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title: "Changelog"
description: "Every Bearly release since June 2024, newest first, with what changed in each one."
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markdown: "https://bearly.ai/docs/changelog.md"
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# Changelog

HTML: [https://bearly.ai/docs/changelog/](https://bearly.ai/docs/changelog/)

> Every Bearly release since June 2024, newest first, with what changed in each one.

Every Bearly release since June 2024, newest first. These notes also appear in the app under **What's New**.

## 4.41 — September 2, 2026

**Highlights**

- **🎙️ Dictate instead of typing** — Hold a key or use the message-box control to turn speech into editable text, with optional cleanup. [Blog](/blog/hold-a-key-and-talk) · [Docs](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/dictation.md)
- **🌐 Bearly works in your own Chrome** — Use the extension beside a page, or let a desktop chat work in Chrome tabs where you're already signed in. [Blog](/blog/bearly-works-in-your-own-chrome) · [Docs](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/chrome-control.md)

**Also new**

- **📐 Visualize** — Turn an idea, layout, process, or dataset into a focused visual, interactive planner, or simulation.
- **📋 Lead enrichment** — Enrich up to ten known leads at once from profile links, email addresses, names and employers, or roles and companies.
- **🏢 Microsoft Entra provisioning** — Managed-team admins can sync assigned users and groups from Microsoft Entra.

**Fixes & improvements**

- Claude Fable 5.1 is available.
- Deep Research now uses actual cost against your allowance, with a per-run cap and one run at a time.
- Background refreshes now wait when answers, unsent drafts, pending files, or meeting recordings are active.
- New Chat and standard Browser shortcuts work reliably, and deleted draft chats recover into a fresh chat.

## 4.40 — August 26, 2026

**Highlights**

- **🔎 Find a name, then check the domain** — Ask Bearly for domain ideas, then check whether an exact domain is available to register. [Blog](/blog/find-the-name-then-check-the-domain) · [Docs](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/domain-research.md)
- **💳 Team billing and seats** — Buy and manage Pro, Analyst, Research, or Max seats from one team account. [Blog](/blog/give-each-teammate-the-right-bearly-plan) · [Docs](https://bearly.ai/docs/teams/billing.md)

**Also new**

- **⏰ Models for Routines** — Choose which model runs each schedule.
- **🏢 Automatic team joining** — Add anyone with your managed email domain automatically, or require an administrator to add each person.

**Fixes & improvements**

- Routines create a new chat and keep running if their original chat is deleted.
- Longer multi-step work can keep going, with a compact live status and expandable details.
- Chat lists refresh more reliably across devices.
- Project sharing finds individual teammates more reliably.
- Custom prompts, input references, and desktop notifications are more reliable.

## 4.39 — August 19, 2026

**Highlights**

- **🛡️ Limit chats to zero-retention models** — Turn on ZDR models only in Privacy settings to use just the models whose providers keep nothing after answering. [Blog](/blog/keeping-your-work-private-zero-data-retention) · [Docs](https://bearly.ai/docs/zero-data-retention.md)

**Also new**

- **🏷️ Retention badges** — Every model in the picker shows whether its provider keeps your prompts and responses.

## 4.38 — August 17, 2026

**Also new**

- **📊 Charts for every account** — Turn prepared spreadsheet data into an interactive KPI, bar, or line chart.
- **📱 Phone & SMS** — Add a US or Canadian number, then ask Bearly to text you from chats and Routines.

## 4.37 — August 16, 2026

**Highlights**

- **📊 Chart a spreadsheet in Bearly** — Attach a spreadsheet and get an interactive KPI, bar, or line chart with the source data ready to inspect and download. [Blog](/blog/chart-a-spreadsheet-in-bearly) · [Docs](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/charts.md)

**Also new**

- **🧭 Chat timeline** — Jump between prompts and chapters in longer conversations.
- **🔎 Search chats and files** — Find conversations by message text or the names of uploaded and generated files, with dates for matched messages.
- **🌐 Better Browser control** — Bearly can hover, drag, scroll nested pages, and use screenshots to work with harder page layouts.
- **👥 Team directories** — Managed-team admins can choose whether members can find coworkers by name or work email.

**Fixes & improvements**

- Gemini 3.7 Flash and Grok 4.6 are available.
- Grok text, image, and voice requests now run with zero data retention.
- Charts, research, images, and other visible results remain available as Bearly continues multi-step work.
- Long conversations preserve active instructions and important context more reliably as they grow.
- Large team roster imports are faster and flag duplicate or wrong-domain rows more clearly.
- Tool failures explain more clearly what to retry or change.
- Notifications are more consistent and take up less space.
- Math stays within the chat on narrow screens, and text fields no longer trigger unwanted zoom on iPhone or iPad.
- Deep Research email delivery, desktop Skills, and Windows Computer Use setup are more reliable.
- New Chat, project folder sync, and expanded Browser controls recover more reliably.

## 4.36 — August 10, 2026

**Also new**

- **📊 Editable tables** — Edit CSV, TSV, and other delimited files in a full-size grid, with every save kept as a version.

**Fixes & improvements**

- Generated file cards and full previews now share the same version history, including newer versions created later.
- Every inline file preview has a download control, with richer previews for more file types.
- Long chats stay steady instead of flashing or jumping when you send a message.
- Local meeting recordings finish transcribing more reliably.
- Chat titles appear sooner and recover more reliably when generation fails.
- The desktop Browser and chat sidebar no longer compete for space.
- Document uploads and model responses recover from more temporary failures.
- People Search no longer shows broken text when it doesn't find published work.
- Login codes, scheduled results, and other Bearly emails have a more consistent design.

## 4.35 — August 6, 2026

**Also new**

- **📬 Message queueing** — Send follow-ups while Bearly is answering; they wait in the composer and send one at a time.

**Fixes & improvements**

- ⌘Enter sends a message immediately, interrupting the current answer.
- ↑ in an empty composer recalls your most recent queued message.

## 4.34 — August 5, 2026

**Highlights**

- **🔌 Connect your own MCP servers** — Add an HTTPS MCP server on the web or desktop, or run an npm MCP package in the desktop app, and use its tools in chats and Routines. [Docs](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/connectors.md)

**Fixes & improvements**

- Team policies can provide MCP servers to members and decide whether members can add their own.
- Connectors now show why a server failed, and a local server that stopped restarts the next time a chat needs it.
- Servers and keys you add stay in the browser or desktop profile where you set them up.

## 4.33 — August 4, 2026

**Highlights**

- **🔎 People Search** — Meeting someone new? Bearly makes sure it has the right person, then writes up their public work with a source and a date on every claim. [Blog](/blog/find-the-person-then-the-footprint) · [Docs](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/people-search.md)
- **🌐 Bearly Browser** — Open a browser you and Bearly share in the desktop app, and let it read and act on pages with you. [Blog](/blog/a-browser-beside-the-conversation) · [Docs](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/browser.md)

**Also new**

- **🖼️ Image search** — Ask for images and get a gallery you can open, copy, or download.
- **📨 Email & text from chat** — Ask Bearly to email or text you results from any conversation.
- **🔌 Connectors on desktop** — Use your connected apps in the desktop app, not just on the web.
- **📁 Meeting transcripts in Projects** — Send a meeting transcript to a project so chats there can use it.

**Fixes & improvements**

- Claude Opus 5 is available.
- Voice conversations, transcription, and text-to-speech use upgraded audio models.
- Web search cites sources as compact numbered links.
- Chats sync more safely through connection problems, and long chats render faster.
- The desktop app shows a clearer screen when it can't connect and recovers on its own.
- Scanned documents, connector sign-ins, sidebar menus, and iOS input are more reliable.

## 4.32 — July 26, 2026

**Highlights**

- **🎙️ Record meetings with live transcripts** — Record a meeting, call, or voice note and watch the speaker-aware transcript arrive live. [Blog](/blog/record-meetings-in-bearly) · [Docs](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/meetings.md)

**Also new**

- **🗺️ Maps** — Ask for places, reviews, or directions by car, foot, bike, or transit.
- **🌤️ Weather** — Ask for forecasts, severe-weather alerts, air quality, or pollen anywhere.
- **💬 Chat management** — Find, read, rename, and organize chats with confirmation for sensitive actions.

**Fixes & improvements**

- Math renders without stray dollar signs.
- Routines has a clearer schedule builder and week view.
- The new-chat box opens at its full height.

## 4.31 — July 22, 2026

**Also new**

- **⏰ Routines** — Deliver scheduled prompts to their own chat, email, or text.
- **🔎 SEO Data** — Ask for current demand, search results, rankings, competitors, backlinks, or page audits.
- **🧭 Faster references** — Type `/` or `@` to add files, skills, prompts, research, and tools to a message.
- **🎥 Video understanding** — Inspect uploaded videos by scene, audio, and time range.
- **📸 Better X research** — Bring post images and attached videos into the analysis.
- **🔐 Password-protected PDFs** — Unlock protected files during upload.

**Fixes & improvements**

- New chats recover from connection failures without losing drafts or creating duplicates.
- Research sources, partial answers, file errors, iOS voice mode, desktop startup, and chat titles are more reliable.

## 4.30 — July 21, 2026

**Highlights**

- **⏰ Routines** — Put a prompt on a schedule and receive each result in chat, by email, or by text. [Blog](/blog/put-bearly-on-a-schedule) · [Docs](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/routines.md)

## 4.29 — July 3, 2026

**Also new**

- **📝 Transcripts as files** — Save audio and video transcripts as reusable, searchable text files in chat.

**Fixes & improvements**

- Re-transcribing the same recording reuses its existing file.

## 4.28 — June 30, 2026

**Highlights**

- **Bearly Pro, Claude Sonnet 5, and Nano Banana Lite** — New language and image options balance frontier quality, speed, and price.

**Also new**

- **✨ Needs Attention** — Gather unread chats and pending approvals in one sidebar filter.
- **📄 Better OCR** — Preserve tables and retry low-confidence scans automatically with Mistral OCR 4.
- **💻 Local approval controls** — Grant or revoke command auto-approval directly from chat.

**Fixes & improvements**

- Text files skip OCR for faster, more reliable uploads.
- Chat forks, iOS input, local folder identity, and new-chat tips are more reliable.

## 4.27 — June 17, 2026

**Also new**

- **🎙️ Better text-to-speech** — Choose a natural voice and steer its tone, pace, or accent.

## 4.26 — June 17, 2026

**Also new**

- **🗂️ Safer archives** — Filter clearly marked archived chats and restore one before deleting it.

**Fixes & improvements**

- The Archive control disappears correctly when no archived chats remain.

## 4.25 — June 9, 2026

**Highlights**

- **Claude Fable 5** — Anthropic's flagship model supports long context, images, tools, and adaptive reasoning.

## 4.24 — June 4, 2026

**Highlights**

- **🎬 Generate and edit video** — Create video from text or images, add native audio, or transform an existing clip by describing the change.

**Also new**

- **🎚️ Video controls** — Choose length, resolution, aspect ratio, and optional start or end frames.

**Fixes & improvements**

- Video replies no longer expose internal control tags.

## 4.23 — May 28, 2026

**Highlights**

- **Claude Opus 4.8** — Anthropic's latest flagship model replaces earlier Opus versions in Bearly.

## 4.22 — May 20, 2026

**Highlights**

- **🔬 Deep Research** — Review a research plan, then receive a thorough source-backed report.
- **Gemini 3.5 Flash** — Google's fast, affordable everyday model is available.

**Fixes & improvements**

- Apple-billed customers can buy credit boosts on the web.
- Copied answers preserve formatting in Word, Outlook, and other rich-text apps.
- Voice mode works better in noisy rooms.
- Desktop navigation, spelling suggestions, and app stability are improved.
- Projects replace legacy document collections for organized file workflows.

## 4.21 — May 13, 2026

**Highlights**

- **🎙️ Voice mode** — Talk with Bearly in real time, then continue from the transcript saved in chat.

## 4.20 — May 10, 2026

**Also new**

- **🖼️ Cleaner media workflows** — Review image galleries and inline media without leaving chat.
- **🎨 Themed Pages** — Generated Pages inherit your Bearly colors.
- **⬇️ Office downloads** — Save either a PDF preview or the original file.
- **🧩 Local skill scripts** — Run approved preset scripts without exposing a general shell.

**Fixes & improvements**

- Cowork approvals, local skills, desktop downloads, and runtime settings are clearer.
- Sidebar attention states, encrypted-project sync, mobile input, and desktop startup are more reliable.

## 4.19 — May 5, 2026

**Highlights**

- **💻 Cowork** — Let Bearly read, write, and run approved commands inside a folder you choose. [Docs](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/work-locally.md)
- **🧩 Skills** — Install reusable abilities from Git, GitHub, or Bearly's built-in collection.
- **GPT-5.5 and Grok 4.3** — New frontier reasoning models are available.

**Fixes & improvements**

- Tool calls and thinking steps use a compact, inspectable row.
- Tool arguments appear while Bearly is preparing them.
- Desktop menus, international text input, and document rendering are more reliable.

## 4.18 — April 29, 2026

**Highlights**

- **🏛️ Council of Experts** — Ask several leading models at once and receive one bias-reduced synthesis.
- **🐦 X research** — Search public X posts and profiles for current discussion, sentiment, and expert commentary.

**Also new**

- **🎯 Tidier agentic view** — Inspect thinking and tool steps from one compact row.

## 4.17 — April 21, 2026

**Highlights**

- **Kimi 2.6 and GPT Image 2** — New agentic and image-generation models are available.

## 4.16 — April 20, 2026

**Highlights**

- **🚀 A faster new-chat page** — Bearly opens to a dedicated home base that starts a conversation without a spinner.

**Also new**

- **🎞️ Grounded media answers** — Questions about audio and video start from a transcript.

**Fixes & improvements**

- Billing, syncing, and app stability are smoother.

## 4.15 — April 16, 2026

**Highlights**

- **Claude Opus 4.7** — Anthropic's latest flagship model is available.

**Also new**

- **⏭️ Interrupt & Send** — Send a new message to stop and redirect an answer in progress.
- **📸 Mobile camera** — Open the camera from chat with one tap.
- **🖼️ Upload previews** — See image thumbnails and clearer processing progress before sending.

**Fixes & improvements**

- PDFs, downloads, file actions, video, and Markdown math work more reliably on mobile.

## 4.14 — April 14, 2026

**Highlights**

- **🧠 Conversation history modes** — Choose dynamic trimming for chat or compaction for long, agentic work.

**Also new**

- **💅 Cleaner chat design** — Use flatter messages and smaller citation markers.
- **🔎 Smarter web fetch** — Search several queries at once and save large sources as attachments.
- **📄 Better document handling** — Read documents directly and turn large text pastes into files.
- **💰 Usage summary** — See spend, daily rate, boost balance, and credit reset date together.

**Fixes & improvements**

- Streaming, Markdown, code blocks, navigation, and long chats are more reliable.

## 4.13 — April 8, 2026

**Also new**

- **📌 Chat pinning** — Keep important conversations at the top of the sidebar.
- **🧠 Smarter conversation memory** — Preserve long chats through background compaction and better caching.
- **📸 Better image uploads** — Reliably upload large photos, HEIC files, and WebP images.

**Fixes & improvements**

- The sidebar sorts chats by recent use.
- OpenAI responses stream faster and cached follow-ups cost less.
- Chat titles, image galleries, metadata handling, and model menus are more reliable.

## 4.12 — April 5, 2026

**Also new**

- **🔎 Smarter web research** — Follow evidence beyond snippets and verify it through clearer sources.
- **✉️ Send email from chat** — Email a summary, notes, or attachments from the current conversation.
- **🖼️ Image understanding** — Inspect images found during a workflow and keep working with them.
- **🧠 Longer workflows** — Continue complex, multi-step tasks through more work before stopping.

## 4.11 — April 2, 2026

**Highlights**

- **🧠 Memory recall** — Bearly can bring relevant details from past conversations into the current answer.

**Also new**

- **📄 Deeper document understanding** — Search inside uploads and walk through them section by section.

## 4.10 — March 31, 2026

**Highlights**

- **🪪 Personalization** — Tell Bearly about your role and preferences so responses fit your work.

**Also new**

- **💰 Credit boosts** — Add one-time credits from Billing when you need more before reset.
- **✍️ Canvas preview** — Edit raw Markdown beside a live rendered preview.
- **📊 Model usage** — See exactly where your credits go by model.
- **🖼️ Better image viewer** — Zoom, pan, pinch, and quickly reset an image.

**Fixes & improvements**

- Answers are shorter and Markdown spacing is tighter by default.

## 4.8 — March 4, 2026

**Highlights**

- **🎨 Themes** — Choose from 11 themes that restyle chat, navigation, code, and every page.

**Also new**

- **✨ Fresh new look** — A consistent design system now runs across every page and component.
- **💬 Smoother chat** — Media keeps playing while answers stream and switching chats is flicker-free.

**Fixes & improvements**

- Chat scrolling is smoother.
- Markdown and code rendering are clearer and more accurate.

## 4.7.2 — February 26, 2026

**Highlights**

- **Gemini 3.1 Pro and Nano Banana 2** — Google's latest language and image models are available.

**Also new**

- **📁 Chat file browser** — Browse and download uploaded, generated, and project files from chat.
- **✍️ More response styles** — Use Classic or No Style and set project-level defaults.

**Fixes & improvements**

- Desktop folder picking and multi-monitor window placement are more reliable.

## 4.7.1 — February 17, 2026

**Highlights**

- **🎨 Response styles** — Choose how Bearly writes in each chat, from concise to explanatory or formal.
- **Claude Sonnet 4.6** — Anthropic's latest Sonnet model is the new featured model.

**Also new**

- **⚙️ Redesigned Settings** — Change this chat or future chat defaults from a faster modal.
- **🧭 Better navigation** — Use project breadcrumbs, global search, and one app menu for common controls.

**Fixes & improvements**

- Recommended automatically chooses the best available model for new chats.
- Images, desktop popovers, and the model picker render more reliably.

## 4.7 — January 6, 2026

**Highlights**

- **🏞️ Image editing gallery** — Generate, edit, and combine images in one focused workspace. [Docs](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/image-generation.md)
- **💅 Grammar corrections** — Review and apply sentence-level writing corrections inside Bearly. [Docs](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/grammar-correction.md)

**Fixes & improvements**

- Image generation adds SeedDream 4, Qwen, Imagine 4, and Flux 2.
- The app loads faster and syncs chats more reliably.

## 4.6.3 — November 24, 2025

**Highlights**

- **Claude Opus 4.5** — Anthropic's latest Opus model is available.

**Fixes & improvements**

- Gemini 3.1 Flash Image is the new default image-editing model.

## 4.6.2 — November 18, 2025

**Highlights**

- **Gemini 3** — Google's latest general-purpose model is available.

## 4.6.1 — November 14, 2025

**Highlights**

- **GPT-5.1 and GPT-5 Pro** — OpenAI's latest models are available in Bearly.

## 4.6.0 — October 23, 2025

**Also new**

- **🗂️ Prompt Templates** — Reusable prompts now have their own page.

**Fixes & improvements**

- The sidebar and several pages have a clearer, more streamlined design.
- Answers stream more smoothly.
- Cross-device sync is faster and more reliable.

## 4.5.2 — September 15, 2025

**Highlights**

- **🔐 Project encryption** — Protect an entire project with a password only you know. [Docs](https://bearly.ai/docs/projects/encryption.md)

**Fixes & improvements**

- Copied answers paste more reliably into Google Docs and other rich-text editors.
- The mobile sidebar and Artifact experience are more stable.

## 4.5.1 — September 3, 2025

**Highlights**

- **Gemini 2.5 Flash Image** — Google's Nano Banana model is available for image editing. [Docs](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/image-editing.md)

**Fixes & improvements**

- Audio, video, scrolling, media rendering, and cross-device sync are more reliable.

## 4.5 — August 25, 2025

**Highlights**

- **📚 Project documents** — Build a shared knowledge base that every chat in a project can use automatically. [Docs](https://bearly.ai/docs/projects/documents.md)

**Also new**

- **📄 Richer document processing** — Preserve more information from images, tables, charts, and page layout.

**Fixes & improvements**

- Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other office files process faster and more reliably.
- GPT-5 formats code more reliably.

## 4.4.1 — August 15, 2025

**Highlights**

- **GPT-5** — OpenAI's adaptive reasoning model is the new Bearly default.

**Fixes & improvements**

- Claude Opus was upgraded to 4.1.
- Chat scrolling and performance are smoother.

## 4.4 — August 1, 2025

**Highlights**

- **📁 Projects** — Group related chats and give each project its own settings and workflow. [Docs](https://bearly.ai/docs/projects/overview.md)

## 4.3.2 — July 20, 2025

**Highlights**

- **Grok 4** — xAI's reasoning model can work with images, code, and complex questions.

## 4.3.1 — July 10, 2025

**Highlights**

- **🎥 Video generation** — Turn an image and prompt into a five-second video with Kling AI 2.1. [Docs](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/video-generation.md)

**Also new**

- **🎨 More image editing** — Compare Flux Kontext and GPT Image results.

**Fixes & improvements**

- OpenAI GPT-4.5 was retired.

## 4.3 — June 25, 2025

**Highlights**

- **🧠 Memory and chat search** — Search encrypted conversations and let Bearly recall useful context from them. [Docs](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/memory-search.md)

**Also new**

- **⬇️ Artifact downloads** — Export an Artifact to run or deploy outside Bearly.
- **🧭 Chat navigation** — Move through chats from a dedicated top bar.

**Fixes & improvements**

- Chat scrolling is more reliable.
- Model pricing reflects recent provider price reductions.
- Canvas and Artifact windows behave more reliably.

## 4.2.1 — June 15, 2025

**Highlights**

- **Claude 4 models** — Claude Sonnet 4, Sonnet 4 Reasoning, and Opus 4 are available.

## 4.2 — June 1, 2025

**Highlights**

- **🎨 Edit, combine, and inpaint images** — Restyle an image, merge several images, or paint over the exact area you want to change. [Docs](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/image-editing.md)

**Also new**

- **🗑️ Bulk delete** — Select and remove several chats at once.

**Fixes & improvements**

- Gemini 2.5 Flash is available.

## 4.1.1 — April 17, 2025

**Highlights**

- **🧱 Artifacts** — Create web apps, reports, games, and other interactive work directly in chat. [Docs](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/artifacts.md)
- **🐍 Code Interpreter** — Run Python for analysis, calculations, and file or image transformations. [Docs](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/code-interpreter.md)

**Also new**

- **🔊 Read Aloud** — Listen to any message directly from chat.

**Fixes & improvements**

- Images expand when clicked.
- Chats preserve drafts, running queries, and scroll position more reliably when you switch away.
- Gemini 2.5 Pro, OpenAI 4.1, OpenAI o3, OpenAI o4-mini, and Grok 3 are available.

## 4.0.14 — March 8, 2025

**Highlights**

- **📝 Canvas** — Edit long-form writing directly inside Bearly. [Docs](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/canvas.md)

**Also new**

- **🖼️ All image engines** — Generate with every engine at once using `/all engines`.

## 4.0.13 — March 2, 2025

**Highlights**

- **🎙️ Speaker-aware transcripts** — Name speakers, follow the current sentence during playback, and let Bearly detect names automatically.

**Also new**

- **⬇️ Media downloads** — Use `/download` to save supported media from the current conversation.
- **🧠 Reasoning steps** — See reasoning-model thoughts in the agent steps view.

**Fixes & improvements**

- GPT-4.5 is available.

## 4.0.12 — February 27, 2025

**Also new**

- **🔁 Rerun** — Generate another answer from a dedicated button.

**Fixes & improvements**

- Claude 3.7 and Claude 3.7 Reasoning are available.
- The input bar has a clearer design.

## 4.0.11 — February 19, 2025

**Fixes & improvements**

- DeepSeek R1 moved to a new hosting provider.
- Google Imagen and Recraft are available for image generation.

## 4.0.10 — January 31, 2025

**Also new**

- **🎞️ Batch transcripts** — Transcribe several recordings together with inline video playback.

**Fixes & improvements**

- OpenAI o3-mini is available with reasoning, tools, and streaming.
- The duplicate code-copy button is fixed.

## 4.0.9 — January 23, 2025

**Also new**

- **🎛️ Model controls** — Set model temperature from Settings.

**Fixes & improvements**

- DeepSeek R1, Gemini 2, and the vision-capable Grok model are available.
- The web-search toggle is back.
- The app loads faster.

## 4.0.8-Beta — December 17, 2024

**Also new**

- **⏹️ Stop responses** — End an answer while it is still generating.

**Fixes & improvements**

- Claude Haiku was upgraded to 3.5.
- Custom prompts can run without fields.
- PDF text is easier to select and highlight.
- Pasted text from Word and other rich documents is handled more reliably.

## 4.0.7-Beta — October 30, 2024

**Highlights**

- **🎤 Turn answers into audio** — Ask Bearly to read something aloud or use `/tts` on a text snippet.

**Also new**

- **📁 Collection search** — Search a specific document collection by typing `/` followed by its name.
- **📸 PDF source previews** — Jump directly from an answer to the cited place in a PDF.
- **🪄 Grammar correction** — Open the writing corrector with `/grammar`.

**Fixes & improvements**

- Document and attachment search includes clearer inline sources.
- xAI Grok is available.

## 4.0.6-Beta — October 22, 2024

**Highlights**

- **🔎 Web search with sources** — Bearly can search the web and show where its answer came from.
- **🫙 Custom prompts** — Create reusable prompts and run them from Focus with `/`.

**Fixes & improvements**

- Claude Sonnet 3.5 was upgraded to its latest release.

## 4.0.5-Beta — October 7, 2024

**Highlights**

- **🎙️ Fast audio transcripts** — Type `/transcript` to turn audio into text.

**Also new**

- **⌨️ Slash commands** — Run tools and shortcuts from Focus with `/`.
- **🔁 Answer versions** — Rerun a question with another model and switch between its answers.

**Fixes & improvements**

- Flux 1.1 image models are available through `/flux`.

## 4.0.4-Beta — September 16, 2024

**Highlights**

- **📋 Switch chats from the sidebar** — Move between conversations directly or through the command menu.

**Fixes & improvements**

- Documents are detected more reliably.

## 4.0.3-Beta — September 12, 2024

**Also new**

- **⬇️ Chat export** — Download a conversation as Markdown.

**Fixes & improvements**

- OpenAI o1 and o1-mini are available.

## 4.0.2-Beta — July 19, 2024

**Fixes & improvements**

- The model picker now includes GPT-4o Mini, GPT-4o, Claude Haiku, and Claude Sonnet 3.5.
- Web search returns better results.
- The global shortcut opens Focus or your most recent notebook mode.
- Answers are less chatty by default.
- Chat titles, the usage meter, and several interface details work more reliably.

## 4.0.1-Beta — June 4, 2024

**Fixes & improvements**

- Code-copy controls now stay out of the way until you need them.
- Chats keep more useful conversation history.
- Chat-switching shortcuts no longer conflict with common system shortcuts.
- Longer pasted text stays in the composer before becoming an attachment.
- Mobile layout, line breaks, and cross-device sync are more reliable.

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