Release Notes

Connectors & Data Sources

• xWiki Connector — Connect an xWiki instance to index and search its pages directly from QAnswer.
• SharePoint Document-Level Permissions — Index and search SharePoint documents while ensuring each user only sees the files they are already allowed to access.
• Image Uploads for Document Connectors — Upload images to the document connector so they can be indexed and retrieved alongside other documents.
• Assistant Reindexing — Reindex an assistant's data after changing the embedder, chunking strategy, or parsing settings.

Integrations

• Microsoft Teams Custom Bot — Expose a QAnswer assistant as a tenant-branded Microsoft Teams bot through Azure, with support for files, questions, and suggested replies.

Assistants & Conversations

• Conversation Retention Policy — Define how long conversations are kept before they are automatically removed, helping teams meet data-governance requirements.

MCP

• Custom Header Support — Send custom HTTP headers to MCP servers, enabling authentication and routing scenarios that require additional header values.

Administration

• Configurable Login Page — On-premise clients can customize the login page to match their branding and access requirements.

AI Models & Embeddings

• Document Processing Controls — Customize the LLM parsing prompt and document chunking behavior before indexing, so extraction and retrieval better fit each content type.

Assistant & Tasks

• AI Spreadsheet — Improved the AI Spreadsheet with a cleaner user experience and expanded capabilities for editing, exploring, and working with structured data.
• Suggested Questions — Added automatic question suggestions to help users continue conversations, explore relevant follow-up questions, and get more value from assistant responses.

MCP & Tool Calling

• Microsoft Teams Tools — Added Teams tools using Microsoft Graph APIs.
• Document Generator MCP — Added capabilities to generate Word documents from templates and create PowerPoint, PDF, and Excel documents.

Organizations & Administration

• Organization Creation UI Redesign — Redesigned the organization creation user experience.
• Quota & Credits Management — Improved handling of user credits, assistant quotas, external resource quota behavior, and organization quota display.
• Custom Rate Limits — Added support for custom rate limits per user.

MCP & Tool Calling

• MCP Tool Confirmation Defaults — Define default ask-for-confirmation settings per MCP tool, giving admins finer control over tool execution policies.
• Revamped MCP Tools Dialog — Completely redesigned the MCP tools management interface for clearer configuration and editing workflows.
• Google Workspace MCP Upgrade — Upgraded the Google Workspace MCP server to sync with the latest upstream release (v1.14.2).
• Atlassian MCP — Added Atlassian MCP integration for Jira and Confluence workflows.
• GitLab MCP — New MCP server for GitLab, enabling repository and pipeline interactions from chat.
• Web Search as Tool — Web Search is now available as a standalone tool, usable in agentic and MCP-driven workflows.
• Admin MCP Tool Controls — Organization admins can configure default tools (e.g. Web Search) enabled for users within their organization.

Report Generator (Superdoc)

• Superdoc Migration — The Report Generator has been rebuilt on a new editor (Superdoc), replacing the legacy editor with richer text editing and better extensibility.
• Superdoc Image Upload — Images can now be uploaded directly into report templates.
• Bulk Slot Settings — Apply AI writer block settings to all slots at once from the template editor.
• Playground for Report Generator — Switched the playground to use the new Tiptap-based report generator.
• Per-Template Descriptions for Exposing — Each template and task can now have its own description when exposed.
• Report Template in Conversation — Open the last edited report template directly from a conversation context.

Assistants & Chat

• Task-Specific Assistants — Assistants can now be configured per task type, with dedicated icons in the chat task selector and task-based navigation.
• Rich Text Initial Messages — Assistant initial messages now support rich text formatting via the editor.
• Assistant Import from Cross-Instance — Import AI Assistants between different QAnswer instances (e.g. Council → Parliament).
• Assistant Library Categories — Assistants Library now features color-coded categories for easier browsing.
• Evaluate System Prompt — New system to propose and evaluate system prompt effectiveness.
• Reasoning Model Support — Chat and PDF export now support reasoning models and tool calling message types.

Notifications & Feedback

• In-App Notifications — A new in-app notification system delivers real-time alerts across the platform.
• Feedback Evaluation System — Admins and organization evaluators can now review and evaluate user feedback, with separated admin vs. organization evaluation scopes.
• Search Over Logs — Logs are now searchable, enabling faster detection of issues across conversations and events.
• CSV Export for Admin Statistics — Export admin and organization statistics tables to CSV.

Organizations & Quotas

• External Resource Quota Limits — Plans now enforce limits on the number of external resources (links, SharePoint, OneDrive) a user can index.
• Editable External Quotas — Admins can now edit external quota allocations for individual users.
• External Quota Indicators — The user page now displays clear quota usage indicators for external resources.

Connectors

• Publication Office Connector Setup — Publication Office connector deployed and configured for the Parliament environment.
• Connector Configuration in UI — Connector configuration has been moved to the UI, and admins can activate/deactivate connectors and manage customizations directly.
• Separate Connector Availability — Available connector types are now independently configurable between the general chatbot and AI Assistants.

LLM & Embedding

• vLLM v0.17.0 Upgrade — Upgraded the LLM serving layer to vLLM v0.17.0, with flexible startup argument parsing.
• Redesigned LLM Selector — New LLM selector UI with better display of language models and refined refinement controls.
• LLM & Embedder Import/Export with Logos — LLM and embedder export/import now includes logos and cost metadata.

General Features

• MCP Platform Expansion — MCP is now a first-class capability across the platform, unlocking richer tool integrations and more powerful in-chat workflows.
• Assistant Templates Library — Discover, search, and reuse assistant templates to build assistants faster and more consistently.
• Expanded LLM Support — Additional LLMs are now available, giving users more flexibility across assistants and use cases.
• German Language Support — German is now officially supported across the platform.

Organizations & Teams

• Organization Selection — Users belonging to multiple organizations can now select their active one, with tools and models scoped correctly.
• Default LLM Management — Organization and system admins can define default LLMs for their users.
• Domain-Based User Assignment — Admins can configure domains to automatically assign new users to organizations.
• Quota Visibility — Clearer organization and user quota insights, including a new quota bar in the navigation.

Connectors & MCPs

• Google Workspace MCP — Support added for Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Sheets, Slides, and Docs.
• Microsoft 365 MCP Integration — The Microsoft 365 MCP server is now bundled directly with the platform.
• Organization-Level MCP Controls — Admins can enable or disable MCP servers at the organization level.

Assistant Features

• Assistant Reindexing — Assistants can now be reindexed using different embedders.
• Incognito Mode — Private conversations are now supported.
• Assistants Feedback — Users can submit feedback directly in chat; feedback is routed to the assistant owner for review and improvement.

General Features

• AI Spreadsheet — AI Spreadsheet is now available as a task in your assistant.

Organizations & Teams

• Unbranded Widget Option — New option to remove branding from widget.
• Improved Teams & Permissions — More granular control on shared conversations.
• Assistant Sharing — Organization admins can now approve or reject assistant sharing requests submitted by non-admin users, with automatic email notifications.
• Organization User Assignment — Organization admins can now configure multiple domains to auto-assign signups to organizations.

Connectors

• Improved Audio Connector — Improved audio source highlighting.
• SharePoint Enhancements — Added ability to exclude SharePoint drafts from indexing.
• File View Improvements — Better responsiveness of file indexing statuses, and display of connector/file sizes.

General Features

• EU Login OAuth — Authenticate directly with your EU Login account for faster, unified, and compliant access across the platform.
• Duplicate Assistant — Create complete copies of existing assistants—including settings, data, templates, and configurations to streamline reuse.

Report Generator

• Simplified Template Sharing — Enhanced the workflow for exposing report templates, making it easier to share and generate reports.
• Fine-Grained Data Control — Added more precise data control in exposed templates, allowing better customization and flexibility.
• UI Tweaks — Small improvements to the interface for a smoother user experience.
• Performance Boost — Optimized performance for faster and more efficient operation.

Organizations & Teams

• Organization Synonym Lists — Admins can define or bulk-upload synonym lists specific to their workspace. All members instantly benefit across all assistants.

Connectors

• New Audio Connector — Upload an audio file and convert it to text, either as a raw transcription or a structured dialogue with speaker diarization.

General Features

• Better Email Notifications system — Improved notification delivery and management.
• Microsoft OAuth Option — Sign in directly with your Microsoft account.
• Automatically map users to organizations using OAuth information.

Report Generator

• Versioning and feedback integration inside blocks.
• Generate-All now updates templates even when completion fields are empty.
• Template search & pagination (API + UI).
• Rename template names (UI + backend).
• "Expose" flow refinements and re-expose page.
• Add author and email column to templates table.

AI Documents

• Enhanced Context Mode — Introduces support for Enhanced Context Mode, improving how large documents are processed. [Premium Feature]
• Improved document chunking — Text is now split into smaller, overlapping units (by words, sentences, or pages) for more accurate retrieval and context handling.
• Enhanced Excel support — Choose between raw table extraction or parsing each row as text for better flexibility.
• Optimized LLM task handling — Tasks now automatically adapt to the model's maximum context size.
• File management upgrade — Display names can now be renamed directly.

Organizations & Teams

• Organization-level branding — Customize branding at the organization level.

Security & LLM

• LLM Guardrails — Implemented guardrails for more predictable model behavior.
• LLM Security Layer — Actively prevents jailbreak attempts.

Settings & Conversations

• Improved settings drawer UX — Clearer save button state, better explanation of prompt slots, and clearer configuration names/descriptions.
• New Conversation Saving Policy — Configure how your conversations are stored: Store All, Discard All, or Store Anonymized.
• Visibility Settings for Logs — Configure conversations visibility: share with all users, not shared, or share with assistant owner only.

Report Generator

• Reference previous report blocks when generating content.
• Expose augmented prompt for transparency.
• Pattern support to point to previous slots.
• Expose report generator endpoints.

Smarter Chat Experience

• Agentic Chatbot — Introduces agentic behavior where the assistant performs actions proactively and provides explanatory messages detailing each executed step.

Customization & Control

• LLM & Embedding Provider Customization — Choose the models and providers that fit your needs.
• Banner for LLM Types — Clear visibility whether you're using QAnswer's own models (on-premise) or external ones.
• Clip on Assistants — Upload data directly in assistant task chats, synced with the global chatbot clip feature.

Better Search & Filtering

• Improved Facets — Auto-generated filters are now clearer and easier to use.
• Auto Date Filtering — Search results can now be narrowed down by date automatically.
• Facets on Search — Enhanced filters to help you quickly find what you need.
• Cited Sources with Dates & Icons — Sources now include refresh dates (optional) and helpful icons.
• Query Expansion — Expand the original query with additional terms or phrases.

New Integrations & Connectors

• Confluence Integration — Connect and search your Confluence spaces.
• Publication Office Connector — Unified with the new facets experience.
• EConsilium Connector — Another powerful integration for your workflow.
• Docling-as-a-Service — Seamless access to external docling service.
• SharePoint Search by Item Types — Find the right kind of content faster.

User Experience & UI

• Quota Exceeded Redirect — Users are now guided to their quota page when limits are reached.
• Access-PDF Experience — New loader and better disabling for a smoother experience.
• Role-based Access — Paths are now restricted based on user roles.
• General CSS Fixes — Cleaner design, reduced scrolling issues, and a more polished look.

Search & Transparency

• Smarter Answer Highlighting — Sentence fragment highlighting, numbered references, and direct scroll-to-source in large documents.
• Prompt Transparency — Inspect the full prompt structure including system instructions, retrieved documents, and the final output.

Models & Performance

• Claude 3.7 Sonnet Integration — Fully hosted in the EU and available alongside QAnswer LLM, GPT-4o Mini, and Mistral Medium.

Collaboration & Oversight

• Human-in-the-Loop Support — Seamless switch from AI to human agents within the same chat interface with instant notifications.

Structured Outputs & Language Support

• Smarter Report Generation — Reusable templates, import of Word/Markdown/HTML formats, and enforced structure for standardized reports.
• Smarter Acronym Handling — Acronym definitions injected into prompts for more accurate query understanding and response accuracy.