You can now sign commits with SSH keys!
As promised in our blog announcing support for signed commits, you can now use SSH keys to sign commits in Bitbucket Cloud! Signed commits provide an essential layer of protection, allowing developers to verify the authenticity of their contributions using GPG keys – and now SSH keys. How it works Here’s a quick reminder of […]
Important changes coming to Bitbucket Cloud’s free plan
Update: We have delayed enforcement of these limits to May 29, 2025 to give customers more time to make adjustments needed to their free workspaces. We’d like to inform our users about upcoming changes to Bitbucket Cloud’s free plan, effective April 28, 2025. These changes are part of our ongoing efforts to improve the performance […]
Introducing increased control over forking in Bitbucket Cloud
We recently announced our deep commitment to keeping your code secure in the cloud. With that, we are excited to announce a setting that gives admins increased controls over forking outside their Bitbucket workspace. Currently, a user can fork content from a repository into a workspace outside of your private workspace. While there are some […]
[New in Premium] Enforce private content in your workspaces
As part of our commitment to building for enterprise scale and security, we just released a new privacy feature to allow admins on a Premium plan to enforce privacy at the workspace level ensuring that all content created and maintained within projects and repositories is private. Currently, a private Bitbucket workspace can contain both public […]
Unified user management is generally available for new Bitbucket Cloud workspaces!
We are excited to announce that unified user management is now generally available for new Bitbucket Cloud workspaces. Unified user management brings Bitbucket user, group, and product access management to Atlassian Admin. This means that you can manage users across your Atlassian tools in one unified place and connect to external directories via Atlassian Access. […]
Unified User Management is coming soon to Bitbucket Cloud
If you’ve been following Bitbucket Cloud’s roadmap, you know that we’ve been heads down focusing on building our product for enterprise scale and performance. With our Server end of support date (Feb 15th, 2024) approaching soon, we’re seeing many of our Server customers considering migrating to cloud. In the past year, we’ve launched several enterprise […]
Maintain code quality at scale with project-level branch restrictions
We’re excited to announce the launch of project-level branch restrictions. This feature is part of our efforts to help teams manage code at scale. What are branch restrictions and merge settings? Branch restrictions are an essential tool for maintaining the integrity of your codebase. They help you control access to specific branches so only authorized […]
Improving navigation for Bitbucket users
Following on from the adoption of the horizontal navigation, the Bitbucket Cloud team is pleased to announce some improvements to the way users move around the product. You’ll begin to see these changes over the next few days, if you haven’t already. What is changing? Single workspace scoped navigation Up until now, the top (global) […]
Project Settings are now available in Bitbucket Cloud!
Workspace admins can now set the following project-level settings: default reviewers, access keys, branching model, and merge strategies. These project settings can be inherited by all the repositories in the project. What problem are we solving with Project Settings? For a while now, customers have been asking for an easier way to manage their repositories […]
Help us welcome Horizontal Navigation to Bitbucket Cloud!
Bitbucket Cloud is getting a makeover! We are joining Jira and Confluence Cloud and moving our global navigation from a vertical bar along the left side to a horizontal bar displayed along the top of Bitbucket Cloud. This update is a huge improvement for our users in terms of findability and ease of use, and it also provides […]

