What’s new

Updates that help your team move forward

A focused record of the features and improvements you can use in Nextretro.

October 2026

Halloween retro templates

Three new themed templates for the last retro of October. They stay at the top of the template picker until October 31.

New

Haunted Sprint, Pumpkin Patch and Monster Check-in

Run a playful retro that still ends with clear actions and owners.

  • Haunted Sprint: treats, tricks, ghosts and potions
  • Pumpkin Patch: ripe wins, rotten spots, seeds and a carving plan
  • Monster Check-in: surface hidden worries and the help your team needs

October 2026

Run tighter retros and see what really gets done

Follow-through, team health and smoother facilitation arrive together, all built from counts and titles rather than card text.

New

Follow-through loop

Start the next retro and open action items come along. Your team reviews each one so nothing quietly disappears.

  • Mark each item Done, Keep open or Drop
  • See a follow-through rate and how many retros an item has stayed open (Plus)
New

Ready check and column spotlight

Know when everyone is set before moving on, and keep the whole team looking at one column.

  • Participants mark themselves ready and the facilitator sees “N of M ready”
  • Spotlight a column so the others dim, or turn these tools off per board
Improved

Better grouping, with titles and suggestions

Facilitators can let everyone group cards in a step, give merged groups a short title, and ask for suggestions.

  • Collaborative grouping is off by default, and group titles show up in Discuss
  • “Suggest groups” runs in your browser with no AI, and nothing merges without a click
New

Team pulse

Add a short anonymous health pulse to the opening check-in and watch how it moves from retro to retro.

  • 3 to 5 statements, shown only after the facilitator closes it and at least 4 people answered
  • A trend against the previous retro
New

Retro outcome summary

When a retro finishes, see participants, cards, votes, follow-through and next steps in one place.

  • “Copy summary” to share it anywhere, built from counts and action item titles, never card text
  • Post the summary to Slack with Plus
New

Deadlines for async retros

Set when a step closes and the board moves on by itself, so distributed teams can contribute on their own time.

  • Set “Closes at” on any step
  • The board advances to the next step when the time passes
New

Team insights

Spot trends across your 12 most recent retros without reading a single card.

  • Follow-through, action items created and done, participation, check-in mood and retros per month
  • Built from counts only (Plus)
New

GitHub Issues for action items

Send an agreed action item to a GitHub repository as an issue, next to Jira, Linear and Slack.

  • Issues are created in the repository you choose
  • Available with Plus
New

Saved team templates

Save any board’s setup and start the next one from it, so your team’s way of running retros is one click away.

  • Use “Save as template” in the board “...” menu to keep columns, workflow, vote limit and check-in
  • Start from “Your team’s templates” in the create modal, shared with your workspace or personal without one (Plus)
New

Recurring retros

Put a retro on a schedule. One link always opens this sprint’s board, and the next board is ready when the day comes.

  • Every 1, 2 or 4 weeks, with a calendar invite to download
  • Optional facilitator rotation, and open action items carry over (Plus)

August 2026

Turn change into something your team can prove

Change Loop gives teams a lightweight way to check a change, run one experiment, and decide what to keep, adapt, or stop together.

New

AI Adoption Change Check

Ask the team what feels clear, what feels risky, and what small experiment is worth trying, anonymously and from one private link.

  • No participant sign-up required
  • Clarity and confidence snapshots before the team commits
New

One experiment, not another action list

Turn the check into a testable hypothesis with an owner, a review date, and a signal that tells the team whether it helped.

  • Keep the scope small enough to learn within a sprint
  • Use the linked board for the full discussion
New

First Signals and Keep / Adapt / Stop

Collect lightweight signals while the experiment runs, then bring evidence to the next retro for a clear team decision.

  • Anonymous in-sprint signals
  • Decision and learning stay attached to the change
Improved

AI-at-work templates for every team role

PMs, HR partners, and team leads can now start from focused boards for AI workflow reviews, delegation boundaries, product discovery, feature decisions, role impact, and team trust.

  • Six new AI at Work templates
  • Product, People / HR, Team, and Process Change Check entry points

July 2026

Keep the momentum after every retro

Your team can now carry retro outcomes into the tools and AI workflows you already use.

New

Use Nextretro with your AI assistant

Connect an MCP client to create boards, capture ideas, review themes, and keep action items moving through a natural conversation.

  • Create and summarize retros from your MCP client
  • Read and update the boards and actions you already have permission to use
New

Send agreed actions to the tools your team uses

Turn a retro decision into a Jira issue, Linear issue, or Slack handoff without copying it between tools.

  • Choose a Jira project, Linear team, or Slack channel
  • Remember the destination for the next retro
New

Full retro history for Pro teams

Return to earlier retros whenever you need the context behind a decision.

  • Review past boards in one place
  • Keep your team’s learning accessible over time
New

Team workspaces and member invites

Bring the people who run retros together in a shared workspace.

  • Create a workspace for your team
  • Invite teammates to collaborate
New

Start the next retro from the last one

Create a new board from a previous retro so your team can keep the format and context that already works.

  • Reuse a previous board’s structure
  • Spend less time setting up the next session
Improved

A clearer way to choose Pro

Pro can now be selected from your billing settings, with monthly and yearly options for teams that need continuity features.

  • Choose the billing interval that fits your team
  • Manage an active subscription from your account

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