What's New — Release History

Every ambientChat release, newest first. Each release has its own guide with the full detail — this page is the map.

The version running on the App Store today is 0.14.5, released 5 September 2026.

To check which version you're on: Settings → About. If your version is older than the one above, update from the App Store to get everything below it in this list.

#How ambientChat is versioned

Versions look like 0.13.8 — read as major.minor.patch.

• Patch (0.13.7 → 0.13.8) — fixes and small improvements.
• Minor (0.12.x → 0.13.x) — new features.
• Major (0.x → 1.0) — reserved for the first full public release.

Two things worth knowing:

• Not every version number reaches the App Store. Some builds go to TestFlight only, and some version numbers are used internally and never published. This page lists only the releases that actually reached users, which is why the numbers skip.
• The app and the web interface update separately. app.ambientchat.ai updates continuously and is often ahead of the iOS app. Where a feature landed on one surface first, the release guide says so.

#Releases

#0.14.5 — 5 September 2026 · current on the App Store

The release where the app stopped lying about how much it could see. Searching your inventory used to look only at your most recently added items and then suggest you open each folder yourself; it now searches everything you own. Document search reads inside your documents rather than just their titles, and suggests close matches by meaning. Big collections scroll properly past a few hundred items, a run of deletes rings one notification instead of many, shared records open with their full detail and name who shared them, and your beacons finally say when their battery is flat — or why there is no reading.

The web app had this first, as it usually does. Apple approved the iOS build on 5 September 2026, so it is now what the App Store installs.

→ What's New in 0.14.5

#0.14.4 — 23 August 2026

The release where the app learned about rooms. Presence became the zone you are in rather than the nearest transmitter, one beacon can carry several exhibits, and "Last seen" is yours to set — pick a zone or just type "in the loft". Documents now tell you which folder they live in and take you there in a tap, drafts survive an interruption, and a long question that would pull in a large document asks before it spends.

→ What's New in 0.14.4

#0.14.0 — 13 August 2026

The release that made the features hold up at real size. Searching inventory, checking what's expiring and listing a folder used to go quietly incomplete above 500 records — that whole class is fixed. Sharing became something you can manage rather than only perform, chat got cheaper and more reliable on long questions, the web app works properly on a phone, and beacons grew a real model of place with venues, zones and Walk & Teach.

→ What's New in 0.14.0

#0.13.8 — 24 July 2026

Reliability and answer quality. The assistant searches the web more dependably and draws on your context for up-to-date information, and long answers stopped showing a false "interrupted" message.

→ What's New in 0.13.8

#Earlier releases

#Asking the assistant

You can ask ambientChat about its own releases in chat:

• "What's new in the latest version?"
• "What version am I running?"
• "When did Image Studio ship?"
• "What changed between 0.12.3 and 0.13.3?"
• "Has voice chat always been there?"

The assistant reads these release guides the same way it reads the rest of Don't Panic, so it can answer from the actual record rather than guessing.

#Known Limitations

• Release guides cover user-facing change only. Plenty of work in every release is invisible by design — performance, cost, security, infrastructure. If a release looks thin, that is usually why.
• Dates are release dates, not build dates. A version is typically built a day or two before it reaches the App Store.
• Nothing before 0.10.3 is recorded here. Earlier builds pre-date the public App Store listing.

#Version History

• v1 — First published. Release history backfilled from the App Store record for 0.10.3, 0.12.1, 0.12.3, 0.13.3 and 0.13.8.
• v2 — Added 0.14.0 (13 August 2026) as the current release and demoted 0.13.8. The 0.14.0 guide was drafted while the version was still numbered 0.13.9; the release shipped as 0.14.0 and there is no v0.13.9.
• v3 — Added 0.14.4 ahead of its App Store review, explicitly marked not yet available, and demoted 0.12.3 to the Earlier table. current_version deliberately stays 0.14.0 until Apple approves — this page must never tell a user they have a version they cannot install. 0.14.1, 0.14.2 and 0.14.3 are absent because they were tagged but never released; their production deploys failed and no build was submitted from them.
• v5 — Added 0.14.5 (5 September 2026) ahead of its App Store review, marked not yet on the App Store, and demoted 0.13.3 to the Earlier table. current_version deliberately stays 0.14.4 — same rule as v3: this page must never tell a user they have a version they cannot install. The 0.14.5 backend is live in production, so the web app has it; the iOS build was in TestFlight when this was written.
• v4 — 0.14.4 approved by Apple and live on the App Store 23 August 2026: promoted to current, its guide flipped from draft to published, 0.14.0 demoted. Also repointed every release-guide link at the site's real title-derived slugs (what-s-new-in-x-y-z) — the old release-x.y.z form never matched an article and returned 404.
• v6 — 0.14.5 approved by Apple and live on the App Store 5 September 2026: promoted to current, 0.14.4 demoted, and the "in TestFlight, not yet approved" paragraph removed. The flip was missed for three days after approval, during which the assistant — which answers "what version am I on" out of this page — told users they were on 0.14.4 and described 0.14.4's features as the latest. scripts/verify/verify-dont-panic-frontmatter.js --check-app-store now compares this page against Apple's public lookup API so the gap cannot reopen silently.