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Hatch

Release Notes

What’s new in Hatch, AlienDev’s AI-first task board.

Hatch

v0.4.0Live board updates

2026-08-28

  • Board and epics views update instantly when tickets change — no more 15-second polling
  • Changes from MCP, other tabs, and other users show up live in production

v0.3.0Cross-surface search

2026-08-27

  • Search tickets, epics, and projects from the header (typeahead + full results page)
  • MCP search tool ranks key matches above title and description, including done items across projects
  • New projects get a unique ticket key prefix (preferring short acronyms like APS)
  • AlienDev's Postal Service tickets rekeyed from ALIENDEV-* to APS-*
  • New epic from the epics list opens create on the board again
  • Kanban drag-and-drop can reorder cards; sorting switches to Manual and keeps that order
  • Accessibility: clearer landmarks and control names, larger sort touch targets, stronger contrast, and status field labels
  • robots.txt and noindex/nofollow meta tags block search engines and AI crawlers from indexing Hatch

v0.2.2MCP pagination

2026-08-27

  • Large ticket_list, epic_tickets_list, and doc_page_tree (flat) results are now paginated so the MCP can page through big boards, epics, and doc spaces

v0.2Docs

2026-08-26

  • Standalone doc spaces, separate from project boards
  • Nested pages within a space, with drag-to-reorder
  • MCP tools for reading and writing docs programmatically
  • Share actions for inviting members to a doc space

v0.1Release notes feed

2026-08-26

  • Introduced this release notes feed at /release-notes.json
  • Every AlienDev product will publish updates in this same format