IMO this should be removed from .3. It is not suitable for LTS, as it appears to break HTML descriptions (JENKINS-26406) and has a performance regression when revealing a few hundred builds by clicking 'more' (JENKINS-26445). It's also no longer possible to click the ball to go to the build output page.

A post on the dev list seems to indicate that .3 introduced an issue that may be JENKINS-25971, whose fix (it's actually fixed) caused a few more regressions (JENKINS-26312 JENKINS-26298 JENKINS-26306 I think) that were finally fixed in 1.596 or so.

@Daniel sorry, what exactly do you mean when you say ".3" ?

I'd prefer to try fix these issues (when I get a chance) Vs going back to the way it was before, with labels etc overlapping.

Ah ... you mean 1.580.3 I think.

I would check the conclusions Daniel has come to carefully, I think I have both the issues he indicates.
However, they only seemed to be present for me when upgrading to 1.586.
This change may not have introduced these issues.
The improvement with non-overlapping, I would not like to see regressed.

The recent discussion is about backporting this change to the LTS release 1.580.3 only (which has been rejected due to the regressions this causes). It has nothing to do with the weekly releases which will continue to include this new build history.

I admit my comment wasn't too clear when only viewing comments to this issue, as there has been no discussion about LTS inclusion, only changes to the issue tags indicated that.