| What's new in Plane | May 2026 |
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May was equal parts brewing coffee and a lot of new features, courtesy of Launch Week. Everything shipped at 7 AM PT like clockwork. Here's what made it to production. |
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PQL: filter work items by typing what you mean | Write structured text queries with PQL to filter work items, combining fields, operators, and values with AND, OR, and grouping. An editor suggests options as you type, any query saves as a view, and it works across work items, cycles, modules, and views. |
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Releases, now a first-class feature | Plan and manage Releases inside Plane. Group work items into a release, track what's in scope on a dedicated detail page, and generate a changelog straight from the release. |
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| Hand a work item to the Cursor agent and let it make the change in your editor, so work context comes to where the code already lives instead of you switching to another browser tab. |
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| Define your own relationship types beyond blocking and duplicate, so the links between work items match how your team actually reasons about dependencies and related work. |
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| Connect Plane AI to external MCP servers like Posthog and Granola, then call their tools from inside Plane the same way it calls its own, with no approval queue to wait on. |
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| Follow any work item to get updates without owning it, so you stay close to the work that affects you without being assigned, mentioned, or having to ask. |
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