North Updates & Release Notes

North Platform v2.1.0 Release

Version Information

Platform Version: v2.1.0 (previous: v2.0.5)
North App Version: 0.408.3 (previous: 0.390.10)
Compass Chart Version: 5.24.6 (previous: 5.24.8)
Compass App Version: v0.108.1 (previous: v0.100.10)

Admin

[Beta] Content Credentials (C2PA) attach a signed record of origin to files that North generates, so a recipient outside North can verify that a file was AI-generated and came from your deployment. Disabled by default.

[Alpha] Text watermarking embeds a statistical signal in text generated by Cohere-hosted models, so a passage can later be confirmed as model-generated by Cohere's detection service.

New permissions let custom roles manage users, groups, and feedback dialogs without full admin access: Can configure users, Can configure groups, and Can configure feedback dialogs. Note that Can configure settings no longer opens Feedback dialogs, so add the new permission to any custom role that needs it.

Continues the design refresh and migration to React for the Skills, Experiments, MCP and connectors, and Capabilities pages. Pages that haven't been migrated yet are unchanged and continue to use the legacy interface.

Analytics

Skills

Share a skill with specific people, or with everyone in your organization. Two new permissions, Can share skills with users and groups and Can share skills with all users, determine who can share.

Skill security findings are easier to triage. Only skills needing attention are flagged in the list, each finding shows the rule, threat model, and a recommended fix, and marking one as a false positive records a reason that appears in the report and in Audits.

Code sandbox

[Alpha] Edit a sandbox file in its preview.

Fix a typo or change a value in a Word or Excel file North generated, without prompting for a full regeneration. Edits save automatically and replace the file in the conversation, so downloads, Save to My files, and later AI turns use the edited version. Off by default; turn it on with Allows users to edit sandbox artifacts directly in Configuration > Experiences Settings.

Data retention

[Alpha] A new Data retention page in Admin > Compliance and security lets admins turn on retention, set a platform-wide retention period, and add a separate period for conversations.

[Alpha] Data retention for files in local libraries. When retention is on, files uploaded to a local library are permanently deleted once they're older than the retention period, along with their search index entries. The library itself is kept, and connector-synced libraries and My files aren't affected.

Projects

[Alpha] Attach a library to a project so every chat in the project can draw on it alongside the files you upload. Each person still sees results only from libraries they already have access to. Enable it from Configuration > Project Settings.

[Alpha] Extract a table or chart from a PDF by drawing a box around it and exporting the region to an Excel workbook, with the parsed grid beside an image of the source so you can check the result.

Can use projects is a new permission controlling who can use projects. It is granted to all users by default, so access is unchanged unless you restrict it.

Agents

[Beta] The Agent Builder AI assistant is now in beta and turned on by default.

Review evaluation runs with the assistant to see why test cases failed, making the troubleshooting process quicker and smoother.

[Alpha] Delegate tasks to subagents. Attach published agents to a parent agent so it can hand off focused tasks in chat and use the results they return, including in automations. Admins turn subagents on in settings.

Redesigned Agents list. The Agents page is easier to navigate with a single list in place of tabs, more filtering and sorting options, and a side panel that shows an agent's details when you click it.

Agent and automation assistants

Attach files for the assistant to read. In both the agent and automation builders, the assistant can read files you attach, such as PDFs, Word documents, Excel files, and CSV files, along with libraries.

Fix unavailable items with the assistant. When a published agent or automation uses something that no longer works, such as a model, connector, library, skill, or capability. The assistant suggests a replacement when it can find one, easing the process of maintaining agents and automations in the long term.

[Beta] Owners are notified when a published agent or automation breaks. When a model, tool, library, skill, or other item becomes unavailable, the owner of affected agents or automations gets a notification. Click View to open the builder, review the issues, and fix them yourself or with the assistant.

Automations

Automations run with less overhead, so a deployment can take on more automation load with the same resources.

Apps

[Alpha] Standalone apps make it easier to share and publish apps created from prompts. Two new built-in roles, App Builder and App Manager govern access.

Save an app built in chat as standalone to keep working on it there. With standalone apps enabled, sharing an app from chat now shares the app itself rather than a snapshot of the conversation.

App mode no longer shows an app's source code. Download the package with Export app instead.

Chat

[Alpha] Dictation detects the language you speak on web, iOS, and Android, so you can dictate in a language other than your North app language. Detection requires a speech-to-text model that supports it.

Long conversations open faster. Chats download less behind-the-scenes data for each message, and a chat starts loading as soon as you hover over it in the sidebar.

File previews are generally available (GA) and turned on for everyone. Open PDFs, Word and PowerPoint files, spreadsheets, text files, and images beside My files, a chat, or a citation without downloading them.

Slack

Slack is now generally available (GA). Agents can search and read messages, threads, channels, and direct messages, and send messages on a user's behalf after the user approves each one.

Crunchbase

[Alpha] The Crunchbase connector lets agents research companies, investors, funding rounds, and acquisitions and shows the results as source cards that link back to Crunchbase. Users can also create and add companies to their saved Crunchbase lists from chat, with an approval step before any list changes.

Google Drive

[Deprecated] The legacy Google Drive tool remains deprecated and will be removed in North v2.2. Existing connections must be recreated using the new tool before upgrading to North v2.2.

Microsoft 365 add-ins

[Beta] Work with North in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint through add-ins that open a North chat panel beside your file.

• Excel: Build tables, charts, and pivot tables, write formulas, and check workbooks for formula errors, duplicates, or blank rows.
• Word: Draft, edit, proofread, and translate documents, and add comments, footnotes, and links.
• PowerPoint: Summarize presentations, add and rearrange slides, edit text and shapes, and check for layout issues or overlapping shapes.

[Beta] Roll out the add-ins from the new Integrations page in North Admin. Download the manifest for each app and upload it to the Microsoft 365 Admin Center.

Outlook

[Beta] Draft emails and replies in Outlook. Ask North to write a new email, or a reply to one in your inbox, and it saves the draft to your Outlook Drafts folder for you to review and send. North never sends mail, each draft needs your approval, and drafting is not available in automations.

Web search

Brave and Linkup are now generally available as web search providers, joining Tavily.

[Alpha] Adds Brave (LLM Context) as a new web search provider built on Brave's LLM Context API. Where a standard Brave search returns a short snippet per result, Brave LLM Context returns longer extracts including text, tables, and structured data, giving the model more to work from.

Citations

Citations have been redesigned. The pop-up shows more of the source document and previews PowerPoint files, and a source now looks the same in the pop-up, the sources panel, and the Citations badge.

Document mode

Export a document to OneDrive.

Save a generated document to OneDrive as a Word file. Off by default: admins turn on Allows users to export from Document Mode to OneDrive and set a Microsoft Entra client ID on the frontend; see Document Mode exports.

MCP servers

Structured citations let an MCP tool return a result as a rich card—with a header, typed fields, tables, and links—instead of plain text.

Security

Block a tool's actions from the Connectors page.

Tools from an MCP server now split their actions into read-only and write or delete. For the write and delete actions, choose Always allow, Ask for permission, or Don't allow, all at once or one at a time. Don't allow is new: North blocks the action without asking you and tells the model it isn't allowed. Your choice applies wherever you use that tool, including agents and projects.

Tool inputs can no longer be edited before approving an action. Click Review actions in the permission request to see the inputs. To change them, deny the action and ask the agent to try again.

Mobile

Drafted emails and messages appear as cards, separate from the rest of the response. Tap a card to copy it, or open it as a new email in your mail app with the subject filled in.

The mobile app is now fully localized, displaying the full app user interface in your selected language. Note that this does not affect generated content.

Analytics cover more mobile activity. When an admin turns on analytics events collection, the iOS and Android apps report activity such as chats, agent use, recordings, translations, and file uploads, so you can compare web and mobile usage. Events stay in your North deployment.

Document review works with more file types. Document review lets you leave feedback on a file with your voice, and it now supports Word, Excel, PowerPoint, image, text, Markdown, and HTML files. You can also turn your notes into a summary or email draft in one tap.

Chat and agent improvements in the mobile app

• Copy, share, or retry a response from the action row under it. Sharing creates a link to the conversation.
• Duplicate a published agent to start a private copy.
• Start new chats with the same default model as the web app.
• Skills on iOS and Android let an agent use the same skills it can use on the web, so you can ask for a document, deck, or spreadsheet from your phone. Turn individual skills on and off in the app to control what the agent reaches for.

Compass

Search stays responsive while Compass indexes content. When search and ingestion share an embedding model, search requests take priority over background ingestion. Operators can turn this off with USE_EMBED_REQUEST_PRIORITY.

Connector syncs are more reliable during temporary outages. Compass keeps retrying affected files through embedding and vision model outages, while files that are genuinely invalid are still reported promptly.

Throttled downloads stay queued. When a source system asks Compass to wait before downloading a file, Compass keeps the file pending and retries later instead of marking it as failed.

Compass stays responsive when storage is slow, so slow database or object storage operations no longer hold up unrelated search and indexing work.

Office files parse correctly when their extension doesn't match their format, such as a legacy .xls file saved as .xlsx.

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North Platform v2.0.5 Release

Version Information

Platform Version: v2.0.5 (previous: v2.0.4)
North App Version: v0.390.10 (previous: v0.390.9)
Compass Chart Version: v5.24.8 (previous: v5.24.8)
Compass App Version: v0.100.10 (previous: v0.100.10)

Bug fixes

• Fixes citations from some models appearing as unformatted text instead of a link to the cited text.
• Ensures automation file inputs keep files that are prefilled from a chat or from default values set in the builder.
• Ensures that when you run or schedule an automation from a chat, files attached to the conversation fill in the automation's file inputs.
• Fixes automations failing to run when an image from My files is selected in a file input.
• Improves backend stability under heavy load by releasing database connections sooner.
• Addresses security issues in agents and automations.
• Updates the xDS server used for rate limiting to address a known CVE.

North Platform v1.15.14 Release

Version Information

Platform Version: v1.15.14 (previous: v1.15.13)
North App Version: v0.370.19 (previous: v0.370.19)
Compass Chart Version: v5.17.13 (previous: v5.17.13)
Compass App Version: v0.93.17 (previous: v0.93.17)

Bug fixes

• Updates the xDS server used for rate limiting to address a known CVE.

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North Platform v2.0.4 Release

Version Information

Platform Version: v2.0.4 (previous: v2.0.3)
North App Version: v0.390.9 (previous: v0.390.8)
Compass Chart Version: v5.24.8 (previous: v5.24.8)
Compass App Version: v0.100.10 (previous: v0.100.10)

Bug fixes

• Addresses an issue where North Admin showed a 404 page instead of loading.
• Addresses a security issue in North Admin.
• Fixes Segment by charts on Overview, Adoption, Agents, Automations, and Libraries so they show only the top 10 groups. Download as CSV still includes every group.

North Platform v1.15.13 Release

Version Information

Platform Version: v1.15.13 (previous: v1.15.12)
North App Version: v0.370.19 (previous: v0.370.18)
Compass Chart Version: v5.17.13 (previous: v5.17.13)
Compass App Version: v0.93.17 (previous: v0.93.17)

Bug fixes

• Addresses an issue where North Admin showed a 404 page instead of loading.
• Addresses a security issue in North Admin.
• Fixes Segment by charts on Overview, Adoption, Agents, and Automations so they show only the top 10 groups. Download as CSV still includes every group.

North Platform v1.14.12 Release

Version Information

Platform Version: v1.14.12 (previous: v1.14.11)
North App Version: v0.350.13 (previous: v0.350.12)
Compass Chart Version: v5.7.1 (previous: v5.7.1)
Compass App Version: v0.80.0 (previous: v0.80.0)

Bug fixes

• Addresses an issue where North Admin showed a 404 page instead of loading.
• Addresses a security issue in North Admin.

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North Platform v2.0.3 Release

Version Information

Platform Version: v2.0.3 (previous: v2.0.2)
North App Version: v0.390.8 (previous: v0.390.7)
Compass Chart Version: v5.24.8 (previous: v5.24.6)
Compass App Version: v0.100.10 (previous: v0.100.5)

Features

• Adds a Reasoning format setting on OpenAI, vLLM, and Cohere Compatibility providers in Admin > Models, so you can choose how earlier reasoning is sent on later turns. Existing providers keep their current default.
• Lets a model set its own minimum reasoning budget, so turning reasoning off on Cohere and Groq models that require one uses that model's budget instead of a shared 100-token minimum.
• Adds Save to project on each sandbox file in a project chat's files drawer, and Save all to project for up to 50 files.

Bug fixes

Projects

• Restores tools, capabilities, reasoning, and the model from the latest turn when you reopen a project chat.
• Fixes the sandbox files drawer, file preview, and citations so they open in a project chat.
• Fixes a regular project chat so Sources opens the same sources panel as other chats.
• Fixes a project chat started with Use in chat so the saved transcript, tool approval, and file stay on screen.
• Fixes group-filtered analytics so Overview, Adoption, Agents, Automations, and Libraries charts only include the groups you selected.
• Fixes the Skills page so users who can't run skills see an empty list instead of an error.
• Shows a Settings updated confirmation when you save default agent settings such as the model, mode, resources, skills, or sub-agents.
• Fixes the default agent so turning My files on in a chat searches all of the user's files when the chat has no attached files.
• Fixes upgrades that failed because the OpenFGA deployment set OPENFGA_CHECK_CACHE_LIMIT twice.
• Fixes multi-host Postgres connections so OpenFGA, tables, and Inngest use the configured port on every host.
• Updates North backend, Admin, frontend, Compass, Inngest, Dex, the Valkey exporter, and platform images to address known CVEs.

North Platform v1.15.12 Release

Version Information

Platform Version: v1.15.12 (previous: v1.15.11)
North App Version: v0.370.18 (previous: v0.370.17)
Compass Chart Version: v5.17.13 (previous: v5.17.11)
Compass App Version: v0.93.17 (previous: v0.93.12)

Bug fixes

• Fixes upgrades that failed because the OpenFGA deployment set OPENFGA_CHECK_CACHE_LIMIT twice.
• Fixes group-filtered analytics so Overview, Adoption, Agents, Automations, and Libraries charts only include the groups you selected.
• Fixes the Skills page so users who can't run skills see an empty list instead of an error.
• Updates North backend, Admin, frontend, Compass, and Inngest images to address known CVEs.

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North Platform v2.0.2 Release

Version Information

Platform Version: v2.0.2 (previous: v2.0.1)
North App Version: v0.390.7 (previous: v0.390.5)
Compass Chart Version: v5.24.6 (previous: v5.24.5)
Compass App Version: v0.100.5 (previous: v0.100.3)

Features

• Adds Save to project for sandbox files in a project chat, so you can keep it in the project or download it.

Bug fixes

• Fixes a generic provider error when custom temperature isn't supported, including Claude with thinking enabled. A saved temperature on an agent, automation, or experiment is left off so the model can still run.

Custom roles

• Fixes Admin > Roles & Permissions so custom roles can grant Can use skills, Can create skills, Can manage skills, Can configure white label, Can configure notification banners, and Can configure models.
• Fixes Admin > Feedback dialogs so users with Can configure settings can open the page and manage feedback categories.

Projects

• Fixes project creation so the new project opens immediately and a double-click on Create makes one project.
• Improves project files so the Sources tab is now Files, files can be downloaded, and the list stays current with the composer while files are indexing.
• Shows the specific reason when a project chat fails instead of a generic error.
• Fixes the model picker in a project chat so model aliases appear when the updated model selector is enabled.
• Updates the citation label in project chats and chats with a document to Highlight matches.
• Shows the PitchBook icon in the tools menu, on citations, and on Admin tool cards.
• Fixes follow-up turns on OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, vLLM, and Cohere Compatibility models so earlier reasoning is sent in the format those providers accept.
• Shows a reconnect prompt when a connector loses access during a chat and clears it after the user connects again.
• Fixes skill archive uploads so bundles up to 50MB and 1,000 files are accepted.
• Updates North backend, Admin, frontend, toolkit, Compass, MCP router, document reader, code sandbox, and platform images to address known CVEs.

North Platform v1.15.11 Release

Version Information

Platform Version: v1.15.11 (previous: v1.15.10)
North App Version: v0.370.17 (previous: v0.370.16)
Compass Chart Version: v5.17.11 (previous: v5.17.11)
Compass App Version: v0.93.12 (previous: v0.93.12)

Bug fixes

• Fixes a generic provider error when custom temperature isn't supported, including Claude with thinking enabled. A saved temperature on an agent, automation, or experiment is left off so the model can still run.
• Prevents database connections from staying open while North reads files, checks permissions, or starts a sandbox. Holding those connections open could fill the pool and stall chat and Admin requests.
• Fixes multi-host Postgres connections so each host uses the configured port. Tables stay connected when the database fails over to another host.
• Fixes guardrails so skill scanning can store temporary files on clusters with a read-only root filesystem.
• Updates the document reader, code sandbox, skill scanner, and platform images to address known CVEs.

North Platform v1.14.11 Release

Version Information

Platform Version: v1.14.11 (previous: v1.14.10)
North App Version: v0.350.12 (previous: v0.350.11)
Compass Chart Version: v5.7.1 (previous: v5.7.1)
Compass App Version: v0.80.0 (previous: v0.80.0)

Bug fixes

Custom roles

• Fixes custom roles so Can use skills, Can create skills, and Can manage skills can be granted from Admin > Roles & Permissions.
• Custom roles with the correct permissions can now fully use Admin > Experiments, Admin > Tools & MCP (Tools and Capabilities), Admin > Skills, Admin > Guardrails, and Admin > Flow control.

North Platform v1.13.17 Release

Version Information

Platform Version: v1.13.17 (previous: v1.13.16)
North App Version: v0.329.18 (previous: v0.329.17)
Compass Chart Version: v5.7.1 (previous: v5.7.1)
Compass App Version: v0.76.0 (previous: v0.76.0)

Bug fixes

• Fixes MCP health checks so server status, new tools, and recovered servers stay current after a restart and across large server lists, including after authentication errors.
• Fixes errors when Anthropic requests timed out or called tools with no parameters.

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North Platform v1.15.10 Release

Version Information

Platform Version: v1.15.10 (previous: v1.15.9)

North App Version: v0.370.16 (previous: v0.370.14)

Compass Chart Version: v5.17.11 (previous: v5.17.10)

Compass App Version: v0.93.12 (previous: v0.93.10)

Features

[Alpha] Files returned by MCP tools can be stored in the sandbox, so an agent can analyze a query export or report with Sandbox or Data Interpreter instead of reading it inline. The file bytes stay out of the model's context to avoid exhausting the context limit. An administrator enables this from Tools > Configurations; it is off by default.

Bug fixes

Custom roles

• Fixes custom roles so Can use skills, Can create skills, and Can manage skills can be granted from Admin > Roles & Permissions.

• Fixes Admin > Feedback dialogs so users with Can configure settings can open the page and manage feedback categories.

• Custom roles with the correct permissions can now fully use Admin > Experiments, Admin > Tools & MCP (Tools and Capabilities), Admin > Skills, Admin > Guardrails, and Admin > Flow control.

• Fixes MCP health checks so server status, new tools, and recovered servers stay current after a restart and across large server lists, including after authentication errors.

• Fixes Admin skill imports so images, PDFs, and PowerPoint files are saved intact.

• Fixes skill archive uploads so bundles up to 50MB and 1,000 files are accepted.

• Fixes multi-host Postgres connections so OpenFGA, tables, and Inngest use the configured port on every host.

• Restarts OpenFGA after a database change when Reloader is enabled, so it uses the updated database.

• Updates North backend, Admin, frontend, Compass, MCP router, Dex, Valkey, and platform images for known CVEs.

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North Platform v2.0.1 Release

Version Information

• Platform Version: v2.0.1 (previous: v2.0.0)
• North App Version: v0.390.5 (previous: v0.390.3)
• Compass Chart Version: v5.24.5 (previous: v5.24.2)
• Compass App Version: v0.100.2 (previous: v0.100.1)

Features

• Adds system trust store support to Redis exporter connections when useSystemTrustStore is enabled.

Bug fixes

• Restores My files, code sandbox, and Compass storage when s3proxy uses Google Cloud Storage.
• Replaces automatic guardrail status polling and scaling controls with a manual Refresh status option.
• Clarifies how Contextual and Strict content safety modes handle harmful and sensitive content.
• Prevents oversized My files and Google Drive results from exceeding the model's context limit.
• Deep ResearchFixes failed run statuses and improves the speed and reliability of starting research.
• Reduces prompt size while preserving the user's reasoning preference in the final report.
• Improves report generation by replacing repeated critique and revision loops with a single writing pass.
• Improves chat streaming and report generation responsiveness when several tasks run at the same time.
• Fixes Amazon Bedrock requests that use regional Anthropic model aliases.
• Fixes the skills picker in chat so it opens above the composer and remains visible.
• Prevents TIFF and HEIC uploads when using v5 vision language models that don't support these formats.
• Fixes the OpenFGA check cache so the configured limit is applied.
• Enforces code sandbox per-user limits across conversations to prevent excess concurrent sessions.
• Updates North, OpenFGA, guardrails, code sandbox, agent observability, and platform dependencies to address known CVEs.

North Platform v1.15.9 Release

Version Information

• Platform Version: v1.15.9 (previous: v1.15.8)
• North App Version: v0.370.14 (previous: v0.370.12)
• Compass Chart Version: v5.17.10 (previous: v5.17.8)
• Compass App Version: v0.93.10 (previous: v0.93.5)

Features

• Adds system trust store support to Redis exporter connections when useSystemTrustStore is enabled.

Bug fixes

• Restores My files, code sandbox, and Compass storage when s3proxy uses Google Cloud Storage.
• Replaces automatic guardrail status polling and scaling controls with a manual Refresh status option.
• Shows unavailable tools in Agent Builder so users can remove them from an agent.
• Prevents TIFF and HEIC uploads when using v5 vision language models that don't support these formats.
• Rejects images larger than 20 MiB and handles empty staged uploads before processing.
• Fixes the OpenFGA check cache so the configured limit is applied.
• Enforces code sandbox per-user limits across conversations to prevent excess concurrent sessions.
• Updates North, Compass, OpenFGA, code sandbox, Inngest, Dex, Valkey, and platform dependencies to address known CVEs.

North Platform v1.14.10 Release

Version Information

• Platform Version: v1.14.10 (previous: v1.14.9)
• North App Version: v0.350.11 (previous: v0.350.10)
• Compass Chart Version: v5.7.1 (previous: v5.7.1)
• Compass App Version: v0.80.0 (previous: v0.80.0)

Bug fixes

• Fixes errors when Anthropic requests timed out or called tools with no parameters.
• Fixes OpenFGA permission setup on FIPS deployments so it can connect to the database and finish starting.

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North Platform v2.0.0 Release

Version Information

• Platform Version: v2.0.0 (previous: v1.15.8)
• North App Version: v0.390.3 (previous: v0.370.12)
• Compass Chart Version: v5.24.2 (previous: v5.17.8)
• Compass App Version: v0.100.1 (previous: v0.93.5)

Models

North Mini Beta is now available for North customers. Cohere's latest reasoning model features a 30B-parameter Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture with 3B active parameters per forward pass. Built for agentic enterprise tasks, it supports multimodal input and outperforms North Large across the board, on a fraction of the hardware footprint.

Guardrails

[Alpha] Content safety lets the chat model check for harmful content before it responds. Set CONTENT_SAFETY__ENABLED on the North backend to make the feature available, then enable it in Admin > Guardrails > Policy and choose a Contextual or Strict safety mode, at the organization level or per targeted rule. Runs only on qualified models.

HiddenLayer AIDR now ships at image tag 26.9.1 (previous: 26.5.0).

The Guardrails REST API is deprecated. The /v1/guardrails/* endpoints will be removed in v2.1. If you call the REST API from a trusted application, migrate to the Guardrails gRPC API before upgrading to v2.1 to avoid disruption.

Agents

[Beta] Evaluating agents is now in beta and enabled by default. The Evaluate pop-up now lists and runs every task on the agent instead of stopping at 10, and the All task runs page can be filtered by status.

[Alpha] Build evaluations with Otto by describing the checks you want in natural language. Instruct the assistant to draft tasks and test cases, or ask it questions about the evaluations you already have.

Agent setup is easier to navigate with output choices such as documents and tables under Mode and tools such as Web search under Tools. In addition, the tool selector now groups choices using the same menu as in the chat composer.

Automations

[Beta] Use automations from chat by typing @ in the composer and selecting an automation, so you can load and run a workflow without leaving the conversation. This is on by default. Administrators can turn it off from Configuration > Feature Flags.

Retry attempts are visible on a task. The automation task row shows the attempt count, or Not retried when retrying would not fix the error. Open the task to see each failed try.

App mode

[Alpha] Build an interactive web app from a conversation. Ask North for an app and it writes the code and runs it in the side panel, versioning each revision and offering to fix its own errors. Share an app full screen or export it as a standalone package.

Document mode

[Alpha] Follow-up edits now change only what you asked for instead of regenerating the whole document. North highlights each change as it streams in, leaves the rest of the text and its citations untouched, and still saves a new version. Enable it from Configuration > Experiences Settings.

Deep research

[Alpha] Continue a deep research conversation after the report is ready to ask questions, request edits, and refine the report in document mode.

Chat

[Alpha] Voice dictation lets you speak instead of type in chat, agent instructions, and supported automation fields. North adds the transcript so you can review and edit it before continuing. Administrators enable it from Configuration > Voice Settings.

[Alpha] Sketch an image in the chat composer and send it to the model as a prompt input, or hover over an image you've attached and click the pen icon to annotate it before sending. Requires a vision model. Enable it from Configuration > Feature Flags.

Chat without an agent from the home page to have a conversation that uses the default model instead of a specific agent.

Drafted emails and messages appear in dedicated blocks that separate ready-to-use content from the rest of a response and make it easy to copy.

Add annotations to your next message by selecting content in a response and clicking Add to chat, keeping follow-up prompts focused on the exact passage you want to discuss.

Conversation navigation appears beside longer chats, listing each exchange so you can jump directly to an earlier part of the conversation.

Finding past chats is easier with options to search your chat history and group recent chats by date, agent, or project.

[Alpha] A new model picker in the chat composer shows the Default, Alternate, and Legacy tiers your admin configured, with each tier's model name and description, plus a searchable dialog for any other model you have access to. The same picker appears in the agent builder assistant and the automations assistant. Admins enable it from Configuration > Feature Flags.

North self-explainability

[Alpha] North System Awareness lets an agent answer questions about North based on product documentation and your access in North, including your tools, capabilities, agents, automations, and libraries. Admins can turn it on in Admin > Tools and MCP > Tools, and users enable it from Manage tools > Connectors.

Note: During alpha, answers are based on a limited set of product documentation and may not reflect all features or recent updates.

Tables

Column references survive renames: an @ColumnName reference in an AI column's prompt now follows the column when you rename it, whether you rename it in the table or by asking North to. Deleting a column that other columns reference now warns you before it removes those references.

Libraries

[Beta] Library sharing now supports Viewer, Content manager, Access manager, and Full Manager access so you can independently control who can view library content, manage library files, and manage sharing. You can also give the entire organization read-only access while specific people have higher access levels.

New library permissions control who can create and share libraries or use the Libraries API: Can create libraries, Can share libraries with users and groups, Can share libraries with all users, and Can use the Libraries API.

Inbox libraries are now created when you connect Outlook or Exchange, which automatically sync your inbox and top-level mailbox folders to the library.

Projects

[Alpha] Projects keep a set of files and every conversation about them in one private workspace. Chats stay grounded in those files without the need to reattach documents each time. Enable projects from Configuration > Project Settings.

Google Drive

[Beta] The new Google Drive tool allows users to add Google Drive libraries to an agent or give the agent full access to the files and folders they have access to in their drive.

[Deprecated] The legacy Google Drive tool is now deprecated and will be removed in North v2.1. Existing connections must be recreated using the new tool before upgrading to North v2.1.

Salesforce

[Alpha] The new Salesforce connector lets an agent search and query records, open related records and field details, and, when an administrator allows it, create, update, or delete records. Each action runs as the signed-in user, so Salesforce permissions still apply.

[Deprecated] The legacy Salesforce connector is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Recreate existing connections with the new connector before that release.

PitchBook

[Alpha] The PitchBook connector lets an agent research private and public companies, people, investors, funds, and deals, including profiles, financing rounds, investments, cap tables and financials. It can also search PitchBook news, market reports, and call transcripts. Each lookup runs as the signed-in user, and answers cite the profile or source they came from.

Outlook Calendar

[Alpha] The Outlook Calendar tool lets an agent list events and calendars, search by keyword, open event details, and check free/busy status for up to 20 people via the user's Microsoft account. The tool is read-only and separate from the Outlook mail connector.

MCP servers

[Alpha] Files returned by MCP tools can be stored in the sandbox, so an agent can analyze a query export or report with Sandbox or Data Interpreter instead of reading it inline. The file bytes stay out of the model's context to avoid exhausting the context limit. An administrator enables this from Tools > Configurations; it is off by default.

[Preview] MCP resources exposed only as URI templates are now detected, so a server that addresses its data parametrically gets the resource tools instead of being treated as having none.

[Preview] mcp_fetch_resource accepts any binary file type, not only the document formats North can index. Size, permission, and sandbox session limits are unchanged, and resources embedded in a tool result still require a supported MIME type.

[Preview] MCP elicitation requests now appear as their own card in the conversation, labeled Action required, with Send response and Skip for now replacing Submit and Decline. A notification now tells you when a tool asks for details and when a request expires, so you can step away while an agent works.

Skills

[Beta] Skills give an agent a curated library of specialized capabilities, so it can create and edit Word documents, PowerPoint decks, spreadsheets, and CSV files. Users can author their own skills or have North build one from a chat.

Code sandbox

Code sandbox moves from alpha to beta.

Files the agent presents now appear as a card in the conversation with a download button, so you can pick up what the agent made without opening the Sandbox files panel.

Sandbox file previews open beside the conversation, the same way My files documents do, instead of in a pop-up.

Shared chats now include sandbox files, so colleagues reviewing a shared conversation can download what the agent produced.

The Data Interpreter tool is deprecated in favor of the code sandbox. Existing agents keep working, but the default enabled-tools list still enables Data Interpreter and not Code sandbox, so review your tool settings after upgrading.

Files

Image previews in My files now let you view an image without downloading it first.

Side-by-side file previews display files such as documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and images beside My files or a chat without requiring a download.

From a My files preview, click Use in chat to start a chat with the file attached.

[Beta] More images fit in a chat message. North reduces the size of images before sending them to the model, so more images can fit within the model's limit. Administrators can turn this off in Chat Settings.

My files has a refreshed design, shared by the file pickers that use it and by the Agent Evals task runs list. Files are now paginated rather than loading as you scroll, and selections carry across pages and tabs.

Admin

A new Can configure models permission controls who can open Admin > Models and manage providers, model access, and aliases, so you can delegate model administration without granting full organization admin rights.

User role membership can now be time-limited: assign a user to a role for 1, 3, 6, or 12 hours and their access ends automatically when the window closes, so temporary access doesn't depend on someone remembering to revoke it. Time limits apply to individual users only.

Continues the design refresh and migration to React for the Users, Groups, Roles and permissions, Models, Flow control, and Terms and conditions pages. Pages that haven't been migrated yet are unchanged and continue to use the legacy interface.

Analytics v2 now includes a Libraries section with four charts covering how many libraries are being created, who is creating them, how many files each holds, and what file types are being uploaded.

Token exchange now works with the generic oauth connector, so workloads that hold only opaque access tokens can authenticate without long-lived credentials.

Token exchange policies can now be written as rules instead of subject allowlists, so you can match on any token claim, userinfo field, or introspection response. Microsoft connectors can also choose which claims become the user ID and username.

Model aliasing lets you build a three-tier model menu in Admin > Models > Model aliasing. Point the Default, Advanced, and Legacy tiers at a provider and model and give each a short, translatable description. Default applies whenever no model was picked, while Advanced and Legacy stay hidden until you configure them. Tiers are set per deployment and start empty, so nothing changes until you set them.

Mobile

[Alpha] The North mobile app is available on Android with the same features as iOS, including agents, automations, record mode, and translate.

Document review mode on iOS and Android lets you leave feedback on a file with your voice, turning it into text that you can then share to email, a messaging app, or feed into a North chat.

Compass

Documents at the maximum chunk count now index. A document that produces exactly the maximum number of chunks is indexed successfully.

A single list of supported file types is now used from upload through indexing, so a file Compass can read is accepted through ingestion.

High-volume ingestion is more stable. Embedding requests are limited so a large ingestion cannot overwhelm the model endpoint. Embedding timeouts are configurable and default to 120 seconds.

Image description is more stable during large ingestions. Requests share one concurrency limit, so a large batch cannot flood the vision model. Operators can configure the maximum number of waiting and concurrent image-description requests.

DOCX parsing now preserves more of a Word document's structure.

Compass dependencies have been updated, including pypdf, PyJWT, and urllib3, to address known security issues.

Infrastructure

GitOps with ArgoCD now recommended for deployment in production and other long-lived environments, giving you Git as the source of truth, drift detection, and rollbacks by commit revert. Helm CLI installs remain fully supported.

New GitOps guides cover the recommended repository layout and the ArgoCD Application manifests for the models and North platform charts. The deployment guide is reorganized around the two paths, and moved pages redirect.

Dex now ships FIPS and non-FIPS images and defaults to the non-FIPS common/dex image. Set global.fips.enabled: true to use common/dex-fips along with every other dual-image workload, or set dex.image.fips.enabled: true to switch only Dex to FIPS. Non-FIPS Dex images are only available for tags v2.45.1-cohere.14 and later. If you pin an earlier Dex tag, enable FIPS for Dex, or the image pull fails.

North API

Custom roles can now be managed entirely via API: twelve new endpoints cover creating, updating, and deleting custom roles, and managing their permissions and members. System roles can't be renamed, deleted, or have their permissions replaced, but their members can still be changed.

IdP groups can be pre-registered with POST /v1/admin/groups, so roles and permissions can be attached to a group programmatically before any of its members signs in.

Listing agents now reports artifact access failures. When the access check for one of an agent's tool artifacts fails, GET /v2/agents still returns the agent in data with that artifact omitted, and names the agent in a new failures array. The request itself still succeeds.

Token exchange now honors scope in the service-account flow; omitting it issues a token with the * scope. The login connector re-syncs the user's profile and groups on every exchange. Note that a service account that logs in interactively has its role changed to user.

MCP admin responses now report whether a server is configurable: the server list and the single-server reads add a configurable boolean indicating whether you can change that server's configuration. Routes and existing fields are unchanged. The response types are renamed from MCPServerResponse and MCPServerDetailResponse to AdminMCPServerResponse and AdminMCPServerDetailResponse, so you may need to update type annotations when you upgrade a generated client SDK.

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North Platform v1.15.8 Release

Version Information

Platform Version: v1.15.8 (previous: v1.15.7)
North App Version: v0.370.12 (previous: v0.370.11)
Compass Chart Version: v5.17.8 (previous: v5.17.6)
Compass App Version: v0.93.5 (previous: v0.93.5)

Bug fixes

• Hides the Company option in agent sharing when the user doesn't have the Can share agents with all users permission.
• Fixes OpenAI and Anthropic errors so problems such as a context window limit show a specific message instead of a generic provider error.
• Fixes Anthropic replies that failed when a longer response exceeded the client timeout.
• Fixes Anthropic tool calls that failed when a tool takes no parameters.
• Improves background job reliability by fixing task runner health checks that could mark the service unavailable.

Code sandbox

• Fixes code sandbox discovery when the sandbox agent runs in a different namespace from sandbox sessions.
• Fixes code sandbox startup failures that reported the sandbox was out of capacity while finished sessions were still cleaning up.
• Fixes git and curl inside the code sandbox so they trust the tokenizer certificate when the tokenizer is enabled.
• Updates code sandbox images to address known CVEs.
• Updates frontend dependencies to address known CVEs.
• Updates the document reader and guardrails service to address known CVEs.
• Updates OpenSearch Dashboards and the Compass MCP server bundled with Compass to address known CVEs.
• Updates platform images, including OpenFGA and supporting services, to address known CVEs.

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North Platform v1.15.7 Release

Version Information

Platform Version: v1.15.7 (previous: v1.15.6)

North App Version: v0.370.11 (previous: v0.370.10)

Compass Chart Version: v5.17.6 (previous: v5.17.5)

Compass App Version: v0.93.5 (previous: v0.93.5)

Bug fixes

• Improves the Analytics experience so switching sections reuses loaded results instead of loading again.
• Fixes Analytics so a failed Tools or Capabilities drilldown shows an error instead of empty results.
• Updates North app, admin, and frontend dependencies to address known CVEs.
• Updates platform and Compass images to address known CVEs.

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North Platform v1.15.6 Release

Version Information

Platform Version: v1.15.6 (previous: v1.15.4)

North App Version: v0.370.10 (previous: v0.370.9)

Compass Chart Version: v5.17.5 (previous: v5.17.0)

Compass App Version: v0.93.5 (previous: v0.93.1)

Features

[Alpha] Adds a feature flag so newly created users skip the guided setup flow on first sign-in.

The flag is off by default, and existing users are unchanged.

Adds optional Helm values so you can set CPU limits on code sandbox init containers. Limits apply only when you set them, and the defaults stay the same.

Bug fixes

Libraries

Prevents connector library content from being shown to people who don't have permission to access it.

Prevents Agent Builder from saving tool and resource changes when library access can't be verified.

Prevents one failed library access check from failing the whole agent list and reports it on the agent.

Fixes default agents so a library created from their tools is available immediately, not only on the draft.

Improves Analytics with clearer loading states, more reliable navigation and table scrolling, and fewer unnecessary reloads.

Prevents deployment conflicts when horizontal pod autoscaling is enabled by allowing the autoscaler to control replica counts.

Updates the code sandbox so sessions end when they are idle instead of at a fixed maximum lifetime.

Fixes authorization service startup on FIPS installations when database client libraries don't match the base image.

Updates North app, admin, and frontend dependencies to address known CVEs.

Updates Compass and its PDF classifier, along with North's document reader and guardrails service, to address known CVEs.

Updates platform images, including the gateway, OpenFGA, and supporting services, to address known CVEs.

Updates OpenSearch bundled with Compass to 3.9.0 to address known CVEs.

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North Platform v1.14.9 Release

Version Information

Platform Version: v1.14.9 (previous: v1.14.8)

North App Version: v0.350.10 (previous: v0.350.10)

Compass Chart Version: v5.7.1 (previous: v5.7.0)

Compass App Version: v0.80.0 (previous: v0.80.0)

Bug fixes

Prevents deployment conflicts when horizontal pod autoscaling is enabled by allowing the autoscaler to control replica counts.

North Platform v1.13.16 Release

Version Information

Platform Version: v1.13.16 (previous: v1.13.15)

North App Version: v0.329.17 (previous: v0.329.17)

Compass Chart Version: v5.7.1 (previous: v5.7.0)

Compass App Version: v0.76.0 (previous: v0.76.0)

Bug fixes

Prevents deployment conflicts when horizontal pod autoscaling is enabled by allowing the autoscaler to control replica counts.

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North Platform v1.15.4 Release

Version Information

Platform Version: v1.15.4 (previous: v1.15.3)

North App Version: v0.370.9 (previous: v0.370.8)

Compass Chart Version: v5.17.0 (previous: v5.17.0)

Compass App Version: v0.93.1 (previous: v0.93.0)

Bug fixes

Restores the Migrate to libraries option in Agent Builder so users can convert an agent's existing file selections into libraries.

Ensures viewers of shared Microsoft libraries only see connector files they have permission to access.

Updates Dex connector validation to support the latest token exchange settings.

Prevents authentication cookies from being sent over unsecured HTTP connections.

Adds support for ingesting XML files identified with the text/xml media type.

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North Platform v1.15.3 Release

Version Information

Platform Version: v1.15.3 (previous: v1.15.2)

North App Version: v0.370.8 (previous: v0.370.8)

Compass Chart Version: v5.17.0 (previous: v5.14.0)

Compass App Version: v0.93.0 (previous: v0.93.0)

Compass features

Adds an optional access check so that search results from Atlas only include documents the current user is allowed to open.

Adds optional configuration for how often Google Drive content resyncs.

Bug fixes

Fixes SharePoint Sites.Selected settings so an admin can choose the permission mode and limit syncing to an allowlist of sites.

Improves visual PDF parsing by applying a dedicated page-size limit when the visual parser prepares page images.

Fixes platform status checks that reported a healthy visual parsing model as unreachable.

Prevents temporary files from an interrupted parse from lingering and using up storage unnecessarily.

North Platform v1.13.15 Release

Version Information

Platform Version: v1.13.15 (previous: v1.13.14)

North App Version: v0.329.17 (previous: v0.329.16)

Compass Chart Version: v5.7.0 (previous: v5.7.0)

Compass App Version: v0.76.0 (previous: v0.76.0)

Bug fixes

Fixes a server error when registering or updating an MCP server that exposes a tool and a prompt with the same name. Existing tools, prompts, and permissions keep their current names.

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North Platform v1.15.2 Release

Version Information

Platform Version: v1.15.2 (previous: v1.15.1)

North App Version: v0.370.8 (previous: v0.370.7)

Compass Chart Version: v5.14.0 (previous: v5.14.0)

Compass App Version: v0.93.0 (previous: v0.93.0)

Bug fixes

Sorts numeric table columns numerically instead of alphabetically.

Addresses an issue where images could not be uploaded to SharePoint libraries.

Fixes a security issue impacting document generation that could allow unauthenticated requests under certain conditions.

North Platform v1.14.8 Release

Version Information

Platform Version: v1.14.8 (previous: v1.14.7)

North App Version: v0.350.10 (previous: v0.350.9)

Compass Chart Version: v5.7.0 (previous: v5.7.0)

Compass App Version: v0.80.0 (previous: v0.80.0)

Bug fixes

Fixes a security issue impacting document generation that could allow unauthenticated requests under certain conditions.

North Platform v1.13.14 Release

Version Information

Platform Version: v1.13.14 (previous: v1.13.13)

North App Version: v0.329.16 (previous: v0.329.15)

Compass Chart Version: v5.7.0 (previous: v5.7.0)

Compass App Version: v0.76.0 (previous: v0.76.0)

Bug fixes

Fixes a security issue impacting document generation that could allow unauthenticated requests under certain conditions.

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