Open Chat Updates

This release tightens security around production automation by limiting what our automated processes can access. It addresses security alerts and applies the principle of least privilege, helping reduce risk without changing how you use the product.

This release updates how the app presents its icon in the browser by adding an SVG favicon option, keeping an ICO fallback for compatibility, and linking a web manifest for PWA support. It also reduces the size of the main logo asset, helping icons load faster while keeping the same branding.

The docs site has been synced with the latest updates from the documentation repository. This keeps the published documentation aligned with the most recent OpenChat docs content, so you are seeing the current guidance and pages going forward.

The docs site has been updated from the starter kit to OpenChat-specific documentation, making it easier to understand what OpenChat is and how it works. This release adds new guides covering architecture, authentication, and AI models, plus refreshed introduction and quickstart pages to help you get started faster.

A new Mintlify-based documentation site is now included in the repository, with starter pages for guides and API reference. This gives you a dedicated place to publish and maintain end-user documentation content, while keeping it separate from internal deployment docs.

This release removes macOS metadata files from version control so they do not show up in changes or reviews. That helps keep the project history cleaner and reduces noise when collaborating across different operating systems.

You can now open a "What's New" dropdown directly in the app to read recent updates without leaving your current page. The panel includes an embedded changelog view and a link to view all updates in a separate tab, with sizing that adapts for mobile and desktop screens.

The model selector dropdown now behaves more consistently when opened and closed quickly. This release reduces visual flicker and prevents brief animation glitches during rapid toggling, while also helping keep the page layout steadier by avoiding scrollbar-related shifts.

This release updates the app’s favicon and icon URLs with a versioned link so browsers fetch the latest assets. It resolves cases where the new osschat branding icons did not appear in production, even after a hard refresh, due to aggressive browser caching.

This release rebrands the app from OpenChat to osschat and introduces a new 8-bit triangle logo. You will see updated app names, refreshed icons across web and the extension, and improved link previews thanks to new Open Graph and Twitter metadata, plus an iOS home screen icon and updated PWA colors.