Atlassian updates March 2025: What Atlassian customers need to know

Atlassian continues to strengthen its cloud platform with powerful new features, improvements, and exciting roadmap additions. Here are the highlights from the past month – essential reading for teams using Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and more.

Recently released – Now available

Compass Premium is here, unlocking advanced capabilities for teams to drive change and scale efficiently across engineering organizations.
AI-powered work breakdown in Jira helps you automatically break complex issues into manageable subtasks – saving time and boosting clarity.
Redact sensitive data in Jira (EAP) lets you remove confidential content using Atlassian Guard Premium – important for compliance and data protection.
Smart values for form fields enhance Atlassian Automation by allowing dynamic data access and improved reporting.
Improved CSV export performance for Jira delivers faster and more reliable exports.

Coming Soon

Bring-your-own-key (BYOK) enhancements will give customers greater control and visibility into data access.
Custom project templates in Jira make it easy to reuse and scale project setups across teams.
Data residency for Rovo and Loom will allow teams to store in-scope product data in specific regions, ensuring compliance.
Defer rollout gives Cloud Enterprise admins flexibility to postpone selected changes.
Loom AI for meetings brings instant recordings and summaries – great for both live participants and async catch-up.
Rovo sandbox support lets you safely explore Rovo’s AI-powered capabilities in a test environment.

On the roadmap

Data residency for Bitbucket and Loom (Germany) to meet local compliance needs.
Unified user management for existing customers via Atlassian Administration with Okta, Azure AD, and more.
Permission control using Atlassian Teams to manage access rights more efficiently.
AI-assisted pull request reviews (beta) to improve code quality by identifying bugs and enhancing readability.
Editable public whiteboards to let you collaborate with external partners – no Atlassian account required.
Nested tables in Confluence to simplify complex information with structured hierarchies.
Marketplace app editions to let you choose between standard and advanced app versions.

Security update

Atlassian has issued a new security bulletin highlighting vulnerabilities in multiple products. This increased transparency is part of a broader commitment to proactive security disclosure. While no urgent action is required, customers should review the bulletin and continue following their standard upgrade schedules.
Read the full bulletin here

Gliffy + AI = Smarter diagramming

Gliffy for Confluence now includes AI-powered diagram generation, making visual documentation faster and easier than ever. Just describe what you want, and Gliffy will instantly create a fully editable diagram – no coding or dragging-and-dropping needed.

Ending sale and support for Fisheye and Crucible

Atlassian is ending the sale and support for Fisheye and Crucible, their last remaining server products. These products have been in maintenance mode since 2020, and there has been a growing trend of customers moving towards newer software development technologies and products.

May 13, 2025: New sales of Fisheye and Crucible licenses will be discontinued.
May 15, 2028: Support and maintenance for Fisheye and Crucible will end.

Recommended actions:

Crucible customers are advised to use the “Project transfer for Crucible” app to download code reviews and metadata.
Git users who wish to continue with Atlassian products can consider Bitbucket Data Center or Bitbucket Cloud.
Non-Git users can explore alternatives through Atlassian Marketplace apps and partners, such as Sourcegraph.

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