# NocoDB 2026.05.1 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** NocoDB (https://nocodb.com)
- **Version:** 2026.05.1
- **Released:** May 18, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/nocodb/updates/2026.05.1/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
NocoDB 2026.05.1. Source highlight: <img width="1865" height="1147" alt="release" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a0fe90ee-44cd-46fa-bb91-b46c9bec5dc5" />

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- A meeting recap wants headings and action items. A customer-call summary wants quotes, checklists, and links. A project brief wants callouts, references, and the occasional table. Today that content drifts out of NocoDB into a separate doc, breaking the link between a record and the story behind it.
- <Callout type="warn">**Breaking change.** `NC_PUBLIC_URL` has been renamed to `NC_SITE_URL` and is now mandatory. Set it to the public URL of your instance during upgrade; otherwise shared links, OAuth redirects, and email links may not be generated correctly.</Callout>

## New Features
- [**closed**] 🔦 Feature: Automatically collapse empty stacks in Kanban view #10990

## Improvements
- **Nine zoom levels**, from a single day through to a five-year overview: Day, Week, 2 Weeks, Month, Quarter, 6 Months, Year, 2 Years, and 5 Years. At Year and above, the date header stacks year, quarter, and month tiers so you keep your bearings while seeing a wider span.
- **Smooth horizontal and vertical scrolling.** Pan across time and records load progressively as you scroll, so you can browse months or years without jumping to a specific date. Vertical scrolling kicks in when a view has more record lanes than fit on screen.

## Bug Fixes
- **Thousands and decimal separator styles on Number and Decimal fields.** A new **Thousands and decimal separators** dropdown replaces the old US-only "Show thousands separator" toggle and offers five styles: Locale (viewer's browser/system), `1,000,000`, `1.000.000`, `1 000 000`, and `1000000`. Separators affect display only; the stored numeric value is unchanged, so sorting, filtering, formulas, and exports stay consistent. Learn more →
- **Rollup precision setting retired.** Rollup values now inherit the underlying numeric field's separator style, so number formatting has a single source of truth.
- [**closed**] 🐛 Bug: multi-field editor, LTAR display value can't change #13845
- [**closed**] 🐛 Bug: Unable to use the Restrict Access with a password function on form views #13813
- [**closed**] 🐛 Bug: Import Issues with the Duration Field #13812
- [**closed**] 🐛 Bug: PATCH /api/v2/tables/{tid}/records silently ignores LinkToAnotherRecord updates on external-Postgres-backed tables #13796