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# Release Notes
### 2026-08-21
#### 🚀 New Features
* **Improve per-Source GitHub prerelease preferences**
* GitHub Source preferences remain independent within each Publication. Existing Publications keep their prior behavior until a preference changes, and excluding prereleases keeps comparisons based on the newest stable, non-draft release.
### 2026-08-14
#### 🚀 New Features
* **Refine prerelease release handling**
* Publications can now use the **React to pre-releases** control to ignore prerelease events from supported GitHub Sources and compare stable releases instead.
#### ✨ Enhancements
* **Improve generated summary reliability**
* Generated summaries now retry when unexpected formatting text appears and return a clear validation error if the issue persists.
* **Restore excluded documentation changes**
* The restore action now keeps authored content intact and refreshes generated content for excluded documentation changes.
#### 🐛 Bug Fixes
* **Correct pull request merge label**
* Pull request metadata now displays the label as **Merged By:**.
### 2026-08-07
#### 🚀 New Features
* **Added file path pattern controls**
* Publication authors can now restrict which files Doc Holiday may edit or create with editable file path patterns.
#### ✨ Enhancements
* **Updated onboarding experience**
* The dashboard now uses a Get Started checklist and direct create flows instead of the removed onboarding route.
### 2026-07-31
#### 🚀 New Features
* **Added Cerebras BYOK support**
* Doc Holiday now validates Cerebras keys, routes supported models, and matches the provider request shape for customer-managed credentials.
* **Expanded OpenRouter BYOK support**
* Doc Holiday now validates OpenRouter keys and routes matching models through OpenRouter with the same selection behavior used elsewhere.
* **Extended Bedrock BYOK support**
* Doc Holiday now accepts structured Bedrock credentials, routes supported requests, backfills missing secrets, and handles native Bedrock URLs.
* **Broadened Vertex AI BYOK support**
* Doc Holiday now accepts structured Vertex AI credentials, validates them, routes supported models, and maps profiles for the correct provider settings.
#### 🐛 Bug Fixes
* **Hardened BYOK rejection handling**
* Failed key checks now return the same fixed allowlisted message instead of provider response text, which makes rejection results clearer and more consistent.
### 2026-07-24
#### 🚀 New Features
* **Allow optional payment collection for trial checkout**
* Trial checkout lets customers start without a payment method and cancels trials that end without one.
* **Accept applications for OSS access**
* Applicants can apply in Billing and validate public repositories, while superusers can review, approve or reject applications, filter by customer type, and notify applicants and internal teams.
* **Show AI provider options and key guidance**
* The provider key page displays provider icons and explains key formats.
* **Use Anthropic keys for supported Claude models**
* Doc Holiday validates Anthropic keys and uses supported Claude models.
* **Use Gemini keys for supported models**
* Doc Holiday validates Gemini keys and routes supported models. It prioritizes Anthropic when organizations configure both services.
* **Use Groq keys for supported workloads**
* Doc Holiday validates Groq keys and routes supported workloads only when organizations do not configure OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini services.
#### ✨ Enhancements
* **Update open documentation changes after files are excluded**
* File exclusions now immediately update the open documentation change.
### 2026-07-17
#### 🚀 New Features
* **Use source-specific triggers**
* Publications now react only to the events configured for each source.
#### ✨ Enhancements
* **Link completion comments to Work History**
* When background tasks finish without opening a pull request, completion comments now point to the related Work History entry.
#### 🐛 Bug Fixes
* **Treat GitLab 404s as not found**
* Downloads and webhook health checks now report missing GitLab resources more accurately instead of surfacing a generic failure.
* **Anchor review comment edits within lines**
* Review comment edits now stay pinned to the intended lines instead of deleting surrounding content.
* **Skip deleted publications in access lookup**
* Deleted publication records no longer appear when Doc Holiday loads user access.
### 2026-07-06
#### 🚀 New Features
* **Open conversation feedback to authenticated users without roles**
* Authenticated users without roles can now open conversation feedback.
* **Allow comments on staged Work History messages**
* Staged Work History messages can now receive comments when they were blocked before.
#### ✨ Enhancements
* **Add the required Slack scope**
* Slack installation now asks for the additional `groups:read` scope.
#### 🐛 Bug Fixes
* **Clarify instruction link audit logs**
* Instruction link entries now read more clearly in the audit log.
* **Delay completion status until background work finishes**
* Completion status no longer appears before work finishes.
### 2026-06-26
#### 🚀 New Features
* **Open files in full-screen review mode**
* The Files tab can now open a single file in a full-screen overlay with previous and next navigation.
* **Switch the Files tab to a present-state view**
* The Files tab can now show the current file contents without the diff presentation while keeping comment placement intact.
* **Drag the comment marker to select a range**
* The comment anchor now supports drag selection across multiple lines in the Files tab.
* **Resolve Linear comment authors**
* Linear comments and issue creators now show profile names, display names, or email addresses instead of UUIDs.
* **Create publication sharing notifications**
* Publication sharing now records in-app notifications so recipients can review shared access inside the app.
#### ✨ Enhancements
* **Add a Files tab return link for anchored messages**
* Anchored messages in Work History now provide a direct way back to the related file.
* **Displayed created and updated comment times**
* Edited comments now show an updated timestamp, and a hover tooltip reveals the original created time.
#### ⚠️ Breaking Changes
* **Update Doc Holiday terminology**
* The dashboard, SDK, and backend APIs now use publication terminology and publication endpoints across the product.
#### 🐛 Bug Fixes
* **Jump to the selected conversation page**
* Work History now opens deep-linked conversations on the correct page and scrolls the selected row into view.
* **Preserve comment mode across rerenders**
* The Work History comment composer now keeps the chosen mode while the same conversation remains open.
* **React only to create webhooks**
* Linear issue webhooks now trigger reactions only on create events, which avoids duplicate downstream processing.
* **Log successful eyes reactions**
* Doc Holiday now records a clear log line when it successfully adds the eyes acknowledgment reaction.
* **Fixed cancelled progress updates**
* Cancelled requests now still update the posted progress comment instead of leaving it stuck.
* **Wrapped audit log cells**
* Long audit log values now wrap onto multiple lines, keeping the event, object name, timestamp, and user email columns from overlapping.
### 2026-06-19
#### 🚀 New Features
* **Provide shareable Jira Application installation links**
* The Jira Application install flow now supports link sharing for Site Admins not provisioned within Doc Holiday.
* **Select a Linear team during connection setup**
* Linear connections now support team selection during configuration.
#### ✨ Enhancements
* **Sort instruction lists by name or last updated**
* Instruction lists now remember the selected sort order.
* **Show global instructions in the library list**
* Global instructions now appear in the library list.
* **Search doc type dropdowns during bulk attach**
* Doc type dropdowns now support search during bulk attach.
* **Style and formatting guidance**
* Style and formatting guidance now appears in publication editors.
* **Mark attached instructions as In Use**
* Attached instructions now show an `In Use` label.
* **Display library badges for linked instructions**
* Linked items now show a library badge.
* **Keep publication editors open after save**
* Publication editors stay open after save.
* **Separate style and formatting edits from output checkboxes**
* Style and formatting edits now appear apart from the output checkboxes in publication editors.
* **Require non-empty instruction content**
* Saved instructions now require content before they can be stored.
* **Block duplicate global instruction names and types**
* The library now rejects duplicate global instruction name and type combinations.
* **Preserve style and formatting context when saving**
* Saving to the library now keeps the correct style and formatting context.
* **Rename Atlassian Forge to Atlassian Application**
* Atlassian Forge now appears as Atlassian Application.
* **Rename Jira connection labels**
* Jira connections now use `Jira Read-Only` and `Jira Project`.
* **Clarify connection toast feedback**
* Connection toasts now show clearer setup and validation states.
### 2026-06-12
#### 🚀 New Features
* **Added open pull request interactions**
* Work History now lets users send messages, comments, and file edits while a conversation is tied to an open pull request.
* **Released Jira-based issue triggers**
* Atlassian app-based Jira connections can now trigger work in Doc Holiday.
* **Introduced "Send to Doc" in Jira comment menus**
* Comment dropdowns in Jira now include a "Send to Doc" action for individual comments.
* **Executed background tasks in batches**
* Background tasks now process merge batches asynchronously until the work is complete.
* **Display merge metadata in Work History**
* Merged conversations now show who merged the request and when the merge happened.
#### ✨ Enhancements
* **Restored type specific placeholders**
* The publication form now shows type specific guidance again and uses the selected instruction type to choose placeholder text.
* **Improved scrolling when applying instructions**
* The interface now scrolls newly attached publication cards and the bulk attach form into view automatically.
* **Separated style and formatting controls from output options**
* Style and formatting instruction editing now appears apart from the output checkboxes in the publication form.
### 2026-06-05
#### 🚀 New Features
* **New permission levels**
* People provisioned in the Doc Holiday can now be set as admins or users.
* **New role types**
* Users can now be set as reviewers (read and make edit suggestions) or writers (full edit permissions), per Publication.
* **User permissions set on invite**
* Admins can set invited folks to be either admins or users on invite.
#### ✨ Enhancements
* **Expand publication editing for writers**
* Writers with publication access can edit publications, while reviewers have view-only access.
* **Alphabetize user and invitation lists**
* User lists are now sorted alphabetically.
* **Improve settings page speed**
* Settings pages now load faster.
#### 🐛 Bug Fixes
* **Fix sign out routing**
* Sign out now returns people to the sign in page more reliably instead of leaving them on a logout screen.
* **Correct documentation URL validation**
* Documentation connections now reject invalid URLs more consistently in both the form and the saved configuration.
Older entries: [Release notes archive](/docs/meta/release-notes/release-notes-archive.md)
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