Zioan v1.7.0

Appointments — New scheduling system built into Zioan. Configure availability, let people book time with you, get email notifications for bookings/cancellations/reminders, and embed a booking widget on external sites. Includes video call links, custom booking questions, timezone detection, and reschedule/cancel flows.

AI Chat — Major upgrade to the built-in AI assistant:

Resource preview cards (clickable documents, snippets, tasks) Mermaid diagrams and charts (bar, line, pie) rendered inline Collapsible sections, quick-reply suggestions, and actionable cards (create tasks/docs from AI responses) Chat — Task references with # autocomplete, input history with keyboard recall, and improved mobile layout.

Calendar — Completion badges, reschedule/cancel indicators, and appointment notifications on events.

Performance — Automated database retention policies and cleanup of stale data to reduce storage growth.

Plus various security fixes and UI improvements.

Zioan V1.6.0 is out.

I’m trying to keep this update as short and readable as possible, as Discord is actually trying to make money from users’ posts and has therefore set a character limit. Shame on you, Discord!

AI Chat (New)

Chat with Claude Code directly inside Zioan. Attach documents, snippets, and files to your AI conversations — responses render with full markdown. Powered by Zioan Companion, no external services needed.

Sentry Integration (New)

Connect Sentry projects to any task board. New issues automatically create tasks with default assignees, so the right person is notified immediately.

Board Custom Fields (New)

Add custom fields to any board to track structured data beyond standard task fields, visible directly on task cards.

CRM Improvements

Browser-style navigation, custom field filtering, and standalone CRM access permissions.

Chat Improvements

Better message threading with quick navigation, drag-and-drop file sharing, and improved mention highlighting.

Video Calls

Persistent chat during calls, connection quality indicator, camera effect persistence, low mic level warnings, and automatic disconnect when joining from another tab.

Companion

Companion and MCP server bundled together — one install, one update, managed directly from Zioan.

Other

Cross-tab notification sync, animated browser tab title for unread messages, and improved online presence detection.

Full changelog at https://updates.zioan.com/changelog/

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So, in 2026, if you refuse to pay for something (Nitro) that’s supposed to be free, you’ll have to post truncated messages like this👆.

This is exactly the reason I built Zioan, I hate subscriptions and not having control over my own data.

Cheers!

v1.5.0 is out.

The headline feature is the MCP Server, and it changes how users interact with Zioan entirely.

You open Claude Code (or any AI platform capable of running MCP) and type:

"Find last week's ticket about the authentication bug. Pull up any related documents. Check the CLAUDE.md file in the project, fix the issue, open a PR, mention Alex for the review, and update the ticket. Also, do I have any unread notifications or events left today?"

And it just does it. All of it, in one go.

Here is what the MCP is doing under the hood for that single prompt: searching your board for the task, reading attached documents, navigating your workspace structure, reading the markdown file, fixing the issue, pushing a fix, creating the PR, mentioning a team member in the task comment, moving the task to the right column, updating the task description, checking your notification feed, and pulling your calendar events for the rest of the day.

That is not a demo. That is a real workflow running against your actual Zioan data.

Coverage spans the entire platform. Documents, snippets, boards, calendar, CRM, chat, folders, notifications, personal notes, users, attachments and links.

The built-in help system is a full UI guide. Your AI knows where every feature lives, how to navigate to it, and what to do once you get there. It can walk a new team member through the platform step by step, help an existing user discover features they never knew existed, or guide anyone through a manual task without them ever leaving the conversation. No documentation tabs, no searching. You ask, it guides.

The MCP setup takes a few minutes, and the AI is instructed to install it itself, 0 manual setup.

Also in this release: calendar timezone support. Set user preferred timezone in User Settings and all events display in the local time. One-click auto-detect included.

Full changelog at https://updates.zioan.com/changelog/

Happy weekend everyone!