Jul 2024 changelog updates

changelog.mdx

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-<Update label="July 2025" rss={{ title: "July Product Updates", description: "Slack app integration with zero friction access and contextual answers" }}>
+<Update label="July 2025" rss={{ title: "July Product Updates", description: "Slack app integration, hosted MCP servers, Cursor integration, and performance improvements" }}>
   ## Slack app
 
   - Zero friction access: Bot responds to DMs, @mentions, and any question in your `#ask-ai` channel
   - One-click setup: Install directly from your Mintlify dashboard in seconds
   - Contextual answers: Searches your entire documentation to provide relevant, accurate responses
   - Deflect support interruptions: Turn daily questions into instant, self-serve answers
 
   Learn more in our [Slack app guide](/ai/slack-app).
+
+  ## Hosted MCP servers
+
+  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).
+
+  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.
+
+  ## Authentication improvements
+
+  - Enhanced local development environment for auth features
+  - Preview deployments now available for auth-protected sites
+  - Fixed redirect behavior to properly return users to their original page
+  - Added logout button display for authenticated users
+
+  ## API playground enhancements
+
+  - Fixed `multipart/form-data` file upload functionality
+  - Improved anchor link behavior
+    - Clicking links updates URL without scrolling to top
+    - Resolved anchor link issues in nested tabs
+
+  ## Assistant updates
+  - Unified Assistant API that's compatible with the AI SDK
+  - Copy button added to chat responses
+  - Improved message retry functionality
+  - Less verbose default responses for better user experience
+
+  ## Code block improvements
+
+  - 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
+
+  ## Performance and reliability
+
+  - Faster, more accurate search with debounced request cancellation
+  - Page, image, and asset load time optimizations
+  - Enhanced Mermaid diagram rendering, including GANTT chart support
+  - Improved CLI stability on Windows
 </Update>
 
 <Update label="June 2025" rss={{ title: "June Product Updates", description: "AI assistant updates and subscribable changelogs" }}>
   ## AI assistant updates
 
   - 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
   - "Ask AI" shortcut on code blocks in documentation to generate explanations from the assistant
 
   Learn more in the [assistant docs](/guides/assistant).
 
   ## Subscribable changelogs
   - Automatically generate an RSS feed from changelog pages
   - Integrate RSS-enabled updates with Slack, email, and other tools
 
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   - Improved styling nits for dashboard border for mobile-tablet-desktop responsiveness
   - Show code examples even when in simple mode for API playground
   - Support "command \+ k" shortcut for search in web editor
   - Codeblocks within callouts expand to fill the width of the callout area
 </Update>
 
 <Update label="February 2025">
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   Automatically lint your docs to find broken links, discover spelling and grammar issues, or enforce writing styles with your own Vale config. Learn more in our [docs](settings/ci).
 
   ## .md support for LLMs
 
   All documentation pages are now automatically available as plain Markdown files—just append `.md` to the URL. This makes it easier for LLMs to ingest individual pages from your documentation.
 
   ## More Themes
 
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   <Frame>
     ![llms.txt support](/images/changelog/llms.jpg)
   </Frame>
   All docs instances are now automatically hosted at /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt so that LLMs can easily ingest your documentation. For more information, read the [docs on the new llms.txt standard.](https://llmstxt.org)
 
   ## Localization
 
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   ## Dashboard Improvements
 
   - Added ability to change custom domain to be /docs directly through dashboard settings.
   - Consolidated the login and signup pages to decrease friction and confusion.
   - Implemented the discovery login flow so that users that are members of multiple organizations can now switch between them.
   - Added login with Google OAuth
   - Added ability to add new deployment through dashboard settings.
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   - Don't allow search engines to crawl user-auth protected pages.
   - Revalidate the cache when an org is deleted.
   - We now use the Scalar OpenAPI parser to parse OpenAPI definitions which improves the performance, fixes parsing issues, and surfaces better error messages.
   - Top-level descriptions are now supported in API reference pages autogenerated from OpenAPI definitions.
   - Add in-line-style support for icons
   - Fixed the pop-in of custom CSS in docs.
   - Properly show in-line code styling in conjunction with links.
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   <Frame>
     ![SEO Improvements](/images/changelog/seo-improvements.jpeg)
   </Frame>
   We've fixed  both the mobile and desktop layout of our docs so that they are more SEO-friendly - including adding proper aria tags to navbar and toggle elements.
 
   ## Dashboard Improvements
 
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   ## File Uploads in API Playground
 
   By default, API playground requests are proxied by Mintlify. Now you can use
   `disableProxy` to disable this behavior and support request types like file
   uploads.
 
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   </Frame>
   For `Pro` users, we introduced Mintlify Widget, an extension of your docs to
   answer your users' questions when and where they asked. You can add this
   AI-powered chatbot to any web page: your landing page, inside your product, or
   on your existing documentation pages.
 
   - [Read the blog announcement](https://mintlify.com/blog/widget)
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 <Update label="May 2024">
   ## Okta SSO
 
   We now support sign-on via Okta SAML and OIDC.
 
   ## Mintlify REST API
 
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 <Update label="March 2024">
   ## Mintlify MDX for VSCode
 
   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>
 
 <Update label="February 2024">
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   - Dashboard upgrades: view update logs to see what's changed and status of an update, toggle between Mintlify projects to manage deployments
   - Versioning with tabs fully supported
   - Wildcard redirects now supported
   - CLI Error Detection: we now show the position of invalid frontmatter when there are parsing issues during local development
 </Update>
 
 <Update label="January 2024">