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Just as important is the governance side: column-level database permissions now control which properties each person — or agent — can view or edit, which is the difference between an agent that can be trusted with a database and one that can't. The release also rebuilt synced databases for GitHub, Jira, and Salesforce, upgraded version history across both pages and databases, and lets you draw on a ChatGPT Plus or Pro plan for AI usage inside Notion.\n\nThe SDK server-side story got a quick correction too. After the previous version threw `BrowserTokenNotAllowedError` in Cloudflare Workers and Deno worker threads, [Notion's JS SDK stopped mistaking server runtimes for browsers](/release/rel_xyWK-MtypsIsl3q-5oPaa-notion-sdk-js-v5-27-1-fixes-cloudflare-workers-and-deno-browser-misdetection), restoring client creation with auth and the user-agent header — and letting server code drop the `dangerouslyAllowBrowser` workaround.\n\n### Figma's context-and-code push\n\nAt Config India 2026, Figma [unveiled tools for building with code, capturing and sharing context, and designing with real data and content](/release/rel_qQWCM8HfkefOgIXBEkIs7-figma-unveils-new-tools-for-code-context-capture-and-real-data-at-config-india) — a triple that lines up closely with where Notion is heading, each product trying to keep design and product context alive across the tools that consume it.\n\nFigma Make, meanwhile, is [rolling out Gemini 4 Argon](/release/rel_HN98gbVO75GE-ZBbu4D4O-figma-make-rolls-out-gemini-4-argon), giving prompt-to-interface work a newer model underneath it. For teams shipping code from those designs, [Code Connect now reports preflight validation failures](/release/rel_RwFF-5jsv1a1DUUdHW1Wl-figma-code-connect-2-0-2-adds-preflight-telemetry-and-fixes-file-discovery) back to Figma (opt out with `DO_NOT_TRACK=1`), confirms the active library and framework on Professional plans when publishing, and fixes file discovery in folders with special characters, text-layer filtering crashes in `findLayers`, and vague \"fetch failed\" errors that now report the underlying cause.\n\n### Lighter updates under the hood\n\nTwo products kept it quiet. Slack's [latest desktop build is a speed and leanness pass](/release/rel_pQ5JQ4G0wVclScl5CMIQ3-slack-26-10-20) with bug fixes, and [Linear Mobile picked up assorted fixes and minor improvements](/release/rel_X6uqjjFq8zXAE1MuK74RW-linear-mobile-1-104-0). Notion's [app build added its own bug fixes and performance work](/release/rel_oYl9pl2xk9B3yfgqwTSL7-notion-1-7-346-bug-fixes-and-performance-improvements) alongside the 3.8 launch. None of it changes workflows; all of it is the kind of maintenance you notice only when it's missing.\n\nThe throughline: Notion and Figma both spent the week making their products a place where context accumulates and agents can use it, while the smaller releases focused on the dependable groundwork underneath.","releaseIds":["rel__wRgrYN5sghQYhrMdVIrP","rel_xyWK-MtypsIsl3q-5oPaa","rel_qQWCM8HfkefOgIXBEkIs7","rel_HN98gbVO75GE-ZBbu4D4O","rel_RwFF-5jsv1a1DUUdHW1Wl","rel_pQ5JQ4G0wVclScl5CMIQ3","rel_X6uqjjFq8zXAE1MuK74RW","rel_oYl9pl2xk9B3yfgqwTSL7"],"releaseCount":8,"generatedAt":"2026-10-19T06:21:07.428Z","releases":[{"id":"rel__wRgrYN5sghQYhrMdVIrP","title":"Notion 3.8 connects agents via MCP and adds column-level database 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