Atlassian Corp. plc has been at hard at work since hitting the stock exchange in December. The developer productivity powerhouse introduced a new iteration of its help desk software last week that promises to noticeably streamline technical support, and now it’s upping the ante on the code management front with the release of three major new features for BitBucket.

The first and perhaps most significant addition is a mirroring option that gives organizations the ability to copy repositories to remote infrastructure for the sake of programmers working outside their main offices. Every staffer can use the clone closest to their location in order to reduce the time they have to spend downloading files before starting on a new assignment. Atlassian claims to have been able to increase access speeds by 25 times internally using the capability, an improvement that should be particularly appealing for multidisciplinary software teams.

Graphic designers, documentation writers and the other non-developers involved in an application project can now keep their heavy files on BitBucket right alongside their colleagues’ source-code thanks to new support for the Git LFS extension. The addition level the playing field against arch-rival GitHub Inc., which has supported the feature since August, and pits Atlassian more directly against providers like JFrog Ltd. that specifically focus on automating the management of such secondary componentry.

The company hopes to gain the upper hand by making it easier to organize the different assets involved in a large software project. The third feature rolled out as part of today’s update allows teams to keep all repositories associated with a particular application under the same folder in order to eliminate any potential room for confusion. All three of the additions are available immediately.

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