The past month has again showcased two approaches within the Atlassian ecosystem. Cloud advances rapidly with a focus on enhancing user experience and integrating powerful AI agents into core workflows. Meanwhile, the Data Center is being strengthened as a secure and reliable enterprise platform, with critical security updates and major platform modernizations taking priority. Let’s explore the details.
Atlassian Cloud
Atlassian’s cloud products gained several updates designed to make everyday work easier, more tailored, and smarter.
Jira
The Jira user experience underwent some major updates aimed at simplifying everyday tasks and minimizing clicks.
- Merging List and All work into a single, powerful, spreadsheet-style view for all teams, simplifying how you manage tasks across projects. (Atlassian Community Article)
- You can now reorder the starred projects in your sidebar navigation, a long-requested feature for better personalization. (Atlassian Community Article)
- The Status field has been moved to a more prominent position directly under the issue summary for easier and faster status updates. (Atlassian Community Article)
- The new workflow editor has reached full feature parity with the legacy editor and is now generally available, marking a major milestone for admins. (Atlassian Community Article)
Confluence
This month, the primary focus for Confluence updates was on governance and collaboration.
- Spaces now have owners! You can designate a specific user as the owner of a space to clarify responsibility and make management easier. (Atlassian Community Article)
- The process for requesting access to a restricted page has been moved directly into the Share dialog, making the workflow more intuitive and easier to manage. (Atlassian Community Article)
Bitbucket
DevOps teams get a significant scalability boost with a powerful new CI/CD feature.
- Introducing parent-child pipelines, a new feature that allows one pipeline to trigger and encapsulate another. This helps create modular, reusable workflows and overcome the previous 100-step limit. (Atlassian Blog Post)
Atlassian Intelligence & Rovo
Atlassian’s AI capabilities have evolved from passive assistants to active agents that can execute work.
- Meet the new Rovo Teamwork Agent: The Meeting Insights Reporter, which can provide quick summaries and extract key information from meetings.
- You can now trigger Rovo Agents with Automation Smart Buttons in Confluence, allowing you to perform complex, multi-step tasks like drafting a complete Product Requirements Document with a single click.
For Administrators & Developers
The underlying platform received critical updates focused on governance and creating a more robust developer ecosystem.
- Sandboxes – Admins can now copy specific Jira Service Management and Jira Work Management projects to their sandbox environment, making testing much faster and more targeted. (Atlassian Blog Post)
- Issue Linking: As of November 24, 2025, users will require the “Link Issues” permission for both inward and outward issues to create links. Admins should review and update their permission schemes beforehand to prevent issues. (Jira Changelog)
- Atlassian is continuing its API modernization by deprecating a wide range of internal, unsupported API endpoints in Confluence, guiding developers to use the modern and fully supported v2 REST API. (Atlassian Changelog)
Data Center
The focus for the on-premise platform is squarely on security, stability, and long-term modernization.
Security
- Latest Security Bulletin: July 2025. This is the most critical update for all Data Center customers. The bulletin addresses 20 distinct high-severity vulnerabilities across the entire product portfolio, including Bamboo, Bitbucket, Confluence, Crowd, and Jira.
Platform & Releases
Alongside security fixes, Atlassian is making deep investments in the core Data Center platform.
Significant platform modernization work is underway, including upgrades to core frameworks like Spring and Jakarta EE, official support for newer databases like PostgreSQL 17 and MySQL 8.4, and a major hardening of the platform’s OAuth 2.0 implementation to enhance security.
Jira Software 11.0 and Jira Service Management 11.0 have been released, marking major new versions of the flagship products.
