Hatch
Release Notes
What’s new in Hatch, AlienDev’s AI-first task board.
Hatch
v0.4.0 — Live 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
v0.3.0 — Cross-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
v0.2.2 — MCP 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
v0.2 — Docs
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
v0.1 — Release notes feed
2026-08-26
- Introduced this release notes feed at /release-notes.json
- Every AlienDev product will publish updates in this same format