Changelog

🚀 New Features

• Introduced collaboration & versioning enhancements for CFDO to streamline team workflows (BETA - under feature flag).
• Added enterprise feature flags, including workspace settings for disabling email changes.
• Supported timestamps in YouTube video embeds for precise content navigation.

✨ Improvements

• Enhanced line creation UX on touch screens for more intuitive drawing.
• Made workspace exports more robust for seamless data management.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed multiple line editor bugs for smoother text editing.
• Corrected the collaboration disconnect handler to maintain connection stability.

🎨 UI/UX

• Improved CommandPalette and MainMenu item ellipsification for better readability.

🔧 Under the Hood

• Updated collaboration infrastructure to support more efficient workflows.
• Enhanced memory management for collaboration to optimize resource usage.

🚀 New Features

• Implemented viewport-aware image loading for faster and more efficient rendering.

✨ Improvements

• Improved image loading and status management
• Improved elbow arrow binding logic for cleaner connections.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed issues with accessing scenes without a `scene.creator`.
• Resolved problems with bindings at partially overlapping areas.
• Prevented the search menu from opening when a dialog is active.
• Corrected cursor behavior when not hovering over a point on a linear element.

🔧 Under the Hood

• Upgraded Fastify, Zod v4 & related packages for better performance.

🚀 New Features

• Easily manage and export your workspace with the new export feature and view export history.
• Preserve line angles with SHIFT+drag for precise adjustments.
• Redesigned Workspace Members interface for better user management.

✨ Improvements

• Improved unlock functionality for seamless interactions with locked elements.
• Quarter snap points for diamonds enable more accurate shapes.
• Intuitive line polygons feature for better shape manipulation.
• Precise highlights for bindings for clearer visual cues.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Resolved ghost point issue when moving shapes in the line editor.
• Fixed regression in context menu closure during long press.
• Corrected font subsetting in "Copy to clipboard as SVG" feature.
• Addressed various arrow conversion and label issues for consistent behavior.

🎨 UI/UX Enhancements

• Transparent link backgrounds and scalable icons enhance visual clarity.
• Include frame names in canvas searches for better navigation and organization.

🔧 Under the Hood

• Updated error handling for smoother app performance.

🚀 New Features

• Guests can now view comments, making collaboration more accessible.
• Seamless shape switching: Easily switch between basic shapes for more dynamic diagrams. (TAB)
• Users now can leave workspace

✨ Improvements

• Enhanced scrollbar rendering and dragging for a smoother navigation experience.
• Keep text labels horizontal, ensuring clarity and readability.
• Updated color swatches and button backgrounds for a refreshed look.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Resolved screen share resizing issues for a consistent display.
• Fixed erasing of locked elements to maintain expected interactions.
• Corrected export image scaling in PPTX files for accurate presentations.
• Laser pointer trail now persists for smoother visual feedback.

🎨 UI/UX Enhancements

• Tweak to color swatches and button backgrounds for a more cohesive design.
• Added SOC logo in the footer for a branded touch.

🔧 Under the Hood

• Improved browser compatibility for a seamless experience across platforms.
• Various performance optimizations and code refactoring for enhanced stability.

🚀 New Features

• Customize modal button colors to match your style.
• Prevent navigation dropdowns from closing on accidental clicks.
• Add keyboard shortcut for quicker file saving.

✨ Improvements

• Updated styling for properties and stats panels for a cleaner look.
• Enhanced tooltip for the share scene button to improve accessibility.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed issues with element offsets during drag-and-drop duplication.
• Resolved arrow conversion and routing errors.
• Eliminated incorrect sidebar width and React element reference errors.
• Fixed embedded scene behavior to prevent unnecessary join screens.

🔧 Under the Hood

• Various internal refactoring to optimize performance and reduce errors.

🚀 New Features

• Release @excalidraw/excalidraw@18.0.0 🎉
• Integrated GPT-4o for enhanced AI capabilities in your designs.
• Prevent accidental exits during presentations to keep your flow uninterrupted.
• Natural ordering of scenes by name for improved organization.

✨ Improvements

• Grouped Undo and Redo buttons on mobile for easier access and a cleaner interface.
• Custom text metrics for more precise text rendering.
• Shorter delay for navigation dropdowns improves menu responsiveness.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed elbow arrow bindings and z-index issues for consistent diagram connections.
• Resolved slide preview and export issues with nested frames.
• Addressed SVG export errors and normalized outputs.
• Corrected slide order issues when copying frames to maintain presentation structure.

🚀 New Features

• Predefined slide layouts make creating presentations faster and easier.
• New arrowhead styles, including crowfoot, give more customization options.
• Added action to wrap selected items in a frame for organized canvases.

✨ Improvements

• Improved library sidebar performance for quicker access to your tools.
• Stricter HTML attribute sanitization enhances security.
• Custom range component for better opacity control.
• Enhanced slider colors for a more visually pleasing interface.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Resolved issues with elbow arrow orthogonality and positioning.
• Fixed font loading issues on export to ensure consistency.
• Addressed arrow binding glitches to prevent unexpected behavior.

🎨 UI/UX Enhancements

• Updated cursor changes immediately upon tool selection for a smoother experience.
• Redesigned hyperlink handling for improved reliability.
• Tweak in slider colors for a more muted appearance.

🔧 Under the Hood

• Updated to React 19 and Next 15 for better performance and stability.

• Link canvas elements together or create element links quickly with the context menu or Cmd/Ctrl+K shortcut.
• Enabling image cropping using enter or double-clicking an image.
• A new hand-drawn CJK font is available in Excalifont.
• Improved text-wrapping behavior across browsers and editors.
• Added option to manage email notifications for comments in Excalidraw+ workspace.
• Redesigned Excalidraw+ workspace settings interface for better clarity and orientation.
• Updated Comic Shanns font.
• Multiple presentations fixes including changes in auto-placement of new slides, persisting presentation settings using local storage, the possibility to export slides individually, fixed slide sharing, and the possibility to delete and export a list of frames.

• A text search feature that lets you quickly search through notes and diagrams using Cmd/Ctrl+F.
• Screensharing option during voice hangouts.
• Added keyboard shortcuts like Cmd/Ctrl+Arrow to add nodes when creating flowcharts.
• Improved freedraw tool as each shape is now drawn on its own layer.
• Customizable grid step allowing you to adjust the grid step in Canvas properties or hide it completely by setting it to 1.
• Reduce SVG file sizes with optimized font embedding for exported glyphs only.
• Added support for panning and zooming while editing text.
• Dedicated https://app.excalidraw.com/new link for instant new scene creation.
• Welcome scenes are awaiting new Excalidraw+ users in the private folder by default.

• Tweaked font menu with a wider font selection.
• Excalifont - a new default handwritten font designed by Excalidraw.
• Elbow arrows - a new arrow type option.
• Improved History Manager that allows individual undo/redo actions.
• V1 of Mermaid to Excalidraw library.
• Open links support in flowchart diagrams.
• Improved text auto-wrapping.
• Improved resizing options.
• Changed arrow binding to other elements on the canvas.