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This week in Atlassian Cloud
Admin delegation, audit log links, and field context changes
Org admins get units, which let them delegate routine admin work and limit sensitive data and AI search to the right group. Atlassian Guard Detect actor profiles now show seven days of audit log activity with a link to older events. Several changes also move where people find information or settings, including Contacted Via details on intake work items and custom field contexts within a space.
- Securely delegate administration and protect data with unitsUnits let org admins hand off routine admin work while keeping sensitive data and AI search limited to the right group.
- Multiple contexts per space for custom fieldsAdmins can set field options and defaults per work type within a space, with less need to copy custom fields.
- Link to older audit logs from actor profilesAtlassian Guard Detect actor profiles show the past seven days of audit log activity and link to older events in Atlassian Administration.
- Contacted Via comments removed from intake work itemsAgents will find intake channel details in a structured field instead of a generated comment, so they need to look in a new place.
- Human and AI capital management in TalentTalent can take in AI usage data from several providers, and admins control who sees it.
Just landed
New features and improvements that reached Atlassian Cloud sites in the last 30 days, most important first.
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Release note29 Oct 2026
Standard storage limit enforcement
Sites at or over the storage allowance lose the ability to upload files until admins free space or upgrade.
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Release note28 Oct 2026
Modern Jira Boards in Company-Managed Software Spaces
Single-space boards in company-managed software spaces switch to the modern board, which changes filters, column limits and the item limit.
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Release note28 Oct 2026
Hardware asset management: Centralize and automate your IT infrastructure
Generally available since 28 Oct 2026 · Medium impact
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Release note27 Oct 2026
Organization-level controls for default tools
Two site-level switches are retiring, so admins need the new organization setting for broad controls and should check how earlier restrictions carried over.
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Release note27 Oct 2026
Tiered enforcement for External Sites
An active policy without the network header may begin enforcing immediately, so admins need to check their policies first.
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Release note22 Oct 2026
Prevent people from downloading attached files
Existing policies that block exports will also block attachment downloads, with no new rule to configure.
Coming next
What Atlassian has announced and not shipped yet, from release notes and the roadmap, most important first.
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Release note
New work item view is generally available
Coming soon · High impact
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RoadmapQ4 2026
Data residency for CSM
It gives admins control over where customer data is stored, which matters for data sovereignty laws and organizational requirements.
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RoadmapQ4 2026
CSM AI agent MCP support
It changes the Customer Support AI Agent from answering questions to taking actions through connected tools.
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RoadmapQ4 2026
Information protection policies
Define sensitive data types and have Guard detect and act on them in Jira and Confluence. Guard Premium.
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RoadmapQ4 2026
Default organization-wide data residency
It replaces app-by-app data residency configuration with one organization-wide default, including bulk app moves with minimal downtime.
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RoadmapQ4 2026
Units: Create organizational structure to enforce data boundaries
Admins can delegate routine administration while keeping sensitive data and AI tools limited to the right part of the organization.
Needs an admin
Changes that ask something of an admin before they reach your sites, with the first thing to do.
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Release note30 Sep 2026
New work item view is generally available
Coming soon · High impact
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Release note28 Oct 2026
Modern Jira Boards in Company-Managed Software Spaces
Prepare for this change: Check which boards include work items from only one space, since those move to the modern board automatically.
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Release note27 Oct 2026
Organization-level controls for default tools
Deprecation: Open Connectors, then All connectors, then Settings, then Included tools, and choose the organization-level setting.
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Release note19 Oct 2026
AI-native Incident Command Center
Rolling out since 19 Oct 2026 · Medium impact · Admin review: prepare for this change
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Release note5 Oct 2026
Prevention Center: AI-native change management center
It puts change scope, service dependencies, calendar conflicts and AI risk scores in one place for each change request.
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Release note24 Sep 2026
Dashboards: Create and view across apps
Teams get a new way to build dashboards in Jira that pulls data from several Atlassian apps.
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- Agents and automation 329
- Admin and security 289
- Service management 116
- Work management 312
- Knowledge and content 286
- Developer tools 67
- Data and reporting 74
- Customer service 23
- Strategy and planning 73
- Platform and performance 107