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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

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- 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 Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers directly through Mintlify for seamless AI tool integrations. 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

- Copy button added to chat responses
- Improved message retry functionality
- Less verbose default responses for better user experience

## Performance and reliability

- Faster, more accurate search with debounced request cancellation

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- 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" }}>

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## AI assistant updates

- Improved accuracy through agentic RAG with tool calling

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- 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

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- 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

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</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

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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.

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## More Themes

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![llms.txt support](/images/changelog/llms.jpg)
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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)

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## 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.

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- 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.

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- 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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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.

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## Dashboard Improvements

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## File Uploads in API Playground

By default, API playground requests are proxied by Mintlify. Now you can use

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`disableProxy` to disable this behavior and support request types like file
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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

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- [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.

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## 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).

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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

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<Update label="January 2024">
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