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.

HTML zip export bug fixes

07/05/2022Kate Mueller
These fixes address bugs with the user interface for HTML zip exports and HTML generated in the export itself.

Webhook updates: article.archive and deactivated webhooks

06/29/2022Kate Mueller
We've added an article archive webhook and have added an automatic webhook deactivation process.

New features: Schedule article publication and archival!

06/22/2022Kate Mueller
I'm so excited to announce the release of two heavily-requested features, both to do with scheduling: Scheduling article publication Scheduling article archival You'll see these options in the upper right of the Article Editor: Quick ru...

New syntax highlighting

06/15/2022Kate Mueller
Learn how to use a third-party syntax highlighter, and get Kate's thoughts on implementing Prism in this knowledge base.

New feature: Support for basic authentication for third-party tools

06/13/2022Kate Mueller
We've added support for basic authentication so you can integrate with third-party crawling/scraping tools even if your knowledge base is private.

Updates to widget behavior in cookieless browsers

06/13/2022Kate Mueller
We've updated widget authentication so that it will work in browsers with and without cookies enabled.

Update to our automatic copyright year script

06/09/2022Kate Mueller
We recommend updating your automatic copyright year script!

World Caring Day 🤗 bug fixes

06/07/2022Kate Mueller
These fixes address bugs with regenerating widget JWT and Oauth secrets, PDF tables of contents, and Style Settings color tools.

World Bicycle 🚲 Day bug fixes

06/03/2022Kate Mueller
These fixes address bugs with enabling the reader login page, topic display category PDFs, and SSO SAML IdP certificates.

Change to New/Updated callout behavior + other bug fixes

05/26/2022Kate Mueller
We've made the New/Updated callout behavior for newly published articles work better with subscriptions, and fixed bugs with Style Settings and Widget 2.0 Learned Bias.

PDF content index updates

05/26/2022Kate Mueller
We now support PDF content indexing in search for Secure File Library and fixed a bug where PDFs longer than 100 pages weren't being indexed when they should be.

Nat'l Lucky Penny Day bug fixes

05/23/2022Kate Mueller
These fixes address bugs with Widget 2.0, PDF generation, reader logins and profile details, SSO rules, deleting an author, and more!

New feature drop: File Library List View 📃

05/11/2022KnowledgeOwl Support
We've added a new view option in File Library: List View!

Star Wars Day bug fixes

05/04/2022Kate Mueller
These fixes address bugs with Style Settings preview, individual article PDFs with Wistia embeds, copying a knowledge base, custom content categories, and the version Make Visible to Groups option.

Manage Articles Bulk Edit: now with New & Updated callouts!

05/04/2022Kate Mueller
We've added the New/Updated article callouts into the Bulk Edit options in Manage Articles!

Fix for preformatted code blocks in PDFs

04/18/2022Kate Mueller
Preformatted blocks of code now fully, properly generate in individual article PDFs, standard PDF exports, and custom PDF exports.

Our new Getting Started Guide!

04/04/2022Kate Mueller
We've just published a totally rewritten Getting Started Guide, which contains a ton of new best practice guidance, templates, and resources.

Nat'l Meatball Day 🍝 bug fixes

03/09/2022Kate Mueller
These fixes address bugs with subscription notification emails, bulk reader imports, and reactivating trials.

Nat'l Compliment Day 🤝 bug fixes

01/24/2022Kate Mueller
These fixes address bugs with relevance sort in Manage Articles and the knowledge base copying process.

Topic articles: Now in PDFs

01/13/2022Kate Mueller
We've added topic articles to some article PDF downloads--read on to see where and how your PDFs might be affected!