Changelog

January 22nd, 2025

v1.30.5 (build 143)

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  • New: Added support for the new DeepSeek Reasoning model.
  • New: Thinking UI. Show reasoning content in a popover.
  • Improved: Automatically pulls the model list from DeepSeek platform.
  • Improved: Automatically loads previous chat messages on second page.
  • Fixed: Alt AI Command profile not showing up.
  • Fixed: Jumpy scroll experience.
  • Fixed: Always enable text selection for user messages.
  • Fixed: Floating window feature doesn't work for some users.
  • Other bug fixes and improvements.

January 22nd, 2025

v1.30.3 (build 141)

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  • New: Revamped the model selection UI, both in the navigation bar and in the chat settings.
  • New: Swipe gestures in chat list. Swipe left to archive & delete, swipe right to star
  • New: Supports "true floating" settings for New Chat & New Temporary Chat windows. Find it in Settings β†’ Shortcuts.
  • New: Better keyboard shortcuts support. Select next/previous chat with Command+Shift+[ or Command+Shift+]. Select pinned chat with Command+1 to Command+9
  • Fixed: o1 model not working (streaming flag must be turned off)
  • Fixed: Image sharing showing incorrect model
  • Improve scroll performance

January 12th, 2025

v1.30.2 Happy New Year

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Happy New Year! This is a big update with many improvements.

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  • BoltAI Projects: Projects keep chats, files, and custom instructions in one place.
  • New: Official support for the DeepSeek platform.
  • Better support for Amazon Bedrock: you can set AWS_SESSION_TOKEN, or use your aws credentials profile
  • Significant improvement to the sidebar performance and stability.
  • Improved search UI: global search bar on the sidebar and local findbar on each chat.
  • Improved the Plugin List UI.
  • Improved the Chat's System Instruction Configuration UI.
  • Improved: You can re-order and bulk delete AI Services now
  • Fixed the issue where Gemini 2.0 Flash model cannot use Grounding Tool
  • Removed the "Context Length" requirement for Custom Server
  • Fixed the issue where BoltAI's sending empty system instruction
  • Fixed the issue where O1 models not showing up for some users
  • Fixed other crashes related to the sidebar
  • Fixed the issue where AI Inline doesn't work with Dvorak QWERTY ⌘ layout
  • Fixed crashes related to a SwiftUI bug on macOS 12

Read full release note: https://boltai.com/blog/boltai-projects-deepseek-support-and-more


December 19th, 2024

v1.29.4: bug fixes & improvements

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This release focuses on bug fixes and other improvements

  • Fixed: chat streaming freezes or is very slow
  • Fixed: gpt inline trigger doesn't work if OpenAI is not the default service
  • Fixed: AI Command pallete doesn't stay on top
  • Fixed: not discovering beta updates
  • Attemp to fix the issue where BoltAI would crash when going back from background
  • Fixed the issue where prompt stuck in "continue mode"

December 6th, 2024

v1.29.0: Amazon Bedrock & xAI support, cache breakpoint and more

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  • Official supports for Amazon Bedrock & xAI
  • Set custom cache breakpoint when using Anthropic models
  • Convert temporary chat to normal chat
  • Added support for o1 models on Azure
  • Document Analysis now supports for more file types
  • Improved scroll-to-bottom behavior, faster list view
  • Improved drag-and-drop experience
  • Fixed the issue where control+n / control+p for non-standard keyboard layout
  • Fixed the issue where app icon is reverted after update
  • Fixed issue where cannot set up Advanced Voice Mode without OpenAI API key
  • Fixed issue with Web Search plugin for some Anthropic users

You can read the full release note here: https://boltai.com/blog/amazon-bedrock-and-xai-support-cache-breakpoint-and-more


November 28th, 2024

v1.28.1: Improved AI Command

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This release improves the AI Command experience

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  • Improved the AI command keyboard handling. You can now use control+n or control+p to navigate.
  • Improved input handling for Japanese input source
  • Improved AI Command performance, faster search & scrolling
  • Fixed an issue with toggling the AI Command window

November 9th, 2024

v1.27.0

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The Document Analysis feature just got improved.

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  • New: Claude's native PDF capabilities
  • New: BoltAI supports OCR now. Right-click on a PDF and select "Reprocess with OCR"
  • New: Choose where to attach documents in the chat (attach on individual messages or to the System Prompt)
  • Fixed: Fixed the issue where BoltAI would not open a new chat when the sidebar is collapsed

Claude's native PDF capabilities

If you're using Claude Sonnet 3.5, you can use the new native PDF capabilities in BoltAI. Find the option in the right sidebar (screenshot below).

Note that when native PDF capabilities option is enabled, Prompt Caching will be temporarily disabled.

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OCR support

For PDFs with images and tables, you can "reprocess" the document using OCR for better accuracy. Currently, BoltAI only support OCR for PDF documents.

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More fine-grain settings for Document Analysis feature

You can choose to attach document content to individual messages or to the System Prompt.

  • When attaching to the System Prompt, you can also choose to apply Prompt Caching automatically.
  • When attaching to each individual message, Prompt Caching is temporarily disabled.

November 1st, 2024

v1.26.0

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  • New: Gemini models support native Google Search Tool.
  • Advanced Voice Mode supports more voices and with caching
  • Custom keyboard shortcuts for Voice Input & Advanced Voice Mode
  • Improved: Better Voice Input UI & error handling

What's new?

Grounding with Google Search

BoltAI now supports the Grounding with Google Search feature for Gemini Models. To enable it, open the plugin list and find the "Google Search (Gemini Only)".

Note that it might be more expensive than using the current Web Search plugins provided by BoltAI ($35 per 1K grounding request).

BoltAI doesn't support mode and dynamic_threshold settings in this release yet.

New realtime voices

Great news. You can now more realtime voices. It's also cheaper now as OpenAI applied prompt caching automatically.

Enjoy!

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Better Voice Input UI

I've made a few of improvements to the Voice Input UI:

  • Support custom keyboard shortcut
  • Added the ability to cancel the Voice Input session
  • Retry if the transcription fails

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And that's it for now πŸ‘‹

Happy belated halloween πŸŽƒ


October 29th, 2024

v1.25.3

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  • New AI Command Behavior: Open in a new temporary window
  • New: New chat window is floating by default
  • New: Open chat messages in browser

What's New?

New Behavior: Open in a new temporary window

When using an AI Command, you can choose to open it in a new temporary window. No need to clean up inline chats aftereward.

You can bulk edit the command's behavior to this one.

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Floating Chat Windows

A single chat window is floating by default. You can access it in any Space.

Open chat messages in browser

If you have a custom markdown viewer, you can use this to view the message in your favorite web browser.

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  • Thanks Adam, AR, Hans, AnΔ±l and others for the feature suggestion.

October 28th, 2024

v1.25.2

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  • Improved: Setting spell check & auto-correct options in the chat input field
  • Fixed: Inline Whisper not working for some users