Release Notes
What's new in Screenly: product updates, new features, and fixes.
Your branding logos preview properly again
The light and dark logo previews in workspace branding showed a broken image instead of the logo you uploaded.
The Add content dialog sees your newest content
A folder you just renamed, or an app you just installed, now appears in a playlist's Add content dialog without reloading the page.
The apps API returns each app's description, icon and author
Apps on API v4 and v4.1 now include description, icon, author, homepage_url and categories, so a catalog built on the API no longer needs a second source for them.
Fixes and improvements
Smaller fixes and improvements that shipped on September 1, 2026.
A new Lobby page for your workspaces and invitations
The Lobby is where you land when you sign in. It lists every workspace you belong to with your role in it, and your pending invitations, which you can now accept or decline in Screenly.
App settings can hide options that do not apply
An app's settings form can reveal a setting only when it is relevant to your other choices, and present its settings in a deliberate order. App developers declare both in the setting's schema.
Screen names with accents and non-Latin characters reach your screens intact
A screen's name, location or tags containing characters outside the Latin alphabet arrived on the player as strings of symbols instead of the text you typed.
Fixes and improvements
Smaller fixes and improvements that shipped on August 27, 2026.
A screen now shows the player model it actually is
Every Screenly Player Max was identified as a Mk1 with the Mk1 photo whatever its revision, and Raspberry Pi based screens were not showing their board revision.
The dashboard refreshes when you come back to it
Returning to a dashboard tab you left open reloads what it shows instead of leaving minutes-old information on screen.
Old links to the Apps pages work again
Bookmarks and links pointing at the previous Apps addresses now redirect to the current App store and Apps pages instead of hitting an error.
Fixes and improvements
Smaller fixes and improvements that shipped on August 20, 2026.
Fixes and improvements
Smaller fixes and improvements that shipped on August 18, 2026.
Landscape, Portrait, Full HD, UHD and Anywhere are no longer automatic labels
The five labels Screenly maintained from a screen's own properties are now ordinary labels you own. They keep the screens they were on and no longer update themselves.
The label type field on the API now has three values instead of nine
With automatic labels gone, the API's label type enum drops landscape, portrait, full_hd, uhd, anywhere and virtual, leaving all-screens, manual and screen.
The App Store and your installed apps are now separate sections
Browsing available apps and managing the ones you have installed are two sidebar entries instead of one page with a button between them.
Pages behind a login are no longer turned away before they load
A page that needs a saved session to sign in was turned away before it was loaded, so those screens showed nothing at all.
Fixes and improvements
Smaller fixes and improvements that shipped on August 17, 2026.
Times in the dashboard follow your device's clock
The dashboard reads 12-hour or 24-hour time from your own device instead of showing AM/PM to everyone.
last_ping is no longer null for a screen that has never connected
On API v3 and v4, a screen's last_ping is always a timestamp, seeded from when the screen was created, so a null value no longer marks a screen that has never checked in.
Pages saved with the browser extension show the signed-in view again
A page added through the extension with Save Authentication captured the logged-out view, or stopped showing the signed-in one after a while, when Screenly rendered it on our servers.
Signing in looks and behaves like the rest of Screenly
The sign-in pages were rebuilt to match the dashboard, with errors that appear as notifications and passkeys that autofill.
A new look for the dashboard, with navigation in one place
The dashboard has been redesigned, and everything that used to sit in the top bar now lives in a single grouped sidebar.
Global search and the New menu have been removed
The search box that spanned screens, content and playlists is gone, along with the New quick-create menu, both of which lived in the removed top bar.
Uploads keep running after you close the dialog
Uploads keep running with progress and a time estimate after you close the dialog, and pages no longer reload as you move around the Content section.
Workspace and account settings work like the rest of Screenly
Settings pages now use the same horizontal tabs as playlists and screens, with branding folded into the Workspace tab and one save bar per tab.
Apps can ask you to pick a Slack channel
An app that posts to or reads from Slack now offers a channel picker in its settings instead of asking you to paste a channel ID.
Fixes and improvements
Smaller fixes and improvements that shipped on August 10, 2026.
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