What's New In QAnswer

We’re building and refining QAnswer every day — here’s a quick overview of the newest features and changes.
Release February 3, 2026
v4.4.3
August 28, 2025
Feb. 3, 2026
Jully 21
⚡ Features & New Capabilities
🔸 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.
Abderrahmane Sadak
AI Enginner
Dennis Diefenbach
CEO
🔸 Organisations & Teams
- Organisation Selection  — Users belonging to multiple organisations can now select their active one, with tools and models scoped correctly.
- Default LLM Management  — Organisation and system admins can define default LLMs for their users.
- Domain-Based User Assignment  — Admins can configure domains to automatically assign new users to organisations.
- Quota Visibility  — Clearer organisation 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.
- Organisation-Level MCP Controls  — Admins can enable or disable MCP servers at the organisation 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.
August 28, 2025
Jully 21
🐞 Fixes & Stability
- Resolved duplicate message events and incorrect timestamps
- Fixed conversation history issues at long lengths
- Fixed guideline violation modal not appearing
- Resolved email connector scrolling issues
- Fixed widget API key caching bugs
- Addressed infinite refresh and “API exceeded” errors in shared links
- Fixed audio diarization issuesResolved LLM selector inconsistencies across chat and settings
- Fixed visual glitches (modals, buttons, spacing, overlays)Improved socket reconnection reliability
Abderrahmane Sadak
AI Enginner
Dennis Diefenbach
CEO
August 28, 2025
Jully 21
⏫ Improvements
🔹  Enhacements
- Web Search Improvements  — Web search now leverages conversation context for more relevant responses.
- Assistant Tagging  — Improved tagging, feedback handling, and assistant visibility.
- Files & Metadata View Updates  — More file information is visible at a glance.
- Chat UX Tweaks  — Cleaner input feedback, optimistic rendering, and clearer failure states.
- Conversation View Improvements  — Timestamps are now displayed consistently.
- Navigation Consistency  — Improved alignment across chat, assistants, and task views.
- Login & Branding Stability  — Fixed intermittent logo and layout loading issues.
🔹 Assistant Experience
- Favorite Assistants:  Star your assistants and share them via URL.
- Import/Export Assistants: Import and export assistants setups and configurations via a bundled file.
🔹 Security & Compliance
- Downloadable Security Logs: Enhanced audit and compliance visibility.
- Extended Log Types: More granular activity and system logs added.
- Improved Permission Enforcement: Stronger organisation and team access controls.
- Token Storage & Quota Validation: Improved safety and consistency.
- Widget Security Enhancements: Added domain restrictions and improved private-mode handling.
Abderrahmane Sadak
AI Enginner
Dennis Diefenbach
CEO
Release December 29, 2025
v4.3.3
August 28, 2025
Dec. 29, 2025
Jully 21
⚡ Features & New Capabilities
🔸 General Features
- AI Spreadsheet: AI Spreadsheet is now available as a task in your assistant.
Abderrahmane Sadak
AI Enginner
Dennis Diefenbach
CEO
🔸 Organisations & Teams
- Unbranded Widget Option : New option to remove branding from widget.
- Improved Teams & Permissions : More granular control on shared conversations.
- Assistant Sharing : Organisation admins can now approve or reject assistant sharing requests submitted by non-admin users, with automatic email notifications.
- Organization User Assignement : Organisation 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.
August 28, 2025
Jully 21
🐞 Fixes & Stability
- Duplicate message events and wrong timestamps.UI fixes in filters, tooltips, and navigation interactions.
- Translation and dark mode rendering corrections.
- Guideline violation modal not appearing.
- Conversation history breaking at long lengths.
- Email Connector scrolling issue.
- Widget API key caching bug.
- Infinite refresh or API exceeded in shared links in Search Expose.
- Visual glitches (modals, buttons, spacing, overlays).
Abderrahmane Sadak
AI Enginner
Dennis Diefenbach
CEO
August 28, 2025
Jully 21
⏫ Improvements
🔹 UI Enhacements
- Assistant List Improvements : Better layout, favorites, grouping, and actions.
- Metadata & File View Updates : More info at a glance.
- Chat UX Tweaks : Cleaner input feedback and layout fixes.
- Chat Message Improvements : Transparency on message failures.
- Navigation Consistency : Between main app and assistant views.
- Login & Branding Fixes : Stable logo and layout handling.
- Conversation View Improvements : Include time of the conversation.
🔹 Assistant Experience
- Favorite Assistants:  Star your assistants and share them via URL.
- Import/Export Assistants: Import and export assistants setups and configurations via a bundled file.
🔹 Security & Compliance
- Downloadable Security Logs: Improved audit visibility.
- New Log Types & Structure: for clearer compliance tracking.
- Stronger Permissions Logic for org/team scopes.
- Token Storage & Quota Validation Updates.
Abderrahmane Sadak
AI Enginner
Dennis Diefenbach
CEO
Release November 21, 2025
v4.2.3
August 28, 2025
🔸 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: Optimised performance for faster and more efficient operation.
🔸 Organisations & Teams
- Organisation admins can define or bulk-upload synonym lists specific to their workspace. All members instantly benefit from these synonyms across their assistants, improving search accuracy and consistency.
🔸 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. The produced text can then be added to your index for search and RAG.
August 28, 2025
Jully 21
🐞 Fixes & Stability
♦️ UI Fixes
- Share link now correctly includes subpaths.
- Synonyms display corrected for read-only assistants.
- OAuth first-login visual issues resolved.
- Nav Drawer branding fixed.
- Facets dropdown no longer disappears after selection.
- Chatbot "go to last message" arrow no longer overlaps other elements.
- Visual and contrast adjustments for dark mode.
- Tooltips added for compact mode navigation.
- Links in generated answers now open in new tabs.
Abderrahmane Sadak
AI Enginner
Dennis Diefenbach
CEO
♦️ Report Generator
- Question parameter now properly forwarded to the PDF viewer API.
- New chat always starts with the correct assistant.
- Power-user features no longer break Search Task flows.
- Blocking issues in Econsilium and PO connectors patched.
-  Proper handling for URI-Too-Long (414) errors.
♦️ Connectors & Backend
- SharePoint on Credentials refresh  issues fixed.
- Cookie-handling extension stabilised.
- Guardrail and jailbreak issues in Input Parsing addressed.
- Assistant ownership detection fixed.
- Fixed laggy streaming on OpenAI-compatible endpoints improved.
- Report Generator exposure permissions corrected.
- Enforced organisation-level LLM/embedder settings.
August 28, 2025
Jully 21
⏫ Improvements
🔹 UI Enhacements
- Additional metadata per file exposed on the file view.
- File status indicators and indexing progress displayed in clip view.
- Cleaner scrolling behaviour across panels and containers.
- New toggle option for recurrent questions in Search Tasks.
- Improved padding and layout for Search Tasks.
- More stable text rendering inside the chatbot.
- Metadata values now visible in file view.
- Better login-page layout and logo handling.
- More robust indexing, refresh tracking, and aggregation visibility.
- Assistant sharing now respects organisation-level access rules.
- Cleaner integration for audio encoding and transcription workflows.
Abderrahmane Sadak
AI Enginner
Dennis Diefenbach
CEO
Release October 24, 2025
v4.1.3
August 28, 2025
Abderrahmane Sadak
AI Enginner
Dennis Diefenbach
CEO
🔸 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.
August 28, 2025
Jully 21
🐞 Fixes & Stability
♦️ General Fixes
- Prevent multiple messages being sent on Enter.
- Shared assistants: “UseOnly” hides download actions.
- CSS fixes on Search bar.
- Lang not shown before selection (EN) fixed
- Accent letters in assistant names allowed.
- After assistant rename, old name no longer lingers in Chatbot Conversation.
- Exported PDF uses conversation name.
Abderrahmane Sadak
AI Enginner
Dennis Diefenbach
CEO
♦️ Report Generator
- “Share link” button restored in “Your templates”.
- Author attribution fixed (no longer always assistant owner).
- Table rendering stabilized.
- Speech-to-Text reliability fixes.
August 28, 2025
Jully 21
⏫ Improvements
🔹 General Improvements
- DateFilter colors fixed in dark mode.
- Connectors page: align body to top; consistent card sizes/heights.
- Increased timeout before naming new conversation.
- OAuth username collision fixed.
Abderrahmane Sadak
AI Enginner
Dennis Diefenbach
CEO
Release September 24, 2025
v4.0.3
August 28, 2025
Sept 24, 2025
Jully 21
⚡ Features & New Capabilities
Abderrahmane Sadak
AI Enginner
Dennis Diefenbach
CEO
August 28, 2025
Abderrahmane Sadak
AI Enginner
Dennis Diefenbach
CEO
August 28, 2025
🔸 UI Revamp
- Brand-new, modernised interface with improved navigation, readability, and user experience.
Kunpeng Guo
CTO
Brisa Rojas
Front-End Developer
August 28, 2025
Jully 21
🔸 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.
Abderrahmane Sadak
AI Enginner
Dennis Diefenbach
CEO
August 28, 2025
Jully 21
🐞 Fixes & Stability
♦️ General Fixes
- Save original uploaded filenames.
- Fix empty conversation titles.
- Restore broken conversation title editing.
- Correct empty AI assistant list display.
- Fix overflow for long AI assistant titles.
- Ensure copying LLM answer includes sources.
- Catch model built-in guardrail errors.
- Adjust robots.txt enforcement (less restrictive).
- Prevent scraping of non-subpages.
- Fix login cache bug causing 404s.
- Resolve denied login page issue.
- Feedback box resized for better usability.
- Removed duplicate scrollbars.
- On-Premise Safe Text hotfix applied.
- Show file statistics in shared conversations.
- Ensure failure reasons stored for indexed files.
- Handle rate limit exceeded in iframe gracefully.
- Fix API key for /api/v1/chat/completions endpoint.,
Abderrahmane Sadak
AI Enginner
Dennis Diefenbach
CEO
August 28, 2025
Jully 21
⏫ Improvements
🔹 General Improvements
- Logo included in conversation export PDF.
- Multilingual character support in conversation export PDF.
- Checkbox required when switching LLM from private to public.
- Allow slashes in AI assistant names.
- AI assistant search filters exposed directly in chat interface.
- Display release version in the UI.
Abderrahmane Sadak
AI Enginner
Dennis Diefenbach
CEO
Release August 28, 2025
v3.2.1
August 28, 2025
August 28, 2025
Jully 21
🔸 Improved settings drawer UX:
- Clearer save button state for local changes, better explanation of prompt slots, and clearer configuration names/descriptions.
- Fixed various CSS bugs for a smoother experience.
Abderrahmane Sadak
AI Enginner
Dennis Diefenbach
CEO
August 28, 2025
Jully 21
🔸 New Conversation Saving Policy
○ Store All – conversations are saved and accessible to all users of the assistant.
○ Discard All – conversations are not saved.
○ Store Anonymized – conversations are saved anonymously and accessible to users of the assistant.
Abderrahmane Sadak
AI Enginner
Dennis Diefenbach
CEO
August 28, 2025
Jully 21
🔸 Visibility Settings for Logs
○ Share with All AI Assistant Users – logs are visible to everyone.
○ Not Shared – logs are not shared with anyone.
○ Share with the AI Assistant Owner – logs are visible only to the assistant owner.
Abderrahmane Sadak
AI Enginner
Dennis Diefenbach
CEO
Release August 25, 2025
v3.1.1
August 28, 2025
Kunpeng Guo
CTO
Brisa Rojas
Front-End Developer
August 28, 2025
Jully 21
🔸 Customisation & Control
- LLM & Embedding Provider Customisation: 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.
Abderrahmane Sadak
AI Enginner
Dennis Diefenbach
CEO
August 28, 2025
Jully 21
🔸 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.
Abderrahmane Sadak
AI Enginner
Dennis Diefenbach
CEO
August 28, 2025
Jully 21
🔸 New Integrations & Connectors
- Confluence Integration Page: 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.
Abderrahmane Sadak
AI Enginner
Dennis Diefenbach
CEO
August 28, 2025
Jully 21
🔸 Users Experience & UI Improvements
- Quota Exceeded Redirect: Users are now guided to their 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.
Abderrahmane Sadak
AI Enginner
Dennis Diefenbach
CEO
Release July 09, 2025
v3.0.1
August 28, 2025
July 09, 2025
Jully 21
⚡ Features & New Capabilities
🔸 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.
Kunpeng Guo
CTO
Brisa Rojas
Front-End Developer
August 28, 2025
Jully 21
🔸 Models & Performance
- Claude 3.7 Sonnet Integration: Fully hosted in the EU and available alongside QAnswer LLM, GPT-4o Mini, and Mistral Medium.
Abderrahmane Sadak
AI Enginner
Dennis Diefenbach
CEO
August 28, 2025
Jully 21
🔸 Collaboration & Oversight
- Human-in-the-Loop Support: Seamless switch from AI to human agents within the same chat interface with instant notifications.
Abderrahmane Sadak
AI Enginner
Dennis Diefenbach
CEO
August 28, 2025
Jully 21
🔸 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.
Abderrahmane Sadak
AI Enginner
Dennis Diefenbach
CEO