Changelog
Robolyst ships in batches, so this is written in batches: one roundup covering what changed across the FTC directory and the team toolkit. Every line links to the thing it describes where there is somewhere to go.
13 roundups · last updated 3 September 2026
2026
Team Management Data Export
Allow exporting all data from the Team HQ portal into spreadsheets.
- New Add export page Suggested by
Blue Bananas · 24180
- Improved Added notification badges to sidebar tabs
- Improved Allow cancelling one event from of a recurring event chain Suggested by
Blue Bananas · 24180
Visual Coherence Changes
- Improved Visual overhaul of sidebar and page headers
Heatmap stats, finance permissions, and layout changes
- New Add support for non-FTC team groups in team management
- New Added an activity heatmap to the Team HQ overview and the Planning Stats page
- New Added role impersonation
- Improved Huge layout/design changes for spacing and the sidebar for Team HQ
- Improved Moved view rules for Finance into the role editor
- Improved Visual overhaul for role manager
- Improved Move form responses to a seperate table below the form list
A scoring calculator and a page for kickoff
Two public tools for the new season.
- New A scoring calculator for the current game
- New A kickoff page counting down to the season reveal
- New Allow photos in documentation entries Suggested by
Lumens³ · 30393 - Improved Attach polls, photos, and files to announcements
- Improved Awards on team pages read correctly and link where they should
- Fixed Cancelled tasks no longer count as overdue
- Fixed Events edited/deleted in Robolyst update in Discord
Scouting, and alliance picklists
Pit scouting, match scouting and alliance selection now run on the same data, and none of it needs rebuilding when the season rolls over.
- New A scouting dashboard, with pit scouting joined by QR code
- New An alliance picklist board that stays in sync across every device watching it
- New Season OPR, private notes and a watchlist alongside your own scouting
- Improved Scouting is set up per event
- Improved Location pages rank teams by OPRc
Finance approvals, card grants and a rebuilt embed builder
Spending got the controls a mentor needs before handing a card to a student, and the embed builder was rebuilt from scratch.
- New Card grants: a pot per card, with an expiry and merchant locks
- New A documents page for signed agreements and tax paperwork
- New Volunteer links on event pages
- New A transparency page covering how we handle data and AI
- Improved Approval flows for orders, expenses and reimbursements
- Improved The embed builder now carries its whole configuration in the URL
- Improved Resource categories are yours to name
- Fixed Email invites that silently failed to send
Discord, MCP servers and a demo team
Three ways into the same data: a bot in your server, a machine-readable endpoint, and a portal you can walk through without signing up.
- New The Discord bot left beta: notifications, RSVPs and slash commands
- New MCP servers for the FTC archive and for your own portal
- New A demo team with sample data, open to anyone
- New Calendar feed import, so an existing ICS subscription mirrors into the schedule
- Improved Team avatars and gradient banners on team pages
Push notifications, playoff brackets and per-feature switches
A broad week: notifications reach phones, event pages gained the two things people kept asking for, and teams can turn off the parts of the portal they do not use.
- New Web push notifications, including on iOS home screens
- New Playoff brackets drawn from the real alliance structure
- New Advancement points per event, as FIRST publishes them
- New Feature modules, so a team can switch off what it does not run
- New Guides on scouting, sponsorship, budgeting and the portfolio
- Improved Permissions split per key, including for the inbox
- Improved Documentation exports as PDF
- Improved Awards can be tagged on tasks, meetings and documentation
A shared team inbox, and the open source directory
Email stopped living in one persons account. The directory of what teams publish went up the same week.
- New Team inbox: a shared mailbox with templates, rules, snooze and search
- New Shipment tracking on orders, read straight from the carrier
- New A directory of the code and CAD teams publish
- New Onboarding emails for new teams
Custom domains, link tracking and an SEO pass
Team websites can now answer on a domain the team owns, and the links on them report back.
- New Custom domains for team websites, verified and routed automatically
- New Click tracking on team site links, with country-level geography
- New A contact page that routes bugs, features and privacy requests
- Improved Canonical URLs, per-section sitemaps and social cards on every page
- Fixed Two competitions on the same day no longer collapse into one
Every FTC season, on our own database
Match, team and award data moved off the old store and onto Postgres, which is what made whole-history rankings and records possible.
- Improved Every season on record, queryable in one place
- Improved Scoring records rebuilt per season
- New Calendar subscription for the team schedule
- New Marketing pages describing what the toolkit does
- Improved A faster map on the front page
Documentation, and a tasks page that holds a season
Engineering notebook work moved into the portal, and the planning pages got the rebuild they needed before build season.
- New Documentation with subsystems, media and exports
- New Custom task statuses and a kanban view
- New Task dependencies, so one task can block another
- Improved Checklists rebuilt around sections, quantities and starter templates
- Improved Filtering and a new editor on the tasks page
- Improved Recurring meetings on the schedule
Fiscal sponsorship, donations and cards
The money half of the toolkit landed in one go: teams under our 501(c)(3) can take donations, hold a balance and spend it on a real card.
- New Donation pages, with donor thanking and recurring gifts
- New Card issuing and cardholders, with per-category allowances
- New Receipt tracking against every card transaction
- New Terms of Service and a privacy policy covering all of it