AI-Studio/app/MindWork AI Studio/wwwroot/changelog/v26.10.1.md

v26.10.1, build 258 (2026-10-xx xx:xx UTC)

• Added your mailboxes (e-mails) as a new kind of data source, as a prototype. AI Studio keeps a local index of your mails, and the AI can search, read, and count them. It works with every mail provider that offers IMAP, among them Gmail, GMX, WEB.DE, iCloud Mail, and an Exchange server of your organization with IMAP switched on. Microsoft 365 and Outlook.com follow later because they require a sign-in with Microsoft. To try it, open the app settings, allow preview features down to prototype, and enable both RAG and mailboxes.
• Added the number of indexed mails to the information page, next to the number of indexed files.
• Added tool collections for tools that only make sense together. Search Mails, Read Mail, and Count Mails appear as one entry, Mailboxes: you select them together, they require one confidence level, and IT departments switch them off together.
• Added organization-wide management for mailboxes. IT departments can prevent users from adding mailboxes, and they can rule out the less strict choices of where a chat may send data after reading mails.
• Added the mail servers of your organization to the setup of a mailbox. IT departments can name them in a configuration, and the mailbox dialog lists them before the public mail providers, with a hint on the username and a link to their instructions.
• Added a way for IT departments to allow mailboxes only on the mail servers of your organization. AI Studio then connects to no other server, and the AI no longer reads a mailbox somebody added elsewhere.
• Added a setting to share which features of AI Studio you use with the operators of self-hosted AI servers, usually your organization. When you switch it on, requests to self-hosted providers and LiteLLM name the feature that sent them, such as the chat, an assistant, or an agent, together with the version of AI Studio and your operating system. Cloud providers never receive these details, and AI Studio sends nothing to its developers. The setting is off by default, and you find it in the app settings. Thanks, Dominic Neuburg (donework), for this contribution.
• Added a way for IT departments to let requests to the self-hosted AI servers of your organization name the feature of AI Studio that sent them, either for everybody or as a default that users may change. This shows which features are used. The Enterprise IT documentation explains what is sent and what to clarify before you switch it on, for example, with your works council.
• Improved the Read Web Page tool. When you have not allowed the AI to choose web addresses freely, the tool now refuses every address that does not appear in your chat or in what the tools returned, instead of only asking the AI not to read it.
• Improved the installation on macOS: AI Studio is now signed and checked by Apple, so it opens like any other app. You no longer need the Terminal.
• Improved the installation on Windows: AI Studio is now signed, so Windows shows who published it. For a while, Windows may still ask you to confirm the installation until it knows the app better.
• Changed the banner on the start page to a fresh design that shows what AI Studio can do today.
• Fixed a warning about the confidence level that stayed in the dialog for adding a local data source, even after you chose an embedding provider that meets it. The dialog now checks again whenever you change either of them, so a warning also appears when you switch to a provider that falls short.
• Fixed two confidence levels sharing the same name in the German user interface. Moderate is called "Mäßig" again, and Medium stays "Mittel".
• Fixed renaming an external data source (ERI server) leaving its secret behind under the old name in the keychain of your operating system.
• Fixed the Search Confluence tool missing pages that the search of your Confluence wiki finds. The tool now searches the same way as the search box of your wiki.
• Fixed AI Studio starting only partly when the configuration of your organization took a while to apply. The plugins late in line never started, so the app stayed in English instead of your language, and the configuration of your organization was missing, together with its models and its welcome text. Now every plugin gets its own time to start, and a slow one no longer holds up the others.
• Fixed AI Studio deleting the providers, chat templates, and profiles of your organization, including their API keys, when the configuration of your organization did not start in time. They now stay in place until the configuration starts again.
• Fixed saving the settings taking about 20 seconds each time when a chat template had an attachment on a network drive that was out of reach. Since AI Studio saves its settings while starting, this also slowed down every start.
• Fixed local data sources taking up more and more space on your disk with every change to your documents. AI Studio now removes what the vector database no longer needs.
• Upgraded several libraries to improve security.
• Upgraded to Rust v1.99.0