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Continuous delivery is only as good as your ability to understand what’s happening inside your pipelines. When a build is slow, flaky, or burning through capacity, you need more than a green/red status and a wall of logs — you need traces. Bitbucket Pipelines now exposes pipeline execution as OpenTelemetry (OTel) traces via webhook events. This lets you stream detailed pipeline spans into your own observability stack and correlate them with the rest of your system. This post walks through.

If you’ve ever watched a pull request sit for hours because of a flaky test, you know how quickly test suites can turn from safety net into bottleneck. As teams grow, test suites tend to grow even faster because every new feature, bug fix, and regression adds more tests, while old or redundant tests are rarely cleaned up, so over time you end up running far more tests than are strictly needed for reliable feedback.

Last month we shared that a new navigation system is coming to Bitbucket, and we know many of you have been eager to see what it looks like. Today, we’re happy to share that the new navigation is available for to all Bitbucket users. This article covers what’s changing in Bitbucket, when it’s happening, and how you can share feedback with us.

Every year is a big year for Bitbucket, but in 2025, we delivered transformative changes that cap off years of work to make Bitbucket Cloud the secure, scalable, cloud-first standard for large engineering teams around the world. Today, 15M developers build on Bitbucket, including all of Atlassian’s 10,000-strong engineering organization, and Bitbucket Pipelines runs more than 1 billion build minutes per month.

We’re excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Bitbucket Packages, a native container registry built into Bitbucket Cloud. With this launch, you can now manage your source code, CI/CD pipelines, and now, container images all within Bitbucket. This means less context switching, simplified permission management, and a more cost-effective way for your team to manage container artifacts.

We’re giving Bitbucket a fresh new look and more streamlined navigation as part of Atlassian’s broader visual system journey. Teams and workflows have improved, and Bitbucket is changing with them. Our goal is to make it faster to find your work, clearer to understand what’s happening, and more enjoyable to use every day—without disrupting what you already know and love. This update aligns Bitbucket with Atlassian’s modern, unified design, and will launch in early 2026.

Bitbucket Cloud is more than a code hosting platform. We’re an enterprise partner, helping teams code together at scale with security, compliance, and flexibility at every step. As part of the Atlassian Cloud platform serving more than 300,000 organizations around the world, we’re continuing to build the next generation of Bitbucket Cloud as your trusted cloud vendor, whether you’re a global bank, healthcare provider, or a fast-scaling tech company.

If you’re like most developers, you know that writing code isn’t the bottleneck anymore. AI has made it faster than ever, and chances are you’re already using it. Yet, delivering software is still complex because of everything else you have to manage: fixing vulnerabilities, reducing tech debt, cleaning up feature flags, ensuring test coverage, writing documentation, and the list goes on. That’s why we built Rovo Dev, a context-aware AI agent for developers.

Until recently, the Pipelines Billing Panel has only displayed the total pipeline minutes used across your workspace. You didn’t have visibility into how usage was distributed across your repositories. We’ve now enhanced the billing panel to show you build minute usage by repository for the current and previous billing periods so you can identify and manage high-usage repositories.

Any company still running their own CI/CD, such as Jenkins, is paying a price. The question is which one: Each of these is extremely costly, and yet many software teams still host and run their own CI/CD for two reasons: tools like Jenkins are cheap or free, and hosting Jenkins on an AWS EC2 instance is often cheaper per minute than SaaS CI/CD services like Bitbucket Pipelines. Both reasons are true, but they’re also a trap.