🤝 Empowering Impact Teams: Atlassian Offers Social Enterprise Discounts

Read More … https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/social-enterprise-discounts

Atlassian is now extending its nonprofit benefits to social enterprises. Mission-driven for-profit organizations can access 50 to 75 percent discounts on Jira, Confluence, Trello and more. The goal is to empower impact-focused teams with affordable tools to scale their mission.

Along with discounts, Atlassian introduced the Ask an Atlassian support program, Solution Grants for up to 25 days of expert consulting, access to the nonprofit community, and eligibility for the Atlassian for Startups program for early stage teams.

🔑 Key Takeaways for Enterprise Customers:

• Discounts now include social enterprises not only nonprofits
• 50 to 75 percent off Atlassian cloud products
• Free expert guidance through Ask an Atlassian
• Solution Grants offer up to 25 days of partner consulting
• Community and Startup programs available for added support

🛡️ Security Bulletin: High Severity Vulnerabilities Fixed (October 21, 2025)

Read More … https://confluence.atlassian.com/security/security-bulletin-october-21-2025-1652920034.html

Atlassian has released its latest security bulletin addressing multiple high-severity vulnerabilities across supported products. Customers running affected versions should review the bulletin and apply the recommended fixes or upgrades as soon as possible to stay secure and compliant.

🔑 Key Takeaways for Enterprise Customers:

• Multiple high-severity security issues have been fixed
• All admins should verify product versions and update promptly
• Applies to supported versions only, older releases may require upgrades
• Treat as a priority for risk management and compliance
• Add this to your security and patching workflow immediately

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💹 Cloud Pricing Updates Take Effect: Atlassian Raises Rates Amid AI Investments

Read More … https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/future-pricing

Atlassian’s official “Future Pricing” page confirms upcoming list-price changes for Cloud and other offerings, effective 15 October 2025 (or upon renewal). While specific percentages are not detailed in this page, partner-announced guidance indicates Standard plans rising ~5%, Premium ~7.5%, and Enterprise up to ~10%.

Consider cleaning up your users using our   My User Manager for Jira  App which automatically removes user licenses based on their last login dates.

🔑 Key Takeaways for Enterprise Customers:

• Lock-in quotes before 15 October or align renewals accordingly to avoid higher list price.
• Review user tiers and license counts now to understand exposure to higher pricing.
• Reassess value: the increases are justified by Atlassian’s push into AI, integrated workflows and enterprise-scale capabilities.
• Engage with your Atlassian partner early to explore multi-year deals, loyalty discounts or packaging adjustments.
• Monitor renewal strategy: even if effective date is in October, customer invoices renew at different times so actual impact may vary.

⏰ Work Life Balance in Jira: ONETEEM Launches Sidekick4All

Read More … https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/3087348279/sidekick4all

ONETEEM has launched Sidekick4All, a Jira Cloud calendar app that helps teams protect focus time and reduce context switching. It brings your Google or Microsoft calendar directly inside Jira so you can see meetings and issues in one place and plan your day without switching tools. You can even drag and drop Jira issues onto your calendar to auto block time for deep work.

The app also enables private personal tasks that only you can see, plus workload analytics to show your balance between meetings and focus time. Ideal for hybrid and remote teams who need better control over their time and work rhythm.

🔑 Key Takeaways for Enterprise Customers:

• Calendar inside Jira to view meetings and issues in one place
• Drag and drop Jira issues to schedule automatic focus time
• Secure Google and Microsoft calendar integration via Forge
• Private tasks for personal notes and to dos
• Analytics to track meeting load vs focus time and improve work habits

🔑 Streamlined User Management: JSM Customer Provisioning via SCIM (Open Beta)

Read More … https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/blog/2025/10/atlassian-cloud-changes-oct-13-to-oct-20-2025

Jira Service Management now supports automatic customer-provisioning via SCIM 2.0 in open beta. Portal-only customers and organizations managed in your identity provider (e.g., Okta or Azure Active Directory) can be synced directly into JSM—creation, updates and de-activation flow through your IdP. This reduces manual onboarding, ensures timely de-provisioning and aligns external customer access with enterprise identity governance.

🔑 Key Takeaways for Enterprise Customers:

• Automate provisioning of portal-only customers and groups from your IdP into JSM using SCIM 2.0
• Changes in your directory (user add/removal/group update) reflect in JSM customer access almost in real-time
• IdP groups map to read-only “customer organizations” in JSM, keeping structure and governance intact
• Requires Atlassian Guard Standard and supported IdP setup
• Currently open beta—pilot this feature now to streamline customer onboarding / offboarding ahead of GA

🔄 Connect End of Support Timetable — October Milestone

Read More … https://www.atlassian.com/blog/developer/announcing-connect-end-of-support-timeline-and-next-steps

In October 2025, Atlassian Connect reaches a key transition point in its retirement timeline. With Phase One already active since 17 September 2025, no new Connect apps can be listed on the Atlassian Marketplace. October marks the start of heightened monitoring as Atlassian shifts focus toward the upcoming enforcement period and prepares the ecosystem for Phase Two.

This is a clear signal for vendors to accelerate their migration plans to Forge. Connect remains supported for now, but new extensibility and future innovation will only happen on Forge.

🔑 Key Takeaways for Partners & Enterprise Customers:

• New Connect apps are no longer allowed on the Marketplace
• October marks active enforcement of Phase One compliance
• Vendors should begin or accelerate migration of Connect apps to Forge
• Connect support will phase down leading to full retirement
• Customers should verify that their app vendors have a Forge migration roadmap