Dossier changelog: what's new each month
Every stable Dossier release summarised by month: the highlights, new features, improvements, fixes and anything you need to act on. 2 months covered; the current month updates daily.
November 2026 · so far
1 release: 1.12.0
November brought significant improvements to how you organize and present your profile. You can now customize section order, create custom sections, and keep sent resumes exactly as you sent them.
Highlights
- Desktop app now available for Windows and Linux.
- Create custom sections like Awards, Courses, Talks, or Interests on your profile.
- Reorder profile sections by dragging, or customize sections per resume.
- Sent resumes no longer change when you update your profile.
- Volunteering experience now has its own dedicated section instead of appearing under Experience.
New
- Desktop application for Windows and Linux.
- Custom sections on your profile.
- Per-resume section reordering and renaming.
- Dedicated Volunteering section.
- Certifications moved to their own category separate from Education.
- Drag-to-reorder sections on Profile page.
Improved
- Section headings can be renamed per resume (for example, "Experience" to "Relevant experience").
- Sections can be reordered and removed per individual resume.
- Board cards no longer automatically move to the top when edited, keeping your card order stable.
Fixed
- Sent resumes now remain frozen as originally sent, no longer changing when you update your profile.
- Certifications no longer get lost among degrees in the Education section.
October 2026
19 releases: 1.0.0 → 1.11.0
October brought Dossier from launch to a feature-rich job application assistant with AI-powered resume and cover letter generation, email handling, interview tracking, and integration with multiple job sources and AI providers. The month saw rapid iteration across core features, privacy improvements, and support for numerous AI models and services.
- DOSSIER_PASSWORD now expects argon2id hash instead of plain password; use hash-password tool to generate and update.
- Settings → Claude connector renamed to Settings → MCP connector.
- Compose production config must now pass DOSSIER_TELEMETRY, DOSSIER_JOBS_SOURCE, DOSSIER_JSEARCH_KEY, DOSSIER_JSEARCH_HOST, DOSSIER_ADZUNA_APP_ID, DOSSIER_ADZUNA_KEY, DOSSIER_JOBS_ARBEITSAGENTUR and DOSSIER_FREEHIRE_URL explicitly.
Highlights
- Gmail and Calendar integration: send applications via Gmail, receive and read replies, and sync interview dates with Google Calendar.
- Job agent that automatically finds and scores new postings daily, matching them against your profile.
- Dark mode, new UI with persistent header bars and collapsible sidebar, plus support for multiple AI providers including local models.
- Projects section in profile, publications support, and photo upload for resumes.
- Skill groups, base resume language settings, and per-application theme selection.
New
- Email tab for each application with AI-generated subject and message, recipient address from posting or manual entry.
- Funnel visualised as a Sankey diagram showing flow of applications through each stage with hover details.
- Job agent that searches daily, skips seen postings, and scores new ones automatically.
- Calendar screen showing week or month view, synced with Google Calendar for interview scheduling.
- Scoring for individual postings with 0-100 fit rating and explanation.
- Projects section in profile for side, open-source, course or thesis work.
- Publications section for papers, articles, books and chapters.
- Photo upload and cropping in profile basics for inclusion on resumes.
Improved
- Funnel dashboard now shows week-by-week progression with time filter support.
- Board columns now scroll independently so long columns do not stretch the page.
- Resume length setting now offers one page, up to two pages, or no limit.
- Task data deleted after use: posting text, resume reads, and discarded drafts no longer stay in database.
- Resume imports delete task data as soon as merged or replaced.
- Email deletion also removes associated draft and generated emails.
- Profile strength meter now counts only essential fields: name, headline, email, location, summary, experience, education and skills.
- Settings → AI provider now clearly lists what each hosted provider receives and notes retention depends on user's account with them.
Fixed
- Anthropic imports always failed due to overly complex answer format; now sent as instructions instead.
- DeepSeek API answers truncated; models now allocated 12,000 more tokens when thinking models leave no room for output.
- JSearch searches timing out outside the US; timeout increased from 10 seconds.
- Compose setup failed without TZ environment variable; now defaults properly for job agent, Google sync and settings.
- Chrome on macOS crashed when editing tailored resume or cover letter parts with error code 5.
- Deleted Gmail messages caused inbox check to fail; now handles already-deleted messages gracefully.
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