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Summary

• Our Support team will help with workarounds and bug reporting
• We schedule non-critical bugs according to a variety of considerations Report a bug

Are you developing an app (add-on) for an Atlassian product or using one of our APIs and encountering a technical issue? Report it to Developer and Marketplace Support.

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Bug reports

Atlassian Support is eager and happy to help verify bugs—we take pride in it! Create an issue in our support system, providing as much information as you can about how to replicate the problem you're experiencing. We'll try to replicate the bug to verify, and if successful lodge the report for you. We'll also try to construct workarounds if possible.

Search existing bug reports

Use our public issue tracker to search for existing bugs, add your report, and watch the ones that are important to you. When you watch an issue, we'll send you an e-mail notification when the issue's updated.

How we approach bug fixing

Atlassian seeks to target the most critical bugs affecting the widest customer set. Bugs are prioritised based on the the estimated impact to Atlassian users. Most bugs are initially reported at Low priority until they are triaged and the true impact is assessed by Atlassian.

The priorities applied to confirmed bugs are:

Priority 1 - Highest

Your application is degraded. Users aren't able to perform their job function, and no workarounds are available. Typically the most impactful bugs are treated by Atlassian as an incident and can be tracked on https://status.atlassian.com, highest priority bugs are the next most impactful variety of bug.

Examples...

• login failures

• specific pages don’t display

• microservice communication failures

• administration tools fail

Atlassian begins work on Highest priority bugs as soon as reasonably possible.

Priority 2 - High

A feature is unavailable, application performance is significantly degraded, or users job functions are impaired.

Examples...

• the application performs slowly and fails intermittently

• application is functional, but frequently used gadgets or macros don't work

• specific editing features fail

Atlassian generally seeks to begin work on High priority bugs in the next sprint.

Priority 3 - Medium

The application or specific feature isn't working as expected, but there is a workaround available. Users' experience is impacted, but their job function is not impaired.

Examples...

• some searches fail

• sections of pages load slowly

• administrative features fail intermittently, but a workaround is available

Medium priority bugs are typically worked on after all High and Highest priority bugs are resolved and there are no other critical priorities.

Priority 4 - Low

Typically smaller paper cuts such as cosmetic errors, or non-critical functionality not behaving as expected.

Examples...

• visual defects, that don't affect function

• minor translation or localization problems

• keyboard shortcuts not functioning as expected

Low priority bugs are worked at Atlassian’s discretion, and are typically only fixed if our Developers are already working in that area of the product and are able to easily resolve the problem identified.

About our bug fix workflow

If you watch or mark a bug as affecting your team, it’s useful to understand how we review, prioritize, and resolve them in our public issue tracker jira.atlassian.com.

Here’s the current workflow, and a description of each status.

Workflow Status Definitions

Workflow StatusDefinitionPhase****Needs triage

This issue is waiting to be reviewed by a member of the Atlassian product team. Typically, only recently created issues are in this status. Our product teams review these issues regularly.

Review

Gathering impact

This issue has been reviewed, but needs more supporting information to gauge the pervasiveness of the problem.

Prioritization

Long term backlog

A fix for this issue is required, but planned for farther in the future. The issue is less severe or pervasive than other issues.

Short term Backlog

A fix for this issue is required, and will be prioritised in the near future. The issue is more severe or pervasive than other issues.

In progress

The development team is actively working on this issue.

Implementation

In review

A fix for this issue has been proposed and is being reviewed and quality-tested by the development team.

Waiting for release

A fix for this issue has been implemented and is waiting to be rolled out.

Closed

Work on this issue is complete.

If the bug has been fixed, the resolution will be ‘Fixed’. If required, code changes are progressively rolled out to the full customer base.

If no code changes were required, the resolution will be ‘Duplicate', 'Won't fix', 'Handled by support', 'Timed out', or similar.

Closure

How to get access to bug fixes

Once a bug fix is written, tested, and verified, we’ll progressively roll it out to your site as soon as we reasonably can - in many cases this will occur within a few days.

Please note the above priorities, timeframes and objectives are intended to provide general guidance on how Atlassian internally handles bugs. Any response times or resolution timeframes in this document are non-binding targets, and do not create any representations, warranties, obligations or liabilities. Your agreement with Atlassian governs any use of the applicable cloud service(s) and any related issues.

Last modified on Jun 17, 2025

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