BoardOSData-driven whiteboard
What’s new

Every change we’ve shipped

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.

  1. 2026.08.22 August 2026

    Artistic boards

    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.

    • Whiteboard, blackboard, chalkboard and hexagon board surfaces
    • Ten handwriting, marker and chalk fonts
    • Gradient, rainbow and neon text that flows across the whole text box
    • Five hand-drawn shape and connector styles
    • Fifteen emphasis animations that play mid-presentation

    10 new2 fixed

  2. 2026.08.11 August 2026

    Cookieless visit counting

    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.

    • Visits counted first-party, with no cookies
    • Nothing sent to a third-party analytics service

    1 new

  3. 2026.07.625 July 2026

    A new home page

    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.

    • A rebuilt home page led by real objects, not stock illustration
    • Side-by-side "flip it" demonstrations of objects exporting as data
    • The same design language applied across the whole site

    4 improved

  4. 2026.07.512 July 2026

    Access requests, share links and notifications

    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.

    • Request access to a board you can't open — no account required
    • Per-role share links you can create, copy and revoke
    • One page to manage every share link you've issued
    • A notifications page, and a bell you can act from
    • Twenty fixes across collaboration, offline work and touch input

    8 new3 improved17 fixed

  5. 2026.07.410 July 2026

    Team plan, passwords and 2FA recovery

    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.

    • Team plan — buy Pro seats for your editors, self-serve
    • Sign in with an email and password, and reset a forgotten one
    • Backup codes for two-factor authentication
    • Exports now capture nesting, containment and dates

    7 new1 improved8 fixed

  6. 2026.07.38 July 2026

    Apps, touch and the code engine

    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.

    • Install BoardOS as an app, including inside Microsoft Teams
    • The board works on phones and tablets: one-finger pan, pinch-zoom, full-screen drawers
    • One Code object — JavaScript, TypeScript, Python or SQL
    • Query your own board with SQL
    • Export a diagram to Microsoft Visio (.vsdx)

    15 new1 improved8 fixed

  7. 2026.07.27 July 2026

    ER diagrams, charts and AI on your own board

    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.

    • ER diagrams as one object, round-tripping to and from SQL
    • Data-linked shapes — label and colour driven by live data
    • Pivot-style chart summarisation and professional axis/number formatting
    • AI that organizes the board you already have
    • Templates in Small, Medium and Large

    23 new11 fixed

  8. 2026.07.12 July 2026

    Process charts, presentation reveals and guest access

    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.

    • Process chart — a data-driven flow object with an industry shape library
    • Reveal animations in Present mode, with timing triggers
    • Hub file and link columns with real uploads
    • Guest access to shared boards, no account required
    • A Terms & Conditions page

    13 new1 improved5 fixed

  9. 2026.06.530 June 2026

    Your data, out

    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.

    • A read-only external data API, with tokens you manage in Settings
    • Excel (.xlsx) and per-object export
    • Live data-binding between objects
    • Word cloud, quiz, sequence diagram, pen, Markdown and code snippet objects

    13 new

  10. 2026.06.428 June 2026

    The Hub, AI and community

    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.

    • The Hub — one set of records, five ways to look at it
    • Hub Gantt with dependencies, critical path, baselines and % complete
    • AI board generation, Hub building and refine-a-selection
    • Community templates and submissions
    • Optional two-factor authentication

    16 new3 improved5 fixed

  11. 2026.06.327 June 2026

    Facilitation, code and calculation

    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.

    • Focus spaces, confidential objects and a shared activity timer
    • A new Contributor role, and live object locking
    • A sandboxed code engine for JavaScript and Python, with a file repository
    • An equation object that became a graphing calculator
    • An interactive map, and a full calendar component

    25 new1 improved10 fixed

  12. 2026.06.226 June 2026

    Spreadsheets, Kanban, Gantt and version history

    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.

    • Spreadsheet, interactive Kanban, and Gantt with dependency scheduling
    • Wireframe to working HTML and CSS
    • Version history, comments with @mentions, and notifications
    • Folders, search, duplicate and a recycle bin
    • Word art, emoji, GIF search and sticky reactions

    29 new3 improved3 fixed

  13. 2026.06.125 June 2026

    Collaboration, present mode and the advanced editor

    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.

    • Real-time collaboration with conflict-free co-editing
    • Share a board by email, with roles
    • Present mode — frames become slides
    • Basic / Advanced editor mode, and the professional object library
    • Embeds: video, web pages and authored HTML/CSS

    15 new1 improved1 fixed

  14. 2026.06.024 June 2026

    The first BoardOS

    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.

    • An infinite canvas with sticky notes, text, images and shapes
    • Tables with typed columns, exporting as CSV
    • Connectors, frames and containers, with snapping and alignment guides
    • Accounts and cloud auto-save
    • Board export 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.