Soleil Clusters ships continuously; this page lists every user-visible change, newest first, with the date it went live. Each entry covers one week. Fixes and additions are described in the same list rather than split apart, because the distinction rarely matters to the person reading.
A tab that says which cluster, and clips that behave like clips
Every open cluster now puts its own name in the browser tab, video on a reference board loops the way the GIF it replaced did, and the cluster panel stops changing its right-click menu by region.
Every open cluster now puts its own name in the browser tab. Previously every tab said the same thing, and it was not the cluster's name — which made a row of open clusters unreadable at exactly the moment you had enough of them to need it.
A video clip on a reference board behaves like the GIF it replaced: it loops quietly instead of presenting a player with controls you did not ask for.
Which right-click menu you got in the cluster panel depended on exactly where in the panel you clicked. One menu now, wherever you click.
Screenplay mode grows up, and split panes stop fighting each other
Pagination that counts what the renderers actually draw, autocomplete that stops stealing Tab, and split panes where each side navigates itself without dragging the other along.
A long pass over screenplay documents. The short version: text you typed now survives everything you can do to it afterwards.
Screenplay
Pressing Enter on an empty script line could never insert a line. It can now.
Pagination counts what the renderers actually draw, rather than estimating from the source — so the page breaks you see are the page breaks you export.
Autocomplete no longer steals Tab, no longer clobbers the line you were on, and closes when you dismiss it.
Content survives paste, mode toggles, block joins and marks. Round-trips are honest in both directions.
The scene rail lines up with the gutters, and Dual dialogue can no longer be paired blind.
Find and replace reports what it actually did.
Split panes and docs
Each side of a split now navigates independently, and a docked document survives the trip instead of being torn down.
A docked script used to hold the caret and leave the canvas beside it dead to the mouse. Both surfaces stay live.
The split's close control moved onto the divider, where nothing else competes for the space.
With two boards open, the toolbar tells you which board it means.
Document gutters stay correct when the canvas is zoomed.
Elsewhere
On a shared board, the photos were the one thing you could not open. Fixed.
The press-and-hold gesture on mobile was invisible, so most people never found it. It announces itself now.
Undo, everywhere — and a universe that does not stop at a thousand
About nineteen operations that used to be permanent now undo, version history comes back as a restore browser, and the universe view renders every board instead of the first thousand.
The theme of the week was reversibility. Deleting something in Clusters has always shown an undo toast; a surprising number of operations quietly did not.
Undo
Tag operations were the most casually destructive clicks in the app. They undo now.
Document structure changes and note text edits are recoverable.
Board-level operations that run on the server get an inverse, or at minimum a confirmation step before they run.
Soft-deleted items existed in the database but nothing in the interface could reach them. Trash and recovery are reachable.
Undo could previously lie: split panes double-fired it, and a toast could undo something other than what it named.
The sketch pad had no undo at all — and pressing it there mangled the board behind the pad.
Version history is back, as a browser you restore from rather than a crutch for undo.
The universe view
Every board is now a real solar system, and the galaxy earned its own bar.
The view showed exactly 1,000 nodes and presented that as everything. It renders the whole set now.
Spiral arms emerge from the layout instead of being drawn on, so large workspaces look ragged the way real galaxies do.
Production schedule
A day is a rundown, not a column of hour buckets.
The calendar could show you a month but not a day. It can show you a day.
It could show you a date but never let you change it. Now it can.
Laying out a shoot was documented but not reachable from anywhere.
In light theme the calendar drew nothing at all.
Instead of mailing a fresh call sheet every night, the crew is told what changed.
Elsewhere
Opening a shared board on a phone landed you at 11% scale.
The free card allowance is now tracked per account, so it can be adjusted for new people without moving anyone else's.
A public API, an MCP server, and the documentation to go with them
Clusters becomes programmable — a REST API at /api/v1 with personal access tokens, a hosted MCP server for AI agents, OAuth 2.1, webhooks, service accounts, and a public documentation site.
The largest week in the product's history, and almost all of it is surface you can build against.
The API
A public REST API at /api/v1, authenticated with personal access tokens you mint in Settings. A token acts as you, under exactly the permissions your account already has.
Multipart uploads for large files, bulk board operations, and resumable listing.
Service accounts — a credential that belongs to the workspace rather than to a person.
Webhooks that fire for app edits, bulk writes, video and file cards, and audit reads.
Identifiers, custom properties, delta reads, whole-board-tree reads, and OMC export.
Import: bring reference in from wherever it currently lives.
Arrange: named layout algorithms and a coordinate system you can build with.
MCP, for AI agents
An MCP server, available both as an npm package and hosted at a URL you paste into a client. One registry serves both transports.
OAuth 2.1, so connecting an assistant is a button rather than a copied secret, with a panel that shows you what is connected.
Published to the MCP Registry as com.soleilpictures/clusters.
Documentation
A public documentation site at /docs, generated from source so it cannot describe a version of the product that no longer exists.
Every page has a raw Markdown twin — append .md to any documentation URL — plus /llms.txt for agents that want the index.
Canvas and images
Dropping a folder of photos gives you a block, not a 5,200-pixel strip.
Image cards serve the smaller rendition when the larger one is not needed.
Soleil Scout
Text photos from set straight onto a canvas, with no app to open. Instant session links, multi-card deep links, and a Settings tab that connects a phone to an account you already have.
Bend an arrow by hand
Arrows get a draggable midpoint so you can shape the curve yourself, and the just-in-time tips stay on screen long enough to act on.
A quiet week.
Arrows have a draggable midpoint dot. The automatic routing is still the default; this is for the cases where you want the curve to go somewhere else.
The just-in-time tips that teach one feature at a time were disappearing before you could act on them. They now stay long enough to be useful.
The tour gets out of the way
The upfront feature tour is replaced by tips that appear when the feature is actually in front of you, and the mobile viewer stops crashing iOS Safari on zoom.
The tour that ran before you had done anything is gone. In its place, a tip appears when you are about to need the feature it describes — and only then.
New accounts are asked what they are working on rather than walked through desktop mechanics they have not needed yet.
Zooming an image in the mobile viewer could crash Safari on iOS by running the device out of memory. Image tiers are capped on mobile so it does not.
Collaborative notes recover on their own from a class of corruption that previously required reloading, and a batch of rich-text editor errors are fixed.
Editors are free, and the schedule opens where you clicked
Collaboration stops being the thing you pay for — editors are free and capacity is what is billed — plus invite links, a photos-first mobile start, and a schedule you edit by clicking into a day.
Collaboration is free
Editors do not cost anything. Capacity does. Whoever owns a cluster carries its card and storage allowance, and everyone they invite can edit without needing a plan of their own.
Invite links: send one link instead of collecting addresses, and see it when somebody joins.
Mobile
A photos-first start on phones — two steps, camera roll first, because that is what a phone is good for.
Sign-in fields are 16 pixels on touch devices, which stops iOS zooming the page the moment you tap one. This covers iPad as well.
Starting on a phone and continuing on a computer is a handoff the product knows about rather than something you improvise.
The text-selection bubble in documents appears on any touch-capable device, not just narrow ones.
Production schedule
Clicking into a day opens a peek, and the peek is the editing surface. The grid itself stays read-only.
Row types are legible at every zoom level, with honest overflow badges instead of clipped text.
The schedule becomes a calendar, and list view becomes a browser
Production schedules move onto real dates with a day-level peek, list view is rebuilt as a Cluster Browser with table and gallery modes, and grids gain full image controls.
The schedule is a calendar now
Production schedules used to be an abstract grid. They sit on real dates.
Create, switch and navigate months; jump to a date from the header title.
A Day and Hour peek that zooms into one date without leaving the view.
Drop, paste or add content directly into a slot.
Inline breakdowns, and the ability to graft one schedule into another.
Two-tier level-of-detail so a dense month stays readable.
Cluster Browser
List view was rebuilt as something you can actually work in.
Table and Gallery modes, with real previews for every card kind.
Sort, filter and search across the cluster.
Live presence, so you can see who else is in there.
Drag files straight into list mode.
A detail popout, and linked grids grouped together.
Grids and images
Full image controls in grid cells: fit, reposition, zoom, and the same non-destructive photo adjustments as anywhere else.
A genuinely full-screen cell lightbox, with download.
Background colour on grid cells, matching note colours.
A pop-out cell menu, so a tiny cell can still reach every insert and split option.
Elsewhere
Custom cluster thumbnails — right-click a cluster, upload an image, crop and reposition it, or reset back to the automatic one.
/explore gains search, sort and topic filters over the public catalogue.
Right-click menus are grouped into labelled sections, consistently across all three of them.
Creating a linked cluster from the right-click menu lands it where you clicked, instead of a fixed drop zone.
Typing - in a note stays literal, and toolbar bullets get visible markers.
Double-click a group label to rename it in place.
Sessions survive properly — the daily handoff used to invalidate refresh tokens and send everyone back to a one-time code.