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Prevent people from downloading attached files

⏳ Rolling Out

Product: Atlassian Administration

Announced9 Mar 2026
Rollout started9 Mar 2026
Rollout ended20 Apr 2026
SourceAtlassian blog ↗

Data security policies allow you to use rules to control how users, apps, and people outside the organization interact with content in Confluence and Jira. We’re extending the data export rule to also block the downloading of files attached to Confluence and Jira. After this rule takes effect, users will no longer find a download button in sections like the attachment list, macros, and file previews. We opted to extend the data export rule rather than introduce a new one because of the considera

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