Changelog: August 2026
15 releases, newest first, by the week and the day they shipped.
Week of 17 August
3 releases
19 August 2026
Single sign-on over OpenID Connect, and SCIM
People sign in at your identity provider, and your directory adds and removes them.SecuritySign in with a passkey
Your device and its fingerprint, face or PIN, with no password and no code to type.Platform
18 August 2026
Retention and legal hold
Messages deleted on the schedule an organization sets, and a hold that stops the deleting.Security
Week of 10 August
5 releases
13 August 2026
Notifications when Kemble is closed
Turn on notifications in a browser and mentions reach you there with the tab closed, within your do-not-disturb and quiet hours.Work & Circle
12 August 2026
Search takes filters
Narrow a search by who wrote it, where, what it has and when.Work & Circle
11 August 2026
Two-step sign-in
A code from an authenticator app after your password, with single-use recovery codes.Platform
10 August 2026
Work that happens later, reliably
A job queue in the database, for everything that runs after the request that caused it.PlatformA channel’s own permissions
Allow or deny a role, or one person, something in one channel, on top of what their roles give them everywhere.Work & Circle
Week of 3 August
7 releases
5 August 2026
The website, the app and the console, rebuilt from source
All three are now maintained and tested in this repository, rather than deployed bundles nobody could change.PlatformMembership ceilings now hold under concurrency
Two people accepting the last seat at the same moment can no longer both get it, and re-enabling a disabled member counts against the ceiling.PlatformModeration arrives in Kemble Circle
Timeout, kick and ban with a reason, a purge window, and a moderation log the moderators themselves can read.CircleAnnouncement channels stopped accepting everyone’s messages
The channel type existed and the sidebar drew a distinct icon for it. Nothing enforced it.Work & CircleOne account, several organizations, at the same time
Switching organizations no longer revokes the session you were using in the other one.PlatformSeven domain events got their producers back
Webhooks and workflows could only ever be triggered by a new message. Now they fire on eight event types.PlatformTenants can read their own audit log
Around twenty-five write sites, and until now no way to read any of them back.Security