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What's New in QAnswer

We're building and refining QAnswer every day — here's a quick overview of the newest features and changes.

v4.4.3
Latest

February 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.

v4.3.3

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.

v4.2.3

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

v4.1.3

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.

v4.0.3

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.

v3.1.1

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.

v3.0.1

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.

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EU

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