CHANGELOG

What's New

Everything we've shipped in Kolab, newest first. 204 updates since March 2025.

September 2026

New

Tools · Sep 25

Upload a video and watch it together

Facilitators can upload a video from the tools menu and play it on the board or as a tool. Everyone watches in sync, or you can unlink it so people watch at their own pace.

New

Facilitation · Sep 25

Show everyone your view

Turn on "Show everyone my view" for the active tool, and the room follows as you open it in a panel, maximized, or in focus. Anyone can still resize it for themselves.

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New

Interactives · Sep 16

Focus mode for interactives

Let an interactive fill your whole browser window, with video and your mic and camera controls floating alongside. Only your view changes.

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New

Interactives · Sep 15

Interactives for everyone

Interactives are now open to every team. Ask Kola or your AI assistant to build live mini-apps like polls, sorters and games right inside your session.

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New

Canvas · Sep 11

Photo rounds from your phone

Open a photo round and everyone sees a QR code. Scan it, snap a sketch or worksheet, and the photo lands on the canvas where you were looking.

New

Spaces & sharing · Sep 3

Schedule sessions and see what's up next

You can now schedule sessions from the Sessions tab. Home shows an "Up next" block with a live countdown and a Join button, and space cards show when each space meets next.

Improved

Tools · Sep 25

Focus mode for every tool

Slides, videos, embeds, and card decks can now fill your screen too. Faces stay hidden until you press the people button, which lights up with the name of whoever is speaking.

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Improved

Audio & video · Sep 25

A calmer video rail beside tools

The avatar rail next to a tool now fits as many people as your window allows, and faces stay put while people talk. Someone new only swaps in after speaking for a moment.

Improved

Facilitation · Sep 25

Agenda templates bring their tools

Saving an agenda as a template now keeps its timers, prompts, breakouts, card decks, and interactives. They arrive fresh and ready in the space where you use the template.

Improved

AI & Kola · Sep 25

More accurate how-to help from Kola

Kola now looks up how Kolab actually works before answering a how-to question, and can highlight the right control on screen instead of answering from memory.

Improved

Integrations & MCP · Sep 25

Safer AI edits to shared interactives

Kola and connected AI assistants can add, update, or remove a single item in an interactive, like one task on a shared list, without overwriting what the room just added.

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Fixed

Canvas · Sep 25

Find me goes to your avatar

Find me now centers on where you actually are, instead of jumping back to the board's starting view.

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Fixed

Performance & reliability · Sep 25

Fixes & polish

Fixed-size canvases no longer overshoot their edges when you zoom or follow someone, pressing Enter submits forms in interactives, slide and card changes no longer pop a "Tool updated" notice, and interactive sync is a clear on/off switch.

Fixed

Tools · Sep 24

Edit Google Docs and Sheets in embeds

Google Docs and Sheets embeds open in the editor again and keep the tab you linked. If your browser blocks in-frame editing, use "Open in Google".

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Fixed

Performance & reliability · Sep 24

Fixes & polish

Locked elements now select in gray. Sharper spatial avatars. Moved breakout participants show up right away. Ambient audio fades with distance again. Renaming an agenda no longer crashes the space.

Fixed

Recording & transcripts · Sep 19

Recordings run for the whole session

Cloud recordings no longer stop early when a few people briefly lose their connection.

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New

Spaces & sharing · Sep 15

Session history and analytics for every team

Every team now gets a history of past sessions, plus session analytics for owners and admins, from the Sessions tab.

Fixed

Interactives · Sep 15

Interactives keep everyone's changes

When two people change an interactive at the same moment, neither change is lost, and a slow connection can no longer roll it back to an older state.

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New

Tools · Sep 13

Maximize a tool

In spatial and sidebar modes, maximize a tool to fill your screen. Only your view changes; press Esc to go back to the room.

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New

Audio & video · Sep 12

Minimize the video column

Collapse the video column to a slim rail of round live avatars, giving tools and the canvas more room. Only your view changes, and audio keeps playing.

Improved

Canvas · Sep 11

Better Miro paste

Content pasted from Miro now keeps its stacking order, rotation, borders, corner rounding and text alignment.

Fixed

Canvas · Sep 10

SVG images that show up

SVG files you upload or drop on the canvas now appear properly, at the right size, instead of as blank elements.

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Improved

Spaces & sharing · Sep 9

Space card colors and session names

Pick a color for each space card from its menu, and rename any session from your dashboard.

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Improved

Integrations & MCP · Sep 9

AI assistants can use your images

AI assistants connected through MCP can now see and reuse images you've uploaded to a board, and add new images, instead of falling back to placeholders.

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Improved

Interactives · Sep 9

Tweak interactives without rebuilding

Kola and connected AI assistants can now read an interactive and make small edits, pre-fill its starting content, and change live values without wiping the room's work.

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Fixed

Facilitation · Sep 8

Getting in from the waiting room

People no longer get stuck on "Asking to join" after a network blip, show up twice in the queue, or get let in after being declined.

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Improved

Performance & reliability · Sep 8

Smoother movement in big sessions

Cursors, avatars and dragged elements now travel on a faster path, so large sessions feel more responsive and moving many elements at once stays in sync for everyone.

Improved

Facilitation · Sep 6

Know when someone's waiting

A soft chime plays when someone arrives at the waiting room (you can turn it off), a "Waiting room on" chip shows the door is guarded, and hold music is one click away in the queue.

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Improved

Spaces & sharing · Sep 6

One tab per space

Opening a space in a second tab no longer kicks you out of the first. If the other tab is stuck or hidden, choose "Use this tab instead" to move the session here.

Improved

Performance & reliability · Sep 6

Steadier reconnects

Kolab now tells you when your connection has gone quiet, catches your canvas up on anything you missed after a reconnect, and rejoins on its own after a long drop.

New

Facilitation · Sep 4

Messages for the waiting room

Facilitators can now send announcements to people still in the waiting room, like "running ten minutes behind". Latecomers see the latest message when they arrive.

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Improved

Spaces & sharing · Sep 3

Chat mentions you won't miss

When someone @mentions you, the chat badge shows a count and a toast stays until you look. Drafts now survive closing chat, and Tab picks a mention.

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Improved

Performance & reliability · Sep 1

Steadier sessions on weak connections

If your connection drops briefly, Kolab rejoins you automatically. When your connection struggles, it offers Data Saver and pauses video you can't see.

August 2026

New

Facilitation · Aug 28

Agenda templates and multiple agendas

Save an agenda as a template, reuse it in any space, and switch between several agendas in one space from the new agenda picker.

New

Facilitation · Aug 21

Everyone follows me

Turn on Follow me and the whole room moves with you around the canvas, gathered in a ring around you, until you or another facilitator turns it off.

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New

Interactives · Aug 20

Interactives library

Save an interactive to your library, share it with your team, and place it on a board or open it for everyone from the Templates tab, with automatic thumbnails.

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Fixed

Performance & reliability · Aug 29

Fixes & polish

A failed space load now offers Try again, avatars stay on the canvas during connection hiccups, participants see Leave session, and noise suppression stays on.

Improved

Audio & video · Aug 27

Play ambient audio for everyone

Facilitators can press Play for everyone to start an audio source for the whole room. Sources that can't load now show a clear warning icon.

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New

Integrations & MCP · Aug 26

Reuse library interactives with Kola

Kola and connected assistants can now browse your interactives library, place a saved interactive, and save a new one for next time.

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Improved

Spaces & sharing · Aug 26

A simpler template library

The Templates page now shows board and interactive templates side by side, with one library for browsing, previewing and filtering.

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New

Audio & video · Aug 21

Ask to share your screen

Participants now ask before sharing their screen, and facilitators approve, stop a share, or let everyone share freely. Screen sharing is off for participants by default.

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Improved

Interactives · Aug 19

Interactives travel with templates

Interactives now come along when you use a board template or copy a space, starting fresh without the original's votes or answers.

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Improved

Spaces & sharing · Aug 19

Pick your own template thumbnail

Template owners can pin a hand-picked thumbnail so it won't be replaced by an automatic snapshot.

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Improved

Integrations & MCP · Aug 19

Better building through MCP

Assistants connected through MCP can read an interactive's live results, import images to Kolab, and get clearer warnings when a background image won't load.

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Improved

Facilitation · Aug 17

Three ways into breakout rooms

Choose how people reach their rooms: shuffle everyone randomly, place them yourself from the lobby, or let people pick their own room.

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Fixed

Interactives · Aug 12

More reliable interactives

Every host and facilitator can now control a running interactive. Interactives also recover on their own when slow to load, and updates reach everyone right away.

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New

Recording & transcripts · Aug 12

Live transcript for participants

Participants can open the live transcript during a zoned session and see only the conversations they could hear.

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Improved

Recording & transcripts · Aug 12

Transcripts grouped by audio zone

Transcripts from zoned sessions are now grouped under each zone's name. Side conversations are captured even if you open zones after transcription starts.

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Improved

Facilitation · Aug 12

Breakout control room

See where every breakout group is in its agenda, spot who's ahead or behind, and steer a room without entering it.

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Improved

Audio & video · Aug 6

Any facilitator can stop a broadcast

Any facilitator can now stop a live broadcast, not just the person who started it. Broadcasts also reach everyone in zoned audio, whatever zone they're in.

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July 2026

New

Facilitation · Jul 26

Breakout rooms with their own plan

Give each breakout room its own tools, boards and agenda, or apply one to every room at once. Groups can pace their own agenda while you keep an eye on everyone.

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New

Recording & transcripts · Jul 16

Live captions

Turn on captions to see what people are saying as they speak. Each line shows a color chip that matches the speaker's avatar, so you can tell who's talking at a glance.

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New

Recording & transcripts · Jul 14

Transcript viewer and Captures dashboard

Browse, search and read transcripts right in Kolab, with talk-time insights for each speaker. A new Captures page on your dashboard brings recordings, transcripts and summaries from all your spaces together.

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New

Recording & transcripts · Jul 10

AI summaries of your sessions

Every transcribed session gets an AI summary shaped to the kind of session you ran, like a workshop, training or brainstorm. Copy it, download it, or find it at the top of your transcript files.

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New

Facilitation · Jul 9

Board modes

Set how participants can work on each board: Collaborate, Present (view-only), Brainstorm (stickies only, with an optional blind mode that hides others' notes until you reveal them), or Custom tool sets.

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New

Integrations & MCP · Jul 3

Kolab MCP connector

Connect Claude or another AI assistant to Kolab with your Kolab login. Then list, create, copy, and update spaces, set access, and pull session insights, all from your assistant.

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Fixed

Recording & transcripts · Jul 31

Recordings capture the right canvas

Recordings of private and password-protected spaces now show the canvas, follow the person being recorded around the board, and follow them into breakout rooms.

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Fixed

Performance & reliability · Jul 30

Fixes & polish

Large images no longer disappear at full zoom, the settings menu scrolls on short screens, and Kolab recovers from dropped connections without a page reload.

Improved

Accounts & billing · Jul 29

Choose your plan in Team Settings

Team Settings now shows Essentials and Pro side by side, with monthly or annual billing and promo codes on every plan. You can manage any subscription from the app.

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Fixed

Performance & reliability · Jul 25

Fixes & polish

Transcription is more reliable in large and busy sessions, Send to Back now works on template backgrounds, clicking your reaction removes it, and Kola no longer turns thinking-out-loud into stickies.

Improved

Recording & transcripts · Jul 25

Live captions in every audio mode

Live captions now work in spatial and zoned audio, not just global. Each person sees captions only for the people they can actually hear.

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Improved

Accounts & billing · Jul 25

Pro now hosts up to 100 participants

Kolab Pro now supports sessions of up to 100 participants, with cloud recording included.

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New

Recording & transcripts · Jul 24

Transcribe side conversations

Facilitators can choose to include audio zone conversations in the transcript. Everyone is told when it's on.

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New

Recording & transcripts · Jul 23

Live transcript panel

Hosts and facilitators can open the transcript during a session and watch it fill in as people speak.

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Improved

Tools · Jul 22

Minimize and close open tools

Anyone can minimize an open tool, such as an embed or interactive, to get it off their own screen. Hosts and facilitators can close it for everyone. You can also ask Kola to minimize it.

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Improved

Integrations & MCP · Jul 22

Steadier long builds over MCP

Long builds from outside AI assistants no longer time out or get duplicated. The assistant gets a run it can check on, and font sizes and board views now come out as intended.

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Improved

AI & Kola · Jul 21

Kola starts from templates

When Kola or a connected AI assistant builds a board, it now checks the template library first and adapts a matching design instead of starting from scratch.

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New

Interactives · Jul 18

Interactives in early access

Interactives arrive: live mini-apps, like polls and presentations, that run inside your space. Show one full-screen or place it on the canvas as a station everyone plays together. Building them opened to a small group first.

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New

Canvas · Jul 17

Paste from Mural

Copy a selection in Mural and paste it onto your canvas. It arrives as native Kolab elements, just like pasting from Miro.

New

Recording & transcripts · Jul 15

Visual recaps

Turn a session summary into a hand-drawn style recap image. You preview it privately first, then add it to the board, regenerate it, or download it later.

Improved

Performance & reliability · Jul 15

Audio and video recover on their own

Kolab now spots when someone's audio or video silently stops arriving and reconnects it automatically, so you're less likely to end up with a frozen face or a silent speaker.

New

Audio & video · Jul 14

Data saver mode

On a slow connection? Turn on Data saver from the video controls menu to stop receiving other people's video. Audio and screen shares keep flowing, and nobody else's camera is turned off.

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Improved

Canvas · Jul 10

Default sticky shape for your board

Facilitators can choose square or rectangle stickies for a whole board. Stickies with lots of text now grow to fit instead of cutting it off.

Improved

Recording & transcripts · Jul 9

Session Capture, redesigned

Recording and transcription now each have their own clear row and Stop button, and you can start recording while a transcription is already running.

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Improved

Facilitation · Jul 9

Clearer mute notices

When a facilitator mutes someone's mic or turns off their camera, that person now sees a notice either way. The participant list is a little tidier too.

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Improved

Audio & video · Jul 8

Movable, pop-out video stack

In sidebar mode, drag the video stack anywhere on screen, or pop it out into its own browser window. Kolab remembers where you put it in each space.

Improved

Performance & reliability · Jul 8

Smoother zoom and pan

Zooming and panning feel smoother on busy boards, and trackpad pinch and two-finger scrolling no longer stutter or flip between pan and zoom mid-gesture.

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New

Spaces & sharing · Jul 8

Shared with me and search across teams

Spaces others have shared with you now appear in a Shared tab on your dashboard, and search finds every space you can reach, across all your teams, from Home or Spaces.

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Improved

Canvas · Jul 6

Fill and border controls for multi-select

Select several elements and change their fill color, border and corner radius in one go from the selection toolbar.

New

Canvas · Jul 5

Paste from Miro

Copy elements in Miro and paste them onto your canvas. Stickies, shapes, text and frames arrive as native Kolab elements, keeping their layout. You can paste images and text too.

Fixed

Canvas · Jul 3

Smoother trackpad pinch zoom

Pinch-zooming on a trackpad no longer jumps the wrong way, and zooming out now feels steady.

June 2026

New

Audio & video · Jun 24

Host audio broadcast

Hosts can broadcast to everyone in the space at once, whatever their zone or distance. A banner shows everyone you're live, and your screen-share audio comes through too.

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New

Audio & video · Jun 24

Soundboard and space music

Play sound effects everyone hears instantly from the new Audio menu, upload your own, and run space-wide music with a queue, a saved library, and your own uploaded tracks.

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New

AI & Kola · Jun 18

Kola builds activities with you

Ask Kola, by text or voice, to plan and build activities in your space: boards, prompts, and agenda sections. It asks a quick question on bigger requests and shows progress while it builds.

New

Spaces & sharing · Jun 5

Password-protected spaces

Add a password to a space so only people who have it can join. The saved password stays masked in the share dialog, with show and copy buttons.

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New

Facilitation · Jun 30

Waiting room music

Build a playlist that plays for people held in the waiting room, from YouTube, SoundCloud, or your own uploads, so early arrivals aren't left in silence.

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New

Canvas · Jun 24

Spatial avatar presence (beta)

Turn it on per space and avatars stay readable at any zoom and glow when someone speaks, even across the room. You can pin faces, and facilitators can feature someone for everyone.

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New

Accounts & billing · Jun 22

Refer and earn

Share your referral link. People you refer get a longer free trial, and you earn a cash reward when they upgrade to a paid plan.

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New

Facilitation · Jun 21

Turn off a participant's camera

Facilitators can now turn off a participant's camera from the participants list, just like muting. The participant gets a notice and can turn it back on themselves.

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Fixed

Canvas · Jun 21

Fixes & polish

Align and distribute work repeatedly, images show on first load, circles resize smoothly, mic and camera shortcuts work on Mac, and people stay on the participants list through brief blips.

Fixed

Audio & video · Jun 19

No more silent speakers

Fixed a bug where someone could show as speaking but you couldn't hear them until you refreshed. Spatial audio now fades naturally with distance in every direction.

Fixed

Performance & reliability · Jun 19

Stay in your session

Refreshing the page now brings you straight back into the space, the browser Back button asks before you leave, and Stop recording stops the recording on the first click.

Improved

AI & Kola · Jun 18

Tap to talk with Kola

Kola now starts in text and only listens when you tap to talk. In voice, only the facilitator who opened Kola hears her, and you can turn her spoken replies off.

New

Canvas · Jun 6

Drag and drop images onto the canvas

Drag images or SVGs from your desktop straight onto the canvas, or pick several files at once. Each lands as its own element where you dropped it.

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Improved

Canvas · Jun 6

Select stacked elements

Your cursor now shows a crosshair while Shift or Ctrl is held for box select. Alt-click (Option-click on Mac) cycles through overlapping elements, and Shift+Alt-click adds the hidden one to your selection.

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New

Facilitation · Jun 6

Pop-out chat, participants, and agenda

Pop the chat, participants, or agenda panel into its own window. It's handy for two monitors, and keeps panels from covering the canvas.

May 2026

Improved

Performance & reliability · May 28

Faster board switching and busy boards

Switching boards is quicker, with images loaded ahead of time, and canvases stay smooth when lots of people add elements at once or you select and zoom on large boards.

Improved

Audio & video · May 9

System check from the pre-join screen

Having trouble with your camera or mic? A "Test your setup" link now sits on the pre-join screen and in device error messages, opening the system check in a new tab.

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Fixed

Performance & reliability · May 4

Fixes & polish

An oversized element can no longer freeze a space, audio mode switches no longer glitch, transcription is more dependable, and cloud recordings follow the host's view again.

April 2026

New

Recording & transcripts · Apr 16

Cloud recording

Record your session in the cloud, capturing the canvas, video, and spatial and zone audio the way participants experienced it, including breakouts.

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Improved

Audio & video · Apr 29

Visual effects from the camera menu

Background blur and virtual backgrounds now sit right next to your camera picker in the video control bar, so they're one click away.

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Improved

Facilitation · Apr 22

Team templates for space hosts

Hosts and facilitators of a team's space can now browse and use that team's board templates, even if they aren't on the team. Template previews work inside a space again, too.

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Improved

Canvas · Apr 19

Resize elements beyond the screen

You can now resize an element larger than your current view, so big backgrounds and frames no longer stop growing at the edge of your screen.

Improved

AI & Kola · Apr 15

Turn Kola off for your team

Team owners and admins can now hide Kola in every space the team owns, with a single switch in team settings.

Fixed

Canvas · Apr 13

Fixes & polish

Shift-resize no longer blows up element sizes, auto-zoom follows your current audio zone, color swatches close after you pick, and chat stays stable when you switch languages.

New

Accounts & billing · Apr 7

Event Pass

Running a one-off event? Buy an Event Pass: a one-time purchase that covers a single space for your event, with no subscription.

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March 2026

New

Facilitation · Mar 12

Waiting room

Turn on the waiting room and let people in yourself. Participants wait for a host or facilitator to approve them before they join the space.

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New

Accounts & billing · Mar 7

Pro plan with a free trial

Upgrade your team to Pro from team settings, starting with a 14-day free trial. Manage your subscription and billing yourself.

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New

Spaces & sharing · Mar 5

A new home for your spaces

The redesigned dashboard puts your spaces, teams, and templates in one place, with quick actions to rename, duplicate, share, or delete a space.

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Improved

Performance & reliability · Mar 27

Steadier connections and tab switching

If a space is already open in another tab, you can move your session over in one click. A banner also helps you turn sound on if your browser blocks it.

Fixed

Performance & reliability · Mar 27

Fixes & polish

Board switches are faster and show a loading state, clicking Start on an agenda section twice no longer jumps between boards, and cursors and avatars lag less in busy spaces.

Improved

Facilitation · Mar 27

Chat tools for hosts

Hosts and facilitators can now clear all chat messages or export the chat as a CSV. Conference view gets a soft frosted backdrop, and the sidebar spotlights the main speaker without jumpy swaps.

Improved

Accounts & billing · Mar 25

Promo codes at checkout

Enter a promo code when you upgrade. If it covers the full price, you won't be asked for a card.

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New

Canvas · Mar 23

Border style, width, and opacity

Give shapes solid, dashed, or dotted borders, and adjust border width, color, and opacity.

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New

Facilitation · Mar 16

Share templates with your team

Team owners and admins can save boards as team templates. Find them in the new Team tab in the template library and on your dashboard.

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February 2026

New

Tools · Feb 18

Synced playback and spatial sound for embeds

Paste a YouTube, Vimeo, or SoundCloud link and keep everyone's playback in sync. Turn on spatial sound so an embed gets louder as people walk closer.

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Improved

Audio & video · Feb 26

Video grid in sidebar mode

Sidebar mode now shows video in a tidy grid that fits the sidebar, with the most recent speakers first and a count of anyone who doesn't fit.

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Fixed

Audio & video · Feb 25

Fixes & polish

Participants can now flip through card decks on locked elements, boards added from an agenda section stay in that section, and audio and video recover more reliably after joining or switching modes.

Improved

Audio & video · Feb 19

Talk outside audio zones

In spaces with audio zones, people standing outside every zone can now hear each other, instead of silence.

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New

Facilitation · Feb 13

Preview boards from the agenda

Peek at any board from the agenda sidebar before you switch everyone to it.

Improved

Spaces & sharing · Feb 12

Chat previews and emoji shortcuts

New chat messages now pop up briefly so you don't miss them, and you can type :shortcodes: to add emoji. Messages also no longer go missing after a reconnect.

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Improved

AI & Kola · Feb 12

Kola builds card decks and moves people

Kola can now create card decks with generated artwork and place them on the canvas, and move participants' avatars to where an activity happens.

New

Spaces & sharing · Feb 6

Share your LinkedIn profile

When a facilitator turns it on, participants can add their LinkedIn profile to their avatar so others can connect after the session.

January 2026

New

AI & Kola · Jan 30

Kola, your AI co-facilitator

Ask Kola to design boards and activities for your session. It proposes a plan first, then builds it on the canvas when you click Build This.

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New

Tools · Jan 30

Sticky banks

Drop ready-made stacks of sticky notes onto the canvas, in one color or a grid, with presets for brainstorms, retros, SWOT, voting, and more.

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New

Canvas · Jan 30

Ambient sound and animated elements

Set the mood with looping GIFs and videos on the canvas, plus ambient sound that can fill the whole space, fade with distance, or stay inside an audio zone.

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New

Canvas · Jan 12

Undo and redo on the canvas

Made a mistake? Undo and redo your moves, edits, and deletions with the buttons in the zoom control bar or with Ctrl/Cmd + Z. Each person has their own undo history.

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Improved

Tools · Jan 30

Redesigned card deck editor

Build card decks step by step with a clearer editor, pick a card shape and format (including text and image), and reuse decks you've already made in the space.

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New

Facilitation · Jan 30

New agenda sidebar

Plan your session in collapsible agenda sections, attach boards and tools to each one, edit titles and times inline, and pause or resume a section's timer.

New

Canvas · Jan 30

Fixed-size canvases with background images

Give a board a set size and a background image. Participants stay within the canvas edges, so everyone sees the same scene.

Improved

Facilitation · Jan 30

Add several templates at once

Select multiple templates in the library and add them all as boards in one go.

Read the guide →
Improved

Audio & video · Jan 30

Screens stay awake on mobile

On phones and tablets, Kolab now keeps your screen on while you're in a space, so you don't drop out of the call mid-session.

Fixed

Canvas · Jan 30

Fixes & polish

Images load sharper as you zoom in, audio zones now respect rounded corners, you keep your spot when the board changes, and two people dragging the same element no longer makes it jump.

Improved

Facilitation · Jan 16

Search and filter the template library

Find the right board faster: search templates, filter by category, tags, and group size, and see what each template is best for before you use it.

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Improved

Canvas · Jan 16

Smoother trackpad scrolling and zoom

Panning and zooming with a trackpad now feels steadier and more responsive, including in Firefox and on Mac trackpads.

Improved

Tools · Jan 10

Minimize and move prompts

Participants can minimize a prompt or drag it out of the way, and it pops back open when the facilitator changes the prompt.

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New

Canvas · Jan 7

Board template previews

Browse templates with thumbnail previews and a live look at each board before you add it. The template library also loads much faster.

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Improved

Canvas · Jan 7

Draw new elements on top of others

With a shape or text tool selected, you can now click and drag right on top of existing elements to create a new one.

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Improved

Performance & reliability · Jan 6

Sharper, faster-loading images

Images load at the right size for your zoom level: lighter when you're zoomed out, crisper when you zoom in.

Fixed

Canvas · Jan 2

Images layer correctly with other elements

Images now respect stacking order, so you can place stickies and text above or below them as you'd expect.

December 2025

New

Canvas · Dec 6

Gradients and rounded corners

Fill elements and board backgrounds with linear or radial gradients, pick from presets or describe one and let AI build it, and drag to round the corners of shapes, stickies, and text.

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Fixed

Tools · Dec 31

Fixes & polish

The timer shows seconds correctly, the Activities tab opens on Boards, zoom no longer jumps on your first scroll, and changing scroll settings no longer triggers a flood of notifications.

Improved

Canvas · Dec 9

Drag to the edge to pan

Drag an element or your avatar toward the edge of the screen and the canvas pans with you, so you can move things further in one go.

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November 2025

New

Canvas · Nov 24

Kolab on your phone

Kolab now adapts to small screens, with a compact toolbar menu, touch-friendly buttons, and steadier pinch-to-zoom on Android.

Improved

Spaces & sharing · Nov 18

Chat, rebuilt

Send messages to everyone in the space from the chat panel, without leaving the canvas. Unread messages are flagged so you don't miss anything.

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New

Canvas · Nov 18

Auto-zoom to audio zones

When you step into an audio zone, your view can zoom to fit it, then return to where you were when you leave. It's opt-in, and you can turn it on or off anytime.

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Fixed

Canvas · Nov 30

Fixes & polish

The multi-select toolbar no longer hides behind elements, links open in a new tab, you can pick a board background color again, scroll-wheel zoom works reliably, and the agenda notices when you switch boards yourself.

Improved

Canvas · Nov 18

No more overwriting each other's edits

While someone is editing an element, others can't change it at the same time, and you'll see a note saying who's editing. Busy canvases with lots of text also feel faster.

Improved

Performance & reliability · Nov 18

Smoother movement and audio zones

Avatars, cursors, and audio zones update faster and use less bandwidth, so large sessions feel smoother. Audio zones now work correctly when rotated or when someone is moved by a facilitator.

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Improved

Facilitation · Nov 17

Pin or close the agenda and chat

Pin the agenda or chat panel to keep it open while you work, or close it with a click outside.

Improved

Audio & video · Nov 7

A more thorough system check

The system check now tests your network and firewall, shows detailed connection stats, and always starts with your mic on, so you can find and fix audio or video problems before you join.

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October 2025

Fixed

Audio & video · Oct 31

Fixes & polish

Switching your mic, camera, or speakers during a session now takes effect right away. Noise filtering starts more reliably, the mic toggle stays in sync, and switching modes in breakout rooms works as expected.

New

Facilitation · Oct 23

Move participants on the canvas

Facilitators can now drag participants' avatars to a new spot on the canvas, and bring people into a group or audio zone. You can turn this on or off in space settings.

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New

Canvas · Oct 21

Default board views

Facilitators can save a board's starting zoom and position, so everyone lands on the same view when they arrive. It now holds steady across different screen sizes, and you can set it from the template editor too.

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Fixed

Accounts & billing · Oct 8

Stay signed in while you're active

You'll stay signed in as long as you use Kolab regularly. Only two weeks without activity signs you out, and expired sessions no longer leave you stuck.

New

Facilitation · Oct 6

Rename participants

Facilitators can now change a participant's display name, and the new name updates for everyone right away.

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New

Canvas · Oct 3

Export a board to CSV

Download a board's content as a CSV file from the board menu, ready for a spreadsheet.

September 2025

Improved

Canvas · Sep 3

Alignment guides and richer text

Elements snap into place with alignment guides, text supports rich formatting that others see as you type, and pinch-to-zoom works smoothly on trackpads and touch screens.

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Improved

Canvas · Sep 29

Better handling of locked elements

You can now select locked elements, including with Shift-click, to unlock them in bulk. Locked elements are left out of copy, duplicate, and align.

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New

Facilitation · Sep 26

End the session for everyone

Facilitators can close a session for all participants in one click. Anyone who's disconnected sees a screen to rejoin, or goes back home after 60 seconds.

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Fixed

Canvas · Sep 24

Fixes & polish

The mute button is now labeled "Mute participants" and only mutes participants. Text no longer shows through overlapping elements, and sticky notes resize their text properly.

Improved

Spaces & sharing · Sep 23

Easier guest joining

Guests can tick "Remember my name" so they skip retyping it next time, and can sign in at any point to turn their invite into a full account.

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New

Canvas · Sep 23

React to elements on the canvas

Add emoji reactions to stickies and other elements, and hover to see who reacted.

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August 2025

New

Recording & transcripts · Aug 21

Transcribe your sessions

Facilitators can start and stop a transcript of the conversation in a space.

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July 2025

New

Audio & video · Jul 25

Emoji reactions and a new video bar

React with emoji from the new video control bar. Facilitators can choose a focused set of 8 reactions or the full extended set, per agenda item or for the whole space.

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New

Facilitation · Jul 15

Raise your hand

Participants can raise a hand to ask to speak. Facilitators get a notification and can see raised hands on participant tiles.

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Improved

AI & Kola · Jul 11

Smarter AI agenda builder

The agenda builder now draws on your templates and the boards and tools already in your space, creates new ones when needed, and lets you refine the agenda through back-and-forth chat.

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Improved

Facilitation · Jul 28

More reliable breakout rooms

Breakout rooms now show their real titles, fit the lobby better, and keep everyone's room assignment and audio in sync, including when you first join.

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Fixed

Canvas · Jul 7

Fixes & polish

Audio zones on ovals kick in once your avatar is inside, screen shares no longer appear twice, and keyboard shortcuts, pasting, and chat notifications work reliably again.

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June 2025

New

Spaces & sharing · Jun 13

Space sharing and access

Choose who can get into your space and at what level from a new Share button. The space's creator and team get host access automatically.

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New

Canvas · Jun 5

Board templates

Save any board as a template, browse the template library, and start new boards from it. Your templates live in a Personal tab, next to shared Community templates.

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Fixed

Canvas · Jun 25

Fixes & polish

Audio zones on circles now work across the whole shape, image uploads work in breakout rooms, and selecting text in stickies and shapes feels smoother.

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Improved

Spaces & sharing · Jun 24

Find teammates when sharing a space

Search your team members right from the share dialog to give them access to a space.

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New

Audio & video · Jun 23

Background noise cancellation

Kolab now filters out background noise like typing and chatter from your mic, on by default. You can switch it off and pick your devices in the new audio and video settings.

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Improved

Canvas · Jun 17

Simpler canvas navigation

Pan the canvas by right-click dragging or holding Space and dragging. Click and drag an element to move it, or click and pause to edit it. You can now type straight into rectangles and circles too.

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Improved

Canvas · Jun 12

Easier element editing

Guide lines help you line up elements as you drag. Press Backspace to delete a selection, and use keyboard shortcuts to switch cursor modes.

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Improved

Tools · Jun 12

Aspect ratios for embeds

Embeds now resize properly, and you can pick an aspect ratio (16:9, 4:3, 1:1, portrait or custom) from the element toolbar.

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Improved

Audio & video · Jun 11

Smoother video on slow connections

Video quality now adjusts to each person's connection, so calls hold up better on weaker networks.

Fixed

Canvas · Jun 11

Natural trackpad pinch-to-zoom

Pinching on a trackpad now zooms the way you'd expect, and it feels smoother.

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New

Audio & video · Jun 9

Choose your speaker

Choose your speaker or headphones before you join and from the call controls, alongside your mic and camera.

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Improved

Canvas · Jun 5

Larger background images

Board backgrounds can now be up to 6000px wide, and the view refits as soon as you save.

Improved

Facilitation · Jun 5

Friendlier participants list

Participants are now sorted alphabetically, you can edit your display name in place, and the chat box is ready to type in as soon as you open it.

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Improved

Facilitation · Jun 5

More control over breakout rooms

Assign people to breakout rooms at random or from a lobby, rename rooms, and add or remove rooms while they're running. Rooms keep their state if you reconnect.

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May 2025

New

Accounts & billing · May 27

Teams

Create teams, invite people with a link, set their roles, and create spaces inside a team.

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New

Facilitation · May 6

Remove a participant

Facilitators can remove someone from the space. The change shows up for everyone right away.

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Improved

Facilitation · May 6

Agenda follows your activities

When you start an activity, its agenda section becomes active too, so the agenda always shows where you are.

New

Canvas · May 6

Turn live cursors on or off

Facilitators can hide everyone's live cursors when they'd be a distraction, and turn them back on anytime.

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New

Tools · May 5

Delete boards and tools

Remove boards and tools you no longer need from your space.

April 2025

New

Audio & video · Apr 28

Background blur and virtual backgrounds

Blur your background or pick a virtual one, in Chrome and Firefox. You can set it up before you join, and it stays on when you close the panel.

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New

Audio & video · Apr 9

Chat sidebar

Chat with everyone in the space from a sidebar, without leaving the canvas. New messages scroll into view automatically.

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Fixed

Performance & reliability · Apr 30

Fixes & polish

Copy and paste now works on Mac, new arrivals land where they can see the canvas, the timer's length stays hidden from participants, and editing the agenda no longer resets its timer.

New

Canvas · Apr 29

Find me

Lost on a big canvas? Click Find me in the zoom control bar to glide back to your avatar, with a quick highlight so you spot yourself.

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New

Facilitation · Apr 28

Mute participants

Facilitators can mute a participant from the participants list, or mute all participants at once.

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New

Facilitation · Apr 25

Change participant roles

Facilitators can promote or demote anyone from the participants list. Roles for signed-in users stick across sessions.

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Improved

Canvas · Apr 16

Faster, sharper images

Images on the canvas now load through a new media service, so they resize cleanly and no longer flicker while loading.

New

Facilitation · Apr 9

Participants list

Open the participants list to see everyone in the space at a glance.

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New

Accounts & billing · Apr 8

Accounts and sign-in

You can now sign up, log in, and log out of Kolab, so your role and settings follow you between sessions.

March 2025

New

AI & Kola · Mar 17

AI agenda builder

Describe your session in a single prompt and Kolab drafts a timed agenda for you to preview, tweak, and use.

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New

Canvas · Mar 21

Zoom indicator

See your current zoom level on the canvas and reset it with one click. Trackpad zooming feels smoother too.

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