🚀 New Features

• Presentation Waiting Room: Manage guest access with a new admission flow that lets presenters admit or deny external participants.
• Custom AI Tokens: Use your own OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, or OpenRouter API keys to power AI features with your preferred models.
• Advanced Charts: Create radar charts and visualize multiple data series within a single chart.
• Google Drive Videos: Embed and play videos directly from Google Drive within your boards.
• Interactive Presentations: Engage your audience with real-time reactions and a "raised hand" queue for participants.

✨ Improvements

• Laser Tool Enhancements: Use the laser pointer in view-only mode and click links or embeds while the tool is active.
• Visual Binding Midpoints: See exactly where arrows will snap with new midpoint indicators and improved binding precision.
• Main Menu Preferences: Access your editor settings directly from the main application menu.
• Redesigned Notifications: Experience a cleaner look for toast notifications, including new descriptive warning states.
• Workspace Recovery: Enhanced error pages now include smart "Try again" actions that help you recover from connection issues.
• Nested Menus: Navigate complex options more easily with support for nested dropdown menus in the editor.
• YouTube Integration: Quickly access tutorials via the new YouTube channel link in the user dropdown.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Crop Editor Precision: Fixed cursor drift and image positioning issues when cropping images.
• Arrow Stability: Resolved issues where arrows would "jump" or lose their connection points when cloned or overlapping.
• View Mode Toggle: Fixed a bug where the "hand" tool remained active after exiting view mode.
• Clipboard Reliability: Improved copy-to-clipboard functionality for browsers with restricted clipboard permissions.
• Color Accuracy: Fixed a regression affecting the rendering of 8-digit hex transparency codes.

🔧 Under the Hood

• Performance Boost: Optimized data fetching with standardized caching to reduce server load and improve snappiness.
• Public API Enhancements: Introduced support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to better integrate with AI agents.

🚀 New Features

• Introducing YouTube video syncing for seamless presentations.
• Added a QR code option for live session sharing, making collaboration even easier.
• Added "presenter view" for presentations

🎨 UI/UX Enhancements

• Redesigned dark mode for better visual clarity.
• Improved presentation controls with a fresh redesign.
• Added focus indicators for better navigation and interaction.

✨ Improvements

• Expanded language support with new translations across multiple languages, including Russian, Spanish, and Arabic.
• Optimized collision detection with caching for improved performance.
• Enhanced frame previews for a smoother user experience.
• Offloaded slide preview generation to a worker for better performance.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed SVG inversion issues on Safari to ensure consistent theme appearance.
• Resolved arrow endpoint offset and elbow endpoint disconnect problems.
• Improved handling of serialized underlined text.

🔧 Under the Hood

• Updated infrastructure to support better error handling and performance.
• Transitioned TTD persistence to IndexedDB for more reliable storage.

🚀 New Features

• Private export option added to "accessible export" for more control over your data.
• RSS feed feature to keep you updated with the latest changes and announcements.
• New AI section and improved error pages for a more comprehensive experience.

✨ Improvements

• Shift+click is enabled in dropdown items for enhanced selection capabilities.
• UX tweaks to prevent sleep during sessions and improve input focus.
• Enterprise features are now more visible, with enforced tier-based log retention.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Corrected outside click detection for smoother interactions.
• Fixed slide selection highlights in the sidebar for easier navigation.
• Resolved issues with angle snapping and binding highlights for precise editing.

🔧 Under the Hood

• New backend servers to address rate limit blocks, ensuring smoother collaboration.
• Improved error messaging for scene errors to help diagnose issues faster.

🎨 UI/UX Enhancements

• Replaced Tags with Badges for a more consistent visual experience.
• Updated landing page with a new 404 page for better navigation.

🚀 New Features

• Real-time workspace updates for seamless collaboration (and caching for instant loads)
• Improved performance of loading Excalidraw plus 300-700ms
• Push-to-talk feature for easy communication during collaborations

✨ Improvements

• Non-elbow arrow snapping for more intuitive connections
• Enhanced mobile UI with improved toolbar and exit-view-mode button
• More prominent keyboard shortcuts in hints for quick access
• Better file normalization for smooth file handling
• Expanded language support with new translations

🎨 UI/UX Enhancements

• Visual debugging for binding interactions
• Various marketplace UI and UX tweaks for a better user experience

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed mobile view UI issues for a cleaner interface
• Resolved arrow binding and jumping issues for precise connections
• Addressed image export to SVG problems for accurate file exports
• Corrected canvas panning interruptions over frame titles

🔧 Under the Hood

• Transitioned workspace to react-query for improved performance
• Various security and performance optimizations

🚀 New Features

• AI access controls are now available per team, allowing more customized collaborative environments. (Enterprise only)
• PageUp/PageDown keys enable smooth navigation through presentation slides.
• Introducing workspace import functionality for easier project management.
• New mobile layout with a dedicated toolbar and compact design for an optimized experience on smaller screens.
• Keyboard shortcuts are now more prominently displayed within hints for quicker access and efficiency.
• Application is now truly real-time (including settings)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed welcome screen menu hint positioning for better usability.
• Resolved issues with email invitation normalization and restriction to ensure secure access.
• Context menu and UI elements on mobile devices are now correctly positioned and interactable.

🎨 UI/UX Enhancements

• Non-inverted grayscale now correctly applied in dark mode for improved visual clarity.
• Updated mobile UI with more intuitive navigation and interaction points.

🔧 Under the Hood

• Realtime updates now utilize react-query for more reliable and efficient performance.

🚀 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.

🚀 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!

🚀 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.