Changelog

August 2026

Draw a loop to group cards, a rebuilt Jira integration with true two-way sync, mind maps with Mermaid import, and AI assistants that can search your whole workspace.

New

Draw a group. Close a loop around cards and they become a group — an area, journey, or zone, depending on the map type — with a boundary you can move and resize, and membership that follows the shape. One consistent grouping model now runs across every map type.
Jira, rebuilt. Connecting Jira is a guided OAuth flow with a site picker, and sync is a real round trip: edits in CardBoard land on the Jira issue, Jira changes arrive on the board live via webhooks, and each synced issue carries a link back to its CardBoard card. The sync drawer names the connected site, flags site mismatches, and surfaces real diagnostics when a connection needs attention.
Mind maps. A new map type that starts blank or seeded from a one-line intent, with a color palette per branch — and you can import a Mermaid mindmap block to materialize one instantly.
Event storming. The first notation-bearing map type: domain events, commands, and policies, straight from the create-board grid.
Activity drawer. A timeline of what’s happened on the board; rows select their card on the canvas, and rollups expand to show every card involved.
Backlinks. Type [[ in a card’s prose to reference another card — even on another board — and cited cards show who references them.
Rapid capture in the outline drawer. Enter for a sibling, Tab to indent, Shift-Tab to step back out, Escape when you’re done — cards land on the canvas as fast as you can type.
Collapse tree branches. Fold a branch on a tree map down to a badge; the layout packs around it, and the collapsed state is shared with the board.
Search for AI assistants. Connected assistants can now search the whole workspace and read a specific card, subtree, or slice — retrieval that scales past a single board. Proposals got richer too: batch card proposals, title changes, connection removals, and card types visible right on the ghost.
Insert a column of cards. Drop a card between columns on a grid board and a vertical indicator shows exactly where the new column lands.
Pending invites, where you’ll see them. Workspace invitations now appear in the workspace switcher and the notification bell.

Improved

The canvas reads as material. Cards sit under one overhead light with a contact shadow, column bands take a tonal pole from the board theme, and new cards arrive with a calm fade while their siblings glide aside. On phones and tablets the toolbar becomes a rail.
Card colors. A rebuilt palette — eight hues in three registers, ordered like the rainbow on the toolbar, consistent between canvas and card modal.
Card details modal. A two-column redesign with dedicated description and acceptance-criteria editors, explicit save, and card type icons in a single glyph slot.
Tracker sync feel. Cards dropped from the sync drawer are movable the instant they land and finish hydrating in the background, webhook-applied changes credit the tracker instead of “Someone,” the connect flow is a drill-down instead of tabs, and disconnecting a tracker cleanly unlinks its cards. A health sweep now watches every webhook.
Agents in the drawer. Clearer agent vocabulary, a Linear-style connect card, a single invite affordance, and the drawer opens itself once after you create an agent. The MCP toggle moved to the workspace Security card.
Help and shortcuts. Support chat is summoned straight from the board’s help control, and keyboard shortcuts open in a modal showing your platform’s actual modifier keys.
First paint. Boards render right the first time — no settle-in shuffle.

Fixed

An authorization sweep tightened guest and API access: guest links no longer grant access beyond their board, realtime streams require board access, and API listings are scoped to what you can actually see.
Groups and boundaries reach collaborators reliably — creates broadcast, boot positioning is correct, and Escape/undo behave during label edits.
Image stickers survive being moved and refreshed, and undoing a sticker create cleans up after itself.
Connection lines terminate at the cursor while drawing, stay visible when endpoints return, and repaint correctly in Chromium.
Paste lands on open cells instead of shoving rows aside, a partial bulk update no longer clears assignees, and a title edit no longer swallows the next click.
The over-cap read-only notice speaks once, from the plan banner.

Behind the scenes: the tracker integration architecture was rebuilt end to end — credentials, connections, and sync reconciliation each moved onto a record that owns them — the legacy grouping and card-type tables were dropped, analytics moved behind a first-party proxy, two little-used features (card images and board linking) were retired, and the usual dependency bumps.