Confluence’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 in Confluence and when those changes will occur.

What’s changing in Confluence?

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.

Here are key features for Confluence's new navigation:

Simplified top navigation	Simplified top navigation that prioritizes search makes it easier to access what you’re looking for with fewer clicks while staying in the context of your work. By reducing clutter and friction, we’re enabling teams to stay in the flow better, directing focus towards key content.
Navigation starts from the sidebar	Work across multiple spaces straight from the sidebar. For you: A personalized hub with your recently viewed pages alongside popular content, all curated for easy discovery Recent: Pages, blogs, and whiteboards, and other content you’ve visited. Starred: Essential items you’ve marked with a star.
Show or hide the sidebar	If the sidebar takes up too much space, you can either resize or collapse it. You’ll always be able to expand the sidebar when you need to navigate again.
Customize your sidebar	Show, reorder, and hide navigation items by going to More ( ) > Customize sidebar. Customize your sidebar Drag the line to customize Drag the item or check the checkbox to show, reorder, or hide Show items: To add items to your sidebar, simply drag them above the Hide from sidebar line. Hide items: To remove items from your sidebar, drag them below the Hide from sidebar line. Alternatively, drag the Hide from sidebar line above the items you want to hide. Reorder items: To rearrange the order of items in your sidebar, drag them to your preferred positions. Note: Customizing the sidebar will affect only you and not anyone on your site.
Space settings	As an admin, you can access space settings by selecting More actions ( ) next to a space’s name.
Apps	From the sidebar, you can access both your system and Marketplace apps. Admins can select More actions ( ) next to Apps to find and manage apps.

Read more about Confluence’s new navigation.

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. Starting 17th March 2025, we’ll progressively roll out the new navigation to all Confluence users, along with Jira and Atlassian Home.

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.
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.
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.
100% rollout	July 2025	All users of all editions are on the new navigation.

Admin controls for new navigation

We know that change can be challenging, and introducing new changes to your team needs planning. So to ensure you and your team are comfortable with the new navigation, we’re giving admins additional flexibility.

If you’re an admin:

• You can turn on the new navigation only for yourself

• You can turn on the new navigation for everyone on the site

To access admin controls for new navigation:

1. From the top right corner, select Settings > Configuration.

2. Go to New features to see the controls for New navigation.

As an admin, you can delay turning on the new navigation for everyone on your site for a few weeks (3-8 weeks) before we enable it by default.

Once the new navigation has been turned on for everyone on the site, you and your users can’t go back to the old navigation.

Frequently asked questions

Questions	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.
Once my admin turns on the new navigation for my site, can I turn it off?	No. If your Confluence admin has turned on the new navigation for your site, you cannot turn it off.
What is For you?	We’ve renamed the old Home to For you in the new navigation. The functionality of For you is the same as Home.
Where do I find my Drafts?	From the sidebar, select Recent > Filters. You’ll find your drafts in Worked on. Alternatively, you can select More ( ) in the sidebar and access Drafts. You can easily access Drafts by customizing your sidebar as well.
Where do I find templates?	When you create a new page, you can select a suggested template. If suggested templates don’t show up, select More actions ( ) at the top right corner of the page and select Templates & import doc. Alternatively, when you create a page, you can select All templates at the bottom of the page.
Where do I find my Tasks?	From the top right corner, select Account (your avatar) > Tasks.
Where can I find Space settings?	Select More actions ( ) next to the space title to access Space settings.
Where can I find tools like Analytics and Automation?	We’ve moved tools like Mission control, Automation, Content Manager, and Analytics under Space settings. Go to Space settings to find these tools.

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,
The Atlassian navigation team

[Tami Dubi]

HI,
The new features window is empty, so currently there isn't an ability to control the rollout

[BFR]

@Tami Dubi 
I also scrolled over it. :D
This will be enabled mid-april. So we will have to wait.

[Tami Dubi]

But how can we control intarnally the rollout that is starting today if the tool to control it will be released in mid April?

[BFR]

I think the rollout itself starts in mid-april 2025 not only the feature "optional opt-in".
So if you were not notified from Atlassian, you will still have to wait another month until the feature will be optionally available for you.