What's new
What's new in July 2026
Everything we shipped to BoardPal in July 2026.
Jul 22 to 31 · 12 fixes
30Jul · Thu
Three fixes you reported
Fixed- Fixed
Tapping a Vault topic now redoes your misses instead of serving new questions. more ▾less ▴
In your Vault, tapping a topic under "Where your pile is heaviest" started a set of brand-new questions instead of the misses you went there to redo. Each row now leads with a red "Redo" chip that takes you straight to that topic's pile, with "Drill fresh" kept alongside for when you do want new material.
- Fixed
The streak tile now shows how many questions the day still needs. more ▾less ▴
Your streak needs a set number of questions in a day, and nothing on screen ever said so — students who answered a few questions and still lost a streak had no way to know why. The streak tile on your dashboard now shows how many questions the day still needs, fills as you go, and marks itself once the day is safe. A flashcard review or a mock section counts the day too.
- Fixed
A two-hour outage on mock and diagnostic reviews was fixed. No answers were lost. more ▾less ▴
For about two hours on July 30, opening a finished mock board or diagnostic review showed an error screen instead of your answers. Nothing was lost — every answer and score was safe the whole time, and the reviews opened normally again once it was fixed.
- Fixed
29Jul · Wed
Cleaner references under each rationale
Fixed- Fixed
The Hematology topic's rationales now carry their references. more ▾less ▴
The new Hematologic Disorders topic had no references under its rationales. It does now.
- Fixed
26Jul · Sun
A smoother, safer cram-sheet reader
Fixed- Fixed
Old open tabs can no longer overwrite your newer marks. more ▾less ▴
Your highlights and pen marks can no longer be overwritten by an old BoardPal tab left open on another device or from days ago. If two copies of a sheet disagree, BoardPal now keeps the marks from both instead of letting the older one win silently.
- Fixed
Pinch zoom holds the page steady under your fingers. more ▾less ▴
Pinch-zooming no longer makes the page crawl up or down while you zoom. The spot between your fingers stays exactly where it is, at any zoom level and anywhere in the sheet.
Your streak now understands late-night studying
Fixed- Fixed
A session that runs past midnight now counts as one day, not two halves. more ▾less ▴
Studying past midnight no longer splits your work across two days. If you start at 11:30 pm and keep going until 1:00 am, that is one study session and it counts as one day — before this, the questions on either side of midnight were counted separately, so a full session could fail the daily minimum on both halves and reset your streak.
- Fixed
Mock sections worked past midnight now credit the night you sat them. more ▾less ▴
A mock board section you start in the evening and finish after midnight now credits the evening you sat it, not only the day you submitted.
- Fixed
Past streaks broken by these gaps have been restored. more ▾less ▴
Streaks that were broken by any of the above have been recalculated from your actual study history, so your current streak now reflects the days you really studied.
- Fixed
25Jul · Sat
A congratulations email that would have gone to the wrong people
Fixed- Fixed
A placeholder exam date could have triggered a congratulations email. Fixed before any sent. more ▾less ▴
A few days after your exam date, BoardPal sends a "the boards are behind you" message. The trouble is that the exam date on your study plan is a planning date: if you did not know your sitting yet, the date picker filled in a placeholder about three months out. Anyone still carrying a placeholder would have been congratulated for an exam they never sat. We found ten accounts in that position, caught it before the first one was due to go out in August, and the message now only sends when the date lines up with a PNLE that actually took place. Nobody received it.
When a topic runs out of new questions
Fixed- Fixed
Plan tasks no longer get stuck asking for questions that do not exist. more ▾less ▴
A study plan task now completes when you have answered every new question the topic can still give you. Before this, a task that asked for 30 questions in a topic with only 19 left stayed unfinished no matter how much you studied.
- Fixed
Plan progress now counts only the questions you answered in that sitting. more ▾less ▴
Finishing a practice set you had picked up again no longer credits your plan task for questions you answered on an earlier day.
Studying past your exam date, and second rounds
Fixed- Fixed
A second study plan now schedules the mock boards again. more ▾less ▴
Starting a fresh study plan after you have already taken all five mock boards now schedules the mock boards again. Before this, a second run through the Table of Specifications came out with no mock boards in it at all.
- Fixed
Study plans now handle a passed exam date honestly. more ▾less ▴
Your Study Plan now tells you when its window has ended instead of leaving the countdown on "Exam week!", and it points you at starting a fresh round. Rebalance is no longer offered once your exam date has passed, because at that point it could only move every remaining topic onto a single day.
- Fixed
24Jul · Fri
Sticky notes save as you type
Fixed- Fixed
Sticky notes now save automatically while you type. more ▾less ▴
Sticky notes on cram sheets now save automatically while you type, the same way pen and highlighter marks do. Closing the note, pressing back, or losing the page mid-note no longer discards your text.
- Fixed
A mark made mid-save now always reaches your account. more ▾less ▴
Fixed a rare case where a mark made while an earlier save was still in progress would not reach your account until your next change on that page.
Mock board reviews and PDF downloads fixed
Fixed- Fixed
Older mock section reviews show your answers and score again. more ▾less ▴
Reviews of mock board sections you finished before this week's mock board updates show your original answers, rationales, and score again.
- Fixed
A mock updated mid-section asks you to restart instead of scoring zero. more ▾less ▴
If a mock board is updated while your section is still open, submitting now asks you to restart on the new questions instead of recording a wrong zero score.
- Fixed
Cram sheet PDF downloads work again after a long reading session. more ▾less ▴
Downloading a cram sheet as a PDF works again after a long reading session.
- Fixed
23Jul · Thu
You can see which answer you picked
Fixed- Fixed
The choices you didn't pick are easier to read after answering. more ▾less ▴
After you answer in tutor mode, the choices you did not pick are easier to read, so you can still study why each one was wrong while the correct answer stands out.
- Fixed
22Jul · Wed
Smoother writing in the cram-sheet reader, plus PDF downloads
Fixed- Fixed
Handwriting on cram sheets no longer breaks apart. more ▾less ▴
Careful handwriting on cram sheets no longer breaks apart: pausing mid-word no longer turns your ink into a straight line (the shape snap now previews and steps aside the moment you keep writing), and a resting palm or an interrupted stroke keeps what you wrote instead of erasing it.
Passed flashcard days no longer pile up as overdue
Fixed- Fixed
Passed flashcard days no longer read as overdue. more ▾less ▴
Daily flashcards and "Review your mistakes" tasks from past days no longer turn red as overdue — they now show quietly as passed, because nothing was lost: your cards are still due next session and your mistakes stay in the Vault until you clear them. Only topic work you can actually move counts as overdue now, and Rebalance says exactly what it respreads.
- Fixed