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Introducing Bolt Forge

September 15, 2026

Bolt Forge is free until October 14, 2026, with up to 50x more usage, GLM, DeepSeek, and Kimi models, and zero usage charges. It is live now in the Bolt.new model picker.

Bolt Slides Gets Major Updates

September 10, 2026

Bolt Slides now lets you edit slides directly on the canvas, reorder, duplicate, and delete them with one click, draw while presenting, use speaker notes presentation view, and export to PDF or publish to a real URL.

Prompt Queueing

August 27, 2026

Prompt queueing is live in Bolt, so a follow-up can be sent while a build is still running. Queued prompts send themselves in order as each one finishes.

Agentic Security Engineer, Free by Default

July 30, 2026

Bolt is shipping a security engineer into every Bolt project. AI made building faster, but it made attackers faster too, so Bolt made state-of-the-art agentic security the default, for free.

Stackable Team Skills

July 22, 2026

There's a whole new way to use skills in Bolt. Every skill your teammates build is now yours too, and they stack: one prompt triggers all of them, automatically.

Bolt Slides Is Now Open Source

July 16, 2026

Bolt open sourced Bolt Slides, the building blocks any agent (Claude Code, Codex, Bolt) can use to compose presentations. Every deck is a real web app with responsive slides, presenter mode, annotations, and 20+ layout components, and each slide is a plain React component. A bundled skill teaches the agent how to theme, compose, and write the deck from a single prompt.

Sonnet 5 in Bolt

June 30, 2026

Claude Sonnet 5 is now part of Bolt's agent, with rollout to users beginning shortly.

SOC 2 Type II

June 6, 2026

Bolt is now SOC 2 Type II compliant.

Bolt.new on Microsoft Azure

May 6, 2026

Bolt.new is now on Microsoft Azure — bringing the full-stack AI app builder to Azure customers.

Rebuilt Project Sharing

April 23, 2026

Rebuilt project sharing from the ground up. Inviteteammates as Viewer, Editor, or Co-owner. Share with one person, your whole team, or via link. Publishing is now separate: pick public or private with trusted domains.

Refreshed Homepage

April 23, 2026

New projects dashboard puts personal and team projects in one place. Thumbnails help you find what you need, star favorites, rename or transfer in one click.

Multiplayer is Live

April 21, 2026

Open any project and see who else is in it, when they're typing, and the full shared chat history. One project, one thread, one source of truth.

New Shaders Connector

April 21, 2026

Hundreds of animated, WebGPU-powered presets from Shaders now one prompt away inside any Bolt project. The easiest way to give your build the kind of visual polish that used to take custom work.

Smarter Select Tool

April 20, 2026

Click any element in your preview and Bolt picks the topmost useful layer. Need finer control? Toggle 'Pick from layers', or Alt-click to target a specific layer.

GitHub Connector MCP — Copy Components Between Projects

April 18, 2026

Use the Bolt GitHub Connector (MCP) to copy and paste components between projects. Pull from any open-source repo and port codebases across languages.

Opus 4.7 Live in Bolt

April 18, 2026

Opus 4.7 is live in Bolt. The best app builder needs the best model underneath it. Highest score ever clocked on long, complex builds.

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