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v0.27.0

Live refresh, voice notes, AI transcription, MCP tools, and memo sharing improvements

April 18, 2026
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This release adds real-time updates, richer memo authoring, AI transcription, and a new MCP integration. It also includes security hardening, attachment improvements, and many editor and API fixes.

New Features

Real-Time and Memo Creation

  • Live refresh - Memo updates now arrive through Server-Sent Events, with a visual indicator for the connection state.
  • Voice notes - The memo composer can record voice notes with a compact waveform panel.
  • AI transcription - Audio transcription now supports instance-level providers, bring-your-own-key providers, and Gemini.
  • MCP integration - The new MCP server supports PAT authentication, a standard protocol structure, expanded tools, and safer tool exposure.
  • Memo mentions - Memos can mention other memos, render those mentions, and send related notifications.
  • Memo sharing - Private memos can be shared with links, and memo detail pages can share images directly.

Reading and Navigation

  • Detail outline - Memo detail pages now include outline navigation in the sidebar.
  • Automatic titles - The first H1 heading can be extracted into the memo title property.
  • Inline previews - Memo lists can show comment previews, and memo previews understand comment metadata.
  • Media browsing - Image previews support arrow-key navigation, Live Photo playback is improved, audio attachments render inline, and SVG attachments can be previewed.

Tags and Metadata

  • Tag metadata controls - Instance admins and users can configure tag metadata, including canonical tags and blur rules.
  • Anchored matching - Tag setting keys are treated as anchored regular expressions for more predictable matching.
  • Better snippets - Memo snippets include plain URLs and tags, and tag parsing now preserves emoji variation selectors.

Admin and Security

  • Webhook controls - Memos can dispatch webhooks for comment creation, attachment changes, and relation changes.
  • Private webhook opt-in - The --allow-private-webhooks flag allows intentionally sending webhooks to private targets.
  • Storage default - The default storage type is now local filesystem.
  • Notification transport - Instance settings now include notification transport configuration.
  • Sensitive settings - Credentials are write-only, sensitive settings are restricted to admins, and user emails are visible only to the user and admins.
  • Access hardening - Archived memos are restricted to their creator, memo content iframes and HTML sanitization are hardened, local attachment uploads cannot overwrite files, and Unix socket permissions are reduced from 755 to 660.

Authentication and API Reliability

  • Identity resources - Identity provider resource names now use UIDs, and user resource names now use usernames.
  • Token refresh - Access token refresh is more reliable in the web app and across browser tabs.
  • Session recovery - Sessions can recover from the refresh cookie when local storage is empty.
  • Public routing - Unauthenticated users are redirected to /explore when public visibility is enabled.
  • API resilience - Memo conversion tolerates missing related users, legacy installations with empty schema versions are detected, MySQL custom timestamps are handled correctly, and CEL filter syntax is enforced.

User Interface Fixes

  • Editor reliability - Drafts are preserved across tab suspension and editor remounts, Cmd+Enter only saves the active editor, and newly linked memos appear while editing memos with attachments.
  • Comment layout - Comments span the full memo detail width, and the comment editor appears above the comment list.
  • Markdown rendering - KaTeX and Mermaid errors are handled more gracefully, Markdown image height and width attributes are supported, and memo content prop leaks are prevented.
  • Navigation polish - Selecting a shortcut clears the content search filter, focus mode no longer resets editor height, and memo detail cache refreshes after saving.
  • Visual polish - Metadata styling is unified across memo views and the editor, map styling is refined for dark mode, and the HTML lang attribute syncs with the active locale.

Performance and Maintenance

  • Faster memo lists - Memo relations are batch loaded when listing memos.
  • Lower memory pressure - Backend paths use less memory.
  • SSE reliability - SSE broadcasts avoid duplicate comment events, and clients close cleanly during server shutdown.
  • Deployment resilience - Chunk load errors after redeployment trigger automatic reloads.
  • Project maintenance - Sitemap and robots routes were restored, and installer compatibility and documentation were improved.

Full Changelog: v0.26.2...v0.27.0