Using Releases works...

• shows on timeline
• issues can be associated with it
• allows for other context and details to be saved with the release

The drawbacks I see...

• can be a little overkill if you just want a marker
• not visible on boards (where my devs spend 95%) of there time

I created an Issue Type for milestones and plan on using that in combination with Releases to cover both angles. 

anyone know a work around? (Create an issue and called the milestone? )_

As a workaround, we provide milestones on Gantt charts for free here: https://www.visor.us/

Hi all,

Thank you so much for your votes and comments on this ticket.

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WORKAROUND:

If you’re not using Releases for software development, you can utilize this functionality to create milestones.

Steps:

1. DEVELOPMENT > Releases > Create a realease with "release date" as the date of the milestone.
2. Timeline > View Settings > Enable "Releases" (if not) 
3. Timeline > Clic on your release (milestone) and check "Highligth on timeline"

Enjoy your new milestone line in the roadmap  

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Milestones (or releases) should also display as a vertical line across the entire roadmap. Not just a single dot at the top. 

I would like to see the ability to automatically create and display a milestone on the Initiative based on a specific collection of lower-level issues (epics, stories).  For example, assume a simple collection such as this:

I would like to display a "MVP" milestone at the Initiative level that was determined by the completion of the two stories with the MVP label; same with the two stories that have the NTH tag ("Nice to Have").  If the timing of those stories changed, the milestone displayed at the initiative level would adjust accordingly.

Would be great to have this very simple and impactful feature.

🎉 Happy Birthday to our most cherished and perpetually pending feature request! 🎂 It's been another spectacular year of adventurous stagnation and I couldn't let the day pass without celebrating our collective ambition to maybe, just maybe, see this through before the next leap year.

Al Chen, you've shown us the light with Coda—reminding us there's a world where milestones don't just exist in our dreams. Meanwhile, ajai.robin is still optimistically checking the calendar, wondering if 'soon' might finally have a due date.

Lisa Mitchell and Javier Garay, you're the real MVPs for trying to find workarounds. We're all magicians here, trying to pull milestones out of thin air, aren't we?

Michelle Hansen and Brecht Seys, your vision for a world where milestones and releases coexist is the dream we all sleepily nod to during yet another roadmap presentation.

And to everyone else who's +1'd this request into oblivion, your hope is the fuel that keeps this birthday candle burning year after year.

So, here's to another year of aspirational feature requests, where we might not have milestones, but we sure do have resilience. And to the Jira Software Cloud team, we eagerly await the day we can move this request from 'backlog' to 'done'. Until then, we'll be here, celebrating birthdays and marking time, one sarcastic comment at a time.

Cheers to more milestones (or at least talking about them) in the year ahead! 🍻

(Seriously though, can we get this done? Asking for a friend.)

If you sync your project's issues into Coda (disclosure: I work there), you can set up milestones to show up on a timeline. Steps to do this:

1. Set up a Jira Sync Table of Jira Issues
2. Add dummy issues to your backlog that don't have a due date
3. Switch the layout of your Jira issues in Coda to a timeline layout
4. Turn on milestones toggle
5. The dummy issues with no end date will show up as milestones on the timeline

Short video showing this in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfwK9x0WXBI

Link to the template: https://coda.io/@atc/jira-suggestions-done-in-coda/milestones-on-roadmaps-timelines-11

By when can I expect this 'must' required feature in roadmap.

I was hoping to workaround the lack of milestone markers with a single day issue but that only displays for the entire sprint.. We could really use milestone markers.

You can create a milestone issue type to handle this scenario. Then, you can add it to your project schema and use it within the roadmap, were you will be able to filter milestones using the issue type filter.

It would be nice to be able to see milestones along the releases in the Timeline and Plans view, to:

• Share easily with stakeholders on issues within a milestone
• Track progess on a milestone
• If presented in the timeline view (perhaps under releases) you can easily see which issues are under which milestone and if they overlap with a release etc.

Atlassian keeps amazing me with feature requests for basic functionality being open for multiple years.

Such an Important feature to keep all the project/program managers work inside Jira and not to leave for other planning tools outside Atlassian suite.

When are you going to build this, it's a simple feature which will make communication to external stakeholders significantly easier Thanks!

+1

+1 -> Get this done for the Project Discovery Board

Get this functionality added. Its crucial for a lot of working environments 

+1 this feature will be very helpful 

Please add this as a standard feature

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+1 much needed feature!

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Would it be possible to get an update on the status of your evaluation and the possibility of this functionality being added to Roadmaps?

+1 this would make my life managing projects so much easier to capture milestones 

+100!!

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+1 please! something really basic and make the work unecessary complicated, cause we need to use release instead. release are only for software purposes.

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I'm sure Jira is being used worldwide so why are the sessions to gather user input in the middle of the night for most of Europe? [ClickUp|https://clickup.com/] is looking more and more like a viable option to recommend to my organisation.

very much needed one

Is this feature being considered for Jira Data Center version?

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Agreed. We need this feature as well. 

+1..This feature will really help the project team to understand on the progress & RAG status of features/epics.

I came here from a feature request dated in 2019. Please accelerate this!
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Currently we use Confluence / Spreadsheet to maintain milestones and map out the Jira tickets. Very cumbersome. This feature will help a ton and help adopt the roadmap use across all stakeholders.

This will be a valuable addition as our management want to view milestones within plans

When can we get an update on the prioritization of this feature and development timeline? My company is inclined to use another platform if we cannot add something as simple as a milestone to our roadmaps. 

A suggestion for an additional (optional) functionality

• User can link a milestone to Epic, Task, or Story and see the dependency on the roadmap 

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Hi all -  Rathesh here from the Jira Software Cloud team. Thanks for your votes on this ticket! 
This is currently under consideration in our roadmap, but we'd love your help! We have a few milestone concepts that we would like to show you to get some quick feedback on how it could help you or your team plan and track more effectively. 

If you are interested in being part of the solution and providing feedback on some concepts, feel free to book in a 30min call here: https://calendly.com/ratheshr/planning-convo

Cheers,

Rathesh Richards, Product Manager - Jira Software Cloud

PLEAASSSE add this!!! 

Can't believe such a basic feature has been missing for years.

Well, happy birthday to this item! Another year, another 365 days of nothing happening. But hey, at least it's still on the backlog collecting dust. Here's to hoping for some actual progress in the next year. (But let's be real, that's probably not going to happen).

(Sorry, I missed this yesterday)