As you might know, Atlassian introduced a new platform called Forge for developing marketplace apps. The previous platform called “Connect” will not be continued.
Forge brings amazing advantages for you:
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🏢 Completely operated by Atlassian. All data is stored and computed in Atlassian infrastructure. All your data stays in the same place!
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🐎 Fast and future-proof. Forge is built for tighter and faster integrations between our apps and Atlassian products. For example, rendering macros is considerably faster now!
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🌳 Stable URLs per presentation. Gone are the days where presentation URLs had to be signed with parameters that only lasted 15 minutes. From now on, you can share and bookmark presentation URLs!
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🔒 Soon to come Complete egress control. All your data stays inside Atlassian infrastructure - and soon, you can even choose which external content your presentations are allowed to load. Allow everything? Just YouTube or your internal dashboards? Or nothing at all? You decide - a dream for security audits!
Slide Presenter moved to Forge in September 2026. On this page, we talk about what you need to know about the migration from Connect to Forge.
Important: Atlassian will deactivate the Connect infrastructure in the near future, presumably at the start of 2027. When this happens, we loose access to the old data.
⏰ You have to migrate until Atlassian deactivates Connect, otherwise your themes cannot be migrated automatically!
If this should happen to you, open a service ticket and we’ll help you recover your themes manually.
What you need to know
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The update for Slide Presenter has to be approved by an admin - it’s a rule by Atlassian, because we move between infrastructures.
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As soon as the update is approved, an automatic migration starts. You don’t have to do anything.
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It fetches your themes and settings from the Connect infrastructure and stores them in the new Forge storage infrastructure.
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This process should only take 1-5 minutes. In the meantime, your themes are not available and users might see onboarding screens they already dismissed again. As this is only a short timeframe and the damage is small: just do it! 😉
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You can check the status of the migration in the global themes list: there’s a dialog in the “…” menu on the top right.