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| <Update label="August 24 - August 30" tags={["New releases", "Improvements"]} rss={{ title: "Weekly Updates", description: "Code snippet feedback system, usage billing dashboard, and image handling improvements" }}> | ||
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| ## Code snippet feedback system | ||
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| - Interactive feedback modals on code snippets allow users to report issues and provide qualitative feedback directly within documentation | ||
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| ## Usage-based billing dashboard enhancements | ||
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| - New usage summary endpoints, dashboard alerts, spend limits, and quota management features for better billing transparency and control | ||
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| ## Image handling and performance improvements | ||
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| - Comprehensive fixes for logo display, CDN image loading, and layout shift prevention across deployment scenarios | ||
| - Enhanced image URL generation and OG image handling for better performance | ||
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| ## Technical reliability improvements | ||
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| - Enhanced memory allocation for deployment workers, optimized caching mechanisms, and improved error handling across authentication and billing systems | ||
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| </Update> | ||
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| <Update label="August 17 - August 23" tags={["Improvements"]} rss={{ title: "Weekly Updates", description: "Image layout fixes, auth enhancements, mobile nav improvements, and web editor stability" }}> | ||
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| ## Image handling improvements | ||
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| - Enhanced logging system for update workflows enabling faster debugging and issue resolution | ||
| - Fixed GitHub rate limiting for customers with 10+ OpenAPI/AsyncAPI specs by switching from individual file fetching to repository cloning | ||
| - Improved assistant reliability with backup LLM support, enhanced rate limit error handling, and more robust search tool functionality | ||
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| </Update> | ||
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| <Update label="August 10 - August 16" tags={["Improvements"]} rss={{ title: "Weekly Updates", description: "Performance optimizations, LLM integrations, web editor polish, and API playground enhancements" }}> | ||
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| ## Performance and build optimizations | ||
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| - OpenAPI to MCP conversion moved to backend, enabling hosted MCP servers to contain tools (expect clearer documentation and config options soon) | ||
| - Added Ruby support to API playground | ||
| - We added a feature such that you can now [specify API pages using just your docs.json](/api-playground/openapi-setup#auto-populate-api-pages) without creating any new mdx files. | ||
| - Support for [`webhook` pages](/api-playground/openapi-setup#webhooks) in docs navigation from OpenAPI specs | ||
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| - Optimized AI model context by removing anchor link specifications from markdown links when navigating to Anthropic, OpenAI, or other providers | ||
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| ## Web editor improvements | ||
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| - Fixed `Ctrl+K` link shortcut in monorepo dashboard Editor that was prepending docs repo path and creating broken links | ||
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| ## Analytics and LLM integrations | ||
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| - Custom `llms.txt` and `llms-full.txt` support—add to docs repo root to serve at `/llms.txt` and `/llms-full.txt` endpoints for LLM customization | ||
| - Added [Hightouch analytics integration](/integrations/analytics/hightouch#hightouch) | ||
| - Enhanced context menu analytics tracking (dashboard viewing coming soon) | ||
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| - Support for custom classnames in `h{1-4}` tags for applying custom heading styles | ||
| - Fixed `h{1-4}` tags rendering as `Heading` components with chips in custom page mode | ||
| - Added CSS selectors to [breadcrumbs](/navigation#breadcrumbs) for custom CSS targeting | ||
| - Fixed stretched open-graph images by analyzing dimensions to maintain proportions at 56px height | ||
| - Corrected `VSCode` to `VS Code` in contextual menu when enabled | ||
| - Fixed headings within custom components appearing in table of contents alongside semantic headings | ||
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| ## Bug fixes and reliability | ||
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| - Comprehensive testing coverage for new features and edge cases | ||
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| </Update> | ||
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| <Update label="August 3 - August 9" tags={["Improvements"]} rss={{ title: "Weekly Updates", description: "Search API, OAuth polish, asset serving, and MCP tooling" }}> | ||
| ## Authentication improvements | ||
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| - You can now use the [`x-mint` field in your openapi files](https://mintlify.com/docs/api-playground/openapi-setup#x-mint-extension) to override generated fields, customize preface content, or change endpoint URLs in code samples | ||
| - [`x-mcp` is now `x-mint.mcp`](https://mintlify.com/docs/api-playground/openapi-setup#mcp) in OpenAPI configurations to control which routes are exposed as MCP tools | ||
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| ## Assistant updates | ||
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| - Fixed an issue where the action menu (containing options like copy and thumbs up) for older messages disappeared when new ones streamed in | ||
| - Fixed accessibility of nested `/mcp/...` pages after the [hosted MCP servers release](https://mintlify.com/docs/ai/model-context-protocol#accessing-your-mcp-server) from last week | ||
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| ## Performance and reliability | ||
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| - All image and video assets present in your docs repo are now served at the appropriate path on your domain. For example, if you have `/assets/marketing/my-logo.png` in your repo, it will be available at `https://mydocsurl.extension/assets/marketing/my-logo.png`. | ||
| - Email field on login for the Mintlify dashboard now autofocuses so you can start typing immediately _(quality of life improvement)_ | ||
| - Both custom domains and subdomains in Redis for a performance improvement on navigation load times (~50ms latency reduction) | ||
| - Added retry logic for PDF exports to improve reliability | ||
| - Fixed cookie consent popup reappearing after acceptance or dismissal—first selection is now respected | ||
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| - Fixed anchor link behavior so clicking them updates the URL without scrolling to top of page | ||
| - Fixed anchor link issues in nested tabs | ||
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| ## Assistant updates | ||
| - New Assistant API so you can build it into your own products, compatible with AI SDK | ||
| - Added copy button to chat responses | ||
| - Fixed issue with retrying messages in the assistant | ||
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| ## Performance and reliability | ||
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| - Made search feel more crisp and accurate by aborting debounced requests as you type | ||
| - Resource provisions for a new CDN - expect image asset and page load times to improve soon | ||
| - Fixed bugs for rendering complex Mermaid diagrams like GANTT charts | ||
| - Fixed CLI bugs on Windows to improve stability and added tests to prevent regression | ||
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| ## Technical improvements | ||
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| - Added OpenTelemetry for traces in NextJS application to improve time to first byte for customers | ||
| - Migrated from Octokit to GitHub API Client to improve latency in the web editor experience | ||
| - Fixed duplicate meta tags for OpenGraph | ||
| - Upgraded MongoDB from version 6 to 7 for improved performance and new features | ||
| </Update> | ||
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| Deploy hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers directly through Mintlify to integrate with AI tool like Claude, Cursor, and others. Learn more in our [MCP guide](/ai/model-context-protocol). | ||
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| Help users quickly connect your MCP server to Cursor or VS Code from any page in your docs via the contextual menu. See [Contextual menu](/ai/contextual-menu) for more information. | ||
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| ## Code block improvements | ||
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| - Improved syntax highlighting | ||
| - Added more customization options including focus mode, expandable code blocks, dark and light mode responsiveness, language dropdown menu, line numbering, and icons | ||
| </Update> | ||
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| <Update label="June 2025" tags={["New releases", "Improvements"]} rss={{ title: "June Product Updates", description: "AI assistant updates and subscribable changelogs" }}> | ||
| ## AI assistant updates | ||
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| - Improved accuracy through agentic RAG with tool calling | ||
| - Provides navigable links to referenced pages so that users can go directly to the source of answers | ||
| - Copy shortcut for code examples generated by assistant | ||
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| - Tag changelog updates so end users can filter updates | ||
| - Sonnet-3.7 supported for AI Chat. Configure your preferred model through the dashboard | ||
| - Change your deployment name directly in dashboard settings | ||
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| ## Bug fixes | ||
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| - OG images fixed | ||
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| ```bash | ||
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| 1. Delete your old `mint.json` file and push your changes | ||
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| ## CI Checks | ||
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| We've revamped our web editor so that you can now update docs with a fully WYSIWYG experience, while syncing with markdown. | ||
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| Check out our [docs on getting started with Web Editor](/editor). | ||
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| ## /llms.txt support | ||
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| ## Filter search based on the current user | ||
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| When personalization is enabled, search results are now filtered based on the current logged in user so that they only see the relevant content. | ||
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| ## Custom Prompts for AI Chat | ||
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| You can now customize the prompts for the AI chat. Please reach out to [support](mailto:[email protected]) if you'd like to customize the prompts. | ||
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| - Added ability to add new deployment through dashboard settings. | ||
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| ## Bug Fixes | ||
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| - Can now use leading slashes in navigation. | ||
| - Can now edit CSS & JS files in the web editor. | ||
| - Fixed `suggestEdit` not showing up even when enabled. | ||
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| For large projects (~3,000 files), the download step for docs updates is now | ||
| ~440x faster - a 99.8% time reduction. Across the board, file downloads during | ||
| updates are now ~5.5x faster - an 81.8% time reduction. | ||
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| ## SEO improvements | ||
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| <Update label="August 2024"> | ||
| ## OpenAPI Reference Pages | ||
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| - Endpoints defined by OpenAPI that are complex and recursive are now 98% | ||
| smaller. | ||
| - We now show | ||
| [additionalProperties](https://swagger.io/docs/specification/data-models/dictionaries/) | ||
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| <Update label="July 2024"> | ||
| ## AI Widget | ||
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| - Themes: Customize your styling with pre-configured themes. Just add the theme Quill, Prism, or Venus to your `docs.json` file and it'll update your docs styling. | ||
| - Search V2: directly query OpenAPI endpoint descriptions and titles to reach API Reference pages, remove hidden pages from search, and enjoy our updated search bar UI. | ||
| - Web Editor branching: create branches in our web editor without an IDE. | ||
| - User Personalization: authenticate users with Shared Session or JWT so that you can show them customized content, such as pre-filling API keys or showing specific content for customers. | ||
| - OpenAPI Automation Upgrades: to auto-populate API Playground pages, you can add an `openapi` field to an object in tabs or anchors arrays in the `docs.json`. | ||
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| - Create a custom global landing page setup with custom components | ||
| - Add full-screen videos or image galleries | ||
| - Embed custom iFrame demo elements to add intractability to your docs | ||
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| Check out our [Custom Mode docs](pages#custom-mode). | ||
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| ## Mintlify MDX for VSCode | ||
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| Call snippets of our pre-built components and callouts without leaving VSCode. [Install the extension here](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mintlify.mintlify-snippets). | ||
| </Update> | ||
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| <Update label="February 2024"> | ||
| ## Quality Improvements | ||
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these 2 feel a little less relevant but everything else looks good