Atlassian’s new navigation: General availability

[Shubham Chaudhari]

We also noticed that admins are able to rename different project areas/tabs such as "Backlog" or "Active Sprints". These tabs can be renamed with customized titles. Question for the Atlassian Team: Is this only permissible for  "Site"/"Org" admins or can the project-level admins also change the project tab names?

[Aditi Dalal]

Hey @Ariel Kauan thank you for the feedback! Would you be able to share a screenshot of exactly what you mean so we can make sure we understand correctly?

Cheers,

Aditi

[Aditi Dalal]

@Shubham Chaudhari confirming that project admins can rename tabs as well :) 

[Ariel Kauan]

@Aditi Dalal it's about Hollie's comment: https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Navigation-Refresh-articles/Atlassian-s-new-navigation-General-availability/bc-p/3003027#M252

[Martina Guth]

Dear @Varsha Patel ,

We found out now, that the header links and the links from the table of content don´t work in the new navigation. This is a topic that needs urgent support and solution. Find my ticket to it here CES-79300

Kind regards,

Martina

[Martin Flury]

@Martina Guth Could you give us any further information here? Unfortunately I can't open your ticket.

After a short test on my side, I can confirm:

• With the "table of content" macro there is not reaction if you click on a header link.
  Manual Smart Links do work and you will be forwarded to the linked target, but not with the links of the "table of content" macro.

With header links I can not see any malfunction.

[Martina Guth]

Hi @Martin Flury , 
For our documentation on the new navigation we wrote our docu in three languages underneath. Header is the language. On top we have the link to the language (link to header). This does only work, if you click on the language, wait until the changes appear in the url and then click to the end of the url and enter. Then these links work. But this is nothing we can say to our colleagues, you know?
And the try with lable of content is affected, as you have seen this on your own. If you like, give me a call and I can show you.

Kind regards,
Martina

[Mathew Lederman]

Has their been any discussion around delaying this roll out due to the SIGNIFICANT pushback from the community and multitude of issues raised? This change will cost my company >$1million in lost time/efficiency assuming each user only loses 5hrs trying to learn this new, in my opinion absolutely awful, navigation.

Not to mention this new view takes up 1/4th of the screen horizontally where the previous version only utilized 1/10th vertically. The top nav is not gained with this change, it's still being used, meaning we only lose working space. I can confidently There are 0 benefits to this change for all 98% of my users. The 2% that couldn't find the search bar before, may benefit.

This has a HUGE impact on our laptop-based users and will continue to negatively impact their work until a proper solution is identified.

Please reconsider this terribly UI change. Or at least don't force it on your enterprise customers who pay millions a year for a functional system.

[Darryl Lee]

Hi @Varsha Patel - I noticed in the Manage the navigation rollout page under Navigation Resources posted by @Aditi Dalal that the rollout timelines are different than at the top of this post from last updated April 16, 2025 (although unchanged from when they were first posted on Mar 30, 2025).

In short, it seems dates have "slipped" by a month. Are the dates on the documentation page correct? Will this original post be updated at some point?

From the GA post:

From Manage the navigation rollout:

[Darryl Lee]

BTW, I really appreciate the changelogs. Transparency is important:

From this very post about GA:

From the post in the Jira forum:

[Varsha Patel]

@Darryl Lee Adding this from the other post:

Thank you for pointing out the inconsistency. This was a miss from our end. The GA post is the most accurate for the rollout information. We've also updated the manage the navigation rollout page under Navigation Resources to reflect this. 

Additionally, I'll add on to the change log if there is a change in the rollout so that everyone is aware of the latest information.

For now, the timelines haven't changed. We're so sorry for this misinformation!