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May 2026
📚 Context Engineering
Documented fire_every and skip_first on templated reminders, including the late-conversation reminding pattern for combating context rot and the post-compaction counter reset
Added a Tool Output Transform section covering jq projection of tool responses, with real web_search / web_get shapes and a search → fetch pairing example
April 2026
✨ New Features
Added Glossaries documentation covering term-to-expansion mappings, matching behavior, and attaching glossaries to agent steps via glossary_expansion reminders
Added Pipelines documentation (quickstart, concepts, sources, verification, dead letters) for automated bulk processing of external data through agents
Added Multi-Client Steering documentation covering multi-device session consumption, behavior: steer vs follow_up, and mid-turn interrupts
📚 Context Engineering
Added a dedicated Context Engineering section with an opinionated overview and deep-dive pages for Compaction, Reminders, Skills, Tool-Output Offloading, and Steps
Overview covers the pillars of a well-engineered agent: retrieval, instructions, tool configuration, sub-agent delegation, long-session management, tool-output protection, and monitoring
📚 API Reference Updates
Updated the API Reference spec with all features released January–April 2026
Replaced x-supported-api-key-type annotations with x-required-roles on all 133 endpoints, showing exactly which API roles, corpus roles, and agent roles grant access
Each endpoint page now shows role badges in the authorization section
📝 Documentation Changes
Reorganized API Reference sidebar into grouped sections (Agents, Data, Search and Retrieval, Access Control, Analytics, Platform, Quality and Evaluation)
Rewrote Role-Based Access Control documentation to cover all four role tiers: API roles (13 account-level roles), corpus roles (viewer/editor/administrator/owner), agent roles (agent_user/agent_viewer/agent_developer/agent_administrator), and platform roles
Added API conventions and authentication documentation to the API Reference introduction page
January 2026
📝 Documentation Changes
Enhance Agents content with updated quickstart, concepts, instructions, and tools
December 2025
✨ New Features
Add new integration between Vectara and Speechmatics (#538)
Enhance agents with configurable, autonomous subagents (#526)
Enhance agent sessions with artifact storage (#524)
📝 Documentation Changes
Add a tutorial about how to build a chatbot with the Agent APIs (#542)
Misc documentation and link fixes (#541)
Update Vectara trial page (#540)
Add List metadata types and IN operator syntax examples (#537)
Restructure API Reference sidebar categories (#536)
November 2025
📚 API Changes
Enhance API Reference with Supported API Key Types for Each Endpoint (#530)
Enhance API Reference endpoint descriptions (#527)
Update the API Reference with Lambda Tool and Artifact enhancements (#517)
📝 Documentation Changes
Enhance search and retrieval section (#529)
Enhance navbar design and convert markup to markdown. (#528)
Navigation improvements (#521)
Enhance documentation structure with new layout (#519)
Enhance CodePanel v2 with a live code editor and syntax highlighting improvements (#508)
October 2025
✨ New Features
Enhance Agents with Retry LLM Configuration (#510)
📚 API Changes
Add Agent LLM Retry Configuration to API Reference (#511)
📝 Documentation Changes
Add new tutorial on how to use OpenAI SDK with Vectara Chat Completions API (#509)
Add Conversational AI content to Platform and Agents overviews (#507)
Update links and formatting in Python SDK Documents (#505)
September 2025
✨ New Features
Introduce the tech preview of Vectara Agents Framework (#491)
📚 API Changes
Fix API Reference for Tool and Instruction sections (#502)
Reorganize Agent Sessions in API Reference (#499)
Add Agents APIs to API Reference (#497)
Enhance API Reference with additional improved examples (#495)
📝 Documentation Changes
Fix MCP broken link in the agents page (#504)
Enhance Agents documentation for Tools and Instructions (#503)
Refresh API Reference (#501)
Introduce new section about Private Deployment options such as on premise (#498)
Enhance documentation around data I/O, Agents, model selection, and BYO-LLM with additional API Concepts cleanup for accuracy and discoverability (#496)
August 2025
✨ New Features
Add documentation for the tech preview of Fuzzy Metadata Search (#490)
Add content about the Vectara Postman Collection (#487)
Add comprehensive documentation for new Vectara Python SDK (#471)
📚 API Changes
Add Metadata Query API to API Reference (#492)
📝 Documentation Changes
Add data egress process content (#489)
Add topic about how to delete an account (#486)
Add comprehensive documentation for new Vectara Python SDK (#471)
July 2025
✨ New Features
Add documentation for the Vectara Admin Center, a centralized interface for managing on-premise and VPC deployments (#485)
New Consistency-Adjusted Index Capability in Open RAG Eval (#479)
📝 Documentation Changes
Fix body request render in API Reference (#483)
Enhance API Reference usability with automated API key type badges (#481)
Add detailed mapping of endpoints to required API key types (#477)
Update Query History and Configure Queries sections, enhancing descriptions and screenshots (#476)
Enhance chatbot tutorial with production readiness guidance (#473)
Add guidance on using expected value formats with Intelligent Query Rewriting (#464)
Migrate codeblocks to use the new CodePanel plugin formatting (#482)
Enable syntax highlighting in CodePanel component (#478)
June 2025
✨ New Features
Add Query-Aware Hallucination Detection and Correction to the Vectara Hallucination Corrector (#468)
Add new supported languages and enhancements with HHEM 2.3 (#467)
📝 Documentation Changes
Enhance API Documentation with Production-Ready Examples for Query, Upload, Index, and Chat Endpoints (#472)
Refresh list of currently available generation presets (prompts) (#466)
Add tutorial about how to build a chatbot with the Chat API (#463)
Update screenshots for console updates (#452)
📋 Example Updates
Enhance API Documentation with Production-Ready Examples for Query, Upload, Index, and Chat Endpoints (#472)
Create new CodePanel component for customizable code samples with language selection, annotations, and layout configuration (#470)
May 2025
✨ New Features
Add documentation for the List Hallucination Correctors API (#453)
Add documentation for the tech preview of the Vectara Hallucination Corrector (#442)
Add documentation for Table Summarization with Custom Prompts (#436)
📚 API Changes
Update the Correct Hallucinations endpoint in the API Reference (#456)
Add Hallucination Correctors endpoint to the API Reference (#454)
📝 Documentation Changes
Improve API Reference description formatting (#460)
Update the Correct Hallucinations API Definition (#457)
📋 Example Updates
Update Hallucination Corrector model example (#459)
Update Docusaurus configuration to show last date a topic was updated (#462)
April 2025
✨ New Features
Add documentation for the Chat Completions API (#446)
Add documentation for the Evaluate Factual Consistency (HHEM) API (#445)
Add documentation for Mockingbird 2 (#439)
Add documentation to define a custom LLM configuration to use models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google (#437)
📚 API Changes
Add the Evaluate Factual Consistency API and the Chat Completions API to the API Reference (#444)
📝 Documentation Changes
Expand Authentication section with new guides on enterprise access patterns, organizational role scoping, and authorization workflows (#426)
Refine design of heading styles (#450)
Install Mermaid for creating diagrams (#443)
Update package.json with API documentation build script (#438)
Upgrade Docusaurus Platform from 2.4.3 to 3.7 (#422)
March 2025
✨ New Features
Add documentation for the tech preview of the Expanded Encoder Management (#425)
Add documentation for the tech preview of the expanded LLM Management APIs (#420)
Add content for new integration between Vectara and Confluent (#414)
📚 API Changes
Add List Table Extractors and Get OAuth Token to the API Reference (#430)
Add the Delete LLM API, Get LLM API, and Create Encoder API and Chunking Strategy to the API Reference (#423)
📝 Documentation Changes
Update Encoder parameters (#433)
Clarify that filterable metadata fields are not encrypted (#427)
Update content and screenshots for the File Upload UI, the Documents UI, and the Query UI (#421)
Update model_parameters with new llm_name parameter in the advanced summarization options (#419)
📋 Example Updates
Update Encoder examples (#431)
February 2025
✨ New Features
Add documentation for the tech preview of Integrating External LLMs (#413)
Add documentation for the tech preview of Document Summarization (#412)
Add documentation for the tech preview of Intelligent Query Rewriting (#408)
📚 API Changes
Add the Summarize Document API, Create LLM API, and Compute Corpus Size API to the API Reference (#417)
📝 Documentation Changes
Update UI steps on how to reset or delete the corpus (#404)
January 2025
✨ New Features
Updated to enable Typescript SDK (#393)
Update HHEM documentation for HHME-2.2 (#379)
Add documentation for the new Knee Reranking feature (#378)
Add new HHEM supported languages and some content enhancements (#352)
📚 API Changes
Uploading JSON in API v2 (#394)
📝 Documentation Changes
Improve Getting Started section layout (#396)
Uploading JSON in API v2 (#394)
Fix broken links in generative prompts (#391)
Fix encoder example with correct value (#388)
Add documentation changelog workflow (#385)
Fix OAuth2 URL and update screenshot (#384)
Add a dedicated changelog for documentation updates, API enhancements and bug fixes (#383)
Add HHEM 2.2 enhancements to Release Notes (#381)
Add new HHEM supported languages and some content enhancements (#352)
📋 Example Updates
Fix encoder example with correct value (#388)
🗑 Deprecated
Uploading JSON in API v2 (#394)
Update Doc Changelog workflow action (#386)
December 2024
✨ New Features
Add documentation for the new Update and Replace Metadata API Definitions (#371)
Add documentation for the querying table data feature (#365)
Add query observability feature to docs (#362)
Add documentation for new chunking strategy parameter (#361)
📚 API Changes
Add documentation for the new Update and Replace Metadata API Definitions (#371)
Add API Reference updates for the new tabular data extraction feature (#366)
Add documentation for the querying table data feature (#365)
Add query observability feature to docs (#362)
📝 Documentation Changes
Improve information architecture of the Capabilities section and metadata content (#374)
Update table extract details (#370)
Update table_extraction_config parameter (#369)
Fix link to the table data blog in release notes (#368)
Userfn example supports traditional if statement (#367)
Add documentation for the querying table data feature (#365)
Add documentation for new chunking strategy parameter (#361)
📋 Example Updates
Userfn example supports traditional if statement (#367)
🗑 Deprecated
Add API v1 deprecation notices (#375)
November 2024
✨ New Features
Add chunking strategy and update descriptions (#351)
📚 API Changes
Add chunking strategy and update descriptions (#351)
📝 Documentation Changes
Update how metadata structuring is handled in API v2 (#358)
Update descriptions for Pro and Enterprise (#356)
update fern.config.json and generators.yml to use latest version. (#355)
Enhance the list of Vectara demos and applications (#354)
Move Reranking subsection (#353)
Add chunking strategy and update descriptions (#351)
October 2024
✨ New Features
Reflect product transition to free trial across documentation (#350)
Add new Integrations section that highlights community collaborations and partnerships (#346)
📚 API Changes
Reflect product transition to free trial across documentation (#350)
updated introduction with proper links (#338)
Get number of documents and document parts (#332)
Add search cutoffs, null handing, and refresh API reference (#331)
📝 Documentation Changes
Reflect product transition to free trial across documentation (#350)
Incorrect syntax in the null score usage chain example (#349)
Correct udf page misspelling. (#348)
Add new Integrations section that highlights community collaborations and partnerships (#346)
Update docs for handling filenames with non-ASCII characters in API v2 (#345)
Add Release Notes to the docs (#344)
Upgrade OpenAPI docs theme. (#340)
Add Video Tutorials section. (#334)
Get number of documents and document parts (#332)
Add search cutoffs, null handing, and refresh API reference (#331)
Update Chain Reranker topic about the array and examples (#330)
📋 Example Updates
Incorrect syntax in the null score usage chain example (#349)
✨ Add query snippet example (#342)
Update Chain Reranker topic about the array and examples (#330)
September 2024
✨ New Features
Add Chain Reranker content (#320)
📚 API Changes
Add request timeouts in docs (#326)
Update corpus API documentation (#324)
Add Chain Reranker content (#320)
Add Generation Presets content to docs (#318)
📝 Documentation Changes
Update corpus API documentation (#324)
Add more UDF examples (#323)
Update Quick Start (#322)
Add name and description to Update Corpus (#319)
Add Generation Presets content to docs (#318)
Update metadata filter topics (#312)
Update prompt syntax (#283)
Update custom prompt topics with Query endpoint details and links (#276)
📋 Example Updates
Add more UDF examples (#323)
August 2024
✨ New Features
Add User Defined Functions Reranker content (#314)
📚 API Changes
Update query order and labels (#310)
📝 Documentation Changes
Improve grpc example for UDF (#317)
Add User Defined Functions Reranker content (#314)
Update introductions to topics in Getting Started and Capabilities (#313)
Update query order and labels (#310)
📋 Example Updates
Improve grpc example for UDF (#317)
July 2024
✨ New Features
Add and update topics for Mockingbird (#308)
Add GPT 4o to list of summarizers (#303)
📚 API Changes
Wrap tabs in API reference so they don't get clipped. (#301)
📝 Documentation Changes
Add note about original BM25 (#309)
Update corpus key and file upload content (#306)
Wrap tabs in API reference so they don't get clipped. (#301)
Fix typos and update screenshots (#299)
Update part.is_title field description (#216)
📋 Example Updates
Update part.is_title field description (#216)
June 2024
✨ New Features
Add new REST API v2 specifications to the documentation (#250)
📚 API Changes
Rename API Playground references to API Reference. (#295)
Update API v2 migration guide (#294)
Put generation_end into the reference. (#291)
Re-enable accordion transition in API playground, to fix bug in which content height wasn't updated correctly (#287)
📝 Documentation Changes
Fix oauth examples. (#300)
Update API v2 download URL (#298)
Fix typos in spec. (#296)
Rename API Playground references to API Reference. (#295)
Change nav from API Playground -> API Reference. (#293)
Fix tips in query endpoint (#288)
Re-enable accordion transition in API playground, to fix bug in which content height wasn't updated correctly (#287)
Fix link to Reranking blog (#286)
Add new REST API v2 specifications to the documentation (#250)
📋 Example Updates
Fix oauth examples. (#300)
May 2024
✨ New Features
Update Reranker topic with the new Vectara Multilingual Reranker v1 (#281)
Add citation summary feature content (#277)
📝 Documentation Changes
Fix query body request (#285)
Point ReactSearch to updated reranker (#280)
Update citation section (#279)
Fix reranking link (#278)
Add examples for functions and operations (#275)
Add summarized search (#274)
Update Information Architecture with new sections for Capabilities and Use Cases (#259)
April 2024
✨ New Features
Add docs for stream concatenation, React-Chatbot, and Stream-Query-Client (#260)
Add Stream Query to the API Playground (#257)
Add new Stream Query API Definition content (#256)
📚 API Changes
Improve List Conversations API parameter descriptions (#266)
Improve prompt examples in query, and update the enable api key and file upload endpoints (#265)
Update prompts to use single-quote in examples (#264)
Update Create Corpus default example (#262)
Fix values in the query body endpoint (#258)
Add Stream Query to the API Playground (#257)
📝 Documentation Changes
Improve List Conversations API parameter descriptions (#266)
Improve prompt examples in query, and update the enable api key and file upload endpoints (#265)
Add context configuration to Query and Highlighting topics (#261)
Fix values in the query body endpoint (#258)
📋 Example Updates
Improve prompt examples in query, and update the enable api key and file upload endpoints (#265)
Update prompts to use single-quote in examples (#264)
Update Create Corpus default example (#262)
Add context configuration to Query and Highlighting topics (#261)
Fix values in the query body endpoint (#258)
March 2024
✨ New Features
Update the API Playground with Factual Consistency Score (#254)
Add content about the new Factual Consistency Score (#252)
📚 API Changes
Update Playground example for FCS (#255)
Update the API Playground with Factual Consistency Score (#254)
Update API References examples for Query, Indexing, and API Keys (#251)
Update Query example in API Playground (#247)
Update API Reference examples for consistency (#240)
📝 Documentation Changes
Update file formats and document structuring (#253)
Update API Reference examples for consistency (#240)
Update Chat APIs overview (#237)
Update API Reference section with improved structure and flow (#231)
Add Content-Disposition header to set the Document ID (#214)
📋 Example Updates
Update Playground example for FCS (#255)
Update file formats and document structuring (#253)
Add content about the new Factual Consistency Score (#252)
Update API References examples for Query, Indexing, and API Keys (#251)
Update Query example in API Playground (#247)
Update API Reference examples for consistency (#240)
Add Content-Disposition header to set the Document ID (#214)
February 2024
✨ New Features
Add Generative Prompts section (#238)
Add documentation for the new Vectara Chat (#235)
Add documentation for the Personal API Key, Index, and Query Keys (#233)
📚 API Changes
Add custom prompts to Query (#239)
Update the API Playground for Chat APIs (#236)
Add documentation for the new Vectara Chat (#235)
Update API Playground for the Personal API Keys (#234)
📝 Documentation Changes
Add Generative Prompts section (#238)
Update the API Playground for Chat APIs (#236)
Add documentation for the Personal API Key, Index, and Query Keys (#233)
Update console and corpus content around account and corpus creation (#224)
📋 Example Updates
Add custom prompts to Query (#239)
Add documentation for the new Vectara Chat (#235)
January 2024
✨ New Features
Add Create-UI and refine copy and layout of Build Apps landing page (#230)
Add Get Usage Metrics to API Playground (#226)
Add List Documents content to Console and API Reference (#218)
Add Account and Corpus Management APIs to Playground (#217)
Add Read Corpus and Update Corpus Enablement topics (#211)
📚 API Changes
Add Get Usage Metrics to API Playground (#226)
Update File Upload API specs (#220)
Add List Documents to API Playground (#219)
Add List Documents content to Console and API Reference (#218)
Add Account and Corpus Management APIs to Playground (#217)
Add Read Corpus and Update Corpus Enablement topics (#211)
📝 Documentation Changes
Add Create-UI and refine copy and layout of Build Apps landing page (#230)
Add Build Applications section (#229)
Update banner with Airbyte partnership information (#225)
Update File Upload API specs (#220)
Fix reranker URL and update search topic with new formatting (#213)
Improve the Index API Definition content (#208)
📋 Example Updates
Update List Documents response example (#221)
Add Read Corpus and Update Corpus Enablement topics (#211)
December 2023
✨ New Features
Add Manager User and List Users to API Playground (#206)
Add List Users and Manage Users topics (#204)
create, delete, enable, list API keys (#201)
📝 Documentation Changes
Fix Q&A redirect (#209)
Indexing documentation is out of date. (#205)
Migrate from data store term to corpus. (#203)
Add API Keys topics to API Reference (#195)
Improve Information Architecture and update several examples (#193)
Add MMR to the Reranking topic (#191)
Add content about Data Ingestion (#188)
Add content about the Index Request Headers (#187)
Updated content about the English and MMR rerankers (#185)
📋 Example Updates
Improve Information Architecture and update several examples (#193)
Support deep-linking to a search. (#200)
Support search on narrower screens (e.g. mobile) (#197)
November 2023
✨ New Features
Add update filter attributes and list jobs to the OpenAPI spec (#176)
📝 Documentation Changes
Update banner for the new metadata filtering capability (#182)
Add update filter attributes and list jobs to the OpenAPI spec (#176)
Add content about structuring document data (#155)
Update Code Samples with specific category for Query Operations (#151)
Update Quick Start with steps, field names, and screenshots (#149)
Add the grpc-timeout option in header to several topics (#148)
📋 Example Updates
Update Code Samples with specific category for Query Operations (#151)
Customize Not Found page. (#184)
Make search more prominent. (#183)
Add a console button to the navigation bar (#168)
Update search with Ctrl-K shortcut. (#164)
Ensure rendering a single instance of search (#163)
Fix rendering of API Playground code in dark mode. (#159)
Add TopicButton, Grid, and Spacer components. (#147)