GenOffice changelog: what's new each month
Every stable GenOffice release summarised by month: the highlights, new features, improvements, fixes and anything you need to act on. 3 months covered; the current month updates daily.
October 2026 · so far
6 releases: 0.11.411 → 0.11.919
October brought substantial productivity features across all GenOffice modules, with major additions to PDF forms and signing, AI capabilities including knowledge base integration, and improvements to document handling and compatibility. The month saw five releases focused on user-requested features and reported issues.
Highlights
- PDF forms now support fillable fields (text, checkbox, radio, dropdown, date, signature) with digital certificate signing and verification.
- AI can now access your knowledge base with cited answers from starred files, and custom AI endpoints can be saved and switched between.
- Markdown support expanded with wiki links, note completion, embeds, backlinks panel and graph view similar to Obsidian.
- Slides received PowerPoint-aligned canvas gestures and chart enhancements including data labels and axis line control.
- Documents gained Markdown export, Track Changes fixes for split/merged paragraphs, and improved table handling with drag-to-resize borders.
New
- PDF Form Design tab to create fillable text, checkbox, radio, dropdown, date and signature fields with editing and auto-detection.
- Digital PDF signing with certificates and signature verification compatible with Acrobat.
- Ask AI on the home screen with ability to save answers as Markdown or Word files.
- Knowledge base chat feature that answers questions with citations from your starred files.
- Markdown document support with wiki links, note completion, embeds, backlinks panel and graph view.
- PDF to Markdown and PDF to HTML conversion in Converter menu and CLI.
- Slide Show recording that narrates presentations slide by slide.
- OpenRouter AI provider picker with live catalog search and new providers including DeepSeek and Perplexity models.
Improved
- PivotTable Fields pane now includes report filters and all engine aggregation and show-as modes.
- Sheets filtering improved for large workbooks by gating Full Load on value cells and handling streamed workbooks.
- Slides canvas gestures now match PowerPoint including one undo per drag, Shift+marquee selection, and snap guides.
- Docs line boxes and baselines improved with East Asian and hangul line factors, floating table spacing and anchoring.
- Find & Replace box now retains typed text in the "Replace with" field.
- AI message queuing now works across all six panels while a reply runs.
- Interface scale setting independent of document zoom.
- Window position and size are now remembered between sessions.
Fixed
- Track Changes no longer duplicates split or merged paragraphs.
- Page breaks inside table cells now work correctly in Docs.
- Dragging torn-off windows to screen edge no longer crashes the app.
- Crash-recovery copy is preserved when the file on disk is recovered.
- Conditional format formulas using ROW()/COLUMN() are now 1-based, fixing header fill vanishing.
- Pictures inserted into table cells now stay in the cell instead of moving.
September 2026
11 releases: 0.8.970 → 0.11.0
September brought major agent integration features, significant performance improvements for large documents, and expanded AI provider support. The month saw the introduction of command-line tools, MCP protocol support, and a new HTML editor.
Highlights
- GenOffice now works as a command-line tool and MCP server, letting AI agents build and edit Office files headlessly.
- Large documents open and edit much faster, with lazy loading of media and phase-based rendering.
- New GenOffice HTML app for creating and editing web pages with AI design assistance.
- Full file search across local Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, Markdown and HTML documents.
- MCP support via stdio and HTTP, plus one-click integration with Claude Code, Cursor and other agents.
New
- GenOffice command-line interface and agent skill for headless document creation, conversion and editing.
- MCP (Model Context Protocol) server support over stdio and HTTP for AI agent integration.
- GenOffice HTML app with AI Design mode for building visual pages from text briefs.
- Local full-text search across all supported file types with optional web search integration.
- Windows native ARM64 installer for Arm-based devices.
- PDF tools for watermarks, headers/footers, page operations, metadata, markup removal and form fields.
- Zotero citations support in documents.
- Collapsible ribbon matching Office style in every editor.
Improved
- AI chat now renders tables and code blocks, with RTL-aware panels.
- Documents with heavy images open lazily, serving media from disk to handle gigabyte-sized files.
- Large workbook scrolling and loading is smoother; recalculation waits for streaming to finish.
- Slides save with serialization to prevent corruption from concurrent writes.
- Word document formatting fidelity improved across tables, headers/footers, hyperlinks and embedded fonts.
- PowerPoint compatibility extended with charts closer to PowerPoint standard (pie of pie, logarithmic axes, 3D bevels).
- Markdown re-serialization preserves original formatting conventions for unchanged blocks.
- CLI operations expanded with more docs, sheets and slides apply operations including styles, pivot tables and animations.
Fixed
- Gemini models and Gemini 3 BYOK functionality restored.
- Large document PDF and print export no longer produces blank pages or stalls.
- Excel-style formulas with leading slashes in ZIP entries now open correctly.
- Concurrent writes to slides files no longer corrupt the file.
- Picture-heavy documents no longer crash when over 512 MB; files larger than 512 MB show a message instead.
- Cell keyboard shortcuts no longer leak into AI chat and dialog fields.
August 2026
19 releases: 0.4.110 → 0.8.667
August brought rapid iteration across GenOffice's suite, with major feature additions in AI capabilities, PDF handling, and document fidelity. The month culminated in version 0.8 and beyond, introducing OCR, expanded AI integration, and significant improvements to layout and format compatibility.
Highlights
- Scanned PDFs now convert to editable text using private, on-device OCR with no uploads required.
- AI can be asked directly from selected cells, text, and slide objects throughout the suite.
- Two windows can now open the same presentation simultaneously for side-by-side editing.
- PDF tables spanning multiple pages now merge into single editable tables in Excel.
- Right-to-left language support added to Slides with paragraph direction toggles and complex-script shaping.
New
- Private, on-device OCR for searching and converting scanned PDFs.
- Effects pane in Slides with shadow, reflection, glow, and soft edges.
- True vertical text support in Slides.
- CSV export and import for Sheets.
- One-click font installation in Slides with automatic missing-font detection.
- DeepSeek V4 Flash and Vision Exp AI models added (bring-your-own-key).
- Drag-and-drop document opening by dropping files onto the app window.
- AI chat in Sheets can export a sheet as a standalone file.
Improved
- Word-style shortcuts and table layout controls in Docs.
- Active row and column highlighting in Sheets.
- Copy and paste elements and images across slides, decks, and windows in Slides.
- AI-generated text boxes in Slides now size to fit their content automatically.
- Excel compatibility for charts, column widths, row heights, fills, and validation dropdowns in Sheets.
- DOCX fidelity across layout, footnotes, table grids, image placement, charts, and hyperlink editing in Docs.
- Spreadsheet performance: million-cell copies now twice as fast with live formulas.
- Find results in Sheets now skip filter-hidden rows.
Fixed
- Sheets AI edits now operate on raw cell values for more reliable sort, copy, and fill operations.
- Large streamed workbooks now properly support formulas and sheet splitting.
- Conditional formatting performance improved on large workbooks.
- Slides notes pane now scrollable at a readable height with text fidelity fixes for embedded fonts and gradients.
- Docs layout fixes for row heights across page breaks, drop caps, hidden text, and shading.
- Windows executables are now code-signed; per-document-type file icons added on all platforms.
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