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v2026.09.0

Released 2026-09-03.

Features

Section titled “Features”

  • Score your backlog on axes you define. Board tickets used to carry only the fields we shipped, so a team that prioritises on something like “user impact × business impact” had nowhere to put either number. You can now define your own fields for a workspace — select, number, checkbox, date and text — and a formula field that combines them into a single score. A formula is worked out when you read it rather than stored, so changing a weight re-ranks every ticket at once instead of leaving old scores behind. A ticket nobody has rated yet stays empty rather than counting as a zero, because “not judged” and “judged worthless” are not the same thing and treating them alike defeats the point of having an axis. None of this appears until you ask for it: a workspace with no fields defined sees the board exactly as it was.

  • Read the board as a table. A new Table view sits alongside Kanban and Planning: rows are tickets, columns are fields. Edit values in place, sort on any column, group, select several rows and set a field on all of them at once, drag the column widths, and export what you are looking at to CSV. Kanban is for running work in flight and Planning for committing to a sprint; the table is the surface for deciding what order things should happen in. Filtering lives on the shared filter bar rather than in the table alone, so a condition you set here also narrows the Kanban.

  • Minions can fill in the fields you define. A minion can read a project’s field definitions and update a ticket’s values, so the numbers can be kept up to date as work happens rather than only by hand. It cannot add or change a definition — a new rating axis silently changes what every existing ticket’s score means, which is a decision for the people who set the axes.

  • Generate an entry’s social image from a template you design. CMS entries could be handed to a site, but the Open Graph card each page needs was still the integrator’s problem. You can now write that card as an HTML template with {{variables}} in it, preview it live as you type, and generate the image for an entry from the dashboard or from a minion — a minion can write the template too. Images are generated when you ask for them, never while a crawler is waiting, and land in the site’s media library like any other asset, so public delivery stays the plain static JSON it was. A template can only embed media belonging to its own site, and you choose which image field on the entry the result is written to.

  • Find a minion’s device previews next to its chat. The dev servers a minion is sharing now live in a Preview tab in the minion modal, beside Chat, Terminal, Files and VNC, so you can ask for a link and pick it up without leaving the conversation. The tab stays visible when nothing is shared and says what to ask for, since a feature with no visible surface is one nobody finds.

Fixes

Section titled “Fixes”

  • Device previews open again. Every preview link shipped in the previous release answered “Invalid preview callback” instead of the minion’s dev server — the authorisation handshake was passing its token in a way that never reached the code checking it, on every minion and every platform.

  • macOS minions work from setup through to the terminal. The dashboard offered setup commands for Linux and Windows only, so a Mac was left copying the Linux ones, which could not succeed. There is now a macOS tab that accounts for the setup and configure steps running as different users. The packaged macOS agent had also fallen behind its Linux and Windows siblings and was missing previews, meetings, scheduled DAG runs and service supervision; it now registers the same set. Opening a terminal on a macOS minion could report that claude was not found even though the same command worked when a minion ran it, which is fixed.

Includes @geekbeer/minion 5.11.0, Media Home 0.24.1, Video Studio 0.36.4.