Changelog
Stay up to date with Excalidraw's new features, bug fixes, tweaks, and improvements.
For what’s coming next, check out our public roadmap.
- 2025-09-30
September 2025
This month, Excalidraw+ focuses on Enterprise tier features!
🚀 New Features
- Library item searches with our new search functionality
- Insert multiple images at once, streamlining your workflow
- Disable scene sharing for the whole workspace (Enterprise tier)
- Added a new unified move & duplicate modal for easier moving scenes around
- Added ASM tags to education emailing so people can easily unsubscribe
- Added Enterprise Logger backend part
✨ Improvements
- Better file normalization ensures smoother file management
- Improved arrow eraser precision and arrow routing for clearer diagrams
- Updates to mobile detection improve responsiveness across devices
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Shift+click selection in library items now works bidirectionally
- Addressed issues with shortcuts in search inputs and Firefox pasting functionality
- Fixed display errors when the local storage quota is exceeded, providing clearer alerts
🔧 Under the Hood
- Refined binary heap implementation for improved performance.
- Increased delay for file opening to resolve iOS 18 issues.
- 2025-09-01
August 2025
This August, Excalidraw+ introduces exciting new features and enhancements designed to streamline your workflow and improve overall usability.
🚀 New Features
- Share presentations starting from a specific slide to focus on key points
- Add auto-advance options for shared presentations for seamless viewing
- The Enterprise tier can now export private collections effortlessly with new support features
✨ Improvements
- Drag, resize, and rotate selections easily after using the lasso tool
- Persistent data storage with performance gains and semi-offline functionality (under feature flag currently)
- Enhanced preferences with a new UI toggle component
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Corrected text rotation issues across alignments
- Improved image upload reliability and prevented unwanted scene deletions
- Addressed various UI/UX feedback and error handling improvements for a smoother experience
🔧 Under the Hood
- Tailwind CSS upgraded to version 4 for a sleeker interface
- Updated collaboration infrastructure to ensure stability and performance
Looking forward, we're committed to further refining your Excalidraw+ experience with more intuitive features and fixes. Stay tuned!
- 2025-07-30
July 2025
This month, we focus on improving collaboration and refining user interactions across Excalidraw+
🚀 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.
- 2025-06-30
June 2025
June brings significant backend enhancements and a few new features
🚀 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.
- 2025-05-31
May 2025
This month, Excalidraw+ introduces significant enhancements to workspace management and precision in drawing.
🚀 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.
- 2025-04-30
April 2025
This month, Excalidraw+ introduces exciting new features and improvements that enhance user experience with intuitive shape switching and collaborative tools.
🚀 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.
- 2025-03-31
March 2025
This month, Excalidraw+ introduces new customization options and a variety of UI improvements
🚀 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.
- 2025-02-28
February 2025
This month, we're introducing smart enhancements, an open-source editor 18.0.0 release, and fixing pesky bugs
🚀 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.
- 2025-01-22
January 2025
This month, Excalidraw+ introduces new features and enhancements that simplify your workflow and improve the overall drawing experience.
🚀 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.
- 2024-12-18
Canvas Links
This update introduces new features like canvas linking and image cropping, along with enhancements in user settings and presentations fixes. See the detailed list of changes below.
- 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.