Release notes

A record of all notable changes made to KnowledgeOwl since March 15, 2017.
You can also view our roadmap to see some of our largest upcoming projects.

Reporting update: Reset article view information

09/02/2020Kate Mueller
Reset view data for individual articles or all articles in your knowledge base.

Important updates for our GDPR customers, Sept. 2020

09/02/2020Kate Mueller
Learn about the changes we've made in response to the July 2020 CJEU decision invalidating Privacy Shield as a GDPR compliance mechanism.

Small bug fixes for refine search and author export

09/01/2020Kate Mueller
We fixed a bug with the refine by top-level/second-level category setting in search and made sure deleted authors aren't showing up in the CSV author export.

Sunset of Contact Form "Use reader's email address as sender" setting

08/31/2020Kate Mueller
We've removed the "Use reader's email address as sender" option from all knowledge bases where it wasn't in use.

Change in Insert Link to Article behavior

08/31/2020Kate Mueller
You can now set your own hyperlink title for Link to Article hyperlinks.

Tag library displayed alphabetically

08/31/2020Kate Mueller
The Tag Library now displays tags alphabetically.

KO News on your login dashboard!

08/13/2020Kate Mueller
See our latest release notes and blog posts on your app dashboard whenever you log in to KnowledgeOwl!

New: Merge tags

08/12/2020Kate Mueller
You can now merge duplicate tags together.

Updates to "link to existing article" wording & messaging

08/11/2020Kate Mueller
We've changed "linked article" to "shared content article", as this better describes what's actually happening: the articles are sharing content.

New feature: Author list export

08/11/2020Kate Mueller
You can now export a list of all your authors in CSV format.

Hidden tags update

08/11/2020Kate Mueller
When an article only has hidden tags, we've removed the empty "Tags: " field from Search Results and blog style category pages.

Modern Widget bug fix for openArticle with anchors

08/11/2020Kate Mueller
We've fixed a bug in Modern Widget when using the openArticle function with hyperlinks with anchor text in them.

Updates to app login + password reset processes

08/10/2020Kate Mueller
We've updated the app login screens and the password reset process.

New in Manage Articles: ratings and quality views

08/06/2020Kate Mueller
We've added quality views and article ratings info to the Manage Article Export to CSV column options.

Widget 2.0 openArticle() & openCategory() bug fix

08/06/2020Kate Mueller
Widget 2.0 openArticle() & openCategory() sometimes displayed incorrect breadcrumbs. They show the right ones now. :)

New internal note field for articles and categories!

08/05/2020Kate Mueller
We've added an internal note field to articles and categories to capture internal editor notes.

Reset article ratings

08/05/2020Kate Mueller
You can now delete/reset all ratings for one article or all articles in your knowledge base.

Widget 2.0 Chrome cookie fix

08/04/2020Kate Mueller
We updated cookies to support Chrome’s new cross site cookie restrictions.

SSO/SAML IdP URL bug fix: URL trim

08/03/2020Kate Mueller
The IdP URL fields for configuring SAML/SSO now trim trailing spaces.

Category titles no longer support hard-coded HTML

08/03/2020Kate Mueller
Category titles now strip any direct HTML entered into them when you save the category, just as article titles do.