Release Notes

What ships in each QAnswer release — new capabilities, fixes, and improvements, with links to the matching documentation.

The full changelog, including earlier releases, lives on the QAnswer website:qanswer.ai/ressources/changelog

v5.0.0

Latest

31 August 2026

Features & New Capabilities

Interface & Experience

  • Application-Wide Visual Refresh — Updated themes, cards, lists, ownership indicators, navigation, and responsive layouts for a more consistent experience.See page

Organizations & Administration

  • Unified Administration Experience — Manage users, tasks, connectors, AI providers, MCP servers, plans, billing, and quotas from consistent organization, team, and platform workspaces.See page
  • Improved User Management — Redesigned platform and organization user pages with clearer account, team, plan, and quota information.See page
  • Granular Resource Access — Configure sharing, activation, ownership, and default resources across users, teams, organizations, and platform scopes.See page
  • Plans, Billing & Quotas — Manage pricing plans, storage allowances, AI consumption, and connector quotas with organization-level enforcement.See page
  • Organization Analytics & Statistics — Monitor engagement, provider consumption, MCP usage, credits, storage, and platform and organization activity through clearer, more consistent and expanded administration dashboards.See page
  • Custom Organization Login Pages — Provide organization-specific login experiences with custom branding and OAuth configuration.See page
  • Broadcasts & Maintenance Notices — Send platform or organization announcements through configurable delivery channels and display scheduled maintenance information.See page

AI Assistants & Conversations

  • Redesigned Assistant Experience — Create, configure, browse, and manage AI Assistants through refreshed editing pages, library cards, and resource views.See page
  • Assistant Ownership Transfer — Transfer ownership of assistants and other supported resources while preserving their configuration and access.See page

MCP & Tool Calling

  • Image Generation — Generate images directly within QAnswer conversations using compatible AI models and tools.See page
  • Improved Web Search — Use live web information and URL content to produce more current, source-backed answers.See page
  • MCP in Report Generator — Use MCP tools directly inside report-generation workflows.See page

AI Models & Providers

  • Expanded Provider Support — Added LiteLLM Proxy, vLLM, and hosted-vLLM options for flexible cloud and on-premise deployments.See page
  • Provider Presets — Create LLM and embedding providers faster using ready-to-use presets and progressive preset loading.See page
  • Prompt Caching — Enable model prompt caching to improve performance and reduce repeated processing.See page
  • Improved Provider Testing — Test connections through a consistent interface with clearer diagnostic messages.See page

Connectors & Document Processing

  • On-Premise SharePoint Connector — Connect on-premise SharePoint environments and index clean content from SharePoint pages and documents.See page
  • Advanced Audio Transcript Editing — Edit transcript segments, manage speakers, navigate a timeline, follow active words during playback, and retranscribe sections of the audio as needed.See page
  • Per-File Vision Extraction — Choose which Google Drive and SharePoint files should use LLM-based visual document extraction.See page

API Access & Integrations

  • Redesigned API Keys — Create and manage API keys through a clearer interface with improved loading, expiry, scope, and organization handling.See page
  • Dynamic OAuth Providers — Configure OAuth providers and accepted email domains without relying only on static deployment settings.See page

Fixes & Stability

  • Fixed deleted or deactivated default models preventing assistants from processing PDF and audio sources.
  • Fixed assistants continuing to use models that were no longer available.
  • Fixed organization-level assistants showing an incorrect activation status.
  • Fixed edited initial messages not updating in the playground.
  • Fixed settings being shared incorrectly between selected assistant task types.
  • Fixed playground tabs becoming desynchronized and triggering repeated requests.
  • Fixed the Assistant Library being hidden when users had no personal assistants.
  • Fixed Report Generator assistants opening the wrong experience when selected from tags.
  • Fixed assistant imports losing their selected organization and team scopes.
  • Fixed rich-text prompt values becoming inconsistent when they contained slashes.
  • Fixed assistant PDF exports using internal names instead of display names.
  • Fixed feedback evaluations and legacy playground feedback using the wrong organization context.
  • Fixed organization seats not being released when users were removed.
  • Fixed organization quota calculations across plans, datasets, and connectors.
  • Fixed negative or invalid language-model provider pricing.
  • Fixed incorrect resource-sharing visibility across organizations.
  • Fixed cross-organization notification and conversation-access conflicts.
  • Fixed retention and storage-policy editing inconsistencies.
  • Fixed OAuth providers requiring explicit domains when all domains should be accepted.
  • Fixed users being unable to select an eligible team.
  • Fixed the organization branding page losing its navigation logo.
  • Fixed invalid OAuth redirect paths from organization login pages.
  • Fixed task enable and disable controls in organization and platform administration.
  • Fixed Stripe connection checks incorrectly reporting valid configurations as failures.
  • Fixed SharePoint synchronization and persistence failures.
  • Fixed uploaded images appearing in other conversations.
  • Fixed attachments remaining stuck in the processing state.
  • Fixed uploaded-file cards flashing after messages were sent.
  • Fixed uploaded CLIP files disappearing after the page was refreshed.
  • Fixed newly sent image attachments disappearing from chat messages.
  • Fixed mobile image uploads.
  • Fixed chatbot CLIP uploads losing their conversation context.
  • Fixed reloading during generation breaking the current chat state.
  • Fixed conversation-history controls remaining active while a conversation was loading.
  • Fixed chat message alignment.
  • Fixed blank HTML conversation exports.
  • Fixed web-search sources displaying incorrect page numbers or internal identifiers instead of readable titles.
  • Fixed temporary PDF files not being cleaned up after failed processing.
  • Fixed search facets disappearing or losing date and automatic filtering selections while answers were being generated.
  • Fixed renamed conversation-history items requiring a refresh before updating.
  • Fixed MCP default settings causing inconsistent behavior across resources.
  • Fixed users being unable to stop generation while MCP tools were running.

Improvements

Performance & Reliability

  • Clearer Assistant Editing — Simplified instruction and initial-message editing by hiding unrelated navigation.
  • Improved Chat Controls — Refined chat options, incognito controls, autofocus, citations, and model-change indicators.
  • Better File Feedback — Display failed indexing notifications and failed-file counts during bulk downloads.
  • More Reliable Provider Search — Standardized provider filtering, ordering, detailed search, and batch operations.