Changelog
Notable changes shipped to the MainBranch app, grouped by month.
A summary of notable changes shipped to MainBranch. Smaller fixes, dependency bumps, and internal refactors are omitted.
May 2026
- Import from SharePoint and Google Drive into Vault and Presentations.
- Vault layout polish: unified "All files" and "All folders" layouts, fixed action bars, and a layout-shift fix on import.
- Backend migration: the app's API surface moved from Next.js API routes and server components onto the dedicated Hono backend, with the frontend talking to it through a typed client. Faster, cleaner separation, no behavior change for users.
- Spreadsheets: Excel-like cell formatting, AI tools for spreadsheet edits, full-screen layout in the canvas editor, and the option to save a generated spreadsheet to a chosen Vault directory.
- Meetings: UI polish, an overhauled audio waveform on the recording player, an "in waiting room" status for the notetaker bot, and assistant message actions inside meeting chat.
- Workspace & admin: ⌘K now opens inside workspace settings, governance graph colors are consistent in dark mode, and Audit Logs / Data Exports labels were capitalised in the sidebar.
- Smart Forms: warn when AI autofill can't find any matches.
- Chat: invalidate chat history after branching so the new thread shows up immediately.
- Connectors: removed the Zendesk connector.
April 2026
- Chat archival — archive chats out of your sidebar without deleting them, and restore later from data controls.
- Pin and unpin chats with optimistic updates and a separated pinned / recent section in the sidebar.
- Resizable canvas for documents and spreadsheets.
- Unified period filter across meetings, Vault, and audit logs.
- Export org data end-to-end (data exports refactor).
- Presentations: pick source files from Vault, brand guidelines support, and a fresh design pass.
- Redesigns: new homepage, chat page, meetings pages, and command menu (animated highlight and stacked pages).
- Vault: skeleton loaders for folders and files.
- Audit logs: date range filter, push time sorting to the backend, and table UI polish.
- Members: people data merged into a single members page; skeletons added to members and audit logs.
- Chat input: Apps toggle and Calendar source toggle in the plus menu.
- Reasoning & tools: more concise reasoning steps, a tool-addition animation, and the React Compiler enabled for the app.
- Auth: custom auth-error screen for users with no organization.
- Misc: transcript download/export as Markdown, PDF, and DOCX.
March 2026
- Presentations tool MVP shipped.
- Email integration for indexing and search.
- Stock widget with real-time quotes and historical data on the homepage.
- Notifications: delete and archive options on the notification panel.
- Chat: model picker now appears on the regenerate button.
- Cleanup: removed Visual Creator and Data Visualizer tools.
February 2026
- Two-factor authentication support.
- Chat forking — branch from any assistant reply.
- In-app notification system with archive support.
- Admin news widget customisation and a news widget on the dashboard.
- Rate limiting on API routes.
- Search: "Search files" added to the ⌘K menu.
- Sidebar: chat history grouped into temporal sections.
- Onboarding: new graphic and simplified department form.
- Deep Dive: simplified internal/external data source selection, government-specific templates.
- Files: full-screen previews for Excel files.
- Legal: Terms of Service and Privacy Policy links added across the app.
- Meetings: "Join" button now appears only on the next meeting.
January 2026
- Vault select mode for multi-file actions.
- Home page improvements, Excel previews, and consistent deep-dive labels.
- Meetings: transcript view with time tracking and active-segment highlighting; meeting names required when creating a meeting manually.
- Chat: initial and streaming scroll-to-bottom; improved command menu.
- Workspace: more admin settings, default chat model selection per workspace.
- Models: image model switched to Nano Banana Pro.
December 2025
- Major redesign across the app with a new bento-grid widget homepage.
- Home widgets section with reorderable widgets.
- Meetings: edit name and delete for manually-created meetings; only meetings with a link are shown on the meetings page; matched words highlighted in transcript search; optimistic updates for toggling action items.
- Vault: preview support added for the remaining file types, PDF previews everywhere, direct-to-S3 uploads (no longer proxied through Vercel).
- Smart Forms: in-form alerts.
- 404 page added.
- Sidebar: moved to the shadcn sidebar; loading state and chat input refactor.
November 2025
- Onboarding flow redesigned.
- PDF form filler moved to the Python file-parser service.
- Document generation: new flow plus chart export.
- File analysis powered by the file parser service, with a new UI for analyze.
- Markdown renderer added.
- Chat: continue transcriptions inside chat, audio visualiser timer, image-generation tool, expanded toolset.
- Drafts removed: the "draft reports" workflow was retired.
October 2025
- Sign in with Microsoft.
- Model selector grouped by provider.
- Calendar tool wired into the canvas.
- Prompt suggestions now use user nodes.
- Recall.ai region updated and table styling fixes.
September 2025
- GPT-5 models added (with reduced effort thinking).
- New chat input and related UX changes.
- New Vault UI.
- Admin UI settings shipped.
- Recordings stored in S3 (migrated from R2 across the platform).
- Search migrated off Pinecone for vector and full-text search.
- Zendesk Tickets integration.
- Meetings: required meeting name on creation, "no upcoming meetings" empty state, brand-aligned visuals.
- Audio transcription quality improvements.
- Canvas: new canvas sidebar.
August 2025
- Design system aesthetic switched to "carbon."
- Members page: invitation management, clearer pending invitations.
- OAuth with DWD used for calendar event lists.
- Sync jobs deduplicated.
- TTS chunked with Gemini 2.5 added.
- Recording state persisted to storage; filetype icons added.
- Chat history populates the sidebar instantly when a new chat is created.
July 2025
- Keyboard shortcuts introduced.
- Sources included in chat responses.
- Search across chats and messages.
- Gmail attachment processing and indexing.
- Emails appear in search.
- Pinecone used for file-name search.
- Prompt suggestions for follow-up chats.
June 2025
- User settings modal.
- Autocomplete in chat with files, bolding, and suggestions.
- Lexical search added; org-level indexing with background workers.
- Access control rolled out across content.
- Meeting invitation UI and instant-invite dialog.
- Sidebar cleanup, blockquote and table styling improvements.
May 2025
- Auth frontend, integrations page, organization setup, and onboarding screens — the foundations of the modern signed-in experience.
- Google Calendar integration.
- Agent flow chart.
- Visual system: removed Lucide icons in favor of a single icon set, neutral color refactor, popover banners.
- Sidebar: user image and name, calendar events, truncated long logins.
April 2025
- Major UI migration to Jolly UI, finished mid-month, with new layouts, modals, and functional buttons.
- Onboarding screens (basic flow).
- Elasticsearch backend for indexing — Slack, Gmail, Google Drive, Notion, and website connectors all migrated; combined kNN + query results.
- Collections introduced for organizing indexed content.
- Source filters on search results, with a checkbox layout.
- Chat: "get the whole document" tool, contextual search restored, chat history fixes.
- Apps tab and new user dropdown.
- Google Drive ACLs enforced; default values for invite users form.
- PostHog identification for users.
March 2025
- Citation hovercards replace popovers in chat.
- Google Drive: richer metadata and improved AI summaries.
- Search: autocomplete replaces recent searches in the search form.