Outline Release Notes

What's Changed

Improvements

• Drag-and-drop now supports dragging from document lists in #12587
• Add admin interface to change user avatars in #12405
• Add automatic metrics tagging of outgoing emails in #12570
• Various improvements to mobile styling and layout in #12577, #12576

Fixes

• Fixed search term highlights missing on navigation from search in #12598
• Fixed an intermitent issue where sidebar element is not correctly active on first load in #12566
• Scrollbar no longer causes horizontal movement in comments sidebar in #12565
• Added protection against timing attacks on notification unsubscribe endpoints in #12551
• Icon picker is no longer auto-closed on choice in #12573
• Access requests can now be approved by collection managers in #12579
• Collection title and icon inline are now editable like documents in #12574
• Increased valid user-supplied URL length to 1024 in #12585
• Added handling of unhandled server error in MCP route in #12586
• Fixed sticky table header styling in Safari in #12590
• Private IP lookup is now invalid request rather than internal error in #12592
• Improved worker performance through caching in #12593
• chore: Improve handling of "expected" network errors from webhooks in #12599
• Mermaid is no longer persisted as last used coding language in #12601
• Fixed collaboratorIds iterable error when handling very old documents in #12602
• Fixed correct support for hard break serialization for commonMark in #12603
• Added email verification check during sign-in flow in #12605

Full Changelog: v1.8.0...v1.8.1

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What's changed

Highlights

Members can now request access to documents they don't have permission to view – #10825

Comments are now available in the image lightbox, making it easier to discuss visuals in context – #12335

MCP

Inline comments can now be created and managed through the API and MCP – #12322

The fetch tool can now access signed attachment URLs, allowing MCP clients to read images and files – #12315

Added a fullWidth parameter to create_document and update_document, by @toralux – #12338

Document responses now include a commentCount field – #12355

MCP Responses now return full URLs instead of relative paths – #12255

Optional MCP fields now accept empty strings without erroring – #12310

Fixed an issue where updating a collection description via MCP wouldn't persist – #12410

Aligned permission checks between the API and MCP when creating documents – #12517

Other Improvements

Code blocks are now supported inside comments – #12480

Added a system preference to open the desktop app automatically on startup – #12279

Viewers can now create and use API keys – #12278

Mentioned users are now automatically subscribed to the document – #12235

The command menu now shows breadcrumbs alongside documents to make results easier to disambiguate – #12403

You can now format the word at the cursor with the associated shortcut without needing to select it first – #12492

Self-hosted instances can now use HTTP webhook URLs – #12499

Delete confirmation dialogs now use a segmented-style input – #12495

Images pasted as data URIs are now supported – #12294

The icon picker is now responsive and easier to use on mobile – #12275

Notifications now open in a mobile drawer on small screens – #12276

Reduced minimum table column width to 25px for tighter layouts – #12269

Hyphenated words are now treated as a single unit when diffing changes – #11272

Hover previews now trigger while the editor is focused – #12545

The settings sidebar is no longer collapsible – #12460

Hardened OAuth scope validation – #12490

Added Catalan as a language option – #12454

Thousands of new community translations

Performance

Cached decorations across three editor plugins for smoother editing – #12030

Virtualized the main sidebar and reduced unnecessary re-renders – #12443

Added missing indexes on foreign keys referencing documents – #12473

Replaced a correlated subquery in Slack hooks user lookup – #12432

Removed an N+1 query in documents.search – #12540

Reduced batch size when deleting documents – #12474

Avoided a redundant import lookup when presenting documents – #12529

Mammoth is now lazy-loaded to reduce startup memory – #12538

Unused services are no longer loaded at boot – #12537

Importers now stream from the zip archive instead of loading it fully – #12372 #12380

Popularity scoring now reads from the document_insights table for faster results – #12103

Fixes

Document text can now be selected in version history – #12268

Fixed search highlights not rendering in Firefox – #12273

Resolved console warnings for the rtl DOM attribute and an untracked MobX read – #12284

Outline now only preconnects to S3 when it's actually in use, by @marksteward – #12298

Improved handling of additional client-aborted error types – #12303

Short-circuited common scanner and crawler routes – #12306

Fixed a crash when file storage environment variables are misconfigured – #12325

Printing no longer includes an extra blank page – #12326

Document deletes are now batched when emptying trash – #12328

Upgraded Mermaid to 11.15.0 – #12331

Table cell selection no longer appears in print output – #12334

Fixed Mermaid diagrams not rendering correctly inside toggle blocks – #12343

Code blocks now automatically expand when a find result is inside – #12346

Mermaid diagrams now appear correctly in light theme when printing from dark theme – #12342

Fixed authorization providers not being correctly disabled via environment variables – #12349

Improved the resilience of the Markdown importer – #12357

Fixed a bug with multi-tab logout for OIDC providers – #12333

Fixed text selection insights initialization, by @mturac – #12366

Position submenu is now hidden when a collection is sorted alphabetically – #12377

No more "Imported from undefined" entries in document insights – #12378

Failed and canceled imports can now be deleted – #12379

Code blocks at the beginning of a document can now be collapsed – #12381

Fixed an infinite loop with the document restore action, by @Ali-ovo – #12395

Exported filenames are now sanitized of Windows-invalid characters, previously invalid characters would make the Zip file hard to open – #12407

Slack notifications no longer show "Untitled" for documents without titles – #12406

The mention menu now appears when pasting a link followed by a newline – #12402

Non-empty untitled drafts are no longer unintentionally trashed on editor unmount – #12418

"Premature close" stream errors are no longer reported to error tracking – #12424

Database query statement_timeout is now applied on request-handling processes – #12422

Fixed a crash when importing Notion pages containing empty tables – #12421

Upstream OAuth provider errors are no longer reported to error tracking – #12425

Double-clicking actions in DocumentExplorer no longer submits twice – #12417

Fixed a race condition causing undo/redo errors when the editor transitions from readonly – #12427

Removed unnecessary package resolutions – #12442

Fixed a sporadic infinite loop when rendering documents with code blocks – #12444

Updated Node.js to 24.16.0 – #12448

Fixed Safari heading widget handling for the Chinese IME, by @Wars – #12453

Fixed a database error from documents.list when filtering by Draft status – #12426

Internal links are now correctly remapped during JSON import – #12461

Fixed a TypeError when document.collaboratorIds is null – #12471

Skipped exporting attachments with malformed keys instead of failing the export – #12470

Prevented an internal error when a tsquery tail interleaves operator and escape characters – #12475

Removed a stray URL fragment from AuthenticationHelper – #12477

Guarded against table content changing mid-drag – #12476

Stopped logging an error when a team isn't found during apex auth redirect – #12478

Rate limiter errors are now distinguished from other errors – #12479

Notion API 5xx errors are now retried with exponential backoff – #12481

Search highlight chips are now clickable in the desktop app – #12482

Guarded against out-of-range positions in scrollToAnchor – #12489

Expected websocket "No access token" errors are no longer sent to error tracking – #12487

Imports can now target documents that the user can write to – #12485

Upload progress is now shown on the import dialog button – #12488

Fixed indent/outdent on Android mobile – #12496

Subdocuments can now be reordered with document-only access – #12493

Image and video dimension promises now reject with proper Error objects – #12498

Imports now exit gracefully when canceled mid-task – #12497

IP addresses are now normalized to avoid validation errors – #12500

Koa middleware spans are no longer reported to DataDog – #12501

Disabled floating toolbar interaction during the open animation – #12508

Avoided a team invariant violation on OAuth authorize errors – #12506

Shift-tab now outdents correctly inside code blocks – #12514

The block menu no longer triggers when the slash is marked – #12515

Webhooks are now disabled when their associated user is deleted – #12524

Prevented a crash when inserting files into a document with no attachment node in its schema – #12526

Fixed duplicate undo/redo events – #12525

Removed the resize grid-snap behavior in the editor, images and videos now resize smoothly – #12528

Pressing Enter on an image now adds a new paragraph below – #12530

Linear unfurl errors no longer bubble up to error tracking – #12532

Toggle blocks inside collapsed headings are now correctly hidden – #12536

Fixed Mermaid diagrams being mis-sized on high-DPI and RDP displays – #12531

Restored missing text color on search highlights – #12547

Many dependency updates

New Contributors

@marksteward made their first contribution in #12298

@toralux made their first contribution in #12338

@mturac made their first contribution in #12366

@Wars made their first contribution in #12453

Full Changelog: v1.7.1...v1.8.0

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What's Changed

Improvements

• MCP responses now include breadcrumbs (#12203), summaries (#12241), and title guidance (#12242)
• MCP now has delete_document and delete_collection tools (#12245)
• Per-share branding lets you override the title and logo on individual public shares (#12003)
• When navigating to document from search results there is now a UI element to clear search highlights (#12165)
• OAuth account linking flows refactored (#12246)
• Self-hosted instances can now tune rate limiting with the new RATE_LIMITER_MULTIPLIER configuration option (#12226)
• Default model creation rate limits raised from 10/min to 25/min (#12236)
• Improved table-of-contents positioning on shared documents (#12171)
• Improved sidebar performance (#12215)
• Added a Redis healthcheck for better monitoring and resilience (#12157)

Fixes

• Shift-Tab on a list item inside a toggle block no longer outdents the entire block (#12162)
• Code blocks now expand correctly when printing (#12193)
• API keys created with global read/write scope are now saved correctly (#12225)
• Republishing a document now updates lastModifiedById as expected (#12227)
• Suspended users are no longer counted toward the cached group member count (#12197)
• Post-login redirects with invalid paths are now handled correctly in Firefox (#12218)
• Fixed incorrect Mod-ArrowLeft behavior inside heading nodes in Firefox (#12219)
• Autofocus now works inside lazy-loaded modals and popovers (#12146)
• Stricter validation on table attributes (#12156) and the subscription creation endpoint (#12240)
• Resolved a parseXML error originating from the AWS SDK (#12231)
• Many dependency updates

Full Changelog: v1.7.0...v1.7.1

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MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that lets AI assistants like Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, and others directly search, read, create, and edit documents in your Outline workspace. Once connected, your AI tools become an extension of your knowledgebase — able to find information, draft new docs, and update existing ones on your behalf.

Using the MCP you can:

• Search for information across your entire workspace
• Use your AI assistant to help you write and edit content in Outline
• Find, create, and resolve comments

Each Outline workspace now comes with an MCP server built-in, so you can connect your AI assistants in just a minute of setup. Check out the docs to get started.

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Toggle blocks are a new block type that allows you to hide and show content with a click. This is useful for creating collapsible sections in your documents, such as FAQs, step-by-step instructions, or any content that you want to keep hidden until the reader chooses to reveal it.

To create a toggle block, simply type /toggle and select the "Toggle" block from the menu. You can then add a title for the toggle and any content you want to include inside it. When the document is published, readers will see the toggle title and can click on it to expand or collapse the content.

Other improvements

• Search results are now highlighted in the document when navigating from search
• We added a new Figma integration which allows unfurling information about Figma links in documents

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Part 3 in our recurring series of improvements to tables in Outline. This release includes the following updates:

• Table columns and rows can now be reordered by dragging the column or row header to a new position
• Table cells can now have a custom colored background, use the new "Cell background" option in the toolbar to choose a color
• Sorting of table data is more natural for currencies, dates, and numbers
• Lists inside tables no longer break Markdown output
• Tables with merged cells now behave correctly when sorting

Other improvements

• Added the ability to choose custom color highlights for text
• Clicking on a group in the share dialog now shows it's members
• Added a hide/show completed items control for checkbox lists
• Added Alt-click to recursively expand or collapse sidebar documents and collections
• Added a preference for desktop notification badge with off, count, and indicator options

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You can now embed PDF documents directly into your Outline document. This feature allows you to display PDF content seamlessly within your posts rather than uploading them as attachments.

To embed a PDF, search for "PDF" in the slash command menu (/pdf) and select the "Embed PDF" option.

Other improvements

• Table controls are no longer broken when columns and rows are merged
• Fixed an issue where copying and pasting from Google Docs would fail due to embedded images not uploading correctly
• Edit permission on a single document now allows moving sub-documents
• Lots of performance improvements to database queries
• Fixed invisible buttons in emails viewed in dark mode

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Outline now tracks document popularity based on views and interactions. This allows you to easily identify which documents are most relevant and frequently accessed by your team, these are surfaced in the new "Popular" tab and are given more prominance in search results.

Other improvements

• The sidebar was considerably cleaned up to improve the clarity of nesting
• The icon color picker now has a full spectrum selector
• We overhauled syntax highlighting for code blocks
• Double clicking on image and video resize handles now fills the media to document width
• Line height now auto adjusts for scripts with many ascenders and descenders such as Thai

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You can now mention groups in documents and comments, making it easier to notify entire teams or departments at once. To mention a group, simply type "@" followed by the group name, just like you would with individual users.

When a group is mentioned, all members of that group will receive a notification, so use sparingly! Of course, this feature can also be disabled on a per-group basis.

Other improvements

• Groups can now have a description
• You can now comment directly on images within documents.
• Documents and collections in the sidebar now have context menus
• Typed urls are now automatically converted into clickable links

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