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Title: NocoDB 2026.08.1 - Realtime Presence in the grid, Folders in the sidebar, multi-field freeze, nested List View records

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Hey r/NocoDB,

2026.08.1 is out. Quick rundown of what's in it:

1. Realtime Presence in Grid

You can now see your team working live inside the grid. Each collaborator gets a colour: their focused cell is outlined in it, and records they have open show a presence badge in the expanded record and side panel. Click a collaborator's avatar and choose "Go there" to jump straight to the cell they're working on, even if it's in a different table. Handy when you're walking through data together on a call.

Presence is informational only: it doesn't lock anything, and NocoDB warns you when someone else is already editing the record you're in. Available on all plans, including the Community Edition.

2. Folders

Group tables, documents, and dashboards into collapsible folders in the base sidebar. Create one from the Create New menu or from an item's "Move to..." menu, drag items in and out, and give each folder its own icon colour. The same applies to views within a table.

Available on all plans, including the Community Edition.

3. Freeze multiple fields

Grid views can keep up to three fields pinned while you scroll horizontally, display value included. Drag the divider and it snaps to field edges. Also works on interface pages that use the Grid visualization.

4. Nested records in List View

Lists can nest records under their parents using a link field that points back to the same table: tasks with subtasks, categories with items, or an org chart. Also available on interface pages using the List visualization.

5. For interface builders

Copy settings from an existing view when creating a Table or Record review page. A per-field Size option and a Single Select stepper on record pages. Drag-and-drop field reordering across every visualization. Per-dashboard Visibility and Editing permissions using the same permission system as tables and fields.

6. Docs revamp

The documentation site was reorganized into dedicated tabs (Product, Workflows, Interfaces, APIs & MCP, Self Hosting, Changelog) with a grouped sidebar, and every docs page now has an Ask AI assistant that answers questions using the documentation as its source. All old URLs redirect.

7. Self-hosting

Two things to be aware of when upgrading:

The E2B and Exa environment variables were renamed (E2B_API_KEY → NC_COMPUTE_E2B_API_KEY, E2B_TEMPLATE_ID → NC_COMPUTE_E2B_TEMPLATE_SCRIPT, E2B_CHAT_TEMPLATE_ID → NC_COMPUTE_E2B_TEMPLATE_CHAT, EXA_API_KEY → NC_WEB_EXA_API_KEY). The old names are no longer read, so if you only set the old ones, script execution, AI code analysis, and AI web search stay silently disabled until you update them.
Creating new legacy API tokens is no longer supported on licensed deployments. Existing tokens keep working; use fine-grained API tokens for new integrations.

Plus a long list of fixes across the grid, interfaces, and workflows.

Full changelog: https://nocodb.com/docs/changelog/2026.08.1