Asana Release Notes August 2026

Asana Community Product Announcements Release Notes
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Hi Community :waving_hand:

The August release notes bring a mix of improvements across project views, AI Studio, Pages, mobile, and admin workflows. We pulled together the highlights below so you can spot the changes that matter most for your team.

:speech_balloon: Community Requested Releases

Starter tier:

Advanced tier:

  • Group and sort by reference custom fields: Organize project and portfolio views by grouping or sorting by reference custom fields, making linked relationships easier to manage. This update follows a Product Feedback conversation about making reference fields more powerful and flexible. The topic remains open for voting as filtering is not yet possible.

:sparkles: New Releases

Personal tier:

  • Pages: Collaborate on Pages in Asana with version history, inline comments, AI-assisted drafting, and task creation.
  • Desktop app 2.7.2: Update the desktop app to receive fixes for malicious-link handling and argument-injection risks.

Starter tier:

  • Rich text in custom fields: (📝 Rich text in custom fields is now live!) Format text custom fields with headings, lists, links, and images to keep structured content clearer.
  • Task pane custom field search: Find custom fields by name or value in the task pane without scrolling through long field lists.
  • AI Studio Usage API: Retrieve credit-utilization and seat data with date-range filtering and fields that support incremental reporting.

TBAO (Timesheets & Budgets) add-on:

  • Sunday-start timesheets: Use a Sunday-start weekly view to review and complete a contiguous Sunday-Saturday timesheet for teams whose workweek begins on Sunday.

AI Teammate add-on:

  • AI Teammate profiles on mobile: Search for AI Teammates, open profiles, review assigned tasks, assign work, and request access to restricted profiles from iOS and Android.
  • Pre-built AI Teammates and skills: Choose from prebuilt AI Teammates with curated skills for common roles, then tailor those skills with your own reference material.
  • AI Teammates building rules with human review: Create and edit rules with AI Teammates through the rule builder, then review and publish the changes yourself.
  • AI Teammates reading rules: Ask an AI Teammate to summarize rules in a project or portfolio, including triggers, conditions, actions, status, relationships, and recent execution history.

AsanaGov:

  • Sandbox in AsanaGov: Test workflows and settings in isolated sandboxes before applying changes in production while retaining AsanaGov compliance and security controls.

Enterprise+ tier:

  • Data retention policy: Configure organization-wide retention controls from the admin console, set object-specific periods including less than three years, include messages, and exclude teams with the data retention policy.

:wrench: Improvements

Personal tier:

  • Updated modes navigation: Use the updated modes navigation experience in Asana.

Which August update will make the biggest difference for your team? Let us know in the comments!

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Really making use of pages now :slight_smile:

Cat Typing on Laptop: Bills Ugh

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Hey Asana Team –
Thank you for the updates.
However… what’s the reason the UI changed for the app, specifically the black bar at the top? I’m on light mode. I thought it was a glitch, but it seems like this is the new desired look?

Screenshot 2026-09-11 at 12.52.30 PM

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Hi Oscar, if you’re using the desktop app, try using command+r or control+r to refresh the app, which should hopefully reset this top bar to the lighter color!

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Thank you for your reply, Katie.
Unfortunately, that doesn’t work for me.

I have restarted. I have turned on and off dark and light mode, and have adjusted settings in asana.

I’m running MacOS Tahoe 26.6.2… maybe it’s a glitch there…?

Either way, thanks for your assistance.

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My team is pretty disappointed with the removal of the option to customize the color of their homepage on the app (and in desktop). It does make it quite bland. (I know, first world problems but I have to share)

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Just noticed that I think it’s in the settings now…Settings > Display > Sidebar & topbar color

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I second Melissa’s comment. It is a first world problem, but color and contrast help navigate, they bring joy, and the absence of a contrasting background make the widgets less distinguishable from it.

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Thanks, Priya. I would still very much like the ability to shade the background as well as the top and sidebars.

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In addition to making it fun, I found the different colors really helpful in managing multiple accounts (Sandbox vs Prod vs Asanaverse). Now it’s harder to pick up on it if you’re navigating in the wrong account.

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