When is the new Nav UI (2025 edition) rolling out?

[Darryl Lee]

These dates have changed AGAIN as of March 30, 2025 March 16, 2025.

Please see the new answer below.

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Ok, so it's ridiculous that for such a huge change, I had to search Google to find a Reddit post that referred me to this YouTube of a webinar hosted by the Boise Atlassian Community (shout out to @Erica Larson) that FINALLY had a list of rollout dates (as of Feb 14, 2025, YMMV, T&C MAY APPLY, READ THE FINE PRINT, SUBJECT TO THE WHIMS OF ATLASSIAN PMs, ETC ETC.):

For better Google indexing, I'll type it out:

Rollout Nav Timeline (Directional)

(Products: Jira, Jira Service Management, Jira Product Management, Confluence, Atlassian Home, Focus)

Today (Feb 14, 2025)

• EAP and Open Beta Customers

March '25

• Start rollout for Standard edition
• All Free Edition
• All new Trials
• Opt in for all Sandboxes

July '25

• Start rollout for Premium edition customers

September '25

• Start rollout for Enterprise edition

December '25

• 100% all customers on new navigation

[Darryl Lee]

Dates changed again (slightly) Mar 30, 2025! (See new answer below).

NEW DATES DROPPED!

Source: Jira’s fresh look and navigation 

Cohort	Timeline	Details
EAP and Beta participants	Ongoing	If you enrolled your site for new navigation during the EAP/Beta phase, the rollout process doesn’t impact you as we’ll not be disabling it for you and your users. You and users can continue the new navigation. We’ll remove the option to turn off the new navigation and enable the new navigation for all users on the site by mid-April 2025.
5% of sites on the Standard edition	17 March 2025	We’ll start the new navigation rollout for 5% of sites on the Standard edition. The sites are chosen randomly and your admins are notified about the changes to the products.
Free edition	17 March 2025	We’ll transition sites on the Free edition to the new navigation. Admins and users won’t be able to turn off the new navigation.
All sites for all editions have optional opt-in	Mid-April 2025	If you’re an admin of a site, you can turn on the new navigation: For just yourself For everyone on the site
Standard edition	Early to late April 2025	We’ll begin rolling out the new navigation to sites on the Standard edition in early April 2025. If you’re an admin, we’ll remove the option to turn off the new navigation and enable the new navigation for all users on the site. Your users can still turn off the new navigation only for themselves till the end of May 2025. This will not affect anyone else on the site.
Premium edition	Early to mid-May 2025	We’ll begin rolling out the new navigation to sites on the Premium edition in early May 2025. If you’re an admin, we’ll remove the option to turn off the new navigation and enable the new navigation for all users on the site. Your users can still turn off the new navigation only for themselves till mid-June 2025. This will not affect anyone else on the site.
Enterprise edition	Early to late June 2025	We’ll begin rolling out the new navigation to sites on the Enterprise edition in early June 2025. If you’re an admin, we’ll remove the option to turn off the new navigation and enable the new navigation for all users on the site. Your users can still turn off the new navigation only for themselves till July 2025. This will not affect anyone else on the site.
100% rollout	July 2025	All users of all editions are on the new navigation.

[Darryl Lee]

Wow:

[Darryl Lee]

For those of you who are wondering "What's Darryl yammering about now?", this means that if you are on Free or Standard, you may soon encounter your users howling about why their Jira UI looks different. 

• "Where did my projects go?"
• "Where are boards now?"
• "What happened to all the filters?"
• "What's all this stuff on the side now?"

A pretty good overview of what it looks like NOW (but we really need some BEFORE/AFTER examples) is here:

• What is the new navigation in Jira? 

[Darryl Lee]

DATES UPDATED (again) Mar 30, 2025!

Source: https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-articles/Jira-s-fresh-look-and-navigation/ba-p/2958737 

Ooooh, a changelog. THANK YOU Atlassian!

Timeline change log:

• 31 March 2025: Changed sandbox & opt-in date from mid-April 2025 to April 14, 2025. Shifted premium & enterprise timeline from End of June to Early July - Late July 2025. Updated "edition" terminology to "plan" to reflect Admin Hub labelling.

Cohort	Timeline	Details
EAP and Beta participants	Ongoing	If you enrolled your site for new navigation during the EAP/Beta phase, the rollout process doesn’t impact you as we’ll not be disabling it for you and your users. You and users can continue the new navigation. We’ll remove the option to turn off the new navigation and enable the new navigation for all users on the site by mid-April 2025.
5% of sites on the Standard plan	17 March 2025	We’ll start the new navigation rollout for 5% of sites on the Standard plan. The sites are chosen randomly and your admins are notified about the changes to the products.
Free plan	17 March 2025	We’ll transition sites on the Free plan to the new navigation. Admins and users won’t be able to turn off the new navigation.
All sites for all plans have optional opt-in	April 14, 2025	If you’re an admin of a site, you can turn on the new navigation: For just yourself For everyone on the site
Sandbox environments	April 14, 2025	If your site has a Sandbox environment, admins can self-serve and choose to turn on the new navigation.
Standard plan	Mid-April to Mid-May 2025	We’ll begin rolling out the new navigation to sites on the Standard plan in mid April 2025. If you’re an admin, we’ll remove the option to turn off the new navigation and enable the new navigation for all users on the site. For Jira and Atlassian Home, users can still turn off the new navigation only for themselves until the end of May 2025. This will not affect anyone else on the site.
Premium & Enterprise plan	Early-July to Late-July 2025	We’ll begin rolling out the new navigation to sites on the Premium plan in early July 2025. If you’re an admin, we’ll remove the option to turn off the new navigation and enable the new navigation for all users on the site. For Jira and Atlassian Home, users can still turn off the new navigation only for themselves till early July 2025. This will not affect anyone else on the site.
100% rollout	End of July 2025	All users of all plans are on the new navigation with no ability to turn it off.

[Darryl Lee]

2025/03/16 UPDATE: ROLLOUT COMING EVEN SOONER

Jira’s fresh look and navigation 

2025/03/05 UPDATE: ROLLOUT COMING SOONER!

Source: Unpacking the new Atlassian global navigation experience | US

[I half-watched this Webinar last Wednesday (9AM PST Mar 5) but didn't go back to the recording until now. (NOTE: they still discriminate against gmail.com accounts, for some reason.)]

Again, for Google indexing:

Today (March 5, 2025)

• EAP and Open Beta Customers

Late March '25

• Start rollout for Standard edition
• All Free Edition
• All new Trials
• Opt in for all Sandboxes

June/July '25

• Start rollout for Premium edition customers

July/August '25

• Start rollout for Enterprise edition

September '25

• 100% all customers on new navigation

[Darryl Lee]

Why hello @Calvin @Martin Flury  and @Yatish Madhav - I guess we'll continue the discussion here. ;-}

Calvin - yes, I grabbed a screencap from the Webinar you mentioned.

Martin - yes, I also gathered from the webinar that the changes are ONLY for Jira, not Confluence

Yatish - yes, it's frustrating that Atlassian has not published an official page for this. I'd HAPPILY rather link to that than having to scrub through Webinars to dig this up.

ONE IMPORTANT NOTE: Based on the yellow highlighting in the slide above, it seems to me that Atlassian is doing a lot of ... thinking/adjusting/recalibrating/waffling/OKR-managing/goalpost-moving, AND SO, I think we need to take any dates they give with a grain of salt. It seems very fluid

Because we all know how great computers work is when you spill fluids on them. :-P

[Yatish Madhav]

:D

Thanks for that @Darryl Lee - that is relatively handy :)

Yeah, it is frustrating, esp when it is a huge update like this and we need to keep our users updated to avoid frustration (Esp in an ecosystem where previous admins made a nice royal mess of our instance and I am still cleaning it up 4 years later)

I had a product review call (i think last year) with an Atlassian Product Manager around the Product Updates page and we discussed this in detail and I thought that was a great call and would lead to solving this.

I will keep my salt shaker close by!

Thanks again.

[Mirek]

Hmm.. In my 15 years of working with Atlassian products this is another UI change that is coming :) .. from top nav to sidebar again.. to top nav again and now .. sidebar .. ;) 

I hope we would finally get a view that would survive for than few years :) 

BTW - Nice work @Darryl Lee for tracking this topic! It is important to know what is coming and when!