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Every release, on the record.What's new in Sidenote — features, changes and fixes across the extension and web app.

Latest: v2.7.0 · 1 July 2026

v2.7.0

Google Docs ingestion update.

Changed
  • Google Docs now connects with the narrower drive.file OAuth scope instead of drive.readonly. The first time a document needs its typeset PDF, Google's Picker confirms access to just that one file — Sidenote no longer requests read access to your whole Drive. Existing connections are nudged to reconnect.
Added
  • Text inside Google Docs text boxes and drawings is now recovered from the document — searchable in summaries, chat, and the glossary, and selectable in place so citations highlight the right spot.

v2.6.1

Bug-fix + progress-calibration release.

Fixed
  • Deleting a loaded document no longer closes the user's active browser tab — only stray Sidenote viewer tabs for that document are cleaned up.
Changed
  • Split single-document summarise progress calibration into two phases — a shared Haiku fan-out term (summarise:chunks) plus a per-length combine term (summarise:{length}:combine) — so cold-build estimates stay accurate at scale and warm/cold estimates share data.
  • Refit the progress cold-start priors from production telemetry and added a size-outlier guard so a pathologically large document can't skew the fit.

v2.6.0

Server-authoritative progress estimates, regen-safe summary caps, and a premium loading UI — alongside a large growth/SEO and free-tools batch.

Added
  • Progress bars — calibrated, self-learning time estimates on Summarise, Explain, Glossary, and collection builds. Estimates are learned as a fitted line per feature and served from the server as the single source of truth, with a smooth bar that holds at 99% until the result lands.
  • Per-tier summary caps — monthly summary limits surfaced on the pricing cards and the dashboard usage panel; collection summaries now count toward the cap, and cacheOnly reads are exempt.
  • Opt-in trial — the 7-day trial no longer auto-starts; the phone gate fires only at activation, and the universal phone gate was removed from feature routes.
  • First-run onboarding checklist on the dashboard library.
  • Export beyond Markdown — HTML, plain-text, PDF, and rich-copy export for summaries, chat, and glossary.
  • Find-in-document tab in the sidebar.
  • Free tools — PDF-to-text, document-diff, and reading-level rewriter, each with an embeddable snippet.
  • Content & social proof — blog tag archives + cross-linking, an expanded glossary, HowTo JSON-LD, comparison guides, and the Chrome Web Store rating on the marketing site.

v2.5.0

Fixed
  • 8-digit code sign-in now also signs the user into the web dashboard.

v2.4.0

Firefox host-permission support.

Added
  • One-click Firefox host-access grant from the sidebar (HostAccessBanner + useHostAccess), re-injecting open tabs after the grant is given.

v2.3.0

Cross-browser sidebar support.

Added
  • Firefox + Opera sidebar_action backends and a panel open-state probe; Opera added to the platform-capabilities table.

v2.2.0

Added
  • Citation reveal for collapsed accordions — an act/verify/escalate loop that force-shows a hidden cited passage and restores the page state afterwards.
  • Cross-browser adapter groundwork (PanelController, browser adapter, capabilities table, Edge packaging target).
  • Upgraded the active embeddings model to voyage-4-large.

v2.1.0

Chrome Web Store release and the in-app AI workspace.

Added
  • AI workspace on the document and collection views (drawer, five panes, selection pill) and on the standalone /documents/:id route, with web-native viewer highlighting.
  • Free word-counter, readability-checker, and AI-summarizer tools.
  • "Open source" re-engages the live page alongside the Sidenote panel.
  • Library batch: find, share, command palette, export, bulk select; per-site pause.
  • Redesigned app icon (serif "s" with a highlighter swipe) and "Lamplight & Ink" auth email templates.

v2.0.0

Email-code auth and the Sidenote mobile app.

Added
  • 6-digit email-code (OTP) sign-in fallback on every surface, plus mobile OAuth.
  • Sidenote mobile app (Expo, iOS + Android) — Summary + Chat panes with citations, TTS, and threads; a save flow with WebView extraction and share-sheet intake; settings, auth, library, glossary, and notes.
  • Chrome Web Store asset kit rebuilt against the real 1.16.0 panel UI.

v1.16.0

Pre-Chrome-Web-Store release: feedback batches, pixel-faithful rendering, account deletion, and an SEO growth build.

Added
  • Rendering — pixel-faithful DOCX rendering via Adobe PDF conversion; native PDF exports for Google Docs & SharePoint; PowerPoint (.pptx) ingest; RTF and MDX uploads; native SharePoint + OneDrive ingest via Microsoft Graph.
  • Features — Notes (saved highlights with jump-back), library-wide semantic search (Title/Meaning), selection→chat and a right-click menu, citation chips on summaries, a content-drift banner, summary TTS, and an export pack.
  • Account & audit — self-serve account deletion, comprehensive activity logging, an extension error beacon, and DB security hardening (SSRF guard, citation Turnstile, webhook idempotency, durable cross-instance IP rate limiting).
  • Marketing / SEO — the "Citation Engine" site redesign, blog + glossary + free tools, per-page Open Graph images, schema/E-E-A-T, and IndexNow.

v1.11.0

Notion + Slack Canvas connectors; legal & security pages.

Added
  • Notion and Slack Canvas connectors end-to-end (OAuth, token crypto, extractors, Connections card, viewer gate, migrations).
  • A /security disclosure policy + security.txt, a support page, and custom 404 / error pages.

v1.10.0

Multi-document collections; library retention & search.

Added
  • Multi-document collections — backend plus extension UI with cross-document citations, and collection-glossary parity with single documents.
  • Dashboard subroutes (library, collections, upload, usage, per-document), an inline retention toggle, and server-side library search.
  • /pricing, /features/collections, /for/confluence, and a Sidenote-vs-NotebookLM comparison page.
Fixed
  • Chat markdown rendering (citations, code fences, bold, overflow) and citation scroll-into-view on long, window-scrolled pages.

v1.9.0

Added
  • Prompt-cache token accounting in the usage table and cost estimates.
Fixed
  • Preserve heading size / paragraph alignment / subtitle colour on render; refresh source_type when reusing a library entry.

v1.8.0

DOCX / Google-Docs fidelity and OAuth sign-in.

Added
  • First-class Google Docs ingest via the Docs API.
  • OAuth sign-in (Google + Apple + GitHub) alongside magic link.
  • Preserve DOCX / Google-Docs formatting — embedded images, page headers, custom tab stops, font sizes, and text colours.
Fixed
  • Numerous DOCX rendering issues (tab columns, bullet tables, text boxes, colours) and cross-context session validation after OAuth.

v1.6.0

Added
  • Scanned-PDF OCR gated behind the paid tier and surfaced on the pricing page.

v1.5.0

Added
  • Scanned-PDF OCR via Adobe PDF Services, with an input-hash cache.

v1.4.0

In-browser document viewer and PDF rendering.

Added
  • In-browser viewer at /documents/:id — bundled pdf.js with a text-layer overlay and citation highlights, a sticky toolbar (jump-to-page + zoom), and DPR-aware rendering; embeds stored PDFs.
  • Capture rendered HTML at ingest for DOCX/TXT/MD; multi-span citation highlights; Store/Discard retention with an hourly cleanup cron; a phone-OTP trial gate with per-tier burst rate limits; the v2 marketing redesign.
Fixed
  • Extensive PDF citation-locator fixes — ligatures, line-break hyphenation, tab-stop columns, and quotes spanning inline element boundaries.

v1.1.0

Initial tagged release — Sidenote's core reading assistant.

Added
  • Pipeline — document ingestion, hierarchical summarise, chat with per-claim / per-quote citations, glossary (jargon / acronyms / proper nouns), and "explain simply".
  • Citations — structured per-claim quotes that highlight the exact supporting sentence, with persistent highlights and reveal-before-jump.
  • Accounts & billing — tier foundations with per-feature caps, magic-link auth, Stripe billing + dashboard, Pro / Pro+ / Pro Max and admin tiers, and anniversary-aligned cap resets.
  • Library — a document history drawer, headless viewer mode, cache-aware ingest, and auto-display of cached summaries/glossaries.
  • Marketing — landing / privacy / terms pages, branded transactional emails, and the design system + extension shell.
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