Changelog

Journeys are now in Beta!

After working and iterating for a few months, we believe Journeys are now ready to be released!

So what exactly are Journeys you ask? Well, Journeys allow you to define a set of recurring steps for your workflows. Once enabled, you can find a new button in your deck headers (Note: the icon is still based on the working title of this feature “Potion”, we’ll be updating it soon!). With the new Journey view you’re able to define your Journey steps and assign default properties like owner, deck, effort, etc to them. Once your steps are ready, any card within this deck will have a Start Journey button. This will turn the card into a Hero card and create all the Journey’s steps as sub cards.

Modern Emoji support 🪅🦤🪄

This releases features an upgrade from v4.0 to all of today’s sweetness from v13. Including proper support for skin tones, gendered and non-gendered Emojis, as well as the latest additions to the standard 🦦.

The new Emoji set is provided by Twitter’s (Twemoji)[https://github.com/twitter/twemoji/], so the look has changed a little.

We also had to update our editor’s Emoji picker (initiated by typing :). Instead of using short codes, we now rely on keywords to find relevant Emojis. This will provide more relevant results when typing :kiss for example.

• Notifications: consider business days for the “snoozing conversation” notification. It’s now three business days rather than plain days based on the business days configured in the org settings.
• Text Editor: You can now use the tab to auto-complete a suggestion. Esc now closes the auto-complete box rather than closing the editor.
• Card creation: auto focus the editor field when opening the view
• Card content: improved styling for numbered lists with checkboxes (i.e. 1. [] do this)
• GitHub integration: fixed authentification issue
• Discord integration: allow to set up multiple notifications commands for the same Codecks project

New markdown engine

• Allows you to add tables and ~~strike-through~~ syntax.
• Improved layout for checkboxes (- [] syntax). Also: you’re now able to check a checkbox by hitting the label next to it as well.
• When clicking on a card’s content to edit a specific line, it now works more reliably, especially with lines containing mentions or card references.

Further improvements

• Reliability: If you’ve been offline (or your computer was shut down) and data has been changed in the meantime, Codecks will now automatically request fresh data.
• Create card: Unsaved progress is now saved again if you close the panel.
• Hero cards: Prevent issue with rare cases of adding a card twice to the same Hero card.
• Hero cards Changed the “Show only Hero cards” filter to a more useful “Collapse Hero cards by hiding their sub cards” toggle.

Hero cards are now out of beta!

• They are now available for everyone (you still can opt out via the organization settings).
• Archived Hero cards can now be un-archived.

More improvements:

• Search: when searching for multiple tags (or titles or content queries) you now can pick whether you want to do an and or an or search for those. It defaults to and.
• Conversation notifications: Now behaves correctly when the target notification has been closed.
• Upgrading Codecks: There’s now a hint when your Codecks tab needs to reload due to a new update.
• Performance: fixed slow query for new accounts

Nest your cards with Hero Cards

This release allows you to nest cards within each other. You can pick any card(s) and add them to another. While the sub cards behave pretty much like normal cards, the containing card turns into a Hero card. It’ll offer you a quick overview of the state of its sub cards. Its effort and status is inferred by the data of the sub cards.

This feature allows you to neatly group cards together. Even though sub cards might live in different decks and milestones the hero card allows you to check a feature’s status at a glance.

We’ve added a free plan!

Big news everyone! Teams with up to 3 users and up to 5 projects can now use Codecks for free! If you’re meeting the requirements, we’ve just put you on the free plan automatically. Feel free to upgrade if you want to benefit from the Pro plan (same cost as the previous paid plan):

• unlimited users
• unlimited projects
• 5GB storage per user (instead of 1 GB total storage of the free plan)

We’re also introducing an Enterprise plan which comes with unlimited file storage, tailored onboarding and self-hosting support. Get in touch via hello@codecks.io to learn more about it.

• Notifications: fixed issue when declaring bankruptcy on too many notifications at once.
• Deck milestone: when applying a milestone to a deck, it now correctly applies the milestone to all its cards.
• Conversations: avoid auto-scrolling to the same conversation again and again after closing and opening the conversation in some situations.
• Source control integrations: commit messages containing more than one line will be formatted correctly.

New deck creation flow

When creating (or updating) a deck, you no longer need to drag or find a cover image from your machine. You now can either pick one of our default deck images, or enter the url of an image.

New order property: Creation Date

Allows you to group swim lanes by the card’s creation date. We also made the swim lanes for “Last updated” a bit more helpful when cards have been updated in a long time.

Improvement & Fixes

• Deck & owner history: is now based on the last decks/owner that you have assigned rather than the most frequent within the last 30 days. This suggestions are now also more reliably updated as you use the app.
• File uploads: when hitting size restrictions for files you’re now informed before uploading it all, rather than after the fact. (fyi: the limits for a single file are 10 MB for cover images, and 25 MB for card attachments, we’ll add it to our documentation soon!)
• Drag to hand tab: Now also works from search result overview.
• Time Tracking: Sometimes the timer would seem to continue when stopping work on a card. This should now no longer happen.
• Reordering Decks: Should now be much smoother!
• Order by status: Done cards that are archived, now are part of the “done” column.
• Notification Panel: Fixed a crash that caused a 💥 for some folks.

• Search: Allow to inspect all available commands via an expand button.
• Search: When searching within a deck, milestone or a deck, a button now allows to quickly perform the search in the full library.
• Card history: Some design refinements after a long time without any updates
• Archiving cards: Archiving a card now doesn’t automatically close it.

Fixes:

• Drag and drop: rewrote our drag and drop library from scratch, to ensure more stable behavior.
• Card content: Checkboxes (via - [] label) now should work more reliably.
• User tags: guests now can delete user tags again (via their profile page).
• Safari: A lot of design issues have been fixed.
• …and a lot more