What's New in QAnswer
We're building and refining QAnswer every day — here's a quick overview of the newest features and changes.
Versions
v4.4.3
newFebruary 3, 2026
v4.3.3
December 29, 2025
v4.2.3
November 21, 2025
v4.1.3
October 24, 2025
v4.0.3
September 24, 2025
v3.1.1
August 25, 2025
v3.0.1
July 9, 2025
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Get a DemoFebruary 3, 2026
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.
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.
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 issues
Resolved LLM selector inconsistencies across chat and settings
Fixed visual glitches (modals, buttons, spacing, overlays)
Improved socket reconnection reliability
Improvements
Enhancements
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.
December 29, 2025
Features & New Capabilities
General Features
AI Spreadsheet — AI Spreadsheet is now available as a task in your assistant.
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 Assignment — 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.
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)
Improvements
UI Enhancements
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.
November 21, 2025
Features & New Capabilities
General Features
EU Login OAuth — Authenticate directly with your EU Login account for faster, unified, and compliant access across the platform.docs
Duplicate Assistant — Create complete copies of existing assistants—including settings, data, templates, and configurations to streamline reuse.docs
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 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.
Fixes & Stability
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
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
SharePoint 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
October 24, 2025
Features & New Capabilities
General Features
Better Email Notifications system — Improved notification delivery and management.docs
Microsoft OAuth Option — Sign in directly with your Microsoft account.docs
Automatically map users to organisations using OAuth information.docs
Report Generator
Versioning and feedback integration inside blocks.docs
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.docs
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]docs
Improved document chunking — Text is now split into smaller, overlapping units (by words, sentences, or pages) for more accurate retrieval and context handling.docs
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.
Fixes & Stability
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
"Share link" button restored in "Your templates"
Author attribution fixed (no longer always assistant owner)
Table rendering stabilized
Speech-to-Text reliability fixes
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.
September 24, 2025
Features & New Capabilities
Organisations & Teams
Organisation-level branding — Customise branding at the organisation level.
Security & LLM
LLM Guardrails — Implemented guardrails for more predictable model behavior.docs
LLM Security Layer — Actively prevents jailbreak attempts.docs
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.docs
Visibility Settings for Logs — Configure conversations visibility: share with all users, not shared, or share with assistant owner only.docs
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.
Fixes & Stability
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
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.
August 25, 2025
Features & New Capabilities
Smarter Chat Experience
Agentic Chatbot — Introduces agentic behavior where the assistant performs actions proactively and provides explanatory messages detailing each executed step.docs
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.
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.docs
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.
July 9, 2025
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.
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.



