking Work. It’s Delegating it

Atlassian demonstrates how Jira can delegate work across specialized AI agents mapped to SDLC stages (Research, Planning, Implementation, Review), turning the platform into a coordination layer for hu…

Bring GitHub context into Rovo with the Teamwork Graph connector for GitHub

Atlassian launched the Teamwork Graph connector for GitHub, enabling GitHub data to flow into Teamwork Graph and Rovo. This integration allows software teams to connect implementation context (PRs, co…

Global sponsor

Atlassian Community is hosting a summer event in Tallinn on August 26, 2026, focusing on teamwork, AI, and Atlassian Williams Racing. Attendees will discuss Atlassian updates, AI use cases in the Atla…

Two years in: how Atlassian for Startups grew from an experiment into a global program — and why it matters more than ever

Atlassian’s two-year-old startup program, launched in June 2024, has onboarded over 5,000 startups worldwide, with 3,000 added in the second year alone. The program offers tools, community, and mentor…

How we’re evolving Jira for AI-native software development

Atlassian introduced agentic product development features in Jira to support AI-native software teams, enabling AI agents to plan, assign, and execute work with rich organizational context via the Tea…

How Axel Springer is using Rovo Dev to help engineering teams focus on higher-value work

Axel Springer integrated Atlassian’s Rovo Dev into four engineering teams to automate repetitive tasks like documentation, security fixes, and sprint reporting. The pilot reduced context-switching for…

Atlassian is hosting a hands-on workshop in Abuja on July 11, 2026, demonstrating how Loom’s async video tool integrates with Jira, Confluence, and JSM to streamline technical communication. Attendees

Atlassian announced an in-person event in Edinburgh on August 4, 2026, showcasing how teams use Atlassian’s platform for AI-powered collaboration across teamwork, strategy, software delivery, and prod

How to automate product workflows with AI-powered video: A product manager’s guide

Atlassian’s blog details how AI-powered video (via Loom) automates product workflows by capturing context, generating documentation, and filing Jira tickets. Features include bug reporting with embedd…

Why AI alone isn’t enough for enterprises (and what Mercedes-Benz did about it)

Mercedes-Benz integrated Atlassian’s Teamwork Graph and Rovo AI agents to streamline defect management, reducing lead time by 70% by connecting 300+ tools and enabling voice-based defect filing. The s…

From tool to teammate: How one Atlassian team made AI a real coworker

Atlassian’s People Insights team fully agentified its operations in Q4 FY26 by embedding AI with persistent access to team context, data, and workflows via a three-layer workspace. This enabled AI to …

Atlassian’s People Insights team fully agentified its operations by implementing a three-layer context engineering system (VS Code + Rovo Dev + Bitbucket) to give AI persistent access to team context,

Every agent. Every state. Full visibility in Jira.

Atlassian introduced 'My agent sessions' in Jira Cloud, providing a unified view of all AI agent activity across spaces and repositories. The feature helps teams validate agent output at scale by surf…

AI that knows your business

Atlassian introduced the Teamwork Graph CLI (now generally available) and Rovo MCP Server to provide AI agents with deep organizational context across Atlassian tools and third-party apps. The system …

New research reveals how AI is making jobs bigger

Atlassian’s Teamwork Lab found 92% of U.S. knowledge workers report expanded responsibilities in the past year, with AI adoption the strongest predictor of role growth. Heavy AI users take on cross-fu…

Fix flaky tests with AI, and track future test work in Jira

Atlassian introduced AI-driven fixes for flaky tests in Bitbucket Pipelines, enabling one-click root-cause diagnosis, automated fix generation, and draft pull requests. It also added direct Jira work …

AI made your people faster. But it’s your office that’s slowing them down.

Atlassian’s research reveals that while AI accelerates individual execution, coordination and decision-making bottlenecks now cost Fortune 500 companies $1.61B annually. The company proposes redesigni…

Secure AI adoption with data loss prevention (DLP)

Atlassian introduced AI-focused data loss prevention (DLP) features in Guard Premium, including full-site content scanning, automatic data classification, and policy enforcement for Jira and Confluenc…

What 5M+ daily MCP tool calls taught us about the future of AI at work

Atlassian’s Rovo MCP server has reached over 1M monthly users and 5M+ daily tool calls, with 44% of users outside software teams. New capabilities include multi-step work flows, deeper code-work conne…

Introducing new MCP capabilities that turn context into action

Atlassian introduced five new MCP capabilities for its Rovo MCP server, enabling coding agents to perform Jira actions like creating work items, editing comments, and capturing time directly from the …