We're starting small - we'll ramp up with the big new features, changes, and ideas in the months ahead. Shortly we'll reveal the first batch of updates, including a design refresh and the ability to add multiple tools to a project (so individual projects can have multiple message boards, or multiple campfire chat rooms, for example). And we'll do our best to preview any major changes before they launch, and explain all the new stuff once it goes live. You won't have to do anything - you'll just notice the new stuff as it comes in. Naturally there may be some changes that are bigger than others, but we'll be mindful about impact as we go. We'll be updating the interface too, gently and incrementally, to help customers adapt as we go, rather than be surprised by big sweeping changes one random day. We'll be carefully rolling out changes to minimize disruptions. Of course we won't stop after 8 months - Basecamp will continue to get better and better in perpetuity - but within about 8 months or so we expect to have all the major features we were aiming to get into the initial Basecamp 4 release. This means all Basecamp 3 customers will get the new version, and all the new features, automatically, over time, as we go. When we've released all the updates we had planned, Basecamp 3 will officially become Basecamp 4. Rather than release Basecamp 4 in one big drop, and rather than building it out as an entirely separate product, we're going to transform Basecamp 3 into Basecamp 4 by delivering a steady batch of deliberate, regular updates, roughly every 6-8 weeks, over the next 8 months or so. We're going to do things differently this time. That could take 8-12 months of development before customers got the new stuff.įurther, we've always released major new versions as separate products, keeping the previous versions around for customers who wanted to stick with what they knew rather than move to the latest version.
Historically, when we've released a major new update, we've waited until all the new features were done before releasing it one big drop. We're now in the process of building it out for you. We've been working on the conceptual underpinnings of Basecamp 4 for nearly a year. We've been updating Basecamp 3 ever since, and today's version is the best, most popular version of Basecamp we've ever built.īut we're not stopping there. Then we did it again in 2015 with Basecamp 3. In 2012, we followed up with the all-new Basecamp 2, the first major ground-up redesign in the product's history. But first, some history.īasecamp Classic, the very first version of Basecamp, launched in 2004.
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