🆕 Rolling Out — New This Week
Product: Jira platform
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| Announced | 9 Mar 2026 |
| Rollout started | 9 Mar 2026 |
| Rollout ended | — |
| Source | Atlassian blog ↗ |
Authentication via API token is now supported for Atlassian Rovo MCP. While OAuth remains the best fit for end‑user, interactive scenarios, this new optional authentication helps MCP clients authenticate without a browser‑based OAuth consent screen – which is specifically designed for machine‑to‑machine and automated use cases. To enable authentication using API token access with the Atlassian Rovo MCP Server:
| Date | Status | Week |
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| 9 Mar 2026 | ⏳ Rolling Out | ↗ |
| 16 Feb 2026 | 🆕 Rolling Out — New This Week | ↗ |
