Every year is a big year for Bitbucket, but in 2025, we delivered transformative changes that cap off years of work to make Bitbucket Cloud the secure, scalable, cloud-first standard for large engineering teams around the world. Today, 15M developers build on Bitbucket, including all of Atlassian’s 10,000-strong engineering organization, and Bitbucket Pipelines runs more than 1 billion build minutes per month.
This year, we also unified our Bitbucket Cloud and Bitbucket Data Center teams, laying the groundwork for the next era of Bitbucket:
- AI-powered workflows beyond code generation
- Agentic CI/CD to write complex automations with natural language
- the upcoming Bitbucket Hybrid License for those with continued self-hosted needs.
As we look ahead to 2026, let’s recap what we shipped in 2025 and preview what’s coming, focusing on our three missions: Introduce the AI-native software development lifecycle (SDLC), consolidate tools and scale productivity, and enterprise trust.
Introduce the AI-native SDLC
As developer interest in AI moves beyond code generation, we’re making AI a core, built-in part of the entire SDLC, automating toilsome work across the most common developer workflows.
One example from this year is Rovo Chat in Bitbucket. The same AI teammate that helps you find and write information in Jira and Confluence, can now help you explain your team’s code. In one place and accessible anywhere, Rovo Chat can answer questions like: Who owns this code? Where’s the documentation for this repo? Which Jira ticket is this related to (or which repository is this issue referencing)?
And when you add Rovo Dev, our contextual AI agent for developers, you get access to:
- AI-assisted code review – Speed up code review with Rovo Dev taking the first pass at reviewing your PR for quality, organizational compliance standards, and even acceptance criteria. Within our own teams, we used AI code review to cut PR cycle times by 45%!
- Pipelines troubleshooter – Manually scanning through logs can be time-consuming. Now, when a build fails, Rovo Dev scans through logs, summarizes the issue, and suggests a fix, allowing developers to resolve the issue quickly and get to production.
- Pipelines deployment summarizer – When you have deployments with multiple commits, it can be hard to keep track of what shipped. Now, after each deployment, Rovo Dev generates a summary of what shipped, along with Jira issues so you can keep teams in sync.
And coming soon…
- Rovo Dev in Bitbucket Pipelines – Go beyond standard, static CI/CD scripts and use natural language to define steps and create automations such as fixing flaky tests, reviewing PRs, summarizing fixes needed, and more.
- AI-powered test management – When a test within a pipeline fails, Rovo Dev will be able to triage and attempt to fix the test (documenting all its steps), generate a PR, and re-execute the merge.
Consolidate and Scale
Developers are most successful when they can stay in the flow of their work, avoiding costly and annoying context switching across tools.
We saw the opportunity to remove one of these big friction points with Bitbucket Packages, so developers can store and manage Docker image containers in the same platform they store code and CI/CD, rather than integrate and manage an additional third-party tool. In 2026, we plan to add support for language packages, including NPM, Maven, and PyPI, among others.
Here are a few other developer productivity highlights from this year:
- Draft Pull Requests (and branch deletion on PR merge)
- Parent/Child Pipelines – Streamlining complex pipelines into modular, more manageable pieces
- Dynamic Step Condition – Providing even more ways to control pipelines
And coming soon…
- Unified Billing – Atlassian admins for existing workspaces will be able to manage Bitbucket Cloud billing along with other Atlassian products in the same place. We’ve started migrating accounts already and plan for all customers to be on the new system in the coming year.
- A new look for Bitbucket – Including refreshed iconography, components, and other navigation will make it easier for you to get to your content faster.
Enterprise Trust
Just as we’ve worked hard to become the one development platform for all Atlassian engineering teams, we’re building Bitbucket to be the trusted development platform for enterprises around the world. This means making the platform faster and more secure, but also means helping you build more secure products too, without sacrificing developer speed.
One of the big features we released this year was the ability to sign code commits with both GPG and SSH keys, allowing developers to verify their code contributions and enforce that others do so too.
Here are a few other enterprise highlights from this year:
- Support for third-party secrets within Bitbucket Pipelines – Allowing for secure injection of variables without storing them with the Bitbucket platform
- Step metrics for Bitbucket Pipelines – So you can manage and optimize your CI/CD consumption
- API tokens in place of app passwords – To provide a more secure authentication method, increased admin flexibility, and additional expiry controls. Bitbucket integrations with app passwords will be deprecated beginning June 9, 2026.
And coming soon…
- Bitbucket Hybrid License – Existing Bitbucket Data Center customers can keep using Data Center, and use Bitbucket Cloud’s latest AI and CI/CD capabilities under one license (read more)
- Bitbucket Cloud Data Residency – Starting in 2026 with the EU region
- Bitbucket Pipelines compatibility – As Bamboo Data Center winds down, we will make Bitbucket Pipelines interoperable with Bitbucket Data Center (with Bamboo to Bitbucket Pipelines migration tooling)
- Infrastructure sharding – To make Bitbucket even faster and more reliable, and set the stage for future data residency capabilities
Why we’re so excited about Bitbucket
More than any individual feature on our roadmap, we’re excited for how AI and Bitbucket will uniquely transform software development as part of the Atlassian platform.
According to IDC, developers spend 84% of their time doing non-coding work, such as searching for information, writing tests, monitoring infrastructure, and more. Our roadmap is full of AI capabilities to address these points of friction, but what’s most delightful is how tailored these capabilities are to everyone’s organization.
As part of the Atlassian platform, Bitbucket is connected to the Teamwork Graph—Atlassian’s comprehensive network of all Atlassian apps, third-party tools, and the people who use them—which gives developers access to powerful AI features with context, such as their team’s coding standards, who has worked in which repo, what are the acceptance criteria in Jira, and more, available wherever they’re working.
This unique combination of powerful AI, with contextual data, all connected on a single platform, will unlock a new level of developer productivity, and we believe it’s why Gartner named us a Leader in the 2025 Magic Quadrant for DevOps Platforms (and placed highest in Ability to Execute and furthest in Completeness of Vision).
We take pride in being trusted by so many organizations as the platform hosting their code and data, and we can’t wait to showcase in the coming year the AI-powered capabilities they’ll have with it.