The sidebar will now span the full height of your Atlassian app, making it easier to find and interact with. Starting late November 2025, this update will roll out to all customers who haven’t customized the look and feel of their sites. This change won’t affect the width and height of your Forge and Connect apps.

Along with this, we’re introducing a few improvements to sidebar interactions:

• Double-click to collapse: When expanded, double-click the button to quickly collapse the sidebar.

• Global shortcut: Use Ctrl + [ to expand or collapse the sidebar at any time.

• Helpful tooltips: Tooltips will appear to guide you through the interaction.

For sites with customized look and feel, the full-height sidebar can disrupt intentional design choices, such as:

• Custom logos and titles

• Favicons

• Navigation colors

• Dark and light mode settings

Because of this, the sites with customized look and feel won’t receive the update just yet.

For the sites without customized look and feel, we’re opening up the opportunity on Nov 21, 2025 to let you use this feature early and test it with your apps. If you’re interested, please sign up here with your site details.

As part of our new design language, the refreshed colors and components in the Atlassian Design System (that first launched in products at Team '25) are now officially in GA. Also included is a further tweak to accent token colors in hover/pressed states to improve accessibility.

What you need to do if you are using Forge Custom UI or Atlassian Connect:
Bump @atlaskit/tokens + relevant component packages to the latest version to align your app's look and feel with Atlassian apps.
What you need to do if you are using Forge UI Kit or Forge UI Kit 2:
Nothing! You should have the newest components by default.

The GET methods of the Key-Value Store and Custom Entity Store SDKs can now return optional metadata fields, namely:

• createdAt

• updatedAt

You can now provide dynamic descriptions for the configuration of Forge workflow conditions, validators and post functions. These descriptions will appear on the overview card for configured rules in the new workflow editor and help admins locate previously configured rules.

Use the configurationDescription property and provide a Jira expression, which can reference the config context variable to describe the current configuration of the rule.

You can now enable your Forge workflow conditions, validators and post functions in team-managed workflows. Use the projectTypes property to configure whether your rule should be enabled for company-managed projects, team-managed projects, or both.

You can now provide dynamic descriptions for the configuration of Connect workflow conditions, validators and post functions. These descriptions will appear on the overview card for configured rules in the new workflow editor and help admins locate previously configured rules.

Use the configurationDescription property and provide a Jira expression, which can reference the config context variable to describe the current configuration of the rule.

The following UI Kit Editor components are now available through Forge’s Early Access Program (EAP). To join, please complete this sign-up form.

• Chromeless editor

• Comment editor

These components are available in Confluence and Jira modules.

When defining resolvers, the front-end code can share the types with the backend so the invocation interface is type-safe. This helps catch potential errors during compilation.

Forge Automation Actions is now available in Preview. This feature allows you to extend the Automation Platform and add new Forge-based actions to your app. During Preview, the Automation Actions in your app can be used in production environments.

For more information, see the Forge Automation Action documentation and share your feedback to help us improve

As of Oct 9, 2025, we’ll be moving the location of the configuration for JSM approvals in company-managed projects from status properties to a new approvalConfiguration property on the status. The following endpoints will be affected:

• Bulk get workflows

• Bulk create workflows

• Validate create workflows

• Bulk update workflows

• Validate update workflows

Refer to CHANGE-1656 for more details.

Forge platform will be undergoing maintenance in commercial production on October 12, 2025 for approximately 1 minute between 3-4am UTC

During this interval, below capabilities will not be available intermittently:

• Create/update/delete apps

• Deploy apps

• Install/uninstall/upgrade apps

App invocations will continue to work for existing users of the apps. However, new customers might not be able to use apps as consent process will be impacted during this interval as well.

Starting Mar 31, 2026, the ability to update existing Jira or Confluence apps using a Connect descriptor on the Atlassian Marketplace will be deprecated. This change aligns with our strategic shift to the Forge platform.

Additionally, this means the following:

1. Atlassian Marketplace will no longer poll for Connect descriptor updates. However, apps using Connect modules that have adopted the Forge manifest can still receive updates.

2. Installing new Connect private apps via Connected Apps will no longer be available and private app development should move to Forge.

What this means for partners:

1. Partners should plan to update Connect apps on the Atlassian Marketplace by Mar 30, 2026 at the latest.

2. All new app development should be conducted on Forge.

You can now add and edit configuration for function validators in the new workflow editor. This update lets you save configuration data and pass it to the lambda function under the configuration parameter during invocation. This makes it easier to customize and manage workflow validation logic.

For more information, see Jira Workflow Validator.

We're introducing new App Property API endpoints to retrieve Forge App Properties in Confluence & Jira, now available in Preview.

The APIs enable developers to

• GET all Forge app properties, or

• GET individual app properties by key

in both Jira and Confluence, enhancing the flexibility and functionality of Forge apps.

For further details on implementing this new feature, refer to the Jira App Property API Documentation & Confluence App Property API documentation.

Following a recent incident (see details), we have temporarily paused automatic Connect to Forge migrations. Our team is actively working to enhance system robustness and prevent similar issues from occurring in the future.

Once these improvements are complete, we will re-enable and resume the migration process.