# NocoDB 2026.05.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** NocoDB (https://nocodb.com)
- **Version:** 2026.05.0
- **Released:** May 08, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/nocodb/updates/2026.05.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
NocoDB 2026.05.0. Source highlight: 🚀 NocoDB : Feature Release

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- - [[closed]](https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb/issues/13780) V1→V2 Link upgrade: multiple breaking bugs force self-hosted build [#13780](https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb/issues/13780)

## New Features
- Nc feat: custom display value field for LTAR columns
- [[closed]](https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb/issues/10915) 🔦 Feature: User-type field default "Me" #10915
- [[closed]](https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb/issues/5858) 🔦 Feature: Edit the size limit to import bigger excel files #5858

## Bug Fixes
- **Timeline View now updates in realtime** - Bars added, moved, or resized by another collaborator appear on your Timeline immediately, without a page refresh.
- **NocoDocs search and replace on large documents** - Fixed a freeze and out-of-memory crash that could occur when searching or running replace-all in long documents.
- **User cells in shared and public views** - User fields now expose only the name and avatar on shared and public views. Email addresses are no longer included in the cell payload.
- **Form show-on-condition for V2 LTAR fields** - Conditional show/hide rules on form fields now evaluate against the linked record's display value for V2 `Link to Another Record` fields, matching how the rule reads in the form builder.
- **Form view hides AutoNumber and UUID fields** - Auto-generated identifier fields are now hidden in the Form fields panel, since they cannot be set by the form submitter.
- **Snapshot creation and restore** - Fixed a missing date import that broke snapshot creation from base settings, tightened snapshot-name validation so snapshots restore cleanly, and the snapshot restore flow now sanitises derived base titles automatically.