Development
See what Forge developers are building for Codegeist 2025
Codegeist 2025 is underway. This year Atlassian’s annual hackathon is awarding up to $120,000 in prizes. I’ve been reviewing early submissions, and three apps stood out for how they solve common challenges. I’ll walk through what makes them interesting and share practical lessons you can apply to your own Forge app development whether you’re entering […]
How to effectively utilise AI to enhance large-scale refactoring
Learn how Atlassian engineers used Rovo Dev and AI-driven workflows to safely refactor a large frontend monorepo, removing feature flags and dead code at scale.
The Forge Fundamentals Certificate Is Now Available
We’re excited to announce the Forge Fundamentals certificate is now available! It’s free, it’s official, and it validates your Forge development skills. Whether you’re new to Atlassian Forge or already maintaining a suite of Forge applications, this developer credential helps you stand out in the developer community and connects you with other credentialed Forge developers. […]
Ship faster with focused Subagents in Rovo Dev CLI
Subagents turn one big, brittle prompt into a small team of specialized helpers you can test, reuse, and permission separately, so you ship faster with less risk. Rovo Dev exposes this subagent capability and supports both interactive creation and markdown-based configuration for predictable, auditable delegation patterns, keeping the main thread’s context lean and on-task. Wait! […]
Rovo Dev agent, now available in the CLI
Agentic AI in your terminal, built for developers
Building with Forge: Recap from the Atlassian Builders’ Summit
At the first Atlassian Builders’ Summit, over 150 practitioners explored Forge through keynotes, workshops, and hands-on sessions. This recap highlights how admins and non-developers are building apps, boosting security, and leveraging key Forge features such as custom workflow rules, UI components, REST APIs, board action modals, dynamic tables, external data macros, and advanced JSM portal extensions.
Understand, Enhance, and Troubleshoot Your Apps with the Forge MCP Server
The recent release of the Forge MCP Server is set to revolutionize Forge app development—making it easier than ever, even for non-developers, to add powerful capabilities to Jira and Confluence. Let me show the capabilities I use most frequently to help you make the most of it right away. These capabilities include: No matter which […]
Extended Timelines for Marketplace Revenue Share Changes
The success of Atlassian and our Marketplace Partners is fundamentally linked. Together, we deliver greater value to customers than we ever could alone. As Atlassian has grown and transformed, partners have transformed with us, rising to the challenge of meeting customer needs in a world where AI, enterprise-grade trust, and differentiated customer experiences are becoming […]
Start Your Engines: Codegeist 2025 Hackathon Is Here
Codegeist 2025 is officially open. This year, we’ve brought you a hackathon that’s all about building apps that help teams perform like elite racing crews inspired by Atlassian Williams Racing — fast, coordinated, and making the right calls under pressure. Whether you’re a seasoned Forge developer or just getting started with app development for Jira […]
Table Enhancer’s Evolution: Elevating User Experience from Data Center to Cloud
This article is a guest post by TNG Technology Consulting GmbH, an Atlassian Marketplace Partner People love using Confluence tables to store data, but they often need some of the functionality they would get from a spreadsheet provider. That’s why we created the Table Enhancer for Confluence, a plugin that adds features to tables, including: […]
Introducing Atlassian Software Collection
Measure and improve productivity, quality, and speed with the world’s first AI-Native SDLC for every team
Announcing Atlas Camp: Amsterdam Call for Speakers
Every developer has that breakthrough moment—cracking a stubborn bug, discovering a game-changing tool, or shipping a feature users actually love. These moments of discovery, failure, and unexpected wins are what Atlas Camp: Amsterdam wants to celebrate. Atlas Camp: Amsterdam is Atlassian’s flagship developer conference where builders share these stories and level up together. Whether you’re […]
Runs on Atlassian Apps Can Now Take Home 100% of Marketplace Revenue
If you have a Runs on Atlassian app in the Marketplace, you might notice a bonus on your next Marketplace payout. That’s because we’re expediting the revenue share incentive we announced in May, and making it available today for qualifying Runs on Atlassian apps – allowing partners to take home 100% of earnings until reaching […]
Announcing the new ‘Get the most out of Forge’ learning path
We’re excited to introduce the Get the most out of Forge learning path—a brand new, structured curriculum on Atlassian Learning designed to help developers of all backgrounds master Forge, Atlassian’s cloud app development platform. Best of all, the learning path is free! What is Forge? Forge is Atlassian’s next-generation cloud app development platform, empowering developers […]
From embedded to everywhere: The new era of apps
Atlassian is making a fundamental change to how we talk about—and build—our core offerings. What you’ve known as “products” like Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket will now be called “Atlassian apps.” This isn’t just a new label. It’s a reflection of a broader shift: everything in our ecosystem, whether it’s built by Atlassian, a Marketplace partner, […]