Journal · April 2026
April 2026: the name Crew, task types, Gantt and Jira import
- Covers:
- Last updated:
- Releases:
- 43
- Versions:
- 4.1.0 → 5.2.4
- Release days:
- 13
In April FORGE became Avidia Crew at crew.avidia.ai. Version 5.0 brought the project management a team needs to leave Jira: task types, a hierarchy, releases and a Gantt timeline. A seven-step wizard moves existing Jira projects over.
What shipped
- v4.1.0: audit trail, templates, reports, email notifications, artifact approval and project budgets.
- v4.2.0: a public REST API (v1) with inbound and outbound webhooks.
- v4.3.0: live activity on the kanban board and a persistent memory per project for the agents.
- v4.4.0 (15 Apr): FORGE is renamed Avidia Crew and moves to crew.avidia.ai.
- v4.7.0: task boards, a clients module and a view of project finances in the client portal.
- v5.0.0-beta.1 to beta.3 (25 Apr): task types such as Epic, Story, Task and Sub-task, a hierarchy, releases, milestones and an interactive Gantt timeline.
- v5.0.0-beta.8: a Jira Cloud migration wizard in seven steps (connect, project, types, statuses, users, dry run, commit), with rollback and a CSV report.
- v5.1.0-beta.1: four preset workflow schemes (Simple, Development, Complex, Marketing) that each project can choose.
Features
Tasks and boards
Task types, a hierarchy from epic to sub-task, workflow schemes and kanban boards with swimlanes. Moving a task between projects keeps its old key working.
April 2026 chapterPlanning and timeline
A Gantt timeline across all projects with milestones, dependencies and scales from week to year. Planning meetings have a live view and a resource planner.
July 2026 chapter