What Jira shipped in August 2026

Put your conversations to work with the Teamwork Graph connector for Microsoft Teams

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. Th…

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 Age

How one leader rebuilt his feedback loop with an AI agent

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 suggest…

Opening the door to agent autonomy: The architecture behind Rovo’s agent harness

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, async…

From prototype to production: lessons learned taking AI-built software to enterprise scale

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 acc…

Atlassian Rovo + Microsoft 365: Turn conversations into completed work, tracked in Jira

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 millio…

AI polish makes it harder to spot problems. But there’s a quick fix.

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 la…

Jira goes where spreadsheets can’t

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 u…

When is AI useful, or just a habit? A Play/Pause break helps teams decide.

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 ve…

From internal tool to Marketplace: How ScriptFabric built on Forge

ScriptFabric, a third-party Jira app, transitioned from an internal tool to a Marketplace product by leveraging Atlassian’s Forge platform for JavaScript-based scripting. The app reduces reliance on G…

Building your AI work factory

Atlassian unveiled a concept called 'work factory'—a structured, repeatable AI workflow framework for knowledge workers that mirrors software engineering's factory model. The system combines curated d…

Introducing Jira Planner

Atlassian introduced Jira Planner, a new tool designed to address the gap between high-level AI development intent and execution by generating structured, agent-ready specifications grounded in real c…

Connect Salesforce to the Teamwork Graph to unlock customer context for your teams and agents

Atlassian launched a new connector linking Salesforce customer data with its Teamwork Graph, enabling teams to search, synthesize, and act on unified customer context across tools like Jira, Confluenc…

Atlassian introduced a new Teamwork Graph connector for Salesforce, enabling teams to search and synthesize Salesforce data (accounts, opportunities, cases) alongside Atlassian work (Jira, Confluence,

Your next presentation is already in Confluence

Atlassian introduced Confluence Slides, an AI-powered feature that transforms existing Confluence content into polished presentations in seconds using Rovo. The tool pulls context from Confluence, Jir…

Don’t Build AI Governance From Scratch. Just Turn It On.

Atlassian introduced built-in AI governance features for its Rovo platform to address risks from ungoverned AI agents, including data exposure and regulatory scrutiny. The update integrates governance…

Introducing the AI context engine for your entire codebase

Atlassian introduced Code Context, a feature that integrates large-scale codebase understanding into its Teamwork Graph to improve AI coding agents' output accuracy and efficiency. The tool indexes co…

Atlassian introduced Code Context, an AI context engine that indexes entire codebases into the Teamwork Graph to provide coding agents with multi-repo understanding, architectural context, and organiz

3 AI bets powering Atlassian’s integrated marketing impact

Atlassian’s marketing team deployed three AI-driven systems to transform campaign performance: a real-time budget optimization engine, a multi-touch journey personalization tool, and an agentic creati…

How KFC Uses AI Agents to Ship Software Faster

KFC’s engineering teams reduced release admin time by using a custom Change Agent built with Atlassian Rovo, which instantly pulls release risk, impact, and component details. This shift enabled engin…

You don’t need a team of AI experts. You just need one.

Atlassian’s Teamwork Lab found that adding a single AI superuser to a team increases the likelihood of achieving a top score by 18 percentage points in its ShipIt hackathon. The effect plateaus after …

Introducing the redesigned deployments experience

Atlassian launched a redesigned Deployments page for Bitbucket Pipelines, replacing a cluttered dashboard with a column-based layout for Test, Staging, and Production environments. The update introduc…

Agents are in Confluence (and wherever you need them to be)

Atlassian enhanced its Confluence Agents to perform nearly all user actions—editing, commenting, labeling, setting status, creating whiteboards or databases—grounded in live team content. Agents now i…

What High-Throughput Engineers do Differently and Why AI Widens the Gap

Atlassian’s research with 15 high-throughput engineers found AI accelerates core practices like small PRs, spec-driven development, and fast dev loops rather than replacing them. Teams using Jira to c…

Why better tickets help agents write better code

Atlassian’s engineering team found that AI-native workflows produced 5x more Jira tickets per engineer with 4.47/5 quality scores versus 2.72 for traditional tickets. Agent-ready specs with explicit a…

Global sponsor

Atlassian is hosting RovoCon Abuja, a free AI-focused event on August 8, 2026, featuring workshops, labs, and networking for developers and AI practitioners. Attendees can earn a Rovo Fundamentals Cre…

Building a real-time PWA on Atlassian’s own stack

Atlassian created a real-time Progressive Web App (PWA) for its Unleash 2026 tech summit, enabling attendees to interact with Jira, Confluence, Loom, and Bitbucket in real time. The app allowed live c…

Our Q4 FY26 letter to shareholders

Atlassian reported Q4 FY26 revenue of $1.8B (up 28% y/y), with cloud revenue at $1.2B (31% y/y growth) and subscription ARR of $6.6B (23% y/y). RPO grew 44% to $4.8B, while GAAP operating margin reach…

How to Speed Up Connect to Forge Migration With AI

Atlassian highlights a partner's use of AI to migrate five Jira Connect apps to Forge in two months, reducing time by 2-5x compared to manual efforts. The approach involved establishing migration patt…

Introducing Jira as the System of Record for OpenAI Symphony

Atlassian announced Jira as the system of record for OpenAI Symphony, enabling agent work to be anchored to Jira work items. This integration allows Symphony to route eligible tasks to agent sessions …

Scaling localization at Atlassian: keeping translation at the pace of AI-era development

Atlassian’s translation volume grew 272% YoY in H2 FY25 due to AI-assisted development, straining its localization pipeline. To address this, the company implemented two key changes: AI-generated tran…

Jira’s Summer 2026 Release: Smarter Agents, Rebuilt Views, and a Faster Foundation

Jira’s Summer 2026 release introduces 15 new capabilities, including proactive AI agents like the Delivery Agent for recurring coordination tasks, Rovo-powered space generation from natural language, …

How Atlassian Williams F1 Team uses Assets to drive performance

Atlassian Williams F1 Team adopted Atlassian Assets and Jira Service Management to track over 350,000 car parts and 1,700+ factory machines, enabling real-time fault logging and rich metadata access. …

Coding at the speed of thought: how I talk to Rovo Dev from Slack

Atlassian engineer built a Python bridge enabling direct Slack-to-Rovo Dev interactions via a local HTTP server, eliminating terminal dependency. The integration uses `acli rovodev serve` to process S…

More ways to Build on Forge: Container Services is Now in Preview

Atlassian announced Forge Container Services has entered Preview, allowing developers to deploy containerized apps to production on Forge infrastructure. This expands runtime options beyond serverless…

How We Used Agentic Pipelines to Swarm Documentation

Atlassian’s DevAI team built Agentic Pipelines to automate documentation updates triggered by code changes, reducing repetitive work by 1.5 developer-days weekly. The system uses focused agents to upd…

The tech we love to hate is the tech we’d hate to lose

Atlassian’s Teamwork Lab found 90% of knowledge workers now use AI at work, with 74% holding positive sentiment, despite broader societal concerns. Half would resist employer efforts to revoke access,…

Rovo Search: Why Rovo is a Leading Enterprise AI Search Tool

Rovo Search now delivers AI-generated answers with citations, routes intent-aware queries in Jira, searches across 50+ connected tools, and embeds directly in Atlassian workflows. It is 60% faster tha…

Getting Ready for Connect End of Support

Atlassian extended the end of support for Connect apps in Jira and Confluence from December 2026 to January 31, 2027, giving developers six additional months to migrate to Forge. Over 95% of paid app …

Everyone agrees on the priorities. Almost no one can see the money and the work behind them.

Atlassian introduced three new capabilities in Strategy Collection: Funds for tracking financials alongside work, Strategic Intelligence (beta) for AI-driven risk detection, and Asks to maintain prior…