TL;DR: Templates can now be installed directly into existing Spaces, with content and configurations kept organized and easy to identify. New Gantt adds float visibility for better Critical Path insights, and the New Gantt Chart is now the default experience for all customers. Plus, explore May 2026 product highlights, register for upcoming approvals and automation webinars, discover the SEO Services Delivery template, review AI Agents best practices, join AI resource allocation research, and check out new onboarding and community posts.
Feature Updates
- Templates: Install Templates Into Existing Spaces 🎉
Templates can now be installed directly into existing Spaces, making it easier to explore and use templates without creating a new Space every time.
What’s new?
- Space Admins can now install any template into an existing Space.
- When selecting Use Template, users can choose the Space where the template should be installed.
- In the Space picker, users will only see Spaces where they are an admin.
- Installed Tools, Content, and Databases are added to separate folders, keeping them isolated from the existing Space structure.
- Installed configurations, including Custom Fields, Workflows, Custom Item Types, and Request Forms, are easier to find with the new How created column.
- The How created column can also be used in account-level configuration views to group and identify items installed from a specific template.
This update makes it easier to try templates in existing workspaces while keeping installed content organized and easier to manage.
For more information, read our Help Center article.
1.Enhanced Critical Path With Float Visibility
Enhanced Critical Path with Float visibility is now available in the New Gantt Chart for all users with Critical Path enabled.
What’s new?
- Total Float and Free Float are now available directly in New Gantt.
- Float values can be viewed both as table columns and directly on the Gantt canvas.
- Critical Path calculations are now more reliable in common planning scenarios involving dependencies, weekends, and project end dates.
- Negative Float is now visible, helping teams identify when projects or successor tasks are already behind schedule.
- Teams can better understand why tasks are considered critical and where scheduling buffer exists.
Why it matters
- Total Float shows how much a task can shift before affecting the overall project finish date.
- Free Float shows how much a task can shift before affecting successor tasks.
This gives teams better visibility into scheduling flexibility, project risk, and the true drivers of project timelines.
Please note: these improvements are available only in the New Gantt Chart.
Read more in this Help Center article.
2.New Gantt Is Now the Default Experience
The New Gantt Chart is now the default Gantt experience for all customers.
What’s included?
- Improved performance and scalability
- Modernized visuals and updated timeline rendering
- Support for New Table View
- Fiscal Year support
- Public Links
- Public Snapshots
- Manual ordering and additional sorting options
- Updated task bar sizing and milestone visuals
- Detail tooltips
- Default Density Mode support
- Enhanced Critical Path
- Export to PDF
The New Gantt Chart provides a faster, more modern planning experience for building schedules, managing dependencies, and tracking timelines. These improvements help teams work more efficiently while supporting a wider range of planning and reporting needs.
Additional updates are planned, including:
- Start Constraints
- Rescheduling while pressing Shift
- Creating items directly from the canvas and more
Please note: If needed, you can still return to Classic Gantt while we continue to add more enhancements to the New Gantt Chart.
To learn more about the recent updates to the New Gantt Chart, read our detailed Community post and Help Center article.
Community News
- What’s New in Wrike – May 2026 & Digest ⭐
Catch the full roundup of Wrike’s May 2026 updates, including dashboard images, expanded drill-downs, new AI Agents actions, Required Fields updates, Critical Path in the Gantt Chart, and much more!
Check out this Community post for more details.
- Upcoming Webinar: Wrike Essentials - Master Approvals ✅
Join our live Wrike Essentials session on May 27 at 9:00 a.m. PST to learn how to build clearer, more trackable approval workflows in Wrike. The webinar will cover assigned approvers, review workflows, trackable decisions, and ways to reduce bottlenecks with live demos and practical examples.
Register on Wrike Discover and check out this Community Post for more information.
- Upcoming Webinar: Wrike Essentials - Work Smarter with Automations ⚙️
Join our upcoming Wrike Essentials webinar on June 3, 2026, at 9:00 AM PST to learn how Wrike Automations can help reduce manual work, improve consistency, keep projects moving automatically, and streamline everyday workflows with practical examples and live demos.
Check out this Community post for more information and to register.
- Template Tuesdays: SEO Services Delivery 📈
This week’s Template Tuesdays spotlight features the SEO Services Delivery template, created by Kathy Donohue. Designed for marketing agencies, this template helps teams manage client requests, organize department-based ticket workflows, streamline intake with request forms, and track work with dashboards, automation, and custom item types.
Click here to read more.
- AI Agents Best Practice: Keep Scope Focused 💡
We’ve shared a new Community post with practical guidance for building AI Agents that stay focused and relevant. Learn best practices for scoping triggers, actions, and filters, plus tips for testing setups and reviewing logs before going live.
Check out this Community Post for all the details.
- Research Interviews: AI Resource Allocation in Wrike 🤖
Maria from our Product team is looking to speak with users about how their teams make resource allocation decisions today and where AI could help. In a 30-minute call, participants can share their current staffing workflows, challenges, and feedback on an early AI-supported resource allocation prototype.
Book a time here and find all the details in this Community Post.
- Wrike Onboarding: What Is a Task in Wrike? 👀
We’ve shared a new onboarding post to help users understand how tasks work in Wrike. It explains what a task is, how it fits alongside spaces, projects, and folders, when to use tasks, how to create them from different views, and key tips like assigning owners, setting dates, using subtasks, and tagging tasks into multiple locations.
Read more in the Community post.
- Wrike-Up Wednesday: The Most Unexpected Place You’ve Worked From 🌍
This week’s Wrike-Up Wednesday invites community members to share the most unexpected place they’ve ever worked from. From trains and parks to improvised desks at home, join the conversation and tell us your story in the comments.
Check out this Community Post to join the discussion.
