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.

API article and category endpoint updates

01/24/2023Kate Mueller
We added better validation and messaging to PUT and POST calls on article and category endpoints, and updated their boolean fields to use proper boolean rather than strings.

Feature beta: Customize Text Tool

01/17/2023Kate Mueller
Our first major new feature of 2023 (and our first formalized beta feedback process): the Customize Text Tool! Customize some of the default text strings displayed in your live knowledge base.

Final 2022 bug fixes

12/29/2022Kate Mueller
These fixes address bugs with creating duplicate authors, the New Articles List, and the Support theme subcategory display.

File references now tracked!

12/28/2022Kate Mueller
File references in articles, categories, snippets, and Style > Settings will be tracked moving forward. Contact our team to run a one-time reindex to track existing references!

New feature drop: ⭐ Article Favorites

12/23/2022Kate Mueller
With this feature, each reader can favorite up to 10 articles by clicking a star next to the title, and you can choose where to display that list of favorites back to them.

St. Nicholas Day bug fixes

12/06/2022Kate Mueller
These fixes address bugs with Search glossary snippets, Manage Articles, Published Articles with 0 Views Report, Version Edit in App, Contact Form email addresses, and locked reader accounts.

New article action-icons merge code for Article HTML

11/30/2022Kate Mueller
See how you can use the icon-actions merge code to tidy up your Article HTML template.

Major changes: Category icon picker, homepage display with icons, and new KB theme

11/30/2022Kate Mueller
We're excited to announce a new homepage layout that displays category icons, a new category icon picker, and a new starting theme for new-from-scratch knowledge bases.

Font Awesome 6 now available (icons may look slightly different!)

11/30/2022Kate Mueller
We've upgraded app.knowledgeowl.com and all customer knowledge bases to use Font Awesome 6. The world is your icon.

Fix for Subscriptions with multiple SSO knowledge bases

11/28/2022Kate Mueller
We've fixed a bug that was preventing subscription notification emails from going out to SSO readers logging in to multiple knowledge bases.

Change to SSO reader validation

11/07/2022Kate Mueller
We've removed the email address format enforcement when editing SSO readers.

Updates to Broken Links Report

11/07/2022Kate Mueller
Broken Links Report now has an explicit custom author role permission and gets three new columns: Link Type, Author, and Last Modified Author.

Fix for deleting tags or reader groups

10/27/2022Kate Mueller
Deleting tags from articles and deleting reader groups from authors was causing some issues when multiple tags/groups were assigned.

Fix for Subscription emails not sending

10/19/2022Kate Mueller
We had an issue with subscription notification emails scheduled to go out at 9am EDT and 10am EDT; that issue was resolved and subscriptions resumed proper generation on 19 October.

Updates to Contextual Help Widget 2.0 caching

10/17/2022Kate Mueller
We've updated how the contextual help widget caches key resources to try to keep it performing well. You may see slight delays with updating some widget settings.

World 😁 Smile 😁 Day bug fixes

10/07/2022Kate Mueller
These fixes address bugs with the Broken Links Report, SSO attribute mappings, shared content category creation and URL redirect articles opened from the table of contents.

Int'l Day for Universal Access to Information bug fixes

09/28/2022Kate Mueller
These fixes address bugs with private domain reCAPTCHA, inherited restrictions, default login pages, and the Zendesk import.

Say hello to the Tools menu + Broken 🔗 Link 🔗 Checker!

09/27/2022Kate Mueller
Our 2021 customer favorite survey feature is here: Broken Links Report! We were so excited we also created a new Tools menu. ;)

Bulk reader import tweaks

09/07/2022Kate Mueller
We've added a more detailed progress bar and confirmation message to the readers import process.

New Widget 2.0 setting: Disable learned bias

09/01/2022Kate Mueller
Widget 2.0 now has an option to avoid recommending articles which only have learned bias.