Scratch • Week ending Friday, May 29.

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Open access. We have removed the waitlist. New users sign up directly, a default workspace gets created for them, and a "Trial" banner sits at the top until they're on a paid plan.
Connections page is in the desktop app. It had been in the web client awaiting migration. This is now the default; the old web flow is gone.
Rich text and markdown previews in the field view. HTML renders as styled output; markdown converts to HTML and goes through the same widget. Linear descriptions, Intercom, Brevo, and WordPress fields all benefit.
Validation has a desktop app UI. New menu and page with a sticky on/off switch, a Problems tab, and a Validators tab. Folders with errors get red dots in the sidebar.
Webflow publishes go live in one round-trip instead of leaving items staged. isArchived and isDraft are writable now.
scratchmd is reachable from Cowork. The Scratch app menu has an Install/Uninstall Command Line Tools item, and the generated CLAUDE.md tells sandboxed agents how to route through the Control your Mac MCP.
Notion now lists Data Sources as tables instead of treating each Database as one. Required by Notion's new API. Pinned to API version 2025-09-03.

Python validators are ~100x faster. Shared interpreter, with a per-invocation fallback if anything misbehaves.
Workspaces in iCloud, Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, and Box are refused. Cloud sync was corrupting git repos. New workspaces in synced roots get blocked at folder pick; existing ones see a banner with a "Move workspace" affordance.
Friendlier reinit flow. Opening a pre-refactor workspace used to dump a wall of text into a "Publish failed" alert. Now it's a single "Reinitialize workspace" modal.
Desktop bundles its own git (~27 MB), so we don't rely on whatever the user has installed.

Pulls were silently dropping records when a new record's suggested filename matched another record's prior filename across batches. Seen in prod as a 128-record gap on an Airtable CRM.
Diff detection now works for dot-path fields.
Discard-and-publish button works again.
Edits to an approved-but-unpublished record now apply.
Workspace switch no longer leaves a stale folder selected.
Button clicks on collapsed rows aren't intercepted anymore.
A handful of post-publish wobbles: stale gix index, JSON trailing-newline consistency, the reconcile flow.