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# 95 - 🙌 Team ’25 Europe Highlights
Patricia Modispacher
In this issue, we're breaking down the latest news from Atlassian Team.
Live at Team '25 Europe in Barcelona
We're writing this week's newsletter right from the source in Barcelona, at Team ’25 Europe!
Rarely has there been a keynote with so many announcements of new features. We have picked out some of the most important ones and will break them down for you.
Cloud Scale and Sovereignty Get Real
Mike Cannon-Brookes announced at the Founders’ Keynote that Confluence sites are now supporting up to 250,000 users and more data residency regions. Atlassian’s Isolated Cloud (single-tenant compute/storage/network) is planned for early 2026, in any supported region.
Mike also announced a new feature called Units, which will be introduced in early 2026. It lets you isolate users, data, apps, and AI context per business unit or subsidiary. If you’re global or regulated, this removes big blockers. But watch out: design Units intentionally, or you’ll fragment collaboration.
Rovo News
The biggest announcement for us was the introduction of Rovo desktop and mobile apps. They allow you to work on local files while still using the context of Jira and Confluence. For example, you can easily create a Confluence page from an Excel spreadsheet without even opening Confluence.
In the last newsletter, we’ve covered the Atlassian Studio news from Anaheim and what happened since then. This week, Atlassian announced and demoed the no-code Forge app feature in Studio. You can now create Forge apps without writing code using natural-language prompts. Admins can control who’s able who’s able to create apps with Rovo and who’s not.
Other updates around Rovo:
Included in Standard, Premium, and Enterprise (no extra cost).
Standalone Rovo subscription is $5.00 a month.
Rovo Search becomes the default in Jira; better relevance and performance.
Rovo Skills is a new feature which allows you to enhance Rovo with skills like browsing the web, sending an email, removing duplicated work items and more.
Rovo Chat now understands files/images, has an editable Canvas, personal memory, and a growing skills library.
More Updates And News
There have been much more updates and news around the Atlassian Cloud. Here they are:
Rovo
Rovo gains project-management skills (breakdown, dedupe).
Rovo Dev is a new tool for developers which helps you develop in your codebase. It’s Atlassian’s code assistant, which is not exclusive to Forge codebases, but to any codebase.
Third-party AI agents (e.g., Canva) can be assigned Jira work items (upcoming months) to easily prompt the agent, let them do the work and attach the output to the work item.
Collections
New Customer Service Management (CSM) app is generally available; a Rovo-powered self-service with CRM and teamwork-graph context.
Jira Service Management adds AI for onboarding workflows and incident root cause suggestions with observability partners.
Be careful and avoid dueling portals if you already run a help center; validate AI responses against golden datasets before scaling.
Other
Jira projects are now “Jira spaces”.
Atlassian has acquired DX, a provider of developer-productivity metrics and benchmarks.
And with that, we’re getting back on the plane and heading home to process all this information. We’ll be back next week to dive deeper into Atlassian’s latest updates.
What does AI Have To Do With Happiness?
Mo Gawdat, international bestselling author and Former CBO of Google X held the opening keynote and told us that he believes happiness and AI are connected. His main message was that we can decide to live happier lives, and that with the right choices, we can also shape a happy future together with AI. The idea that happiness is a choice is not new, but linking it to the way we design and use AI brought a fresh angle.
It left us wondering: how much influence we really have, and how can technology support? After the keynote, we spoke to a few attendees to get their thoughts on the connection between AI and happiness. You’ll be able to watch these interviews soon on our YouTube channel — so stay tuned and subscribe so you don’t to miss them.
