BoardOS updates continuously — there’s no upgrade to install and no release day to wait for. This is the record of what changed and when, newest first. Open a release for the full list.
2026.10.72 October 2026
Your first month of Pro now comes with a discount. New members get 75% off their first month, $3 instead of $12, for a limited time after signing up, or until a week after their free trial ends, whichever is later. After that, 25% off the first month stays available.
2 new
2026.10.62 October 2026
You can now try Pro free for 14 days, with no card. Start it from your dashboard, from any Pro feature, or from Billing in Settings. When it ends you go back to Free, nothing is charged, and everything you made stays yours.
2 new
2026.10.52 October 2026
Every template now has a details page. Click a template to see screenshots of it, what it is for, who it suits and how to use it, before you put it on a board. When you share a template with the community, you can write that page and add screenshots yourself.
3 new
2026.10.42 October 2026
Duplicating a board that was itself a copy no longer stacks up "Copy of Copy of" in its name, and publishing a board to the community gallery suggests a clean title.
1 improved1 fixed
2026.10.32 October 2026
Starting an upgrade now returns you to the checkout you already opened, instead of starting a new one each time. If you already pay for Pro, Upgrade takes you to your billing page to manage the plan you have.
2 improved
2026.10.21 October 2026
Settings now lists the three kinds of email BoardOS sends and lets you switch off the two that are optional. Tips, offers and product news are off unless you turn them on, and every one of those emails carries a one-click unsubscribe link.
3 new1 improved
2026.10.11 October 2026
The home page now marks the objects, exports and features that need Pro, and its opening paragraph says plainly what Free covers and what Pro adds. The Help reference now labels polls, quizzes, word clouds, matrix presets, the timer and presenting as free, which they are on every plan.
1 improved1 fixed
2026.09.2811 September 2026
Pick a Hub framework and it now starts with the views its subject actually calls for — a calendar where there are dates, a board where there are statuses, and the first gallery views, on the reading list and the content calendar. Alongside that: a Hub calendar puts a date on its own day wherever in the world you are, a view’s name shows on its tab, and “Turn into a shape” works when you are a contributor.
2 new4 fixed
2026.09.2610 September 2026
On a Pro account signing in on a new device or in a private window, the first click on Share could offer you an upgrade to something you already pay for. Share now waits the moment it takes to confirm your plan, rather than guessing.
1 fixed
2026.09.2510 September 2026
Marking something confidential used to offer two fixed choices. You now pick the minimum role a person needs on the board in order to read it — contributor, editor or admin — per object, and everyone below that sees a placeholder instead: on the board, in exports and through the data API.
1 new2 improved
2026.09.2410 September 2026
The list of people on a board showed everyone as having been there “just now” and then never changed its mind, so a list left open on screen went on saying somebody was around long after they had gone. It now says how long ago each person was last on the board, and keeps counting while you watch.
1 fixed
2026.09.2310 September 2026
Last week's panning improvement covered dragging the board with the mouse. Scrolling it — a two-finger swipe on a trackpad, or a shifted mouse wheel — went a different route through the board and did not get the same treatment. It does now, and on a board of several hundred objects that is the bigger of the two.
1 improved
2026.09.2210 September 2026
When someone joins a board through a share link without an account, they pick a name on the way in. The participants list now shows that name as soon as they choose it — even if you already had the list open — and marks them as a guest, so you can tell at a glance which people on your board hold an account and which joined by link.
1 new1 fixed
2026.09.2110 September 2026
Moving around a board with hundreds of objects on it could judder, worst of all at the middle zoom levels where the most is on screen at once. The board now does far less work as the camera moves, and dragging with the Pan tool works wherever you press — including on top of an object, which previously picked the object up and moved it instead of moving the view.
1 improved1 fixed
2026.09.209 September 2026
The Submit button on the support form could sit there looking ready when the form was not, so a click did nothing and gave no reason. The button now switches on only when there is something to send, and when it is off it says which field is still empty. Tickets that were already going through are unaffected.
1 improved1 fixed
2026.09.199 September 2026
In a Bar chart — the one whose bars run left to right, as opposed to a Column chart — a negative number drew no bar at all. The category came out looking empty, and if you had data labels switched on the number appeared on its own with nothing beside it. Negative values now draw a real bar, running from the zero line in the opposite direction to the positive ones, with the value axis extended to cover them and each label placed clear of its bar. Column charts already handled this and are unchanged, as is every Bar chart whose values are all positive.
1 improved1 fixed
2026.09.188 September 2026
A board can let someone in by four different routes — you invited them by email, they joined with a share link, they are on the board's team, or they inherit access from a parent board. The buttons in the participants list did not say which of those they acted on, so removing an email invite could leave somebody on the board at a different role and look like a demotion nobody asked for. The buttons now name what they remove, and after you remove an email invite BoardOS tells you what is still letting that person in and which control ends it.
2 improved
2026.09.178 September 2026
Tables could be exported and not filled in. Select a table and there is now an Import CSV button, right above Export CSV: choose a .csv or .tsv file, or paste the rows straight in. You see exactly how it will be read — the separator, whether the first row is column names, the column names themselves and the first few rows — before anything on the board changes. Importing replaces what is in the table, and it is a single undo if it was not what you wanted.
3 new
2026.09.167 September 2026
On a tablet or a smaller laptop window the board toolbar sits on its own row along the bottom, and it was running straight across the overview map in the corner — covering the lower third of it, including part of the box you drag to move around the board. The map now sits above the toolbar at every window size, and the tools menu keeps the same clearance. On a desktop nothing moves. Separately, the two code objects finally have names you can tell apart: the one that runs your code is now called Code runner, and Code snippet stays the display-only block it always was.
1 improved1 fixed
2026.09.157 September 2026
On a laptop-sized window the floating Ask AI button sat directly on top of the board toolbar’s “Who’s on this board” button, so clicking to see who was on the board opened the AI assistant instead — and nothing on screen explained it. Ask AI now sits above the zoom controls in the bottom-left corner, clear of the toolbar at every window size. The overview map and the tools menu move with it, and the toolbar itself is exactly where it has always been.
1 improved1 fixed
2026.09.147 September 2026
Somebody who joined a board through a share link, or by asking for access and being approved, was only half there: they could open the board and edit it, but nobody could @mention them and they could not @mention anyone — their menu simply never opened. Adding the same person again by email appeared to fix it, which sent people looking at roles when the answer had nothing to do with roles. Everyone with access to a board now counts as being on it, everywhere: mentions, notifications, the calendar assignee list and the participants roster. The mention menu also tells people apart properly, and a guest who is on the board right now can be mentioned like anyone else. Clicking a comment notification now takes you to the comment and opens the conversation, and the screen you see after asking for access keeps you posted instead of ending there.
2 new4 improved3 fixed
2026.09.136 September 2026
Right-click a board and the menu appeared well above the pointer — on a laptop screen it could open a hundred and fifty pixels higher than the spot you clicked, which is far enough that it reads as the wrong menu for the wrong object. It was reserving room for the longest menu it could ever show, whether or not it was showing it. It now measures itself and opens at the pointer, moving only as far as it has to when it is genuinely near an edge. It also no longer slides underneath an open editor panel. And menus close on the first touch of a pen or stylus, rather than waiting for the tap to finish.
1 improved2 fixed
2026.09.126 September 2026
Draw a rectangle edge by edge — lifting the pen at each corner — and every edge is a separate drawing, so “Turn into a shape” had nothing to say about the four of them together. It reads them as one shape now, and the same goes for a circle drawn as two arcs or a triangle drawn side by side. When several drawings don’t make a shape between them, the panel says so instead of showing nothing at all, which is what it used to do. And a single drawing is turned into a shape a little more often than before, particularly a circle or a diamond.
2 improved1 fixed
2026.09.116 September 2026
The toolbar along the bottom of a board and the zoom controls in the corner were sharing the same strip on anything narrower than a large monitor — on a tablet in landscape, and on a laptop window at 1024 or 1200 pixels wide, the toolbar sat on top of the last zoom button. They now keep out of each other’s way at every size. The bottom toolbar also stopped wrapping onto two rows when it had plenty of room: it was limited to half the width of the window, so it doubled up on most laptops for no reason. And on a phone or tablet, opening the keyboard no longer hides the field you are typing in — the board and any open dialog make room for it.
1 improved3 fixed
2026.09.106 September 2026
Making a selection smaller used to squeeze frames until they sat on top of each other and their sticky notes rode up over the title bar — and growing them again did not pull them apart. A frame now carries its contents with it and stops at the size of what it holds, so the gap between frames survives. Comments got the other half of their job: a comment can take you to the object it was left on, a comment whose object has since been deleted stays in the list and says so, and a comment arriving while you are already reading the conversation no longer piles up as something unread. The Hub’s table cells now commit on Enter like the amount column always did, its date fields have a calendar you can open, and the participants list shows each person’s role.
2 new4 improved3 fixed
2026.09.96 September 2026
Two menus could open somewhere you could not reach them. The ⋯ menu on a board card, and the mouse-wheel menu in the corner of a board, are now placed against the button you pressed and against the edges of your window — so they open on the screen, in front of what is behind them, and upward instead of off the bottom when there is no room below. This shows up most on a small window or a phone, where a menu that opened downward simply left the screen. Pressing Escape also puts you back on the button you opened, which matters if you work by keyboard.
1 improved2 fixed
2026.09.85 September 2026
If you subscribe to Pro, your plan is read from our servers a fraction of a second after a page opens. Until it arrived, several screens assumed you had not paid: the API access page in Settings offered you an upgrade instead of your tokens, and the teaching tools in a presentation showed the same pitch. They now wait to be sure before they say anything, and a Pro control you cannot use yet is greyed out rather than quietly doing nothing when you click it.
1 improved3 fixed
2026.09.75 September 2026
Dragging a frame now moves the maps, embeds, code blocks, Hubs, Markdown notes, rich text, equations and animations inside it as you drag, instead of leaving them behind until you let go. A schedule covering more than a couple of weeks labels its timeline with grouped months or years rather than squeezing the dates until none of them can be read. And on a phone, the board’s bottom toolbar, its panels and its dialogs now fit the screen you can actually see.
3 improved6 fixed
2026.09.65 September 2026
Insert two things in a row and the second one used to land exactly on the first, hidden underneath it — every insert button dropped its object in the middle of the screen without looking at what was already there. Objects now find the nearest open space. Dragging or pasting something to a particular spot still puts it exactly where you aimed.
1 improved10 fixed
2026.09.54 September 2026
Charts with a lot of bars used to fight themselves: value labels broke across two lines and landed on top of the columns, the labels along the bottom shrank to nothing but dots, and a chart set to show currency could round its own axis off. All three are fixed. A busy chart now shows the labels it has room for, in full, and leaves out the ones it does not.
3 fixed
2026.09.44 September 2026
The community gallery starts with four boards you can open and read rather than fill in: a weekly sync with a real week on it, a launch plan with the blockers written next to each item, a support-ticket flow including the loops that usually get left off, and a retro that ends in actions with names and dates. They are meant to be taken apart — open one, see how it is put together, clear the notes and use it.
1 new1 improved
2026.09.34 September 2026
A dashboard average could come out as 37.91666666666666. It now reads 37.92 — rounded where BoardOS worked the number out, never where you typed one. The AI buttons kept their original blue whichever colour theme you picked; they now take the theme’s own colour. And the AI prompt box no longer hands you back the text you cancelled.
4 fixed
2026.09.24 September 2026
When BoardOS couldn’t fetch a list — your boards, a board’s versions, its comments, your recycle bin, a team’s members — it showed the same message as having none of them. “No boards here yet.” “The recycle bin is empty.” Nothing was ever missing, but there was no way to tell that from the screen. Those places now say the list couldn’t be loaded, and offer to try again.
1 fixed
2026.09.14 September 2026
A brand-new board is left unsaved until you actually start it — a sticky, a name, a template — so a canvas you glanced at and closed doesn’t clutter your dashboard. Changing one of the board’s own settings, like turning on automatic versioning, didn’t count as starting it. The board stayed unsaved, the setting went with it, and the board never appeared on your dashboard. Now any setting you change starts the board, exactly like putting something on it.
1 fixed
2026.08.264 September 2026
If you build anything on the board data BoardOS exports, one field has been renamed. An object’s confidentiality setting is now written as who can see it — “hide-from-viewers” or “admins-only” — rather than as a role name that had to be read the other way round. Files exported before today still open exactly as they did.
1 improved
2026.08.254 September 2026
An invitation to a board asks you to sign in, because a board is shared with an email address and we have to know you hold it. What it should not do is forget where you were going. Signing in now returns you to the board you were invited to — including from a link that grants editor access, and from a link to a Hub — and an invitation you open a second time opens the board rather than asking you to request access to it.
1 improved4 fixed
2026.08.244 September 2026
If you set a time zone and it showed as “Not set” the next time you opened Settings, your setting was never lost — BoardOS could not display it. The list of zones and the “detected” hint above it came from two different places that spell renamed zones differently, so anyone in Kyiv, Kolkata or Buenos Aires could be shown a zone the list beneath it did not contain. Both now agree. UTC is also selectable, which it was not.
2 fixed
2026.08.234 September 2026
When you publish a selection to the community, the preview that goes with it is what everyone browses by — so it should be a picture of exactly what you published. It was a picture of the area your selection covered instead, which meant an object that happened to sit between two you had chosen appeared in it, even though it was never part of the submission. The preview now shows the objects you selected and the connectors between them, and nothing else.
2 fixed
2026.08.224 September 2026
Eight kinds of object — Hubs, equations, Markdown notes, animated objects, code, rich text, maps and embeds — were left out of every picture BoardOS takes of a board. Export to PDF, PowerPoint or Word and you got a file of exactly the right size with a blank gap where each of them sat. They are all in the picture now, carrying their own content: a Hub exports as its table, an equation as its graph, an animated object as its message held still.
1 improved3 fixed
2026.08.214 September 2026
Two things in BoardOS quietly assumed an English-speaking setup. If your keyboard is set to anything other than a Latin layout — Ukrainian, Greek, Russian and others — the single-key shortcuts did nothing at all, and neither did Ctrl+Z or Ctrl+C. And if you write decimals with a comma, a number like 110,5 was read as 1105, so any chart drawn from it was ten times too tall. Both are fixed, along with a locked object that let you type into it and then threw the text away.
3 improved5 fixed
2026.08.2023 August 2026
A presentation step can now restyle an object and have it stay that way for the rest of the show — a box turns green, then the arrow between it and the next box goes red and heavy. It is how you show a process running, or a decision landing, without drawing the same diagram five times.
3 new2 improved
2026.08.1923 August 2026
A presentation no longer has to be one click per thing that happens. You can set how long the show pauses between objects that arrive on their own, decide where in the sequence an animation starts, and let a whole section play itself out and then wait for you. Everything you have already built keeps its current timing exactly.
3 new1 improved
2026.08.1823 August 2026
A chart, a word cloud or a shape can now be pointed at a Gantt chart or a calendar, the same way it can already be pointed at a table or a Hub list. The chart reads the plan directly and keeps up with it, so a burn-down beside a project plan is one object reading another instead of a second table you have to remember to update.
2 new1 improved
2026.08.1723 August 2026
Some websites don't let their pictures be copied into a file. A board holding one of those pictures now exports normally: the picture is replaced by a labelled box saying it isn't included, everything else comes through in full, and BoardOS tells you which site it was so you can add that picture from your device instead.
2 improved2 fixed
2026.08.1623 August 2026
Dragging a frame smaller now scales the objects inside it — their size and their text — and keeps the arrangement you laid out. A frame will only go as small as its contents allow, so nothing is ever left behind outside the edge, and growing the frame again brings everything back up with it.
3 improved
2026.08.1523 August 2026
A piece you place from a library can now be given its own colours — and only that copy changes. It stays linked to the set it came from, so the set can be updated later and your copy keeps the colour you chose. When a colour isn’t enough, you can detach a piece into ordinary objects and edit it however you like.
3 new
2026.08.1423 August 2026
An object you place from a library now stays linked to the set it came from, so a board stays light and every copy of a piece is drawn from the same artwork. Exporting a large board gives you the whole board in full detail whatever you were looking at, and without the editor’s own selection marks in the picture. And a change to your role on a shared board now arrives as a notice instead of turning up the next time you try to type.
2 new3 fixed
2026.08.1322 August 2026
Three sets of ready-made objects now ship with BoardOS, and any set — built-in, shared by the community, or from your team — can be kept in your toolbar so its pieces are one click away on every board. Locking an object now protects it from every tool, and a board zoomed out over thousands of objects pans smoothly.
2 new3 improved2 fixed
2026.08.1218 August 2026
Connectors are drawn by dragging now, the way you would expect. Enter starts a new line in a sticky note. Present mode can hold something on screen behind a blur or a cover instead of leaving it out entirely. And the PowerPoint, Word and Excel exports carry the board’s actual content.
4 new5 improved7 fixed
2026.08.1115 August 2026
The pen now varies with how you draw, a rough scribble can become a real board object, and there is an eraser. The shared library has pictures and browses in a panel beside the board rather than a window over it — with sets of related items, and favourites that follow you from one device to the next.
7 new3 improved1 fixed
2026.08.109 August 2026
A Hub timeline no longer stops working when its project gets its first dates, and dragging the overview map in the bottom-left corner is smooth on large boards instead of leaving the canvas blank while it catches up.
1 improved3 fixed
2026.08.98 August 2026
Embeds, maps, code consoles, Hubs and the rest now snap to your other objects and show alignment guides when you move or resize them — they were the only objects that didn't.
1 fixed
2026.08.88 August 2026
Shrinking an object further than it could actually be drawn used to leave the whole board unresponsive until you reloaded. Objects now stop at a sensible minimum, boards already affected repair themselves when opened, and resizing shows the same alignment guides as moving.
1 new1 improved1 fixed
2026.08.78 August 2026
Hub table columns can finally be dragged to size on the board, Hubs snap to your other objects like everything else does, and Kanban boards can be resized from the canvas. Timelines gain Quarter and Year, and the calendar uses the whole page.
2 new4 fixed
2026.08.68 August 2026
Hub table columns now do what you tell them in both width modes — dragging a divider actually moves it, and the status column stops taking space it has nothing to put in. Plus a tidier owner column, clearer Gantt task rows, and the canvas zoom controls no longer run into the Ask AI button.
1 improved4 fixed
2026.08.58 August 2026
Gantt charts now plan properly: all four dependency types, lead and lag time, and the date constraints project managers actually use. Plus a round of fixes across Hub tables and timelines, and the ability to duplicate or delete a table.
3 new1 improved5 fixed
2026.08.47 August 2026
You can now choose what your mouse wheel does without leaving the board, Hub tables can keep the column widths you set instead of sharing them out, and a handful of editor panels that were cramped or misaligned have been straightened out.
2 new2 improved4 fixed
2026.08.37 August 2026
Panning with a trackpad is smooth, a board you open and don't use no longer becomes a tile on your dashboard, and light and dark mode now behave properly when the people on a board aren't in the same one.
4 improved4 fixed
2026.08.22 August 2026
Boards no longer have to look like a dot grid. There are now whiteboard, blackboard, chalkboard and honeycomb surfaces, ten handwriting and chalk fonts, text that runs a gradient as you type, and shape styles that genuinely look hand-drawn rather than merely styled. Objects can also be animated during a presentation, not only as they arrive.
10 new2 fixed
2026.08.11 August 2026
BoardOS counts page visits itself, on its own servers. No cookies are set for it, no identifier follows you between sites, and nothing is handed to a third-party analytics service.
1 new
2026.07.625 July 2026
The home page was rebuilt around what BoardOS actually does — eighteen real object types in the hero and side-by-side demonstrations of an object becoming data — and the design language it introduced was then rolled across every page of the site.
4 improved
2026.07.512 July 2026
Getting into a board you can't open no longer means emailing someone and waiting. You can request access from the door, hosts can hand out per-role share links and revoke them from one page, and the notification bell now lets you act on what it tells you. A long list of collaboration and touch-input fixes came with it.
8 new3 improved17 fixed
2026.07.410 July 2026
Teams can now buy Pro seats for everyone who creates, with no sales call. Sign-in gained an email-and-password option and a working forgotten-password flow, two-factor gained backup codes, and exports started capturing structure — nesting, containment and dates — rather than a flat list of objects.
7 new1 improved8 fixed
2026.07.38 July 2026
BoardOS became installable — as a progressive web app, a Microsoft Teams app, and desktop and mobile shells — and the board itself became genuinely usable on a touchscreen. The in-board code engine grew into one Code object covering JavaScript, TypeScript, Python and SQL, with multi-file projects.
15 new1 improved8 fixed
2026.07.27 July 2026
The ER diagram became a single object you can round-trip to SQL, charts gained Excel-grade formatting and pivot summarisation, and shapes learned to take their label and colour from live data. The AI assistant stopped only building new things and started working on the board you already have — clustering, summarising and reviewing it. Billing went live the day before.
23 new11 fixed
2026.07.12 July 2026
The process chart arrived — a flowchart whose steps and flows are edited as structured data and export as a real process model. Present mode gained reveal animations with On click / With previous / After previous triggers, the Hub learned to hold real uploaded files, and people can now join a shared board as a guest without an account.
13 new1 improved5 fixed
2026.06.530 June 2026
The read-only data API opened, with personal access tokens you generate in Settings, so board, Hub and table data can be pulled into anything that speaks HTTP. Excel and per-object export landed alongside it, and eleven new object types arrived — including the pen, word cloud, quiz, sequence diagram, Markdown and code snippet.
13 new
2026.06.428 June 2026
The Hub arrived: a relational work object where the same records can be read as a table, timeline, board, calendar or dashboard, with calculated and lookup columns, dependencies, a critical path and conditional formatting. AI landed the same week — generating boards and Hubs, refining a selection, and answering questions — along with community templates, support ticketing and two-factor authentication.
16 new3 improved5 fixed
2026.06.327 June 2026
The tools for running a session with other people: focus spaces, confidential objects, a contributor role, a shared activity timer and bring-everyone-to-my-view. Alongside them, three substantial new objects — a sandboxed code engine, a graphing calculator, and an interactive map — plus a calendar and a much larger chart library.
25 new1 improved10 fixed
2026.06.226 June 2026
A week of substance: the spreadsheet, the interactive Kanban, dependency-scheduled Gantt charts, charts from CSV, and wireframes that export as working HTML and CSS. Boards gained version history, comments with @mentions, notifications, folders and a recycle bin — and word art, emoji and animated GIFs made them fun to look at.
29 new3 improved3 fixed
2026.06.125 June 2026
BoardOS became multiplayer. Real-time co-editing landed on conflict-free (CRDT) sync, boards could be shared by email with viewer, editor and admin roles, and an Advanced editor mode opened up the professional objects — flowchart shapes, swimlanes, ERD tables, Gantt, hierarchies and SmartArt — alongside the first present mode and embeds.
15 new1 improved1 fixed
2026.06.024 June 2026
The first working version: an infinite canvas with sticky notes, free text, images, tables with typed columns, shapes, connectors, frames and containers — saving to the cloud behind a real account. Even here the point was already the point, with the board exporting as JSON, a flow graph, and Mermaid.
9 new
Earlier work than 2026.06.0 was pre-release development on a product nobody was using yet, so it isn’t listed here.
Security fixes are handled quietly and aren’t itemised on this page — publishing the details of a hole is useful mainly to whoever wants to go looking for the next one.