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Velocity10.0

Project management and collaboration platform

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Hive ships in batches, and this one is all planning accuracy and admin control.

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◆Current state
Hive publishes its changelog as clusters of single-feature entries dated the same day — seven on August 18, three on August 14. The current batch splits between planning integrity (time estimates surviving assignee changes, a rebuilt Unsubmitted Timesheets view, reorderable Gantt columns), governance (a default restricted-member role applied across every onboarding path, custom-field edits appearing in activity feeds), and small chat conveniences. Nothing in the batch is a new product area; it is the existing surface being tightened.
◆Where it's heading
Two themes have been running through recent batches. The first is making planned time trustworthy — estimates that no longer vanish when work is reassigned, timesheet views built for scanning who has not submitted. The second is administrative control that scales: a least-privilege default that holds across SAML, SCIM, invite links and domain auto-join, and an audit trail that now covers custom-field edits. Both point at larger deployments, where the failure modes are silent data loss and inconsistent permissions rather than missing features.
◆Prediction
The audit-trail and permissions work looks incomplete rather than finished — activity coverage for other object types and per-field visibility rules are the obvious next steps. Expect the same batched cadence, roughly twice a month.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1d ago

    Default new members to a restricted role across every join path

    Admins can make Restricted member the default role for new users, applied consistently across direct invites, invite links, domain auto-join, SAML, SCIM and pending approvals, with explicit invite roles still winning. Covering every onboarding path is what makes this a governance control rather than a setting.

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  2. 1d ago

    Dashboard links unfurl as cards in chat

    Dashboard links shared in chats render as cards showing the dashboard name instead of a bare URL. Presentation polish on an existing sharing path.

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  3. 1d ago

    Gantt columns can be reordered and the order sticks

    Gantt view columns can be dragged into a different order, and the arrangement persists across reloads while shared views render it read-only. Part of the same August 18 batch, and consistent with its focus on making existing planning views usable at scale rather than adding new ones.

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  4. 1d ago

    Chat statuses can expire automatically

    Chat statuses can expire after a preset or custom duration rather than waiting to be cleared by hand. Small, but stale availability signals are the reason status fields stop being trusted.

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  5. 1d ago

    Time estimates survive an assignee change

    Action estimates now stay attached to the people they were planned for when assignees change, instead of silently dropping uneven per-user splits. It fixes a data-loss path in planning rather than adding a planning feature, which is the more valuable half of this batch.

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  6. 1d ago

    Custom-field edits now appear in activity feeds

    Custom-field edits on actions now appear in Workspace and project activity feeds, showing who changed what across text, number, date, select, user and project fields. It closes a gap where a whole class of edits left no trail — the kind of thing that only surfaces when someone asks who changed a value.

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