# NocoDB 2026.08.2 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** NocoDB (https://nocodb.com)
- **Version:** 2026.08.2
- **Released:** Sep 03, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/nocodb/updates/2026.08.2/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
NocoDB 2026.08.2. Source highlight: <img width="1865" height="1147" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/bb089b51-0aed-4434-a7f4-75179024118c" />

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- Planned Breaking Change to API Datetime Format
- - [**closed**] 🐛 Bug: nc_operation_logs.entity_id is varchar(20), breaking entries for tables with long text primary keys [#14285](https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb/issues/14285)

## New Features
- [**closed**] 🔦 Feature:  Dashboard roles & permission #14327
- [**closed**] 🔦 Feature: Airtable-like interface #13146
- [**🔦 Type: Feature**][**👓 Scope : View**] 🔦 Feature: Support for Pivot tables #544

## Improvements
- **Interfaces and Workflows on every plan** - Interfaces are now available on the NocoDB Cloud Free plan with no limit on interfaces or pages. The Community Edition now includes 2 interfaces with up to 2 pages each, and 2 workflows per base with the core trigger, record, and flow nodes.
- **Dark mode refinements** - Dark mode has been polished across the app: clearer surfaces for inputs, modals, and the expanded record, more legible labels and grid lines, and improved dark mode support on interface pages.
- **Buttons on interface records** - The record sheet opened from any interface page can now carry its own buttons beside the title: Update record, Copy link to record, Delete record, Go to URL in record, and Run automation. Each button takes a label and a colour. Visibility rules, which show or hide a button based on the open record's values, are available on NocoDB Cloud (Business plan and above) and licensed self-hosted deployments. Learn more
- **Run automations from interface buttons** - Buttons on record detail pages gain a Run automation action that starts a workflow with the clicked record as input, through the new When a button is clicked trigger. Learn more
- **Gallery themes** - Interface gallery pages gain Minimal and Simple themes alongside Card and Poster, a cover Aspect ratio (None, Wide, Square, Tall), and a Fill or Fit setting for the cover image. Learn more
- **AI filter prompt in the interface builder** - Every filter editor in the builder now accepts a plain-language description and turns it into filter conditions, when an AI integration is configured for the workspace.

## Bug Fixes
- **Workflows run for imported records** - Record created, Record updated, and Record matches conditions triggers now fire for records added through CSV and file imports. Review your triggers before large imports, as each imported record counts as a run.
- **Workflow canvas** - Switching between workflows or creating a new one shows the right graph immediately, at 100% zoom, and a new workflow opens with its Add Trigger placeholder in place.
- **Workflow test runs** - Test this trigger on When record matches conditions now respects the configured filters, When record enters view samples a record from the selected view, and node variables reflect only the current test run.
- **List records limit in workflows** - The List records node returns the full number of records configured in its Limit, including limits above the server page size.
- **Smart Text saves with the record** - Edits to a Smart Text field in the expanded record are saved when you click Save record, alongside your other field changes, and closing the record prompts you to save or discard them.
- **Formula fields and connection blips** - Formula fields stay healthy through transient database connection failures, and any that were marked with an error this way recover on the next read.
