Summary

Lean Coffee Table has determined that there is currently no evidence of exposure or compromise
resulting from the PHP2Shell vulnerability.

Details

Lean Coffee Table does not use PHP for our main website we do however make use of Word Press which is a PHP application and hosted in a separate data centre to our main site for news articles.

On the 21 October 2026 out of an abundance of caution Lean Coffee Table blocked access to our Word Press Blog from the Internet so we could asses the situation as part of procedures found in our Information Security Management System.

We pulled down the logs files from the server and analysed them for traces of the PHP2Shell exploit and found none. We then contacted our hosting provider regarding the exploit who advised us they had blocked the signature for the attack at the firewall and that it was not necessary to block access to our blog system as their in-house security team had proactively acted on the announcement made by the PHP team.

If you require further information, please contact us.

Dark Mode in Retro’s

We’ve heard you, dark mode wasn’t quite working before and we’ve now gone and fixed it! 

The order of retro cards kept on changing

This was a frustrating one. We were frustrated by it too! We also use Lean Coffee Table for our own Retrospectives and nothing is more frustrating than your Retro topics ordered by vote suddenly not being ordered. This has now been fixed, but if you find any more issues, please let us know. 

Retrospectives & Action Boards

Retrospectives and Actions Boards are now out of beta and have been officially launched!

You can now run retros and store actions from both Lean Coffee Table and Retrospectives in one place. Turn Retrospective output into Action Outcomes and see your team improve!

How do I get it?

Retrospectives and Action Boards are included at no extra charge as part of our new pricing structure. Log into your Lean Coffee Table account and you should see an option to get Retrospectives and Action Boards. 

Let’s take a look!

A new retro comes with three generic columns. However you don’t need to keep these columns you can rename them and add new ones or delete them if you wish. 

A Retro has 4 stages these are Create Topics, Vote on Topics, Discuss Topics and Review. We’ll be going into more details on these below.

Create Topics

After you have setup the columns you want, this is the first stage of your Retro. Get your team to come up with topics and populate them under the columns they fit under best. If you have similar topics you can merge these together. Want to keep your team on their toes? Set a timer for how long they have to create topics.

Vote on Topics

Now that you have created and merged similiar topics together. Its now time to vote on the topics you wish to discuss. Once again you can set a timer to keep your retro on scheduel.

Discuss Topics

Hitting the Discuss Topics tab at the top of your screen will automatically sort your topics by vote. Click on the Discuss button on the topic you wish to discuss and a dialogue box will appear for everyone to focus on that particular topic.

Set a timer to keep your team on track. Everyone can add Actions, Learnings and comments to the currently being discussed topic.  

Review

Once you have finished discussing your topics you can click on the Review tab. This will list all of the actions and learnings that have been collected during your retrospective. 

Learnings and Actions can be exported as a CSV file. Actions can also be exported to our new Action Boards by simply selecting them and hitting the Export Actions button. If you have already linked an Action to an Action Board this link will appear on the action.

You can select an existing Action Board or you can create a new one.

Action Boards

Action Boards are just as flexible as Retrospective Boards. You can add and remove columns. Manually add actions or export actions to them from a Lean Coffee Table Board or a Retrospective board. Action Boards also enable you to assign actions and will provide a link back to the Retrospective or Lean Coffee Table board they were orginally created on. 

Retrospectives & Action Boards now in beta

We are thrilled to introduce the new Retrospective and Action boards. Now you can run retros and store actions from both Lean Coffee Table and Retrospectives in one place. Turn Retrospective output into Action Outcomes and see your team improve!

Join the Beta!

If you would like to join the Retro & Action Board beta please get in touch

Let’s take a look!

A new retro comes with three generic columns. However you don’t need to keep these columns you can rename them and add new ones or delete them if you wish. 

A Retro has 4 stages these are Create Topics, Vote on Topics, Discuss Topics and Review. We’ll be going into more details on these below.

Create Topics

After you have setup the columns you want, this is the first stage of your Retro. Get your team to come up with topics and populate them under the columns they fit under best. If you have similar topics you can merge these together. Want to keep your team on their toes? Set a timer for how long they have to create topics.

Vote on Topics

Now that you have created and merged similiar topics together. Its now time to vote on the topics you wish to discuss. Once again you can set a timer to keep your retro on scheduel.

Discuss Topics

Hitting the Discuss Topics tab at the top of your screen will automatically sort your topics by vote. Click on the Discuss button on the topic you wish to discuss and a dialogue box will appear for everyone to focus on that particular topic.

Set a timer to keep your team on track. Everyone can add Actions, Learnings and comments to the currently being discussed topic.  

Review

Once you have finished discussing your topics you can click on the Review tab. This will list all of the actions and learnings that have been collected during your retrospective. 

Learnings and Actions can be exported as a CSV file. Actions can also be exported to our new Action Boards by simply selecting them and hitting the Export Actions button. If you have already linked an Action to an Action Board this link will appear on the action.

You can select an existing Action Board or you can create a new one.

Action Boards

Action Boards are just as flexible as Retrospective Boards. You can add and remove columns. Manually add actions or export actions to them from a Lean Coffee Table Board or a Retrospective board. Action Boards also enable you to assign actions and will provide a link back to the Retrospective or Lean Coffee Table board they were orginally created on. 

Need someone else to facilitate?

What if I am on holiday and I need my colleague to facilitate my meeting?
By popular request, we have added the ability to make an attendee into a facilitator to allow them to facilitate or co-facilitate a meeting.

This feature is for “Invite Only” boards.

Let’s take a look!

After setting the board visibility to the above setting, you can change any invited attendee to a facilitator by clicking on the attendee.

Then click “Make Facilitator”

Note that the user will only be a facilitator in the current meeting. 

We’ve given it a revamp

We are excited to announce the release of our revamped Zoom integration! The new design is not only more visually appealing but also much easier to navigate. With just a few clicks, you can start your meeting and collaborate with others in real-time. We believe this update will greatly enhance your experience on our platform and make it even easier for you to connect with others.

Just a reminder

When using our Zoom integration, copy the Zoom link and click “Set Conference Link”