Release notes · 13 November 2026

Burnish

Burnishing is the last pass in metalwork: polishing a surface until it shines. Most of this release is that pass.

Fixes and small improvements from what our beta testers told us. It also brings Foundry, a page for making components, a new layout for the desktop, and a calmer, more focused phone app.

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Changes
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Sections
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The headline

A new layout

A redesign of our UI kit overall, focused on better clarity across all screens. This is a noticeable upgrade over the previous design language across the app and we hope you love it as much as we do.

Where you’ll see it

  • Side menu
  • Overview
  • Tokens
  • Tokenwright
  • Command Center and reviews
  • Releases and rollouts
  • Propose a release
  • Compare
  • Components
  • Import components
  • Icons & Logos
  • Brand Book
  • Settings, Organization and Brand settings
  • Beta page
  • Dialogs and wizards

01 / 04

Bug fixes

Reviews

  • Publish no longer waits for Update from Tokens once component pictures land.
  • The decision panel keeps its padding and never scrolls sideways.
  • Component pictures side by side line up under their state headings.

Brand Book

  • Shows only the Brand’s own logo or a monogram, never the workspace’s.
  • Logos, pictures and Draw it live stay inside their plates and cards.
  • More tokens rows, the type table and changelog versions no longer break.
  • Sample template links open the template instead of a 404.

Tokens & Tokenwright

  • A token can no longer point at itself or loop through aliases.
  • A new token set starts empty and never lands on a theme unseen.
  • Design tools keep their state; overlays take focus without scrolling the page.
  • See its tokens opens Tokenwright’s flow, not the last view you used.

Sample Brand

  • Making the sample Brand no longer fails on its name.
  • If it does fail, it says why in plain words, with Try again.
  • Sample logo sets load correctly.

Across the app

  • Desktop pages open in a narrow or zoomed window.
  • After an update, clicking from an older page lands where you meant.
  • Pages no longer flicker blank just after loading.
  • The Spotlight tour card no longer overflows.

02 / 04

Technical improvements

CLI, MCP & REST

  • CLI 0.13: icons push and logos push from a folder, files or a zip.
  • MCP add_icons, add_logos and propose_asset_release; matching REST endpoints.
  • Create token sets, axes and modes from MCP, REST or the CLI.
  • MCP find_tailwind_defaults lists untouched Tailwind defaults in a set.

Component previews

  • Previews carry clsx, tailwind-merge and class-variance-authority, so shadcn-style components draw.
  • Stored component sources stand alone, with helpers like cn inlined.
  • components push --check names and counts every package a preview can’t carry.
  • A picture a preview can’t load is named, not left as a blank box.

CI and setup

  • Generated pipelines run a pinned CLI (stoaken@0.13), never @latest.
  • stoaken init asks which branch the workflow opens pull requests against.
  • A folder that isn’t signed in says so; worktrees use their main checkout’s sign-in.

Performance and loading

  • The sample Brand builds about twice as fast.
  • Fonts load without shifting the page.
  • Card grids, Overview, Tokens and Icons shift far less as they load.
  • Page styles load with their page, so nothing flashes unstyled.
  • An open review makes no extra server calls while it sits.

03 / 04

New features

Foundry

  • Making or changing a component has its own page: Foundry.
  • Bring your own code: paste a React component and get suggested token bindings.
  • A preview stage with zoom, light and dark, and live states like hover and focus.
  • Drop a screenshot or paste a link to find the closest base component.
  • A reload returns to your step; unfinished components stay as a draft.
  • Compile errors point at their line, with a hint.

Components

  • A new 'Needs a decision' row with before-and-after pictures you drag across.
  • Components grouped into families, with a jump list and a coverage strip.
  • Import in batches: one Review with confidence, family groups and one-click accept.
  • Figma pair suggestions with a score and reasons, linked in one click.
  • Propose a fix for Figma and code drift in the next release.
  • Pick a Brand logo to stand in where a preview can’t load a picture.

Reviews

  • Comment on icon, logo and logo-set changes, as on token changes.
  • A release can carry a one-line title beside its version.

Tokens & Tokenwright

  • Contrast checker: pick any colour, then save it to the token in one step.
  • Add light and dark modes to a theme you already have.
  • Tailwind imports start on Only what was changed; unused defaults can be removed.
  • Tokenwright now sits in Work in the side menu.

Icons & Logos

  • Icon names may now use underscores, like arrow_back.
  • A favicon .ico can be a logo, with its sizes shown.
  • Add several logos at once, or a whole folder or zip.

Getting started

  • Your path, first in Help & feedback: To help users to their next steps.
  • A fuller sample Brand: icons, logos, twelve components and a guide book.
  • Propose only: releases you make in the browser always wait for a decision.
  • Sign-in starts with one line of ours saying WorkOS handles it.

04 / 04

Visual improvements

Across the app

  • Dialogs and wizards share one frame that fits each step.
  • Moving between pages is now a smoother fade
  • A loading ripple replaces laggy skeletons (spooky).
  • Appearance settings trimmed to View, Spotlight tours and Theme.

Reviews

  • Logo changes are grouped by set, before and after side by side.
  • Components affected reads as a calm, aligned list.
  • More than five icon or logo changes get a full-width row.

Brand Book

  • Called Brand Book everywhere: the side menu, the palette and help.
  • A calm entrance, and a full-page veil while a book rebuilds.
  • Sharing is one compact line.
  • In this book tiles show how each tab starts.

Phones

Stoaken is a desktop tool by choice. On a phone it does what can’t wait, and does it well.

  • A slim top bar, a tab bar with a gliding marker, and More as a sheet.
  • Reviews read in one column, with Approve, Send back and Hand off in reach of your thumb.
  • Overview, Releases and the Beta page fit one column; Dev tracker lanes swipe sideways.
  • Settings, Organization and Brand settings open as a list of pages, each with Back.
  • Dialogs rise from the bottom as sheets that close with a swipe down.
  • Every button and link is at least 44 px to tap, and fields never make iOS zoom.
  • Pages made for a desktop say so kindly and copy their link for your computer.
  • The website reads well on phones: a menu sheet, folding footer, plan tabs and swipeable screens.
  • Docs, Help and the Brand Book get their contents in a sheet; long code scrolls on its own.

Website

  • Real screens of the app on the home and product pages.
  • A 404 page that suggests the closest match, and a new footer.
  • Community’s tag pills became a filter panel with counts and search.

Shaped by the people who use it. Thank you, beta testers.

Found something we should fix next? Tell us from Help & feedback in the app, or write to us. It reaches a person.