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.

New service available: Purge all deleted files

03/22/2023Kate Mueller
You can now request a full purge of all your deleted files from our support team.

Nat'l Get Over It Day bugfixes

03/09/2023Kate Mueller
These fixes address issues with search indexing, Exports access, snippet references, reader exports, the table of contents, and more.

Broken Links Report: Now with less noise

03/09/2023Kate Mueller
The Broken Links Report now ignores mailto: and javascript: links.

Article Favorites: Now in the table of contents

02/27/2023Kate Mueller
You can now add Article Favorites to your table of contents by checking a box--no code or HTML required!

New topic display option: Intro article

02/14/2023Kate Mueller
Topic display categories now have an option so you can set the first article to function as an introduction to the category, displaying its full text above the other controls, even Accordion.

🍕 Nat'l Pizza day bugfixes

02/09/2023Kate Mueller
These fixes address issues with Manage articles with Exclusive reader groups and make small edits to some in-app wording. 😉

Customize Text Tool: Now with Top Navigation

02/07/2023Kate Mueller
We've added the Top Navigation to the Customize Text Tool so you can easily customize the Contact Us, Login/Logout links, and more!

Nat'l Fro Yo Day🍦bugfixes

02/06/2023Kate Mueller
These fixes address bugs with Article Favorites, File References, the article-tags template, private domain root paths, and changes to reader group order.

New subcategory display option: Icon panels!

02/02/2023Kate Mueller
You can now set categories to display their subcategories with icon panels!

Nat'l Serpent Day bugfixes & updates

02/01/2023Kate Mueller
These fixes address bugs with homepage File References, Broken Link Checker, version notes in shared content articles, and wording consistency.

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.