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Weekly Roundup - July 14, 2025

Weekly roundup of Atlassian community updates, cloud releases, developer changelog, marketplace updates, and upcoming events.

Weekly Roundup - July 14, 2025

Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Weekly Unofficial Roundup of Atlassian Ecosystem news! A little birdie shared the feedback that they would enjoy a bit more *ahem* opinion in my newsletters, and so we shall now open with Bryan's Biased Take each week! Shall we begin?

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Bryan's Biased Take

  • This week saw the release of one of Atlassian's most anticipated reports, the State of DevEx 2025. First released in 2022, under the name "State of the Developer," Atlassian's signature report on developer experience surveyed a total of 3,500 developers across six countries this year, up from 2,100+ the previous year. Notable takeaway: The widening empathy gap between developers and leadership portends some major long-term issues: 63% of developers feel leaders don't understand their challenges. Bryan's biased take: I'm not surprised to see this takeaway, nor that devs lose 10+ hours a week to organizational inefficiencies like tool sprawl, poor documentation, etc. I remain convinced that "Developer Experience" is just marketing spin on "employee experience."
  • The new global navigation UI finally started hitting Premium and Enterprise users starting Friday and will complete its rollout over the next 7 days, putting all Cloud customers onto the new unified UI. Bryan's biased take: I like the new UI. A lot. There's been a lot of bellyaching from my fellow admins, but word on the street is that users are finding the change refreshing, and any admin worth their salt scheduled the rollout before it happened automatically. I expect folks will be past all their grumpiness in 4-6 weeks.
  • More changes are coming to the "All Work" view, combining several columns into one, changing how you sort by work item key, type, and summary. Bryan's biased take: I don't know how I feel about this one - it feels a little risky to combine columns like this, and I would've at least rolled it into the UI changes.
  • The Forge team has had an exciting week, with new Forge pricing effective January 2026 rolling out, the DevRel team posting their first Forge app for Jira admins, and the Confluence Full Page Module rolling out in EAP for developers. Bryan's biased take: I think Forge development will be the new hot skill for Jira admins. Atlassian has done their best to make it as easy as possible, abstracting all the hosting away using AWS serverless products under the hood, but React and Node are still Javascript, so folks have some learning to do.

That's it for the first edition of Bryan's Biased Take! Let's get onto the rest of the updates!

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