Changelog: October 2026
222 releases, newest first, by the week and the day they shipped.
Week of 26 October
16 releases
31 October 2026
Google sign-in for everyone, and New message keeps your files
Google and phone sign-in are ready for everyone, and both recover by themselves when a window or a picture check closes. Files you attach in New message survive a reload, people still loading look calmer, deleted accounts are shown as such, the blog lists the newest post first, and events are listed by when they start.Work & Circle
30 October 2026
Sign-in that says what went wrong, and the newest changes first
When Google or phone sign-in can’t work, the sign-in page now says so and offers the emailed code, which always works. The changelog lists the newest change of each day first, and Kemble names people in more places.Work & CircleUploads that answer in time, and signing in right after an update
Every upload now gets an answer in time, even when our file storage stalls. Signing in from a tab opened before an update offers a Reload instead of failing, and someone whose name is still loading is no longer called a former member.Work & CircleUploads that ride out a busy moment, and real names everywhere
Uploads, and the files Kemble reads from storage for you, now wait out a busy moment at our file storage instead of failing, and Kemble names the people in your messages, threads, files and notifications — never “Someone” (except in streamer mode, where you chose to hide who is calling).Work & Circle
29 October 2026
Large photos kept once, and a Trust centre that names every provider
A large photo or video sent in parts is now stored once, without the place it was taken. The Trust centre lists the providers Kemble uses, Cloudflare first, and emails and notices name people instead of “Somebody”.Work & CircleBig files that survive a dropped connection, and kemble.io on Cloudflare’s network
Files over 64 MB now upload in parts and carry on after a dropped connection, up to your plan’s limit. kemble.io is now served through Cloudflare’s network, and Kemble checks every few minutes that it answers both through Cloudflare and from its own server.Work & CircleKemble Desktop: pan, tilt and zoom your camera
Kemble Desktop 0.2.8 shows Pan, Tilt and Zoom sliders for a camera that can move.Work & CircleOne decision model that checks itself, and a camera you can move
Kemble’s decision layer now runs every check on one model, elephant, and checks each new version of it by itself. The console has a new Model usage section for every model Kemble uses, and Kemble Desktop 0.2.8 lets you pan, tilt and zoom a camera that can.Work & Circle
28 October 2026
A decision layer that only ever adds, and a website for every thumb
Kemble now has a decision layer, Baseten’s mammoth decision model, which answers typed questions with probabilities and never with text. It puts urgent reports first, reads Circle’s new Intent review rules, files scam message requests under Spam, warns on look-alike sign-in pages, adds a Decide step to workflows and sorts the contact form, and it never deletes, blocks or bans anything.SecurityA new kemble.io you can edit, and every activity its own banner
kemble.io is rebuilt on the new design, with a dark and a light theme, and every word, picture, link and page of it can now be changed and published from the console without a release. Every activity has its own banner, full screen keeps its windows and notices, and the camera settings say when a call holds 1080p lower.Work & CircleFairer deals, and Circle’s call bar as the owner drew it
Games now shuffle, deal and roll from ChaCha20 with a 256-bit key for each game. Circle’s voice rooms and stages get Invite, Pop out and Full screen at the call bar’s edges, a header with just the chat and one More, a captions language you can choose before turning them on, and an icon-only call bar on phones.Security
27 October 2026
Six more games, an activity shelf, and the new call bar on stages
Backgammon, Dominoes, Ludo, Tarneeb, Werewolf and Common thread join Circle’s voice rooms, and More activities becomes a shelf you can search. Stages get the icon call bar and one Record button, calls name everybody, 1080p is sent as 1080p, and every camera setting is in Voice & video too.Work & Circle
26 October 2026
Week of 19 October
89 releases
25 October 2026
Sign in without a password: a code or link we email you
An emailed code or link signs you in and creates your account. Password sign-in, reset and change are retired; scripts that signed in with a password should use an app token.Work & CircleTwenty soundboard sounds, new rings, and only Kemble’s own sounds
The soundboard has twenty sounds, up from eight, the incoming and outgoing rings are new, and Kemble now always plays its own sound files, even offline right after an update.Work & CircleKemble Circle: every appeal can be answered, and moderation asks before it acts
An appeal against the owner’s own action, or a lone moderator’s, can now be answered as a self-review, and moderators can open a member’s record from any appeal or report.CircleKemble Work: a better Link call
Link tiles have larger photos, a glow for the person speaking and actions to pin or mute someone for you, and sharing your own screen says “You’re presenting” instead of showing your screen back to you.Work
24 October 2026
Kemble Work: a Link opens as a room
On a computer or tablet, a Link in Kemble Work now fills the main area as a room, with everyone as a large tile and the call’s controls along the bottom.WorkAccept or Decline a friend request from its notification, after you see who it is
A friend request’s notification now has Accept and Decline. Each one opens Kemble on that person with one button to confirm, so nobody is accepted or declined before you see who they are.Work & CircleNew sounds across Kemble
Message sounds, call sounds, rings and the soundboard now play a new set of recorded sounds made in one soft family of marimba, felt piano and glass.Work & CircleKemble Work: “tomorrow at nine” is nine on your clock, and the sidebar shows your status
Every “tomorrow at 9:00” and “Monday at 9:00” choice in Kemble Work now means nine in the time zone you chose, and the foot of the sidebar shows your status and clears it on time.WorkKemble Work: Files finds anyone in the workspace, and list files fit a phone on its side
Files’ From finds anyone in the workspace and its dates follow your own time zone; a list’s File picker keeps its files in view on a phone on its side, and its chips stay neat under a finger.WorkKemble Circle: reply lines keep the moderator’s name on small phones
A reply to a message a moderator edited folds its “edited by” note under the name on a small phone, so the moderator’s name is never cut to a sliver.CircleKemble Desktop: a web address opens one browser tab, and only after your click
Kemble Desktop 0.2.6 sends a web address to your browser only just after you click or press a key in that page, and one click opens one tab.Work & CircleKemble Work: upload a file straight into a list’s File field
A list’s File picker can upload a new file, which is shared in the item’s comments so everyone in the list’s channel can open it; each file shows the channel it was shared in.Work
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Week of 12 October
37 releases
18 October 2026
Channel analytics, text commands everywhere, and Links that show who just joined
Workspace admins get an Analytics › Channels tab with a CSV, /shrug and /me work in conversations with other organizations, search can leave out automations, and a Link shows who is in it the moment that changes.WorkKemble Circle: stages that seat an audience, screens on the stage, and friend requests where you see them
Everyone arrives on a stage as a listener unless they are given the floor, a speaker’s shared screen shows for the whole stage, and a friend request can be accepted or declined from the profile card.CircleAccount security: one-time codes used once, reset notices, and tighter outbound connections
An authenticator code and a password reset link work exactly once even when sent twice at once, you get an email when your password is reset or two-step sign-in is turned off, and webhooks connect only to the address that was checked.SecurityDictate a message, schedule anywhere, and lists that keep up on every device
In Kemble Work you can dictate into the message box, schedule in a conversation with someone from another organization, undo Clear completed in Todos, and your scheduled messages and to-dos update on every device at once.WorkKemble Work on your phone: search suggestions, who is typing in a thread, and conversation details
Search suggests people, channels and values as you type from:, in: or has:, a thread shows who is typing, a direct message has its own details, and a timed mute ends on time without a reload.WorkKemble Circle: notes on friend requests, and notifications when someone adds you
A friend request can carry a short note, you are told when someone sends or accepts one, a ring says who is already in the call, and your own Mute and Deafen stay with your account.CircleSchedule a forward, save and set reminders in shared channels, and to-dos you can filter and sort
In Kemble Work you can schedule a forward for later, partners in a shared channel can save, set reminders, add to-dos and schedule messages there, Todos has Filter, Sort and Clean up, and a thread mention you read in the thread is read in Activity.WorkKemble Work on your phone: mute a direct message, and pages that fit at the largest text
You can mute a direct message or a group conversation, and at the largest text sizes search, lists, Todos, Link and many sheets keep their words and your place.WorkKemble Circle: deleting a post takes its replies, posts open at your first unread, and zoom into a stream
A deleted forum post takes its replies with it, posts and threads open at the first message you have not read, a reply’s link opens at that reply, and a Go Live stream can be zoomed.CircleKemble Circle on your phone: your mute is yours, and invitations say who is already there
Only a mute you choose carries between calls, Join muted starts muted, a room invitation shows who is in the room, and Friends, room chat and sheets keep their words at the largest text.CircleNewcomers see only what came after them, everywhere, and videos lose where they were filmed
Where a channel withholds its earlier history, newcomers can no longer reach older threads, files, recordings or K Buddy summaries of them, and photos and videos in more formats are stored without their location.SecurityLarge text and screen readers: placeholders in whole words, and greyed choices that say why
Placeholders end on a whole word at any text size, a greyed choice says why where you can read it, and ticks show in high-contrast modes.Work & Circle
17 October 2026
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12 October 2026
Week of 5 October
47 releases
11 October 2026
Kemble Work on your phone: banners over a Link, swipes between tabs, and whole tools at any text size
On a phone, a message that arrives during a Link or under a sheet shows its banner on top and takes you there, Notify anyway stays in reach with the keyboard up, and the tabs take a swipe either way.WorkKemble Circle: a wait for new members, sounds in a call with friends, and mentions that keep their person
Stewards can make new members wait before they talk, the soundboard plays in direct and group calls, channel names keep their emoji, and a mention keeps the person it was written for after a username changes hands.CircleKemble Circle on your phone: drag communities with a finger, Data saving, and a call screen that stays whole
Hold a community on the rail and drag it, turn on Data saving, open a picture from a link in Kemble’s own viewer, and find every call control on screen with the phone on its side.CircleNotifications that respect a block, a hold and a slow website
Somebody you blocked or ignore cannot reach you with Notify anyway, a ring or an invitation, a connected organization’s hold on your phone is kept, and a slow link no longer delays anybody’s notifications.SecurityKeyboard focus that stays where you are, and live Activity
A switch, a radio or a button that saves keeps the keyboard’s focus, a Show more that goes with the last page hands it to what it brought, and Activity shows reactions, keywords and Link invitations as they come.Work & CircleSearch that finds small words, a pause for a status set for later, and more that arrives live
In Kemble Work, search finds “deploy is blocked” and “Q3 plan”, a scheduled status can pause your notifications, and polls, Links, new mentions and channels you are added to appear without a reload.WorkMessage people from a connected organization directly
In Kemble Work, two people from organizations that share a channel can message each other directly, once both organizations turn it on.SecurityChoose your username, and change it
In Kemble Circle you pick a username when you create your account and can change it from My account. Earlier mentions of you keep working.CirclePictures and videos from links, in the conversation
A link to a picture is shown in the message, and a link to a video or a YouTube video can be played where it was posted.Work & CircleCommand rules for message, person and palette commands
A community’s Who and where can now be set for each of an app’s menu commands, and a command kept to some channels no longer runs from a page with no conversation.CircleNotify anyway, a link to a Link, and a status that pauses notifications
In Kemble Work you can send one urgent direct message past somebody’s paused notifications, copy an address for a live Link, and pause your own notifications for as long as a status lasts.WorkWhat you can do in a channel before you join it
In a public Kemble Work channel you have not joined you can read, open threads and react. Everything else waits for Join, and says so.Work
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Week of 1 October
33 releases
4 October 2026
A thread keeps its replies when its first message is deleted
Deleting the message a thread started from leaves “This message was deleted.” with the replies under it, the reply count moves as replies arrive and go, and @channel in a thread reply stays in the thread.WorkMembers can use @channel and pin, and owners choose who and when
Every member of a Kemble Work workspace can use @channel and @here and pin messages. Owners choose who may notify a channel and when Kemble asks first, and naming somebody outside a channel offers to add them.WorkLong messages, photo grids, and a sidebar that follows you
The message box holds 8,000 characters and offers a longer paste as a snippet, several photos in a message are a grid, the sidebar scrolls to the conversation you open, and a busy channel stays light on a slow phone.WorkA Slack import run again goes back into the channels it made
Running the import again finds the channel an earlier run made, from the history it holds, and people are matched only by an email address they have confirmed.SecurityKemble Circle: timeouts that hold, slow mode that counts down, and code that pings nobody
A timeout silences a moderator too and shows the time left, slow mode counts down from your own send, and names inside code notify nobody.CircleKemble Circle: a private category stays private
A moderator who cannot see a private category can no longer open it up, its name goes only to people who can see it, and deleting a category leaves its channels with the permissions they had.SecurityKemble Circle on a phone: photos, long messages, and permissions with Save
Picked photos wait in one strip, several pictures in a message form a mosaic, a long message counts down and can go as a file, and permission changes are held until you press Save.CircleA list that is still loading no longer says it is empty
Sidebars and member lists draw placeholders until their reads answer, a cold open no longer moves the page as its parts arrive, notices are quieter than errors, and the Send arrow points the right way right to left.Work & Circle
2 October 2026
Undo brings back what Remove took, and an owner can hand over and leave
Undo after Remove puts back the person’s role and user groups, and says what came back. An owner beside another owner can leave or step down to admin. Workspace settings › Channels sorts by activity and archives several channels at once.WorkA Slack import keeps guests as guests and private history private
Slack’s guests are invited as guests into their channels, a private channel’s history only ever goes into a private channel, running the import again makes no second copy, and people who join later get their own messages back.WorkUpdate your card and see your invoices in Billing
Billing has Update payment method and the workspace’s invoices; a plan past due says until when it keeps working; a plan change whose payment fails waits for it instead of taking effect.WorkOn a phone: whole threads, catching up after a tunnel, and rings that reach a locked phone
Replies in a Work thread show their photos, files, clips and reactions, with the long-press actions. After a tunnel, Home, open threads and failed screens catch up by themselves. A Link ring reaches a phone whose app is closed.Work