Welcome to TEEM360 #8 – your weekly roundup of what’s shaping the Atlassian ecosystem.
This week brings a mix of big news and practical updates: Atlassian’s upcoming Cloud price adjustments, fresh AI-powered features, critical security bulletins, and long-awaited product improvements like Automation email attachments and Assets Data Manager GA in Jira Service Management.
Our goal with TEEM360 is to filter the noise and bring you the updates that matter most – whether you’re an Atlassian admin, consultant, or product owner trying to keep your stack secure, efficient, and future-ready.
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🆕 Atlassian Cloud Prices Climbing in October
Atlassian has announced Cloud pricing updates to reflect the wave of innovation delivered across its apps and platform. The new pricing takes effect October 15, 2025 (PT) and applies to all new purchases, renewals, and upgrades. Standard plans will rise by around 5%, Premium by 7.5%, and Enterprise by up to 10% depending on the product. Atlassian highlights more than 300 new features in Jira and Confluence, new AI capabilities, expanded user limits, and a stronger Cloud Platform as key drivers behind this change.
🔑 Key Takeaways:
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Pricing Breakdown:
- Jira Cloud: +5% (Standard), +7.5% (Premium), +7.5–10% (Enterprise)
- Confluence Cloud: +5% (Standard), +7.5% (Premium), +7.5–10% (Enterprise)
- JSM Cloud: +5% (Standard), +7.5% (Premium/Enterprise)
- Atlassian Guard Standard: +5%
- Why Now: Atlassian cites a year of major updates: Jira’s redesigned UX and 150+ features, Confluence’s 170+ new features (including live docs & AI), JSM’s AIOps and HRSM, increased user limits (Jira 100k, Confluence 150k), broader data residency, and new compliance certifications.
- Timing: Quotes generated before Oct 15, 2025 will be honored until expiration. Any quotes after that date will reflect the new list prices.
🔒 Atlassian Patches 15 Security Flaws in August
The August 2025 Security Bulletin is out, and it’s a hefty one: Atlassian fixed 14 high-severity and 1 critical vulnerability in the past month. The flaws spanned multiple Data Center products – from Bamboo and Bitbucket to Confluence – and could range from denial-of-service issues to remote code execution. Atlassian urges admins to upgrade to the patched versions (or the latest releases) immediately to secure their instances. Notably, these monthly bulletins cover medium-impact issues; any truly critical threats would be addressed in standalone advisories for faster awareness.
🔑 Key Takeaways:
- Multiple Products Affected: Vulnerabilities were found in server/DC editions of Bamboo, Bitbucket, Confluence, etc., some allowing DoS or misconfigurations. Check the bulletin for the full list and affected versions.
- One Critical Issue: Among the 15 issues, one was rated critical – meaning it’s urgent to apply fixes. Atlassian’s bug bounty and pentesting processes caught these, highlighting the importance of staying current.
- Upgrade ASAP: The bulletin provides fixed versions for each product as of Aug 19, 2025. Admins should plan patching now – waiting could leave systems exposed. Atlassian’s guidance is clear: if you’re not on a fixed release, update immediately.
🆕 New Atlassian Administration Experience Rolling Out
A fresh Atlassian Administration experience is arriving, bringing a cleaner navigation and UI refresh for org admins. Atlassian began gradually enabling the improved admin sidebar and categories on August 4, with some sites already seeing the new look. During the rollout, admins can toggle between the classic and new interface, allowing time to adjust. The redesign aims to make managing users, security, and settings more intuitive – a welcome change for those who spend hours in the admin console.
🔑 Key Takeaways:
- New Sidebar & Categories: The admin portal now groups settings into clearer sections with a collapsible sidebar. This reduces clutter and helps you find org and product configs faster.
- Phased Deployment: Not everyone will see it immediately – it’s a progressive rollout. You might spot either just the new nav or the full new experience at first. Admins can currently switch back if needed, but the change will become permanent once fully rolled out.
- Polished Look & Feel: Besides navigation improvements, the UI gets a visual refresh for better readability. It’s part of Atlassian’s broader design updates, so expect a more modern, consistent feel across Atlassian Cloud administrative screens.
🆕 Assets Data Manager Now Generally Available in JSM Cloud
Atlassian has officially graduated Assets Data Manager from open beta—it's now fully available to Jira Service Management Cloud Premium and Enterprise customers. This powerful tool centralizes asset and configuration data management: pull in data from dozens of sources (via adapters like CSV, SQL, ServiceNow, Intune, Puppet, RISC, etc.), cleanse it, reconcile duplicates, and import it into the Assets schema for a trustworthy single source of truth. You can automate regular imports and transformations with the provided Data Manager clients.
🔑 Key Takeaways:
- Open Beta Ended: Data Manager is now generally available to all JSM Premium/Enterprise customers, offering stable access to its full feature set.
- Complete • Current • Correct: It brings together data from multiple systems, automates cleansing and reconciliation, and ensures your Assets data is accurate and up to date.
- Rich Adapter Ecosystem: Supports over 30 adapters—including new additions like RISC Networks and Puppet—and enhancements to existing ones like CSV and JAMF integrations.
- Powerful for Multiple Teams: Provides value beyond ITSM—helping security, compliance, HR, and finance teams maintain asset visibility, reduce incidents, optimize audits, and improve decision-making.
🆕 Automation Emails Now Support Attachments
Atlassian has upgraded the Jira Automation email capability: you can now attach files directly to emails sent via automation rules. Previously, only inline links were possible—but now automation can send real attachments with emails up to 4 MB in total. This was a frequently requested feature, especially for support and reporting workflows.
🔑 Key Takeaways:
- Attach Real Files: Automation's “Send email” action can now include up to 10 attachments (max 4 MB combined)—no more plain links.
- Better Use Cases: Useful for automating delivery of reports, screenshots, logs, or PDFs—especially in Service Management and incident use cases.
- Premium Value: A strong productivity enhancement for teams relying on automation to communicate with external stakeholders.
That wraps up this week’s highlights. From price changes that need your budget planning to security patches you should prioritize, and from new AI enhancements to usability improvements in admin and automation, Atlassian continues to evolve its Cloud platform at speed.
As always, the key is to act early: review your renewal dates, patch your on-prem/DC systems, and test out new Cloud features that can simplify your workflows.
We’ll be back next week with more updates to help you stay ahead in the Atlassian ecosystem.
Until then – keep your teams moving forward, securely and intelligently.
👋 The ONETEEM Team