#What's New in 0.14.0

Chat you can trust with a long question, spreadsheets that work properly, and answers that hand back the real record.

#What It Does

#Chat stopped looking dead when it was thinking

A long answer used to be indistinguishable from a broken connection, so you'd hit Retry — which ran the whole turn again, charged you again, and delivered the original answer anyway.

  • Long answers now show a live heartbeat, so silence genuinely means something is wrong.
  • Only one answer generates per conversation at a time. A retry can no longer double a running turn, or double the cost.
  • The web interface detects a dead stream instead of spinning forever.
  • If a model declines a question, it says so — no more empty bubbles.

#See what things cost before you spend

  • Every model in the picker now carries a cost pill, from $ to $$$$, right next to what it can do.
  • Attach a large document and ambientChat tells you what it will cost first, then offers to send a summary instead, or skip it.
  • Big PDFs are handled far more cheaply. Pages are read as text where possible and only sent as images when they genuinely need to be seen.

#Spreadsheets and CSVs, properly supported

  • Upload a .csv, .tsv or .xlsx and get a real preview table, page through the rows, and download the original.
  • Ask about a spreadsheet in chat — even a large one — and get answers drawn from the actual rows.
  • Filter your documents by format, so spreadsheets are one tap away.
  • Turn a spreadsheet into inventory. Map the columns once, and the next file with the same header maps itself. Undo puts the whole import in the Trash if it isn't right.
  • Ask ambientChat to generate a CSV and it hands you a real file.

#Answers that hand back the real thing

When the assistant adds, changes or finds something, you get the actual record — a tappable card with a thumbnail — rather than a paragraph describing it. Inventory items now have their own web address, so you can link straight to one.

#Documents that behave like documents

  • A PAGES strip to see, add and remove pages.
  • PDFs finally have real thumbnails.
  • Combine loose photo pages into a single document.
  • Full undo and redo for markdown edits, plus formatting buttons that apply to everything you've selected.
  • Attach a PDF or take a photo directly from an item.

#Sharing you can actually see

  • Share badges appear everywhere they should — including links you've shared, and things shared with you through a folder.
  • Change someone's access without revoking and re-sharing.
  • A shared document opens in full for the recipient, no account needed.
  • Expired shares are correctly shown as expired.

#Settings that don't scroll forever

The web interface's Settings page gained proper navigation — a section rail that collapses to icons and remembers where you were.

#Fixes worth knowing

  • Adding items from a photo no longer creates each one twice.
  • Expiry reminders now check your whole inventory, not just the first 500 items.
  • Editing an item no longer blanks the fields you didn't mention.
  • Your chosen default model stays chosen, on both the app and the web.
  • A real product photo always wins over an AI-generated icon.
  • AI Lookup keeps your cards when you switch to Chat and back.
  • Claude Opus 5 replaced Opus 4.8 in the model picker.

#Known Limitations

  • Spreadsheet import maps columns, it does not clean data. Rows with missing or malformed values import as-is; review before you commit, and use Undo if it isn't right.
  • Cost pills are relative, not absolute. $$$$ means "this model costs several times what $ costs", not a specific figure. Actual spend depends on the length of your question and what the assistant reads.
  • Very large spreadsheets are paged, not loaded whole. The assistant reads the rows it needs rather than the entire file at once.

#Version History

  • v1 — Drafted ahead of the release from the engineering release notes, when the version was still numbered 0.13.9.
  • v2 — Relabelled to 0.14.0 and published. The release shipped on 13 August 2026 as v0.14.0, not 0.13.9: at 312 PRs — completing Share Visibility, CSV Support and Textual Documents, changing the default AI model, and introducing venue/zone beacons — a patch number understated it. There is no v0.13.9. Source: docs/release_notes/RELEASE_NOTES_0.14.0.md.