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January 2026

Platform & Web Controls Release Notes​

Release Notes: Platform​

Version: 3.0.0
Date: Jan 31, 2026

This release focuses on subscription-based billing, knowledge box & welcome experience upgrades (including static HTML support), persona personalization improvements, media support expansion, and quality-of-life UI + reliability fixes across the ai12z Platform.

New Features​

  • Subscription Billing & Invoicing

    • Introduced subscription-based payments, including Subscription Service and subscription plans.
    • Added and improved the Invoice screen experience.
    • Added support for monthly plan display and improved partner-mode / admin handling for billing.

  • Knowledge Box & Welcome Experience Designer

    • Added static HTML support in Knowledge Box configuration.

    • Introduced experience designer support within the Knowledge Box control (WIBE designer).

    • Added new configuration options including:

      • Background image support
      • Ability to toggle search results
      • Additional UX options for Knowledge Box presentation

  • Persona Personalizer

    • Added an intent/persona personalizer system prompt and history tracking for prompt evolution.
    • Updated persona configuration types and removed deprecated suggestion-question service.

  • Media Support Expansion

    • Added media support for:

      • MP4 + YouTube
      • Audio
      • PDF

Enhancements​

  • Knowledge Box Configuration UX

    • Added showTitle option and tooltips.
    • Improved question type selection, plus validation messaging for the static HTML option.
    • Improved help text state management and more resilient welcome message handling.
    • Added default panel setup when no welcome panels exist.
    • Updated welcome message logic to exclude Knowledge Box type where appropriate.

  • Search / Web UI Controls in Platform Admin

    • Added input field position setting in Search Results and Web configuration screens.
    • Added ability to set width and height parameters for supported components.

  • Build & Delivery

    • Enhanced build scripts for multi-platform builds with improved logging.
    • Adjusted cache busting behavior to apply only where needed.

Bug Fixes​

  • Billing & Org Hierarchy

    • Fixed request count calculations for partner and sub-org scenarios.
    • Added required handling for sub-org selection where partner accounts cannot subscribe for themselves.
    • Fixed trial/sub-org move credit rollback behavior.
    • Updated credit schema and hid payment UI when an org is already subscribed.

  • Insights & Analytics

    • Fixed Insights date filter behavior.

  • Connectors / Ingestion

    • Fixed website ingestion when crawling URLs with additional path segments.
    • Improved “Share a link” URL generation cleanup.

  • UI & Accessibility

    • Added autocomplete attributes to form inputs.
    • Added descriptive button labels to confirmation dialogs.
    • Show Force Finish button only when job status is In Progress.
    • Display a clear message when no owner is set for a subaccount.

  • Platform Stability

    • Fixed build issues and addressed smaller configuration edge cases (e.g., optional chaining improvements).

Release Notes: AI Service​

Version: N/A (not specified in commit list) Date: Feb 1, 2026

This release improves welcome experience rendering, backward compatibility for existing controls, persona/intent detection, and template generation, while strengthening URL/sitemap resiliency and websocket response structures.

New Features​

  • Welcome Panels + HTML Compatibility

    • Added panel-to-HTML conversion to maintain backward compatibility with existing controls.
    • Added job types and conversion utilities to support panel-driven experiences across versions.

  • Intent Persona Detection

    • Added a dedicated intent_persona endpoint for fast persona + intent detection.
    • Implemented confidence thresholds and improved persona handling logic.

  • Template Generation

    • Added AI-driven modules for generating email and PDF templates.

  • Knowledge Box HTML Support

    • Added support for creating Knowledge Box HTML via API and updated job types/enums accordingly.

Enhancements​

  • Persona & Websocket Response Improvements

    • Added additional response fields (e.g., URL change extraction, improved directive handling).
    • Added panel_name support for instruction handling and improved persona background image flow.

  • Dynamic Asset Handling

    • Implemented dynamic fetching/validation of styles and scripts for welcome and Knowledge Box HTML generation.

  • Response Quality & Formatting

    • Enhanced response guideline handling (including formatting conventions such as phone number formatting and metadata capture).
    • Improved reasoning and instruction clarity in answer flows and form submission guidance.

Bug Fixes​

  • Crawler / Sitemap Robustness

    • Fixed issues where bad sitemaps could prevent crawling and ingestion.
    • Added initialization improvements (e.g., content type handling) and exclusion rules (e.g., archive.org).

  • URL & Asset Validation

    • Improved validation and error handling around style/script URL checks.
    • Improved URL replacement/metadata handling for hyperlink generation.

  • Loader Upload Reliability

    • Fixed JSON/CSV upload behavior in loader edit/save flows.

Release Notes: Web Controls​

Version: v3.8.1-alpha.8
Date: Feb 1, 2026

This release delivers theme & styling upgrades, improved chat UX (new conversation + clear history), Knowledge Box messaging APIs, search/category layout improvements, and performance/stability refinements.

New Features​

  • Chat UX Controls

    • Added Clear chat history and Start new conversation actions.
    • Added dynamic button rendering improvements for bot UI.

  • Knowledge Box APIs

    • Added methods to send messages and JSON data from Knowledge Box components.
    • Added a bridge utility method to access Shadow DOM when needed.

  • Search Results Enhancements

    • Added Quick Links support in search results.
    • Added option to place the input field at the top or bottom for CTA and search results experiences.

Enhancements​

  • Theme & CSS Improvements

    • Added theme variables for primary color and icon color for better consistency.
    • Improved gradients/background styling across theme variations.

  • Layout & Responsiveness

    • Improved mobile responsiveness for search layouts and quick links.
    • Refined category layout sizing/padding and improved general layout flexibility.
    • Added skeleton loading for search results for a smoother perceived performance.

  • Lifecycle / Reliability

    • Improved async lifecycle handling and error management for bot components.
    • Added async script/style insertion helpers and improved custom asset handling.

Bug Fixes​

  • Fixed casing and implementation issues for ShadowRoot bridge method.
  • Fixed class binding and visibility logic issues affecting chat and search layouts.
  • Fixed minor spelling/logic issues that impacted relevance-related behavior and UI rendering.
  • Cleaned up unused modules and imports to reduce build noise and improve stability.