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Atlassian

Team collaboration and work management platform

atlassian.com

Headquarters: Sydney, Australia
Founded year: 2002
Company type: Public company
Number of employees: 15,000+
Industry: Software

Last updated October 8

Latest news about Atlassian

In short: Atlassian reported a strong Q4 with AI momentum, launched new agentic tools, and patched a critical exploited vulnerability.

Company announcements

October 8 Atlassian

Atlassian integrates local agent sessions into Jira

Users can view active sessions on boards, drag them to create work items, and unify human and agent work with full context in one view.

October 7 Atlassian

Atlassian introduces Agentic Multiplayer Protocol

The new AMP enables humans and AI agents to collaborate in real-time or asynchronously, ensuring shared identity and governance for impactful teamwork.

October 6 Atlassian

Atlassian partners with OpenAI to ground AI in enterprise context

The integration leverages the Teamwork Graph to connect ChatGPT and Codex with internal work data. This enables context-aware reasoning, agentic coding, and measurable outcomes within existing workflows.

September 23 Atlassian

Atlassian accelerates public sector cloud investments and IL5 timelines

The company pulls forward IL5 authorization to July 2028, plans air-gapped deployments, and builds a dedicated public sector team.

Media coverage

October 7 Bleeping Computer

Hackers exploit critical Atlassian flaw after public PoC release

A critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-21589) affecting multiple Atlassian product families, including Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket, is being exploited in attacks that do not require authentication.

October 6 Yahoo Finance

Atlassian, OpenAI Expand Partnership

OpenAI are expanding their partnership, bringing frontier models in the GPT-6 cohort to Atlassian's platform, OpenAI said Tuesday. Under a new agreement, OpenAI frontier models...

October 6 The Register

Atlassian warns of critical file access flaw in its datacenter products

Atlassian has told its users to patch its datacenter products, pronto, to prevent attackers accessing their files.

October 6 Yahoo Tech

Critical Path Traversal in Atlassian Data Center Exposes Development...

Critical Path Traversal in Atlassian Data Center Exposes Development Infrastructure The disclosure of CVE-2026-21589 on October 5, 2026, highlights a systemic fragility in the modern...

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