> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.notionapps.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.notionapps.com/release-notes/20-jul-2026-release.md). # 20 Jul 2026 Release ## 20 Jul 2026 Release Status and People field fidelity, Create Form sections with an optional stepper, richer URL prefill, **Board layouts with drag-and-drop**, Details polish components (Metric Card, Media Gallery, Status Timeline, Unique ID Chip, Select badges), and reliability fixes for hidden-screen navigation, Board drag writes, publish recovery, locale-aware number input, datetime time zones, and Page Content display. {% hint style="info" %} **Earlier updates**\ For Everyday chrome screens and published-app look & layout, see the [19 Jul 2026 Release](https://docs.notionapps.com/release-notes/19-jul-2026-release). For form URL prefill (v1), desktop submit placement, Page Content TOC, and builder nav rail, see the [18 Jul 2026 Release](https://docs.notionapps.com/release-notes/18-jul-2026-release). {% endhint %} *** ### What’s new at a glance | Capability | What you can do | Learn more | | ---------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Status + People fidelity | Notion Status colors and People chips in lists/Details; People writeback | [Status and People Field Fidelity](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/status-and-people-field-fidelity) | | Form sections + stepper | Group Create Form fields; optional step-by-step Next/Back/Submit | [Organize Create Forms with Sections and an Optional Stepper](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/organize-create-forms-with-sections-and-an-optional-stepper) | | Prefill v2 | Prefill Date, Multi-select, People, and Relation from the URL | [Prefill Create Forms from a URL](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/prefill-create-forms-from-a-url) | | **Board list view + DnD** | Kanban columns from Status/Select grouping; drag cards to update Notion | [Board List View](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/board-list-view) | | **Metric Card** | Large number / formula / rollup on Details | [Metric Card](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/metric-card) | | **Select option badges** | Notion Select colors on list tags and Details chips | [Select Option Badges](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/select-option-badges) | | **Media Gallery** | Files thumbnails + lightbox on Details | [Media Gallery](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/media-gallery) | | **Status Timeline** | Horizontal Status lifecycle on Details | [Status Timeline](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/status-timeline) | | **Unique ID Chip** | Monospace Unique ID display (e.g. `RST1`) | [Unique ID Chip](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/unique-id-chip) | | Hidden screen navigation fix | Screens off “Show in navigation” still open from buttons, links, and form actions | [Screen Navigation Visibility](https://docs.notionapps.com/basics/screen-navigation-visibility) | | Trust and reliability fixes | Publish recovery, locale number parsing, datetime time-zone write-back, clearer sync/reload copy, and Page Content recovery states | See Bug fixes below | ``` Status looks like Notion. People chips write back. Long forms can step. Board columns + drag to update. Details show metrics, media, timeline, and IDs. Hidden screens stay reachable. Publishing and write-back are more forgiving. ``` {% hint style="success" %} **Overview guide**\ For a single walkthrough of Board + Details polish, start with [Board Layouts and Details Polish](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/board-layouts-and-details-polish). {% endhint %} *** ### Features #### 1. Status and People field fidelity Notion **Status** option colors now flow into list tags and Details chips. **People** / Owner values render as chips (avatar when available). New People create/update fields default to multi-select. Editing Owner in the app writes back to the Notion People property. {% hint style="success" %} **Where to verify**\ Open a List with Status tags, open Details for Status + Owner chips, then edit Owner on an Update Form and confirm Notion updates. {% endhint %} Guide: [Status and People Field Fidelity](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/status-and-people-field-fidelity) #### 2. Create Form sections + optional section stepper Add **Section** components to group fields under titles such as Basics and Details. Optionally enable the **section stepper** so end users move one section at a time with progress text, **Next**, **Back**, and **Submit** on the final step. Mobile keeps progress readable and actions in a footer so controls do not cover fields. Guide: [Organize Create Forms with Sections and an Optional Stepper](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/organize-create-forms-with-sections-and-an-optional-stepper) #### 3. Prefill Create Forms from a URL (v2) URL prefill on Create Forms now also supports: | Field type | Example query | | ------------------------ | ------------------------- | | Date | `opening_date=2026-09-15` | | Multi-select | `tags=Patio,Delivery` | | People | `owner=user@example.com` | | Relation / Page selector | `location=` | Text, long text, number, toggle, and single-select continue to work as before. Prefill still applies when fields live inside later stepper sections. Guide: [Prefill Create Forms from a URL](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/prefill-create-forms-from-a-url) #### 4. Board list view + drag and drop List screens can use **Board** as a view type (alongside List, Grid, and Calendar). Columns come from **grouping** on a Status or Select field. When that field is writable for Board updates, makers and end users can **drag a card** between columns to write the new Status/Select value back to Notion. Tap still opens Details. {% hint style="success" %} **Where to verify**\ Set List → Appearance → Board, group by Status, drag a card in preview and in the published app, then confirm Notion. {% endhint %} Guides: * Overview: [Board Layouts and Details Polish](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/board-layouts-and-details-polish) * Deep dive: [Board List View](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/board-list-view) #### 5. Metric Card New **Metric Card** view component for **number**, **formula**, or **rollup** fields — shows a large, scannable KPI on Details (for example Score `92`). Guide: [Metric Card](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/metric-card) #### 6. Select option badges Notion **Select** option colors appear on list tags and Details chips (for example Priority **P1**), consistent with Status color fidelity. Guide: [Select Option Badges](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/select-option-badges) #### 7. Media Gallery New **Media Gallery** view component for Notion **Files & media** — thumbnail grid with lightbox. Viewing only; uploads still use Create/Update file or image components. Guide: [Media Gallery](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/media-gallery) #### 8. Status Timeline New **Status Timeline** view component — horizontal lifecycle of Status options with the active status highlighted. Read-only display; change Status via Board drag, Update Form, or multi-row update. Guide: [Status Timeline](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/status-timeline) #### 9. Unique ID Chip New **Unique ID Chip** view component for Notion **Unique ID** properties — compact monospace chip (for example `RST1`). Guide: [Unique ID Chip](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/unique-id-chip) *** ### Bug fixes #### Hidden screens open again from buttons and links **Show in navigation** is display-only for chrome (bottom / side / top nav). A regression incorrectly removed hidden screens from route registration, so buttons and form actions that navigated to those screens did nothing. **After this fix:** * Hidden screens stay out of navigation menus * Buttons, links, redirects, and form actions can still open them * Access control / personalization is unchanged — hiding from nav is not a security boundary Docs: [Screen Navigation Visibility](https://docs.notionapps.com/basics/screen-navigation-visibility) #### Mobile section stepper overlap On phone-sized Create Forms with the section stepper enabled, step labels and **Next** / **Back** could overlap form fields. Progress now sits above the content and actions stay in a compact footer aligned with form padding. #### Board card drag persistence Dragging a Board card between columns now persists through a single-record update on List layouts, so Status/Select changes from drag-and-drop save reliably even when the screen does not use multi-row update. The backend now recognizes writable Board grouping fields for single-card Status/Select updates, and the frontend keeps the Board card state in sync after the drag. #### Publish after a sync wait no longer fails when the builder state remounts Publishing could fail after a data sync or builder remount if the application temporarily disappeared from local builder state before the publish request was assembled. In some cases this surfaced as a generic publish failure or a stale update conflict. **After this fix:** * Publish waits for the same app to return after the sync wait * If needed, the builder rehydrates the same app from the API before publishing * Publish no longer reuses a stale pre-sync update payload * The confirmation popup stays mounted until a valid publish request is ready This is especially helpful for large apps where a data sync, app save, and publish can overlap. #### Locale-aware number input and URL prefill Number fields now normalize common locale formats before validation and write-back. This makes number entry more forgiving for makers and end users who type values with commas, periods, or spaces based on their locale. Examples now handled more consistently include: * `1,5` * `1.5` * `1,234.56` * `1.234,56` * `1 234,56` This applies across the frontend conversion path and backend validation/coercion path, including create/update form submissions and URL-prefilled number values. #### Datetime write-back preserves Notion time zones more safely Datetime fields now prefer the IANA time zone name from Notion when one is available, rather than relying only on offset mapping. This reduces DST-sensitive write-back problems where a datetime could drift when converting between Notion, NotionApps, and the user’s local browser zone. Date-only fields remain date-only. Datetime fields keep using date/time visibility and now carry a more stable time-zone value through write-back. #### Page Content empty and retry states Page Content display has clearer loading, empty, and retry states. When Notion page content is not available yet, users should see a more understandable recovery path instead of a confusing blank area. #### Clearer “Sync from Notion” wording The builder copy now distinguishes between: * **Sync from Notion**: manually pulls the latest Notion records and property changes into the builder * **Automatic Data Reload**: refreshes published apps on a schedule * **Refresh app data**: refreshes live app records for end users This replaces the older, overloaded “Reload Data” wording in the builder tour and related UI copy. #### Refresh guidance after deploy or asset-load failure The forced refresh message now explains that NotionApps may need a page refresh when the browser fails to load the latest assets, or when a new version has been deployed. This should make blank-screen recovery clearer for makers and users. #### Internal build reliability The locale-number regression script was adjusted so staging and production build pipelines can treat it as a module. This was an internal packaging fix to keep the release build clean. *** ### Documentation for this release | Doc | Link | | ----------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | Board Layouts and Details Polish (overview) | [Open](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/board-layouts-and-details-polish) | | Board List View | [Open](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/board-list-view) | | Metric Card | [Open](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/metric-card) | | Select Option Badges | [Open](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/select-option-badges) | | Media Gallery | [Open](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/media-gallery) | | Status Timeline | [Open](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/status-timeline) | | Unique ID Chip | [Open](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/unique-id-chip) | | Status and People Field Fidelity | [Open](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/status-and-people-field-fidelity) | | Organize Create Forms with Sections and an Optional Stepper | [Open](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/organize-create-forms-with-sections-and-an-optional-stepper) | | Prefill Create Forms from a URL | [Open](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/prefill-create-forms-from-a-url) | | Screen Navigation Visibility | [Open](https://docs.notionapps.com/basics/screen-navigation-visibility) | *** ### Recommended learning path 1. [Board Layouts and Details Polish](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/board-layouts-and-details-polish) (overview) 2. [Board List View](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/board-list-view) 3. [Metric Card](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/metric-card) → [Status Timeline](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/status-timeline) → [Media Gallery](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/media-gallery) → [Unique ID Chip](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/unique-id-chip) 4. [Select Option Badges](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/select-option-badges) + [Status and People Field Fidelity](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/status-and-people-field-fidelity) 5. [Organize Create Forms with Sections and an Optional Stepper](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/organize-create-forms-with-sections-and-an-optional-stepper) 6. [Prefill Create Forms from a URL](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides/prefill-create-forms-from-a-url) 7. Re-test any screen that uses **Show in navigation** off with a button action — [Screen Navigation Visibility](https://docs.notionapps.com/basics/screen-navigation-visibility) *** ### Availability notes * Status colors / People chips: available after Publish on apps that already use Status and People properties * Form sections + stepper: Create Form screens; enable the stepper in Behaviour after adding Section components * Prefill v2: Create Form only; requires Publish after mapping URL parameter names * **Board**: List screens only (not reference-list comps); requires grouping; drag writes need a writable Status/Select grouping field * **Metric Card / Media Gallery / Status Timeline / Unique ID Chip**: add on Details (view) screens; opt-in components — existing apps unchanged until you add them * **Select badges**: appear when Select/Status option colors are synced from Notion and shown as tags/chips * Hidden screen button navigation: frontend fix; no maker configuration change required beyond Publish / refresh * Publish recovery: frontend fix; no maker configuration change required * Locale-aware number input: frontend and backend fix; no maker configuration change required * Datetime time-zone write-back: frontend and backend fix; no maker configuration change required * Page Content recovery states and clearer sync/reload copy: frontend fix; no maker configuration change required * List / Grid / Calendar and Automation Work Queue behavior unchanged unless you opt into Board or the new comps *** ### Related reading * [📢 Release Notes](https://docs.notionapps.com/release-notes) * [19 Jul 2026 Release](https://docs.notionapps.com/release-notes/19-jul-2026-release) * [18 Jul 2026 Release](https://docs.notionapps.com/release-notes/18-jul-2026-release) * [Guides](https://docs.notionapps.com/guides)