All major user-facing changes will be logged here.

April 2026

General

  • All team-facing interface are now available in French. Thanks to Étienne for the contribution!

FTA notepad

  • Added an indicator to notes that have been sent to a CSA or LRI
  • Added support for team-level notes that aren’t associated with a specific match
  • Added a way to quickly jump between any of a team’s matches
  • Added support for adding the same note to all teams in a match

Inspection

  • Added toggle to change the text truncation behavior on the main team inspection checklist page (three dots to the right of the “Checklist” header)
  • Rules in the main team inspection checklist page now directly open the game manual (no need to click through to the inspection item first)

Multi-division events

  • Added support for managing announcements and parts requests across multiple divisions from the same page
  • Added display for announcements & parts requests across multiple divisions

March 2026

Inspection

  • Updated the hover/focus state of inspection checklist check buttons to make them appear distinct from already checkeded items
  • Added reinspection icon to inspection map view
  • When a team is in the inspection queue, their status will now display as “In inspection queue” instead of “No inspector assigned”
  • The “Start playoff reinspection” button will now only be displayed to users with the Lead robot inspector role
  • On the LRI requests page, details on when the start of the last round of qualification matches will be is now be displayed
  • Teams with an item flagged for the LRI will appear with a yellow border on the inspection map

Queuing

  • If the event is using Nexus for inspection, teams that have not passed an initial, complete inspection will be shown with a yellow strikethrough in qualification matches. Check with the LRI and field staff to determine if the team is elligible to play per I102
  • Practice matches scheduled across multiple days will now have an “End of day” break inserted into the correct position by default
  • Updated queuing notification text for matches that queue before opening ceremonies to make it clearer that queuing before ceremonies is optional and teams just need to be match ready by the scheduled match start time

General

  • Made volunteer invite and team QR codes larger so they are easier to scan when dispayed on a phone
  • Reordered inspection & played columns on the teams page

February 2026

FRC inspection

  • Updated checklist to 2026 rev 0

Test area / practice field

  • Added new feature to manage queues and timers for timed test areas (FRC) / practice fields (FTC) based on the system used at the 2025 FRC Championship playgrounds
  • Once configured, teams can see estimated wait times on their dashboards
  • View full documentation

CSA requests

  • Any volunteer with Nexus access can now request a CSA on behalf of a team by navigating to the “Request CSA” page in the volunteer menu

Multi-division event features

Events with multiple divisions can now utilize additional features that combine data from all divisions.

  • Multi-division queue entrance interface and queuing status display
  • Multi-division pit maps
  • Multi-division inspection dashboard
  • View full documentation

January 2026

FTC queuing

  • Added setting to enable queuing an extra match (for events that want to queue 3 matches deep instead of 2)

FTC inspection

  • Added item to the inspection checklist to scan the robot controller inspection report QR code. The raw QR code data is included in the inspection data export. For testing purposes, you can use this demo QR code:

Inspection status API

  • Added pull API to retrieve the high-level inspection status for all teams at an event (FRC docs, FTC docs)

October 2025

FTC inspection

  • Inspection checklist version 25-26.1 is now available for the FTC Nexus inspection tool and PRECHECK

Manual match import

  • Added toggle to switch between import formats that put red or blue alliance first:
    • FRC FMS: Blue first
    • FRC Cheesy Arena: Red first
    • FTC: Red first
  • Added input for field number (FTC only)

August 2025

General

  • Nexus is now available in Traditional Chinese thanks to Ting from team 8585!

July 2025

Versus

  • Versus, a premium crowd engagement platform, is now generally available following successful trials at Bay Area FRC regional events earlier this year

General

  • Added confirmation modals for potentially destructive actions, like revoking user access and disconnecting inspection Slack

Inspection

  • The bumper weight inspection item now allows bumper weight or total weight to be entered before robot weight
  • When editing total weight after robot weight and bumper weight are set, the robot weight will be updated instead of the bumper weight
  • The “Waiting for inspector” queue can now be manually reordered from the main inspection landing page
  • Slack/Discord inspection confirmation messages sent to teams now include the initial robot and bumper weights

Queuing

  • In the main queuing screen, teams that are not checked in for the current match on field will be outlined in yellow
  • Alliance selection representative check-in is now hidden by default on the main queuing dashboard. This is no longer required since alliance selection now always starts 8 minutes after the last match, whether all teams are present or not. If you still need to check teams off, the option is available in the menu next to the alliance selection break.

Pit maps

  • A new menu option was added to the pit mapper that allows you to import a pit map from a previous event

API

  • A new endpoint was added to pull a list of all upcoming events registered for Nexus
  • A new endpoint was added to pull the data to render your own pit map
Changes