2026 Our Cat Herder Updates

Updates to the Our Cat Herder system in 2026.

2026 Roadmap

In Progress

• AI MCP Tool
• Approvals Workflow
• e-Signatures

Pipeline

• Audio Transcription
• AI Tools, Minutes & Integrations
• iOS Viewing App

Under Consideration/Planned

• Microsoft 365 Integration
• SSO Integrations

Is there a feature you'd like to see?

Is there a feature you'd like to see in Our Cat Herder? Contact us with your thoughts on support@ourcatherder.com

Aug/Sept/Oct 2026

New Features

• In Camera Agenda Items — exclude specific members from a top-level agenda item (and with it all of its sub-items), and they won't see the item, its papers, decisions, actions or minutes anywhere in the system, including searches, emails and PDFs. Actions can also be flagged confidential individually, and meeting PDFs and zip downloads can be exported with confidential content hidden for wider distribution. (Other areas, such as Documents, coming soon.)
• Board Member Skills Mapping & Matrices — record members' skills, qualifications and supporting evidence, map them against strategic priorities, filter the matrix by user group, and export it in multiple formats.
• Trash Management for Documents — deleted folders, documents and meetings go to the Trash, where they can be restored to their original location or permanently deleted.
• Minutes Status — a new Minutes status tab on Meetings shows which minutes are in draft, awaiting sign-off or confirmed, with a CSV export and a button to send the chair a sign-off reminder.
• Archive discussion groups and topics — archive groups, topics and entries you no longer need, and restore them later.
• Discussion notification controls — admins can mute notifications for a whole topic or for individual members, and members can manage their own topic subscriptions.
• User group admins — a user group can have its own group admins who manage its membership, and can hand the role on to someone else.
• Leave an organisation — members can now remove themselves from an organisation.
• Include attachments in the agenda — a new meeting setting adds the attachments to the agenda.
• Exclude agenda descriptions from the minutes — a new meeting setting leaves agenda item descriptions out of the minutes PDF.
• Set folder access when creating a folder — choose members and user groups when you create a folder, and grant folder access straight from the upload notification list.

Minor Updates

• Print a discussion thread.
• Download discussion attachments either as the original file or as the converted PDF.
• Action notification emails now list the other people assigned to the same action.
• Group membership and group admin status now show on every member profile.
• Registers have adjusted inputs for currency, email, status and multi-value columns, accept common number formats, and give clearer errors for invalid numbers.
• Archived register entries are left out of meeting pack register PDFs.
• Billing correspondence email — send invoices and billing emails to a dedicated address not the billing contact.
• Truncated decision titles can be read and copied from a tooltip.
• Agenda planner and attachment drag-and-drop now show where an item will land.
• Faster loading of meetings and agendas.

Bug Fixes

• Replacing a document is limited to the same file type.
• Detaching an agenda attachment that's stored outside the meeting's folder now works.
• Editing a discussion group no longer removes members or the group owner.
• Portal admins can open discussion groups they haven't joined.
• Registers linked to a meeting type are visible to people attending meetings of that type.
• Files removed from a decision are no longer deleted from the document library.
• Signed-off meetings keep their assignees when group membership changes.
• Action emails keep working after an external contact is deleted, and sub-item actions show their own external assignees in the tracker.
• Action Tracker PDF headers and columns are aligned.
• Expand All now works in the meeting attachments view.
• The Save button is back on the meeting overview editor.
• Undo history in the text editor is no longer lost while editing.
• Fixed an issue with the text editor when opening several agenda items.
• Failed document exports are now flagged and reported instead of disappearing.

July 2026

New Features

• Version history for minutes — minutes on agenda items and sub-items are now snapshotted automatically on every save, and you can open any past version and restore it. Quick successive edits by the same person collapse into a single entry, and a version is always pinned when minutes are marked draft-ready, signed off, or unlocked for editing afterwards. Restoring is itself recorded, so you can always step back again. Viewing and restoring requires minutes-management permission.
• Your minutes can't be overwritten by someone else's save — if tab or device saved newer minutes while you were editing, your save is refused with a conflict warning instead of quietly replacing their work.
• Blank saves over existing minutes are blocked — clearing minutes that already have content now needs an explicit confirmation, and a confirmed clear no longer wipes the version you'd want to restore from.
• Attach email files — .eml and .msg (Outlook) files can now be uploaded as attachments.
• Save a register's column order in one go — the full visible column sequence, custom and built-in columns together, is saved as a single action instead of one change at a time.

Minor Updates

• My Notes fix where some users saw 0 notes when they had notes saved.
• Switching between organisations improvements.

June 2026

New Features

• Choose who gets a resent meeting invite — when you resend invites you can pick specific invitees instead of emailing everyone, and pending invitees are pre-selected. Works from both the meeting details page and the minute-taking view.

Minor Updates

• Register form settings save reliably again — changes to a register's public form settings (title, sections, submission options, and so on) now persist correctly after saving.
• Email addresses are trimmed of stray spaces, and case quirks are handled, across signup, invites and email changes.

Bug Fixes

• Actions assigned via a group are now visible to that group's members.
• Removing all assignees from an action now saves correctly.
• Registers with rich text no longer hang PDF generation, and the PDF column layout is fixed.
• Multi-user register cells no longer silently drop a selected user.
• The register creator now appears in user lists, and "Add Entry" only shows for people who can contribute.
• Approver names in tooltips are no longer cut off.
• PDF download and print use the real filename — downloading or printing from the in-app PDF viewer now uses the document's display name instead of a random ID.
• Downloading a document whose preview conversion failed no longer shows a spurious error.
• The MFA setup screen no longer flashes the app behind it.
• Account lock checks respect current portal settings — fixed case where a disabled account-lock check could still redirect you based on stale cached data.
• Rich text toolbar works inside discussion modals — the heading, font, size and alignment dropdowns in the discussion reply editor no longer render behind the modal
• Rich text editor — cursor jumps and lost keystrokes are fixed

May 2026

New Features

• User Groups — create groups of users and assign the group (rather than individuals) to meetings, agenda items and sub-items, discussions, decisions (as voters or viewers), folders, registers and actions.
• Group membership sync — adding someone to a group automatically grants them the group's resources, and updating a group's role updates its members' roles in meetings. Users granted access via a group can't be removed individually (they would be re-added on the next sync); access modals make this clear and lock those entries.
• Combined access notification — a single email tells users which resources they've been given access to
• Filter by user group — list pages can be filtered by user group, and actions exports gain an "Include groups" column toggle.
• Register column sorting — sort entries by column, with a dedicated sort configuration per register.
• Register column widths — resize columns, with a reset option (hidden from view-only users).
• New register column type — multi-select options.
• Move or convert actions — move an action to another meeting, or convert it to a standalone action.
• Documents move/reorder — folder creators can now move and reorder their folders and contents.

Minor Updates

• "Register Groups" renamed to Categories to avoid confusion with User Groups.
• Multi-user register columns now use a clear checkbox picker, and editing an entry pre-ticks the users already selected.
• User names now appear properly in register CSV and PDF exports.
• Register table headers follow your portal's customisation colours.
• Register template file-attachment columns migrated to the document-attachment column type.
• Creating an action now requires at least one named assignee, even when a group is also set.
• The filters section has been removed from the actions table for a cleaner layout.
• Action details can be copied from tooltips on the actions table.
• Presenter bar improvements in meetings.
• The meeting invite modal pre-populates group roles when groups are already assigned.

Bug Fixes

• Calendar invites — fix for Gmail
• Action comment notification emails fix to addressee
• Register Contributors can now save register entries all the time
• Fixed the agenda item list in the register export modal.
• Meeting template items with sub-items can be dragged further up the agenda.

April 2026

New Features

• Document version history — view file details, and download, restore or copy any previous version of a stored document. The folder owner is now shown in the Documents view.
• Custom PDF format per register — choose the page layout (A4 Portrait by default) when setting up or editing a register.
• Register form-submission notifications — admins receive an email when a form is submitted.
• Tables in the rich text editor — insert and manage tables and cells anywhere the rich text editor is used.
• Decision creation parity — anyone able to create a meeting on a portal can now also create a decision.
• .xlsb and .dotx file uploads — both file types are accepted (.dotx is stored as-is but skipped from the PDF/processing pipelines).
• New audit-log event types — document/folder downloads, meeting/agenda/pack opens, MFA disable events, and action moves now appear in the activity log.

Minor Updates

• Any meeting invitee can attach files (they still cannot edit the meeting).
• "Revert" replaces "Delete" in Minute Taker for clearer wording.
• Left and right panes in minute-taker mode now stay in sync as you navigate.
• Updated register PDF formatting.
• Mobile improvements — meeting list, modals, "Add Attachment", filter inputs and overall page layouts now display correctly on small screens.
• Consistent page margins across the app.
• Updated table styling.

Bug Fixes

• .PDF (uppercase) files now open in the viewer as expected (previously showed "Download Required").
• Decisions invisible in meeting PDF when the agenda item had no sub-item — now visible.
• Meeting template drag-and-drop — the last item with sub-items can now be moved up.
• Breadcrumb on the meeting detail page now displays correctly.
• Agenda lists — fixed list formatting in agenda output.
• "No agenda items" message no longer shows twice in Agenda Builder mode.
• Discussion group documents are indexed under the correct folder for search.
• Search results page — corrected layout.
• Empty register form submissions are no longer accepted.
• URL validation — invalid URLs entered in registers are now caught.
• Percentage validation in registers — values are validated correctly.
• Priority field in registers — fixed.
• Duplicate name errors — clearer messaging.
• File linking in minute taking — register entries now link properly to files.
• Custom template — can now be deleted.

Jan, Feb & March 2026

New Features

• Register Builder, build comprehensive register in Our Cat Herder
• Alternative Agenda template with minimalist styling and reduced spacing
• For email notifications sent show the portal logo image insted of OCH default
• Add button to auto calculate Agenda item durations.

Minor Updates

• Mobile View Improvements
• Add a copy link button for decisions
• Allow HEIC image uploads
• Replace ReCAPTCHA with Cloudflare Turnstile
• Add "Skip Numeration" for Agenda items so that breaks can be added without numbers to Agendas
• process .ODS spreadsheets to PDF for viewing

Bug Fixes

• When user deletes an attachment in documents, it doesn't disappear until refreshed
• Numbered bullet points in minutes in superscript and not adjacent/aligned to the text.
• Duplicate confiramtion messages in some parts of the app
• PDF Rendering issue on Safari (Mac)
• Issue in setting phone/mobile numbers on brand new account

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