CHANGELOG
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Current product milestones for the website, Worker API, storage pipeline, and native desktop.
September 2026
- A project now has one Download project button holding every way of taking a copy — the
cbxorgitcommand, opening it in the desktop application, or a zip. It replaces the separate “Get this project” and “Download” controls, which asked you to know the difference before you had the project at all. - The desktop application opens a project straight from a link on this site, whether it is already running or closed. A project with no copy on the machine offers to clone it, rather than showing a list of everything. Needs desktop 0.31.1 or later.
- The desktop application has a light theme, and follows the desktop’s own setting unless you tell it otherwise. Minimising can put it in the system tray instead of the taskbar. Both are in Settings › Appearance, in 0.32.0.
- A folder that has been moved, renamed or deleted since it was last opened now offers to locate it, clone it back, or drop it from the list — rather than reporting that it cannot be read and stopping there.
- Links inside a README open the file they point at instead of downloading it, and a file you are reading now has its own address to send somebody.
- A public project shows its licence again. Every project was reporting “no licence — all rights reserved” however it was actually licensed.
- A new page setting out what CBX is for, and the axis it is not competing on.
- Getting started names the command it installs, so the steps can be followed from an empty machine without reading further down.
- Profiles show when an account was opened, and a new account no longer reads as though something failed to load.
August 2026
- The service now enforces a project’s own
.gitignore. A version carrying files its rules exclude is refused, so the check no longer depends on which client sent it. - Uploads are scanned for credentials pasted inside ordinary files, not only for files that are credentials by name.
- The file picker now warns about folders belonging to a program rather than to your work, and can untick them in one click.
- Archive downloads read each stored pack once, including for projects with repeated files.
- Restoring a backup is now a written, tested procedure rather than a file nobody had ever replayed.
- Uploads plan and send by the same size threshold, so projects of many mid-sized files batch as intended.
- Added per-version visibility, licences, abuse reporting, and the full set of ready-made ignore rules.
July 2026
- Added public repository pages and crawler-safe embedded cards.
- Added real repository, version, collaboration, storage, and billing workflows.
- Added Google and GitHub OAuth plus secure desktop handoff.
- Added one-time password recovery and transactional collaborator invitations.
- Added the desktop workflow and portable Windows preview.