What's new

January 2026 🎉

Health Check Dimensions by Category (Maturity Models)

You can now organise health dimensions by category making it easier to get a high-level view and detailed insight. You will see the average score by category - such as Delivery, Technical Excellence or Culture. You can drill down into each category to see individual dimensions.

You can add categories  to your existing custom health models via Team or Account → Settings → Health. Updating your models to include categories  will preserve all historical data, ensuring your past health scores and trends remain intact.

Why It Matters

Teams often want to understand not just individual signals but how clusters of related factors trend over time. Dimension Categories  help you:

• Make complex health models more approachable and easier for teams to engage with.
• Align your health check with industry frameworks or internal maturity models.
• Identify patterns or problem areas at a thematic level before diving into specifics.
• Improve reporting clarity for leadership and stakeholders who prefer a higher-level overview.
• Maintain continuity of historical insights even as your health model evolves.

Maturity Model Health Checks

We’ve added 15 new maturity-model–based health checks, designed to help teams assess where they are today and plan their improvement journey. These models provide clear descriptions for each stage of maturity across different aspects of your organization, helping teams align on expectations and choose meaningful next steps for growth.

Want to create your own? Use any of these templates to start your own maturity model health check.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Bug Fix: Fixed issue with retrospective report PDF (rendering failed with some meeting configurations).
• Bug Fix: Fix sizing of kudos count badge when counts exceed 2 digits.
• Bug Fix: Fixed issue allowing empty comments without attachments to be submitted.
• Bug Fix: Ensure meeting observers remain non-anonymous in reports.
• Improvement: Updated Linear integration to support new refresh token requirements.
• Improvement: Restored interactivity of health check radar on Health Check share step for health models without sub-dimensions.
• Improvement: Exposed health model archive / unarchive controls to account and team admins under Team/Account > Settings > Health
• Improvement: Clarify Allowed IP Ranges language to make it clear the IP restrictions apply to API and SCIM routes also.
• Improvement: Improved quality of demonstration data in cross-team insights.

• Improvement: We've added a bunch of new robot avatars to choose from (or, of course, upload your own!)

  

  
  

December 2025

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Improvement: Improved load speed of integration logs
• Improvement: Integration logs now include extracts of any error received, making it easier to diagnose connectivity or setup issues
• Improvement: You can now react to comments anywhere in TeamRetro (not just within meetings)
• Improvement: Jira two-way sync will now synchronize updated action titles, as well as completion.
• Bug Fix: Fixed issue where users with two windows open to the same health check survey may find one window overwrites the other. Now, changes are saved on a per-field basis immediately and reflected in other open windows.
• Bug Fix: Fixed issue where Health Check Individual Ratings report was empty if health check meeting was fully anonymous.
• Bug Fix: Fixed issue preventing meeting summary emails from being sent for some users when the meeting was fully anonymous.

November 2025

Optional Anonymity on Ideas / Comments

Participants can now submit both anonymous and non-anonymous ideas, comments in the same meeting by clicking on their avatar to toggle between modes. This feature can be enabled by the facilitator for each retrospective / health check under Customize > General > Optional Anonymity.

Why It Matters - Even in open and transparent settings, sometimes a team member might simply feel more comfortable submitting a topic or suggestion anonymously. This flexible approach recognizes that feedback preferences vary by team, topic, and timing. You get the psychological safety of anonymity when needed, plus the accountability and context that comes with attributed feedback.

Allowed IP Ranges (Enterprise Security Feature)

We’ve introduced Allowed IP Ranges to enhance security for Enterprise customers. This feature lets organization owners restrict access to TeamRetro so that only users connecting from approved IP addresses or networks (such as a company VPN) can sign in. Once configured and enforced, anyone attempting to access the account from outside the permitted ranges will be blocked. This gives organizations tighter control over how and where their teams access TeamRetro. Learn more

Health Check Radar Trend Lines

Health check radars now include trend lines for each dimension, helping you visualize how your team’s results have evolved over recent meetings and spark better discussions.

Notion Integration

You can now publish your meeting summaries to Notion. Team admins can configure the new integration under Team -> Settings -> Integrations. Learn more

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Improvement: AI retrospective templates, health models and icebreaker questions are now using ChatGPT 5 under the hood for faster and more creative answers.
• API Improvements:
  • Any CSV format reports downloaded via the TeamRetro API now include additional user/team/meeting/healthModel ID columns
  • Report Dates are now in ISO-8601 format
• Improvement: Additional currencies are now available for TeamRetro subscriptions - AUD, CAD, GBP, SGD, NZD.
• Improvement: Click on kudos badges on your TeamRetro home page to view more details on the kudos you've accumulated!
• Improvement: Meeting pane resize handle now displays minimum / maximum pane size.
• Improvement: Comment lists now display date dividers.
• Improvement: Improved matching of AI generated summaries / group titles etc to content language.
• Improvement: Additional meeting recurrence options added (4 months, 6 months, 12 months).
• Improvement: Added display of live reactions to DEMO mode
• Improvement: Improved dark-mode styles for vote options dropdown
• Bug Fix: Fixed issue allowing parked ideas to be included in group suggestions
• Bug Fix: Fixed issue causing grouping actions to fail in fully anonymous meeting modes.
• Bug Fix: Fixed issue preventing publishing of fully anonymous Jira + Notion meeting reports
• Bug Fix: Fixed long name overflow in presence list
• Bug Fix: Fixed issue where icons may overlap labels on the Insights Check In/Out Graph
• Bug Fix: Fixed issue where actions converted to agreements may temporarily remain in the actions list.
• Bug Fix: Fixed support for Jira textArea field when using Jira API Token authentication.
• Bug Fix: Fixed issue where search field would disappear on account home screen if no matching search results were found.
• Bug Fix: Fixed issue preventing agreements made outside meetings from appearing in word clouds.

October 2025

Health Radar on Team Page

The Team > Health Checks page now shows your most recent team health radars. Quickly move through past health checks to see how your team’s wellbeing has progressed over time.

Meeting Kudos Pane

You can now give kudos to your teammates at any time during a meeting via the new Kudos Pane! Celebrate wins, acknowledge effort, and spotlight contributions as they happen. Whether it’s a small success or a major achievement, your team can share appreciation in the moment—helping to create a more positive and motivating meeting environment.

Kudos Badges

Your recognition doesn’t stop at the meeting. Each time you receive kudos, it’s collected and displayed as a Kudos Badge on your TeamRetro homepage. Over time, you’ll see a record of your team’s appreciation, making it easy to reflect on the impact you’ve made and the value you’ve contributed.

Team Observer Role (Enterprise)

Enterprise customers can now assign users the Team Observer role. Team Observers are automatically invited as non-participating observers to retrospectives and health checks. They can view meeting outcomes, team insights, and trends—without actively contributing—making it ideal for managers, coaches, or stakeholders who need visibility while allowing teams to focus on participation. Team > Members > select “Observer” role.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Improvement: Guest users can now @mention and give kudos to participants
• Improvement: Improved time synchronization across client instances for timers.
• Improvement: Added support for Shortcut custom field integrations (due to deprecation of Shortcut projects).
• Improvement: Jira integration now utilizes the /createmeta                                 endpoint to retrieve available priorities; improving the reliability of priority matching (and avoiding need for additional permissions).
• Improvement: Upgraded foundational AI models for summaries, grouping and insights.
• Fix: Fixed issue preventing highlighting of search results with encoded characters.
• Fix: Fixed issue where new long-format Microsoft Teams integration URLs may be truncated.
• Fix: Improved how TeamRetro matches action item assignees with Jira users in Jira Server/Data Center. When the assignable user API is restricted, TeamRetro now uses a broader user search to find possible matches.
• Fix: Ensure team request emails are sent in the recipients preferred language (rather than the requestors)
• Fix: Hide recurring meeting settings for non team-admins.
• Fix: Fixed issue where Jira integration would not try failed action publishing after integration connectivity had been restored.
• Fix: Fixed issue in Jira integration priority field matching.  
• Fix: Fixed issue where non-anonymous health check comments were appearing anonymous in the discuss step
• Fix: Fixed issue in Confluence integration preventing organizations with more than 255 spaces from seeing the full list.

September 2025

Notice - September 4 2025 - Confluence Cloud Integration Changes

Due to the deprecation of Confluence Cloud V1 APIs and introduction of the new granular Confluence OAuth scopes; users with active Confluence Cloud integrations will need to re-authorize TeamRetro to publish meeting summaries. Note: this change only affects Confluence Cloud users - Confluence Data Center / Server integrations are unaffected.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Improvement: Users of the our free ice breaker tool https://icebreaker.teamretro.com can now edit any of the suggested questions.
• Improvement: When downloading all meeting reports for a team; the file naming format has been improved to make it easier to keep the meeting reports in chronological order.
• Fix: Fixed issue where confluence pages were being published at the root level rather than under the expected parent page.
• Improvement: Tweaks to layout of published confluence pages (including making images larger)

August 2025

Estimate tasks with TeamRetro's Free Poker Planning Tool

Whether you are planning sprints, assigning story points, or building alignment across teams, you can now bring clarity, speed, and collaboration to your estimation process.

Try it out at: https://planning-poker.teamretro.com/

How to play:

1. Add one or more items for estimation.
2. Choose your estimation card deck.
3. Invite team members to participate.
4. Everyone can discuss, then vote privately.
5. Discuss the results and record the final estimate.

Introducing AI Answers (Beta)

We’ve added a new way to get the help you need, fast. With AI Answers (Beta) in Help Scout, you can type your question and receive an instant response — available 24/7.  You'll find it in the side panel under support and Instant Answers. Of course, our dedicated customer service team is still just a message away to assist you personally.

Health Insights - Cross-Team Individual Responses Health Check Reports

Enterprise users can now download cross-team health check individual responses reports to view all health check comments related to a specific health model. The reports can be found under Account > Insights > Reports > [Health Model] > Individual Responses.

Kudos for Team Recognition

You can now give kudos to your teammates directly in retrospective ideas, comments, and health check feedback, making it easier to celebrate achievements and recognize contributions in the moment.

What you can do

• Give kudos in two ways:
  • @mention a teammate and click the kudos badge
  • Use the "Kudos" option from the attachment dropdown and select your teammate
• Choose from different kudos types to match the recognition
• Add an optional personal message to make it more meaningful
• Kudos appear with a celebratory confetti animation to highlight the moment

Why it's useful - Kudos help you:

• Celebrate wins and achievements as they're discussed
• Build positive team culture by making recognition visible and immediate
• Encourage participation by showing appreciation for contributions
• Create a more supportive environment, especially valuable for remote teams
• Turn retrospectives into opportunities for both improvement and celebration

This simple addition helps teams balance constructive feedback with positive recognition, making retrospectives and health checks feel more well-rounded and motivating.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Improvement: Meeting facilitators can now refresh the AI meeting summary via the magic icon dropdown next to the summary.
• Improvement: Ideas with polls, gifs or kudos can be submitted without the usual required text (ideal when the content is self explanatory!)
• Improvement: When user switches UI language, update preferred templates language also (although templtes language can still be changed independently).
• Improvement: Added open graph metadata to application pages, so shared invitation links in Slack, Teams etc. now show a full TeamRetro website card.
• Bug Fix: Fixed issue in French translation of password reset and trial expired emails preventing them from being sent.
• Bug Fix: Fixed issue where automatic AI meeting summaries weren't retried if they had already been attempted with empty data.
• Bug Fix: Fixed issue preventing Support & Feedback popup from showing during retrospective and health check meetings.
• Bug Fix: Fixed issue where retrospectives and health checks published to Slack without AI summaries would show "summary: null"

July 2025

2024-2025 Recap Video

Over the past year, we've introduced several new features to help deliver a smarter, smoother, and stronger experience. With a focus around team engagement, AI-powered features, and new facilitator tools, we hope this brings a benefit to your teams. Watch our recap video, and see what else we have coming soon.

Additional Localizations

Support for Ukrainian, Hungarian, Czech, and Georgian languages has been added.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Improvement: Improved reliability of AI processing generation for team + cross-team insights.
• Improvement: Added field to capture rejection reason to user requests, allowing administrators to notify the user why their request was declined.
• Improvement: You can now choose to Sort by who added (alphabetical) or Sort by who added (randomized)
• Improvement: Publishing team agreements to Slack / Microsoft Teams will always publish the full set of agreements.
• Improvement: Prevent layout flicker in user avatars while avatar images load.
• Improvement: Better results for AI synthesis features using upgraded models.
• Bug Fix: Fix responsive layout of user profile
• Bug Fix: Fixed issue with Monday.com integration causing integration to fail for some users.
• Bug Fix: Fixed permission issue with team archiving.
• Bug Fix: Insights > Health model picker now uses user's preferred language
• Bug Fix: Disable reaction controls for observers

June 2025

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Bug Fix: Fixed issue where TeamRetro API was returning duplicate team member records.
• Improvement: "Sort by Who Added" now randomizes the sort order for each meeting (so it's not always the same sort order.
• Improvement: Participants pane hides votes / rating progress for participants who have not yet joined the retrospective or health check.
• Improvement: Logout now redirects the user back to the account log in screen (rather than the website).
• Improvement: Improved popover tooltips on Account and Team pages.

May 2025

Quick Poll in Ideas, Comments and Chat

You can now add simple polls directly to any idea, comment or meeting chat message in TeamRetro, making it easier to gather fast, structured feedback during discussions.

What you can do

• Attach a poll to any idea, comment or chat message
• Choose from predefined poll types such as:
  • Agree ... Disagree
  • Estimation (e.g. T-shirt sizing, Points, etc...)
  • Confidence levels
• or create your own custom poll tailored to your team’s needs
• Poll results are visible by default, but can be hidden or revealed by anyone with edit access to the associated idea or comment
• Polls can be enabled or disabled at the account level Account > Settings > Features > Polls

Why it’s useful - Quick Polls offer a lightweight way to:

• Gauge team sentiment or alignment before making decisions
• Prioritize ideas through quick estimation or voting
• Surface uncertainty or dissent early in the process
• Add structure to open-ended discussions without slowing them down
• Make feedback visible and inclusive, especially for remote or quieter team members

This feature helps teams move from discussion to action more confidently, with input from everyone.

@Mentions + @Mention Notifications

You can now @mention your teammates in ideas, comments, chat messages and action items. Just start typing the “@” symbol and choose from your team or organization users using autocomplete.

Mentioning someone will result in them receiving a notification email with a direct link, making it easier to bring the right person into the conversation or highlight something that needs their input.

It’s a simple addition that helps keep communication focused and ensures important details aren’t missed.

Don’t worry about being spammed! Mention notifications are aggregated and throttled, and you can turn them off at any time under your TeamRetro User settings.

GIFs on Retrospective Ideas

TeamRetro now supports adding Tenor GIFs to ideas, in addition to comments and chat messages, allowing you to bring a little extra personality, emphasis, or fun to your team discussions.

What you can do

• Attach GIFs from Tenor’s searchable library directly to ideas and comments
• Use GIFs to reinforce a point, lighten the mood, or celebrate wins
• Available to all participants—GIFs appear inline with the idea or comment
• Optional setting available to enable or disable GIFs at the account level

Why it’s useful - Adding GIFs can help:

• Foster team culture and inject some light-heartedness into otherwise routine discussions
• Enhance communication—sometimes a well-timed GIF says more than words
• Build engagement, especially in remote or hybrid teams
• Encourage participation by giving team members another way to react or show support

✨ AI-Supported Insights for Retrospectives and Health Checks

We’re excited to introduce a new way to understand your team’s retrospectives and health check feedback. With AI-powered analysis, you can now uncover deeper insights from your team discussions—going beyond basic term extraction.

What's changed? - The new AI Insights capability includes:

• Summarized themes of what was discussed, generated using large language models
• A hierarchical breakdown of key themes and subtopics, helping you pinpoint areas of focus
• Visual timelines of when key topics were raised and how sentiment evolved over time
• Drill-down views for each theme, including word clouds of related terms and real discussion examples

Why this matters - AI-powered insights help you make sense of unstructured team feedback more efficiently. Here are some practical benefits:

• Spot emerging trends early – Identify recurring pain points or positive developments before they become systemic
• Track change over time – See how sentiment and focus areas shift month to month, across retrospectives, health checks, or teams
• Highlight cross-team patterns – Recognize shared challenges or successes across different groups
• Prioritize improvements – Use sentiment-linked themes to decide where to invest time and resources
• Back decisions with data – Share objective summaries with stakeholders to support planning or justify changes
• Enhance team reflection – Use summaries and visualizations to prompt richer conversations in follow-up sessions

Where you'll see it - The new AI insights appear across the Insights section:

• Retrospectives
  • Common themes
  • Theme and sentiment trends
• Health Checks
  • Survey comment themes
  • Historical themes and ratings
• Agreements
  • Team agreement themes

How to enable/disable - AI Insights can be toggled on or off at the account level: Account > Settings > Features > AI insights

Bug fixes and Improvements

• Improvement: When viewing an idea in the carousel, you can now move it to a different topic without leaving the carousel (ideal for categorization and lean topic scenarios)
• Improvement: Added options for five or six week meeting recurrence
• Improvement: Added GIF + Poll attachments to the demo retrospectives
• Improvement: Improved button popovers on team page
• Bug fix: Fixed issue preventing health radar colors from appearing in report downloads
• Bug fix: Removed empty placeholder on Welcome step and Close step that appeared if no Check In / Check Out question is selected
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where AI generated citations were not fully visible due to idea masking.
• Bug fix: Fixed Javascript error on user profile update page
• Bug fix: Fixed issue preventing Facilitator-Only facilitators from accepting or rejecting group suggestions
• Bug fix: Fixed validation issue preventing publication some action items to Jira
• Bug fix: Improved responsiveness of Sign Up page on mobile layouts
• Bug fix: Fixed dialog 'flash' that appeared when deleting a team
• Bug fix: Fixed Javascript error on complete profile page
• Bug fix: Hide Insights > Team > Team Count when viewing team-level insights (since it's always 1)
• Bug fix: Hide Topics tab when customizing meeting on team page

April 2025

Modernized Login and Signup Pages

We’ve refreshed the look and feel of our login, signup and join retrospective / health check pages, as well as improved their accessibility.

Bug fixes and Improvements

• Improvement: Added additional demo data for insights
• Bug fix: Fixed issue preventing generation of retrospective and health check templates with long team-type names.
• Bug fix: Addressed performance issue with account deletion.

March 2025

Publish Team Agreements to Slack & Microsoft Teams

It's now easy to publish your team agreements to Slack or Microsoft Teams from the Publish drop-down on your team homepage, or from the Publish drop-down at the end of a retrospective or health check.

Milestone Retrospective Templates

We've added the "Milestone" category of retrospective templates to help teams focus on particular significant events, such as Project Kickoffs, Project Wrap Ups, Mid-Year or End of Year reviews and more...

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Improvements: Multiple retrospective template picker improvements:
  • Search now correctly works across categories

  • Preview retrospective templates with example ideas

    

• Bug Fix: Fixed issue where Jira action publishing would fail if user didn't have permission to access global-level priorities. Integration now relies on project-level priorities and will leave priority blank if none are found.
• Bug Fix: Fixed issue preventing Parking Lot from appearing for some users
• Bug Fix: Fixed missing localization strings in Insights

February 2025

Specialized Retrospective Templates

We've added the "Specialized" category of retrospective templates to help teams focus in on particular issues relevant to them. For example: Development (Code Review, Technical Debt), Leadership (Strategic Alignment, Company Culture), Management (Staff Rentention), HR (Onboarding, Hiring Process, Inclusive Workplaces), Sales, Marketing, Operations and more...

Generative AI Improvements

We've made a number of improvements to AI Retrospective Templates, AI Health Models and AI Icebreaker Questions to make them more responsive to the user provided themes:

• Suggested column titles (eg. "Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats")
• Unique situations (eg. "communication challenges", "stakeholder disagreements")
• Conflicting inputs (eg. "six columns focusing on emotions")
• Improved and simplified user interface
• Improved multi-language support

A big thank you 🙏 to users who continue to provide ongoing feedback on our generative AI features!

Global Content Language Preference

TeamRetro now remembers your preferred content language (eg. for retrospective templates, health models, icebreaker questions etc) as a global preference.

Recurring Retrospectives - Optional Email Invitations

You can now choose whether or not email invitations are sent when a recurring retrospective or health check is created

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Improvement: Added automatic creation of meeting summaries (when enabled)
• Improvement: Added support for Confluence "Knowledge Base" spaces
• Improvement: Improved performance of idea similarity suggestions.
• Improvement: Added a further 70 topic icons to our library
• Bug fixes & Improvement: Improved translations for non-English emails.
• Bug fix: Ignore Jira integration attachment field types
• Bug fix: Fixed icebreaker category setting for non-English language
• Bug fix: Added additional validation around AI suggested group titles to detect and block occasional AI hallucinations.

January 2025 🎉🎉 Happy New Year!

Cross-Team Usage Insights (Enterprise)

Get insight into how your teams are using TeamRetro via the new Usage insights page, and see how this usage is trending over time. Metrics include:

• Retrospectives (and associated AI functionality)
• Health checks (and associated AI functionality)
• Icebreakers
• Actions, agreements and parking lot
• Integrations (with Jira, Confluence, Slack etc).

Users with the Account Owners, Admins, or User + Insights role can view the new metrics at

Account > Insights > Usage

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Bug Fix: Fixed issue preventing background music from playing for some users.
• Bug Fix: Fixed issue preventing topics from being reordered while editing templates.
• Bug Fix: Fixed issue preventing meetings from being open / closed via the drop down menu.