# NocoDB 2026.09.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** NocoDB (https://nocodb.com)
- **Version:** 2026.09.0
- **Released:** Sep 10, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/nocodb/updates/2026.09.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
NocoDB 2026.09.0. Source highlight: <img width="1865" height="1147" alt="Feature release - 2026 09 0-OSS (1)" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/77f634b7-695a-4f98-88ed-dcaa9b75175b" />

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- Planned Breaking Change to API Datetime Format

## New Features
- **Faster Kanban** - The optimized Kanban board, previously a feature preview, is now the default everywhere, including the Community Edition. Stacks load progressively as you scroll.
- **Community mode keeps Free features visible** - With *Show only community edition features* on, Workflows, Interfaces, and folders stay available, and plan-locked sub-features are hidden rather than shown as dead controls.
- [**closed**] 🔦 Feature: Introduce Search + "Select All" and "Clear All" in Link records modal #12108
- [**closed**] 🔦 Feature: List more field info in Link records modal #12107
- [**closed**] 🔦 Feature: filter by relation with autocomplete #11430
- [**closed**] 🔦 Feature: Make Link Filter Match Airtable #11022

## Improvements
- **Buttons across interface pages** - Buttons can now be placed on table page headers, record review toolbars, dashboard group headers, and field groups inside a record sheet. Page-level buttons run an automation without a record, and *Go to interface page* can open a page in any interface in the base. Learn more
- **Drag and drop in List View** - Records in List View can be dragged across the hierarchy: drop one onto another to nest it, or onto a different parent to move it there. Sub-records travel with their parent, and the underlying links are updated for you. Learn more
- **Create a linked record field inline** - When List View levels or nested records need a link that does not exist yet, click *Create a linked record field* to create it on the spot, in both the base view and the interface builder. Learn more
- **Date helpers in workflow expressions** - `$now()` returns the current time and `$dateAdd(date, amount, unit)` offsets it, for example `$dateAdd($now(), 3, 'days')`.
- **Excel downloads of large tables** - Excel exports are streamed, so very large tables download reliably and produce smaller files.
- **Task progress in long documents** - The task count of a checklist document follows you into the header once the title scrolls out of view.

## Bug Fixes
- **Nested lookups** - A lookup of a lookup shows every value in the grid and resolves correctly over many-to-one links, on MySQL, SQL Server, and Oracle.
- **Conditional rollups with Current User** - Rollup, lookup, and link fields whose conditions use Current User are computed for each user rather than served from a shared cache.
- **Sync reliability** - A table sync now always completes rather than staying in the syncing state, and editing an app sync saves without error.
- **Workflow record nodes** - Testing a Create record or Update record node reports any field key that does not match the target table, instead of writing a blank record.
- **Interface record sheets** - Edits made while stepping through records appear in the grid immediately, link and unlink actions offer *Undo*, and a record created inside a group stays in that group.
- **Interface keyboard navigation** - With a record sheet open, arrow keys move through the grid and the sheet follows, and Alt+Left and Alt+Right step between records.