May Allspice updates: Faster workflows and how to enable AI for hardware

May was a shipping spree. Whether you’re reviewing, managing repos, or moving large projects, there’s something new for you in Allspice. Plus, our CEO, Valentina shows how to use AI to redesign hardware workflows, linked below.

📝 View all product updates in detail on our Headway changelog. Updated every Thursday.

May Allspice updates lead image showing a DRCY connections checker review, with feature tags for What’s New notifications, main branch protection, full schematic in reviews, and refreshed API docs.
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November 11, 2026

🔔 Never miss a product update again

Integrated “What’s New” notifications

You can now see newly released features directly inside Allspice. Click the new megaphone icon to view product updates, workflow improvements, and release notes without leaving the app.

Allspice toolbar with the megaphone What’s New button showing three new updates, next to help, create, and profile menus.

→Read the Headway update here

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🔒Default Main Branch Protection

Your repo’s main branch is now protected by default.

Reviews stay consistent and accidental direct changes get caught before they cause headaches. No more chasing down who accidentally pushed what to main.

→Read the full update here

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👀 Easily View Unchanged Schematic Sheets

The whole schematic, in one place.

Previously you only the schematic sheets that changed in a Design Review. Now the full schematic loads with the review, so every page is available to comment on, reference, or scroll through, not just the ones touched in the diff.

→Read the full update here

Allspice design review titled Fix power issues, add fault LED, showing the full list of schematic sheets in the file tree and a schematic page with a fault header.

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🛠 API docs got a refresh

The docs got a makeover! We cleaned up the API documentation experience to make it easier to navigate and much more user friendly.

Updates include:

  • Better endpoint organization
  • Improved navigation
  • Faster access to examples and reference details

➡️ Explore the docs

Community News

AI Orchestration for Hardware

Allspice live webinar banner, How high-performing hardware teams are redesigning engineering workflows for AI, featuring CEO Valentina Ratner on Thursday, May 14, 2026.

Missed our live webinar with CEO Valentina Ratner on how high-performing hardware teams use AI to redesign engineering workflows? No worries, catch up here:

🥳 DRCY hits the stage at ACM CAIS '26

Earlier this year, our DRCY paper was accepted and published at CAIS.

The gist: how multi-agent reviews in DRCY help catch schematic issues before boards get built.

Yesterday, we were invited to present DRCY live at the very first ACM Conference on AI and Agentic Systems (CAIS '26) in San Jose. It was our favorite kind of session: fast-paced, technical, and rooms full of engineers engaged in AI.

Huge congrats to the AllSpice team for making it happen!

Allspice team presenting a DRCY poster to attendees at ACM CAIS ‘26 in San Jose.

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That’s all for this month folks. Thank you for being part of the AllSpice community. If you have any questions, want to see a demo, or are interested in new features, don’t hesitate to reach out.

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Valentina Ratner, Co-Founder & CEO of AllSpice
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