Update: We're ending support for five dashboard gadgets in May 2025

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Thank you all for your comments on our blog about ending support for five dashboard gadgets.

We have decided to extend the timeline to provide more updates in the coming months and consider your feedback as we build new cross-product dashboard experiences. As a result, the functionality of the Jira Road Map, Bubble Chart, Heat Map, Projects, and Labels gadgets will be removed starting in May 2025.

After conversations with many of you, we’ve gained a deeper understanding of how you use these gadgets. While the exact gadgets won’t be returning, we’re committed to considering the features you find most valuable in our new dashboard experience.

If you’d like to participate in our early access program for Atlassian Home Dashboards and provide feedback, fill out this survey.

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Clarifications from the previous blog

In addition to the timeline update, we’d like to clarify some things:

Your data and the functionality of other gadgets are safe.

This change only affects the Jira Road Map, Bubble Chart, Heat Map, Projects, and Labels gadgets. All other gadget data and Jira features will remain the same.

Some of the alternatives exist outside of Jira Dashboards.

We received some comments from customers who couldn’t find the timeline view and the Advanced Roadmap alternatives. These alternatives are available in other parts of the Jira product and you’ll need to leave Jira Dashboards to access them.

Only Cloud users will be affected by this change.

Cloud users are those who access Jira through Jira Cloud rather than Jira Data Center. Anyone using Jira through the Data Center will continue to have these five gadgets on their dashboard.

Using Timeline view alternative may require additional steps to get started.

Several customers asked for guidance on how to use the timeline view in Jira. The following resources will help you navigate this feature:

The timeline view provides a visual of progress made on your project. Timeline view is available in all Jira plans and allows you to plan work, track progress, and map dependencies within a single team and project. More about creating timeline view

To use the Timeline view:

1. Open the project you want to track.

2. Select Timeline in the project view side panel.

Here’s how the Timeline view looks compared to the Jira Road Map gadget:

Jira Road Map gadget	Timeline view

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Thank you

We appreciate your patience during this time. We understand this situation isn't ideal, but we're committed to considering the features you value as we build new dashboard experiences.

As mentioned earlier, we invite you to read our latest blog about early access to the first release of our Atlassian Home Dashboards experience. If you’d like to participate and provide feedback, fill out this survey.

[Chris Mann]

In your screenshots of the "Jira Road Map Gadget" and the "Timeline View" could you show screenshots of the same project, please? - So that we can see they don't actually look or even show the same level of information? - Much quicker than us reading the whole document, trying to find and setup the same views, only to find it's not possible and not the same information?

Just a thought!

[Anne-Lise Poplavsky]

Why creating a new blog ? As already said in previous blog : We also use the JIRA Road Map gadget to get an overview of all upcoming releases. The proposed alternatives do not give the same result at all. We also use the Projects gadget to group projects and have shortcuts to access project issues. And no alternative either! It is difficult to understand this regression

[Graham Douglas]

Timeline view is not a suitable replacement for the Roadmap Gadget. 

1. Timeline view is not a dashboard gadget therefore cannot be used on a dashboard. A dashboard is supposed to be a visual overview of a set of selected data items. Suggesting using timeline would exclude upcoming versions from that overview.
2. Timeline view does not show the same or even similar information as the Jira Roadmap gadget, no matter how you configure it.

You would be better off saying that there isn't a replacement for the roadmap gadget rather than trying to insinuate there is one when there really isn't.

[Wladimir Walter Quiroz Galeas]

Hello, 

What about confluence? It has the same plugins. 

[Gary Hawkes]

The roadmap gadget is essential for communicating releases outside of our engineering teams. No ifs or buts, so it either stays or we do a clunky workaround to achieve exactly the same view.

[Dwight Holman]

This decision is disappointing - the proposed alternatives are not like-for-like replacements.

We have been using the Roadmap widget for years (on server, and now Cloud) it has provided a simple forward view for software releases that:

• Is Simple: 
  • Indicates progress on the release scope.
  • Shows only future releases.
  • Hides the complexity of the backlog (e.g. Epics we're not working on).
• Easy to Use: Only requires a release date (target) for each release.

Given the same inputs, the Timeline view:

• Indicates the release dates past & future.
• Does not indicate progress towards completion of the release scope.
• Is separated from the dashboard.

And I don't see any mention here of replacements for the Heat Map which we also use.

[Robert Thornton]

What is a suitable alternative to the Projects gadget?  The Timeline is not an available alternative.  It is nothing like the Project gadget.  I use the Project Gadget multiple time per day.  

Please develop a suitable alternative or continue to support the Project Gadget.

[H A]

PLEASE - give me a suitable replacement for labels, without losing the visual point-and-click, alphabetic sorting I already have please. ALL LABELS in the project must be visible at all times in a single view on the dashboard. What is my alternative? Serious question, can someone from Atlassian spell out where/how to do this?

[Ammon Chance Sorden]

I agree with the other commentors. Where are the replacements? What are you replacing these with? You basically are just telling me "Hey your stuff is going away in may, Good Luck!". 

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[Chinmaya Panda]

Timeline has a different purpose altogether, not sure why you guys decided it is a substitute for the roadmap
Roadmap on a dashboard was so convenient for senior management and others to see upcoming releases and the current progress 

Senior managers don't need to track each activity based on a timeline
Secondly, roadmap is used to help in case multiple projects as well

[Lisa Raith]

I don't get it: Are projects being deleted? What will the alternative will be? 

We only work with JIRA because of projects

[Ammon Chance Sorden]

@Lisa Raith They all seem to be just Dashboard gadgets. So this will affect any setups of Dashboards you are using, that have these tools set up. They are already limited on a lot of good dashboards, but looks like they just want you to pay for 3rd party ones instead of them making their own. Pretty lazy in my opinion. They were already limited, now they're just removing more. 

[Patrick Henry]

The replacement to the "Roadmap" feature is no "replacement" at all.

And it is EXTREMELY DIRTY start a new blog. All of the dissent about your proposed changes are now washed away.

I thought you guys were better than this.

This is disappointing.

[Paul Janssen]

How can you delete the Roadmap gadget? This is the one we check every day for progress. The timeline is in no way a suitable replacement. You really should reconsider this. Very bad customer service.

[Sylvain Glorian]

I agree with the comments on the fact there's no real "remplacement" for the Roadmap feature. The quick view about upcoming releases is really helpful and I'm not happy to loose it soon.

[François Régnier]

I more than agree with everyone here, I don't see what the Rodmap Dashboard Gadget has to do with the Project Timeline!

Perhaps you could update the screenshot with several projectsin it to be more explicit?

[Stephan Hannach]

I use the Bubble Chart for JSM Projects. It is extremely helpful to find problematic issues.

The Control Chart is only available for Jira Projects.

What is a good replacement for JSM?

[Pablo Marín Asensio]

So, as usual, deprecating things (even worse, deleting them altogether) and providing non suitable or equivalent resources as replacements. Atlassian, this is not the way

[Lewis Cook]

~8000 views in a month... 6 likes for the main blog page. I think that says it all.

We have landed on using the Roadmap gadget to communicate out are upcoming releases to the "non-technical" parts of the business. As mentioned by others no viable alternative has been supplied by Atlassian to help smooth this transition to a less functional product they are opting to provide for no logical reason when it comes to this gadget.

[Kate Trojanowski]

Timeline is project-specific. Roadmap allows all the releases across the code areas in one view. This is not a replacement. Timeline doesn't even work in our environment because our Versions are tied to Product deployment. But our Teams and Epics span Products (and therefore Projects) and need boards that go across products. No, we won't buy Premium. 

[Andrea Polidoro]

Does that mean we're going to loose the label feature too? Why keep using labels if i can't manage to see them, except with custom querying?

[GO]

Dear Atlasian team, please explain, why you stop supporting these gadgets? I have been using these a lot, and now I have to delete these from all the dashboards and there is no other way to enable the same experience for the users and create so simple visualisation: Jira Road Map, Bubble Chart, Heat Map, Projects, and Labels gadgets ...why stop using these? 

[Biancha]

Are there any updates or solutions regarding the Roadmap widget?

I was reviewing the APAC releases scheduled for the next two weeks (this includes 14 releases across 9 projects.) this morning to ensure no one has scheduled releases outside our December change Freeze period.

This feature provides the information I need without having to gather it manually.

It made me realise that this is a feature you are planning to discontinue, and I have not seen any updates on alternative solutions that won't require manual work.