Beta no more, new roadmaps are going GA

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Hello Jira Align community!

We’re excited to share a major milestone in our journey to reimagine planning at scale: the new Jira Align roadmap experience is preparing to move from beta to general availability (GA)! This update brings a more intuitive, performant, and flexible way to visualize and manage your strategic plans—built on your feedback and the evolving needs of modern enterprises.

Thanks to your input, we've improved the beta roadmaps experience over the past three months. Here's what we've shipped, including today's 11.16 release:

• Inline date editing: Update dates directly from the roadmap view for faster, more intuitive planning.

• Suggested dates mode: Quickly fill in missing dates with system-suggested values, streamlining initial setup.

• Progress tracking: Visualize completion status for roadmap items at a glance, and in detail, helping teams monitor delivery.

• Global rank sorting: Sort roadmap items by global rank to better reflect organizational priorities.

• Performance improvements: Continued backend optimizations for faster load times and smoother interactions, especially on large roadmaps.

• New columns and filters: View and filter roadmap items by tags, blocked status, release vehicle, and theme group for more granular control over your roadmap views.

• Bug fixes and reliability: Addressed many of the top-reported issues to ensure a more stable and reliable experience.

Timeline & transition plan

We plan to make the new roadmap page the default experience for all cloud environments in either version 11.19.0, which first deploys to environments on Dec 5, 2025, or one of the next versions in early 2026. We’ll provide updates on this plan in each of the following release notes between now and the end of 2025.

Once the new experience is default, access to the old roadmaps page will no longer be available.

If your organization needs access to the old roadmaps page for a short, additional period of time after the planned transition, submit an Atlassian support request with the title “Extend roadmap transition.” We may provide continued access to the old experience for up to 90 days after the confirmed transition date.

What's next?

We’re not done yet! We plan to ship a few more key enhancements as part of graduating new roadmaps to GA:

• Group by functionality: Organize roadmap items by various attributes for clarity and management.

• Color by options: Use color coding to quickly identify different categories or statuses within your roadmap.

• Additional metadata: Critical fields that help you slice and dice work like custom hierarchies, notes, custom fields, and more are coming to the new roadmap as columns, filters, and sorts.

• Enhanced sprint associations and story information: Improve alignment and track which stories are happening in which sprints for better visibility and management.

These enhancements are aimed at providing a comprehensive toolset for organizations to effectively plan, track, and deliver their strategic initiatives.

Join the conversation

We want to hear from you as you navigate the new roadmap experience. Your insights not only help us refine the current features but also guide our future developments. Use the new Give feedback button in the upper-right of the roadmaps page to let us know how we can improve.