Upcoming: Unified, More Powerful Timeline for Jira Software Spaces

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We’re excited to announce a major upgrade to the Jira Software project timeline. Soon, you’ll experience a better timeline that designed to help software teams plan, track, and deliver work with greater clarity and speed.

When? We will roll this out starting in July month.

What’s changing?

✅ Display all levels including subtasks and work items without epic

The timeline now shows all work items, even if they aren’t linked to an epic, so nothing gets missed. Subtasks now appear as individual items, making it easier to track progress and update them directly Work items are no longer limited to the epic level; you can now see items above that level.

✅ Enhanced filtering (Sorting and Grouping are coming soon!)

Filter and group work items by more fields to quickly find what matters and organise your timeline your way. Sorting currently supports specific work item fields(key, summary, assignee and status); we will add more soon.

✅ Display duration bar according to status or custom colour

Choose to display work items by status color or custom color (from epic level) for better visual organization. 

✅ Bulk update more work item fields

You can now bulk update more fields, not just dates, for multiple work items at once.

Note: Schedule by X days bulk edit is no longer available. You can bulk move the children work items by dragging the parent timeline bar.

🔄 [Changed] Hierarchy displays as a flyout modal when filter is active

The modal shows relationships between the matched parent item (and its grandparent) and their immediate children when filter. If your space has a board-level filter (accessible to Admins only), the flyout filter will appear by default. 

Why? Your filtered results will continue to respect your filter — only matching items appear in the table. To see an item's parent or children (which may not match your filter), you'll open the flyout rather than seeing them inline in the table. This keeps your filtered view clean while giving you quick access to context when you need it.

         

Other changes including:

• Move timeline settings from space level to view level: Timeline settings are now easier to access and customize in context. 

• Enhanced smart link embedding capabilities: The Jira timeline now stays editable even after pasting content from outside of Jira.

• 'Show completed item' has been replaced with 'Hide done item': This update mirrors other Jira views (List and Board), giving users the option to hide done tasks and streamline their timeline view

What’s next? 

Drop your thoughts below or reach out directly – your input shapes what we build next!

This is a step toward simplifying Jira and making it work better for you, your team, and your workflow. We’re excited about where this is heading, and as always, we’d love your feedback.  

Thanks for being part of the journey,
The Jira Cloud team

[Yatish Madhav]

This is great. Looking forward to it - thanks @Amy Cheong  and Atlassian!

[Tomislav Tobijas]

I've been using Timeline view more and more on one instance since it's on the Standard plan. Being missing the view of all child items (incl. Sub-tasks) within Epic, so this is a really nice addition 🙂