Prepared release v26.8.1 (#923)

app/MindWork AI Studio/Components/Changelog.Logs.cs

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ public partial class Changelog
     
     public static readonly Log[] LOGS = 
     [
-        new (251, "v26.8.1, build 251 (2026-08-13 06:01 UTC)", "v26.8.1.md"),
+        new (252, "v26.8.1, build 252 (2026-08-15 12:21 UTC)", "v26.8.1.md"),
         new (250, "v26.7.3, build 250 (2026-07-21 12:45 UTC)", "v26.7.3.md"),
         new (244, "v26.7.2, build 244 (2026-07-06 18:35 UTC)", "v26.7.2.md"),
         new (243, "v26.7.1, build 243 (2026-07-05 16:39 UTC)", "v26.7.1.md"),

app/MindWork AI Studio/packages.lock.json

@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@
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app/MindWork AI Studio/wwwroot/changelog/v26.8.1.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# v26.8.1, build 251 (2026-08-13 06:01 UTC)
+# v26.8.1, build 252 (2026-08-15 12:21 UTC)
 - Added Hetzner's experimental inference API as an LLM provider. It runs open-source models in the EU and supports text and image chats through its OpenAI-compatible API.
 - Added support for the new open source models DeepSeek V4 Flash and Pro, GLM 5.2, Kimi K2.7 Code and K3, as well as Qwen 3.6 and 3.8.
 - Added a prototype Visual Briefing Assistant that turns documents, data, images, audio, and video into self-contained interactive HTML briefings. When you want to test it, you have to enable this preview feature in your app settings.
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 - Added a priority for configuration plugins. Organizations that deploy several configurations can now decide which one wins: a configuration with a higher priority overrides the settings and providers of a lower one. This allows a company-wide base configuration that each department refines for itself.
 - Added the Batch Processing Assistant: process all documents of a folder in one run. Each document is sent to the AI along with your instructions – either a free prompt, one of your document analysis policies, or instructions you import from a file. You choose whether each answer is stored as its own Markdown file or whether all answers are collected in one CSV results table, which you can name yourself. Every run writes a log that lists each document with its processing time, the model, the status, and the reason for any error. When you start another run on the same output folder, we ask whether you want to continue it: documents that failed or are missing from the log are processed again, which is helpful after a crash or when documents exceeded the context window of your model. A single failing document never stops the run, and you can cancel at any time. The assistant was contributed by Jens Erler (`j-erler`) and marks his first contribution to AI Studio. Thank you, Jens, for this wonderful and useful contribution.
 - Added a way for IT departments to try out a configuration before rolling it out. A configuration placed in the new `.config-tests` directory below the plugins directory acts like one your organization deployed, including the approval of assistant plugins, so a test shows exactly what colleagues will see later. No configuration server is needed for this. AI Studio empties that directory every time it starts, so a test configuration is valid for one session, and the information page reports it while it is active. The Enterprise IT documentation describes the whole procedure.
+- Added providers for which you bring your own API key. Until now, a provider your organization configured had to come with a shared API key, which meant your IT department needed one key for everybody. Such a provider can now be handed out without a key, so that everyone signs in with their own, for example, a personal OpenAI or Anthropic account. This works for chat, embedding, and transcription providers alike. The provider stays managed by your organization: the host, the model, the instance name, and everything else remain fixed, and the only thing you can edit is the API key. In the settings, these providers carry a key icon instead of the usual lock, so you can see at a glance where you have to add your key; for embedding providers, the test button stays available, so you can check your key right after entering it. Your key is stored on your device in the operating system's credential store, and it stays there even when your organization withdraws the provider later, so it is still in place should the same provider return. For IT departments: the new `AllowUserProvidedAPIKey` option does this, and it works for `LLM_PROVIDERS`, `EMBEDDING_PROVIDERS`, and `TRANSCRIPTION_PROVIDERS` alike.
 - Added CSV and TSV files to the file types you can attach. AI Studio was already able to read them, but they could not be selected.
 - Improved how your organization's configuration behaves when a configuration plugin is present but cannot be loaded, e.g. because of an error in the plugin. Such a plugin still manages your app, so its settings, providers, data sources, profiles, and chat templates now stay in place instead of being removed.
 - Improved reading large files from slow locations such as network drives. AI Studio now waits considerably longer before it gives up, and it tells you when it does.
@@ -39,5 +40,7 @@
 - Fixed preview features contributed by several configuration plugins at once. Only the most recent contribution was recognized as coming from your organization, so features enabled by another configuration looked as if you had switched them on yourself. Each configuration is now tracked separately, which lets your organization enable one preview feature company-wide and another one for a single department.
 - Fixed which configuration wins when two configuration plugins collide, e.g. by claiming the same plugin ID, by managing the same setting, or by defining the same provider. Previously, this was down to chance, so a local configuration plugin could take over parts of the configuration your IT department deployed. Configurations from your organization now always win, and every ignored attempt is reported in the log.
 - Fixed the assistant categories when your organization hides individual assistants. A category heading could stay visible above an empty area, and the Log Viewer could disappear together with the Localization assistant. Each heading now follows the assistants actually shown below it.
+- Fixed a removed API key staying in the operating system's credential store. When you cleared the API key of a provider, the previous key remained stored and was still used. It is now removed together with your change.
+- Fixed AI Studio installing a second copy of itself next to an existing installation. Its updater always installs into your personal user folder, so an installation elsewhere, such as one your IT department rolled out, was never replaced. AI Studio now recognizes those installations and leaves them alone. The information page tells you which case applies to yours. For IT departments: automatic updates can now stay enabled for everybody, and the Enterprise IT documentation explains the rest.
 - Removed the legacy PowerPoint format (`.ppt`) from the selectable file types. AI Studio has no reader for it, so such a file could be attached but never read. The modern `.pptx` format is not affected.
 - Upgraded dependencies to their latest versions to improve security and stability.

app/MindWork AI Studio/wwwroot/changelog/v26.8.2.md

@@ -1,5 +1 @@
-# v26.8.2, build 252 (2026-08-xx xx:xx UTC)
-- Added providers for which you bring your own API key. Until now, a provider your organization configured had to come with a shared API key, which meant your IT department needed one key for everybody. Such a provider can now be handed out without a key, so that everyone signs in with their own, for example, a personal OpenAI or Anthropic account. This works for chat, embedding, and transcription providers alike. The provider stays managed by your organization: the host, the model, the instance name, and everything else remain fixed, and the only thing you can edit is the API key. In the settings, these providers carry a key icon instead of the usual lock, so you can see at a glance where you have to add your key; for embedding providers, the test button stays available, so you can check your key right after entering it. Your key is stored on your device in the operating system's credential store, and it stays there even when your organization withdraws the provider later, so it is still in place should the same provider return. For IT departments: the new `AllowUserProvidedAPIKey` option does this, and it works for `LLM_PROVIDERS`, `EMBEDDING_PROVIDERS`, and `TRANSCRIPTION_PROVIDERS` alike.
-- Improved the grouped provider tables in the settings. You can now click anywhere on a group header to expand or collapse its LLM, embedding, or transcription providers.
-- Fixed a removed API key staying in the operating system's credential store. When you cleared the API key of a provider, the previous key remained stored and was still used. It is now removed together with your change.
-- Fixed AI Studio installing a second copy of itself next to an existing installation. Its updater always installs into your personal user folder, so an installation elsewhere, such as one your IT department rolled out, was never replaced. AI Studio now recognizes those installations and leaves them alone. The information page tells you which case applies to yours. For IT departments: automatic updates can now stay enabled for everybody, and the Enterprise IT documentation explains the rest.
+# v26.8.2, build 253 (2026-08-xx xx:xx UTC)

metadata.txt

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 26.8.1
-2026-08-13 06:01:54 UTC
-251
+2026-08-15 12:21:19 UTC
+252
 9.0.120 (commit 3f97250e38)
 9.0.19 (commit 8381bdb01f)
 1.97.1 (commit 8bab26f4f)
 8.15.0
 2.11.5
-3c789da4654, release
+1bf592994d3, release
 osx-arm64
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runtime/packaging/linux/org.mindworkai.AIStudio.metainfo.xml

@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
   </screenshots>
 
   <releases>
-    <release type="stable" version="26.8.1" date="2026-08-13">
+    <release type="stable" version="26.8.1" date="2026-08-15">
       <description>
         <ul>
           <li>Added Hetzner's experimental inference API as an LLM provider. It runs open-source models in the EU and supports text and image chats through its OpenAI-compatible API.</li>
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@
           <li>Added a priority for configuration plugins. Organizations that deploy several configurations can now decide which one wins: a configuration with a higher priority overrides the settings and providers of a lower one. This allows a company-wide base configuration that each department refines for itself.</li>
           <li>Added the Batch Processing Assistant: process all documents of a folder in one run. Each document is sent to the AI along with your instructions – either a free prompt, one of your document analysis policies, or instructions you import from a file. You choose whether each answer is stored as its own Markdown file or whether all answers are collected in one CSV results table, which you can name yourself. Every run writes a log that lists each document with its processing time, the model, the status, and the reason for any error. When you start another run on the same output folder, we ask whether you want to continue it: documents that failed or are missing from the log are processed again, which is helpful after a crash or when documents exceeded the context window of your model. A single failing document never stops the run, and you can cancel at any time. The assistant was contributed by Jens Erler (<code>j-erler</code>) and marks his first contribution to AI Studio. Thank you, Jens, for this wonderful and useful contribution.</li>
           <li>Added a way for IT departments to try out a configuration before rolling it out. A configuration placed in the new <code>.config-tests</code> directory below the plugins directory acts like one your organization deployed, including the approval of assistant plugins, so a test shows exactly what colleagues will see later. No configuration server is needed for this. AI Studio empties that directory every time it starts, so a test configuration is valid for one session, and the information page reports it while it is active. The Enterprise IT documentation describes the whole procedure.</li>
+          <li>Added providers for which you bring your own API key. Until now, a provider your organization configured had to come with a shared API key, which meant your IT department needed one key for everybody. Such a provider can now be handed out without a key, so that everyone signs in with their own, for example, a personal OpenAI or Anthropic account. This works for chat, embedding, and transcription providers alike. The provider stays managed by your organization: the host, the model, the instance name, and everything else remain fixed, and the only thing you can edit is the API key. In the settings, these providers carry a key icon instead of the usual lock, so you can see at a glance where you have to add your key; for embedding providers, the test button stays available, so you can check your key right after entering it. Your key is stored on your device in the operating system's credential store, and it stays there even when your organization withdraws the provider later, so it is still in place should the same provider return. For IT departments: the new <code>AllowUserProvidedAPIKey</code> option does this, and it works for <code>LLM_PROVIDERS</code>, <code>EMBEDDING_PROVIDERS</code>, and <code>TRANSCRIPTION_PROVIDERS</code> alike.</li>
           <li>Added CSV and TSV files to the file types you can attach. AI Studio was already able to read them, but they could not be selected.</li>
           <li>Improved how your organization's configuration behaves when a configuration plugin is present but cannot be loaded, e.g. because of an error in the plugin. Such a plugin still manages your app, so its settings, providers, data sources, profiles, and chat templates now stay in place instead of being removed.</li>
           <li>Improved reading large files from slow locations such as network drives. AI Studio now waits considerably longer before it gives up, and it tells you when it does.</li>
@@ -145,6 +146,8 @@
           <li>Fixed preview features contributed by several configuration plugins at once. Only the most recent contribution was recognized as coming from your organization, so features enabled by another configuration looked as if you had switched them on yourself. Each configuration is now tracked separately, which lets your organization enable one preview feature company-wide and another one for a single department.</li>
           <li>Fixed which configuration wins when two configuration plugins collide, e.g. by claiming the same plugin ID, by managing the same setting, or by defining the same provider. Previously, this was down to chance, so a local configuration plugin could take over parts of the configuration your IT department deployed. Configurations from your organization now always win, and every ignored attempt is reported in the log.</li>
           <li>Fixed the assistant categories when your organization hides individual assistants. A category heading could stay visible above an empty area, and the Log Viewer could disappear together with the Localization assistant. Each heading now follows the assistants actually shown below it.</li>
+          <li>Fixed a removed API key staying in the operating system's credential store. When you cleared the API key of a provider, the previous key remained stored and was still used. It is now removed together with your change.</li>
+          <li>Fixed AI Studio installing a second copy of itself next to an existing installation. Its updater always installs into your personal user folder, so an installation elsewhere, such as one your IT department rolled out, was never replaced. AI Studio now recognizes those installations and leaves them alone. The information page tells you which case applies to yours. For IT departments: automatic updates can now stay enabled for everybody, and the Enterprise IT documentation explains the rest.</li>
           <li>Removed the legacy PowerPoint format (<code>.ppt</code>) from the selectable file types. AI Studio has no reader for it, so such a file could be attached but never read. The modern <code>.pptx</code> format is not affected.</li>
           <li>Upgraded dependencies to their latest versions to improve security and stability.</li>
         </ul>