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First PLANKA v2 Release 🎉

We’re excited to announce the Release Candidate for PLANKA v2! This version introduces a massive set of improvements and features, and it's already in great shape for general use. That said, since this is a Release Candidate, you might still run into a few bugs - please let us know if you do!

🚀 What’s New in v2

🧑‍💼 User Management

• Global user roles
• Load only relevant users (no access to all users for non-admins)
• Protect user fetching by ID
• Limit email visibility (only admins can see emails)
• Move users to administration menu
• Ability to deactivate users

📁 Projects & Home Page

• Private and shared projects
• Responsive projects page
• Search projects by name and project groups
• Ability to hide projects
• Favorite projects with favorites panel
• Delete owned private projects when deleting user
• Project descriptions
• Gallery of project background images
• Prevent deleting last project manager
• Prevent deleting projects with existing boards
• Ensure projects always have a manager when deleting users

🧩 Boards & Cards

• List types: Closed, Archive, Trash
• Improved card deletion workflow
• Archive all cards in closed list with one button
• More attachment viewers
• Display board members grouped by role
• Syntax highlighting for text attachments
• Custom fields
• New Markdown editor
• Link attachments (attach URLs)
• Ability to change list inside card modal
• Quick filter by current user
• List and grid views
• Board settings modal
• Subscribe to entire board
• Limit board views to grid or list
• Set default card type per board
• Option to always display card creator
• Show creation details when clicking on creator
• Separate comments and details
• Multiple task lists
• Assign users to tasks
• More label colors

🎨 Improved UX/UI & Navigation

• Edit mode (only show board/list edit buttons when needed)
• Redesigned card appearance
• "Time ago" format for dates
• Highlight recent card
• Join card button
• Confirm deletion actions
• Open same-site links in current tab
• Sticky sidebar in card modal
• Navigate to adjacent cards with arrow keys
• Close only active elements when clicking outside
• Restyled comments
• Restyled login page
• User setting to auto-subscribe when commenting
• Notification badge for board tabs
• Message about new version availability

⚙️ Other Enhancements

• Large-scale code refactoring
• Migrated from Create React App to Vite
• Limit length of all text fields
• ...and many other small fixes and improvements

⬆️ How To Upgrade

To upgrade to PLANKA v2, follow the official upgrade guide in our documentation.

⚖️ License Change

For most community version users, nothing will change - please take a moment to review the new license here.

Thanks for being part of the PLANKA community and helping us with this major release. Your feedback is invaluable!

Full Changelog: https://github.com/plankanban/planka/commits/v2.0.0-rc.2