Welcome to this week’s Atlassian roundup for Sep 23 to Sep 28. Highlights include Gartner Leader recognition, EU AI Pact progress, new AI features in Jira and Confluence, JSM Journeys, and Bitbucket Pipelines upgrades.
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🏆 Atlassian named Leader in 2025 Gartner DevOps Platforms Magic Quadrant
Atlassian is a Leader for the third straight year, citing AI-driven DevOps with Rovo and the Teamwork Graph as key strengths. Read more
🔑 Key Takeaways:
- Highest placement in execution and vision
- AI helps teams ship faster across Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket
- Recognition reinforces Atlassian’s end-to-end DevOps strategy
🛡️ Atlassian strengthens AI governance with EU AI Pact commitments
A new report outlines five responsible AI pledges, progress to date, and controls like SOC2 and ISO 27001 for Rovo plus data residency. Read more
🔑 Key Takeaways:
- Transparent update on EU AI Pact progress
- Focus on governance, risk, education, transparency, user awareness
- Compliance signals trust for enterprise AI adoption
🤖 New AI and automation features across Atlassian products
Smarter Rovo search and new workflows help turn Confluence or Loom links into structured Jira issues, reducing manual steps. Read more
🔑 Key Takeaways:
- Paste a link and auto-generate Jira work items
- Better ranking and suggestions improve discovery
- Fewer context switches across tools
📝 Jira Cloud UI enhancements streamline status updates
The status field now sits right under the summary, full-screen view is more consistent, and sprint items can be reordered without drag-and-drop. Read more
🔑 Key Takeaways:
- Faster status changes in issue view
- Cleaner, unified full-screen experience
- Quicker backlog management
🧭 Jira Service Management adds Journeys for cross-project processes
Journeys connect and automate work across multiple projects with triggers, conditions, and dependencies in one view. Read more
🔑 Key Takeaways:
- End-to-end orchestration for flows like onboarding
- Auto-create linked work items with rules
- Enable from Project settings, Features
💬 Confluence adds AI comment summaries and collaboration upgrades
AI can summarize page comments, inline comments support more elements, and space creation is simpler with presets. Read more
🔑 Key Takeaways:
- Faster catch-up on feedback
- Richer inline discussion context
- Streamlined space setup
⚙️ Bitbucket Pipelines expands with external secrets and ARM support
Pipelines can fetch secrets from third-party managers and run on Linux ARM runners, with more flexible variables in YAML. Read more
🔑 Key Takeaways:
- Integrate with your chosen secret store
- ARM runners for modern build targets
- Variables usable across the config
🆘 Atlassian Support portal gets AI-powered chat assistant
An AI helper on the support contact form suggests answers in real time and gathers details to speed resolution. Read more
🔑 Key Takeaways:
- Instant recommendations during ticket creation
- Reduces back-and-forth with support
- Optional, users can continue with the standard form
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