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 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