Atlassian’s new navigation is here!

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Many of you have been asking when you can adopt Atlassian’s new navigation—now you can! We’re thrilled to announce its General Availability (GA) for Jira, Jira Service Management, Jira Product Discovery, Confluence, and Atlassian Home. In this article, you’ll find key details about what’s changing and when those changes will occur.

What’s changing?

Atlassian Home	Confluence	Jira, Jira Service Management, and Jira Product Discovery
Learn about Atlassian Home’s navigation.	Read about Confluence’s Navigation.	Discover Jira’s fresh look and navigation.

The new navigation is centered around customization capabilities and ease-of-use improvements. Designed to feel familiar to anyone who uses software products, it’s also the foundation for new features that are being built and will ship soon. We want to ensure everyone can take advantage of these enhancements as they roll out across all Atlassian products. Read about how we built the new navigation.

A simplified top navigation	Keeping the focus on essential tasks like search and create, we've decluttered the top navigation to give you easy access to utility items like notifications, settings, and your profile. With the focus on search, locating issues, pages, and projects is easier—no matter where you are.
A customizable sidebar	The streamlined left sidebar reduces clutter and surfaces the most critical navigation items, which you can customize according to your preferences. Because it is persistent, you’ll always know your location and navigation options no matter where you are, enhancing contextual awareness. If the sidebar takes up too much space, you can either resize or collapse it.
A modern, scalable design	Atlassian’s updated visuals—featuring new color scales, iconography, and typography—enhance the experience with a fresh, modern outlook while improving readability, accessibility, and scalability. With these changes, we’re not just thinking about today—we’re preparing for what’s next. The new navigation is built to adapt to evolving workflows, ensuring it remains intuitive as teams grow and change.

What to expect?

We know you and your teams have carefully built workflows around our products, so managing change is essential. That’s why we’ve taken a gradual, thoughtful approach to the rollout—actively listening to feedback and refining the experience along the way.

See the table below to know when you can expect the new navigation for your sites.

Note: The timelines are subject to change, and we’ll provide more details as the dates approach. Keep an eye on this page and check the public roadmap for the latest updates and more information on the new 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. 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 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. For Jira and Atlassian Home, 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. For Jira and Atlassian Home, 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.

Frequently asked questions

Question	Answer/Response
The webinar, Unpacking the New Atlassian Global Navigation Experience from Kristin Perchal, shows a different timeline. Has the timeline changed?	Yes, the timeline shown in the webinar has changed. Due to high demand, we’re accelerating the timelines to start from 17 March 2025 to July 2025. Please see the public roadmap and timelines above for an accurate representation. Note: We will notify you if there are any further changes to the timelines and how they affect you and your users.
Can an admin turn off the new navigation?	If you’re an admin of a product: You can turn on the new navigation only for yourself You can turn on the new navigation for everyone on the site If your team is not yet ready to transition to the new experience, admins can delay turning on the new navigation for everyone on the site for a few weeks (3-8 weeks) before we enable it by default. See the timelines above for the duration you can delay turning the new navigation off.
Can I turn off the new navigation for Jira, Confluence, and Atlassian Home in one place?	No, you can’t turn on/off the new navigation for all products in one place. Admins As a product admin, you can turn on/off the new navigation for all your users on this site. Depending on the product, you can access admin controls for that product: For Jira, go to Settings > General settings > Jira Labs. For Confluence, go to Settings > Configuration > New feature. For Atlassian Home, go to Settings > Personal settings. All users Users can turn on/off the new navigation for Jira and Atlassian Home and it won’t affect anyone else on the site. For Jira, go to Settings > General settings > Jira Labs. For Confluence, users can’t turn off the new navigation For Atlassian Home, go to Settings > Personal settings.
Can a user turn off the new navigation?	Depending on your edition, users can temporarily turn off the new navigation. See the timelines above to find out how long this option will be available. If you’re from the below cohort, you cannot turn off the new navigation: Sites on the Free edition
How long will I have the option to turn off the new navigation?	The option to turn off the new navigation is based on your edition. See the timeline above to see when you won’t be able to switch between experiences anymore. Note: Once a Confluence admin turns on the new navigation for a site, users on Confluence cannot turn it off. For example, if you’re an admin of a site on the Standard edition, we’ll enable the new navigation for your site on 14 April 2025. You can delay turning on the new navigation for your users until 28 April 2025, after which we’ll enable it for you and your users by default. Your users (Jira and Atlassian Home) can switch between the navigation experience until June 2025.
Once an admin turns on the Confluence navigation on my site, will I be able to turn off the new navigation on Confluence?	If your site has a Confluence subscription and your admin has turned on the new navigation, a user can’t turn off the new navigation for themselves.
Why can’t I see the option to turn off the new navigation for my products?	We have disabled the option to opt out for the below cohort: Sites on the Free edition
I have mixed subscriptions/editions for my products. When will my site get the new navigation?	To maintain consistency across products, you’ll get the new navigation based on the product that has the highest edition. For example, if your site has Jira on a Premium edition and Confluence on a Standard edition, then both products will get the new navigation according to the Premium edition’s timelines, i.e., mid-May 2025.

In the meantime, join our focus group to stay updated, ask questions, raise concerns, and connect with the team working on the new navigation.

Regards,
Atlassian navigation team

[Andy Gladstone]

@Varsha Patel thank you for the detailed FAQ and timeline clarifications in this article. It will help us all when our internal users and the broader community have questions related to the new experience to know when and who this is enabled for.