Aug 18, 2025 - v4.10.0

✅ Features

• Excel File Support - Enable upload and processing of Microsoft Excel documents and all Excel variations.

• Time and Location Plugins - Added time/date plugin that provides current time based on user location and location plugin for geographic data, enabling time zone calculations and location-based queries.

🐞 Bugs

• MinIO File Viewer - Fixed issue where uploaded .csv files would not open in media viewer when clicked in chat source links.

• Assistant Dialog History Persistence - Resolved issue where conversation history was lost after navigation, ensuring full conversation history persists across sessions.

• App Navigation Crashes - Fixed application crashes when navigating between multiple apps using the left sidebar.

• RAG Knowledge Base Integration - Restored proper retrieval and incorporation of relevant information from Knowledge Base during response generation.

• Voice-to-Text (STT) Functionality - Fixed STT performance issues including inaccurate transcription, incomplete capture, and voice input trigger failures.

• PDF Text Recognition - Improved handling of PDFs with no readable text content.

• Meeting Minutes App - Restored functionality to Simply Meeting Minutes application.

• Duplicate Assistant Selections - Prevented duplicate assistant entries in sidebar management and invalid duplicate submissions.

• Guardian Template Forms - Fixed button styles, validation messages, required field indicators, and removed sentiment threshold controls.

• Plugin Button - Fixed issue with button render, and moved button and drop down to new right side panel.

• Tooltip Spelling Error - Corrected "Appeneded" to "Appended" in Document Tab chunk count field.

🔧 Changes

• Plugin Architecture Enhancement - Improved plugin architecture to allow custom plugins to be added directly from MAIKO without developer intervention.

• Admin Sidebar Management - Added asterisk indicators for disabled category items and improved assistant filtering to display unique entries only.

• Knowledge Base Manager Permissions - Extended LLMConnect access to Knowledge Base Manager role with read-only restrictions for non-KB values.

• Assistant Context Menu - Enhanced sidebar to include direct links for Favorites, Essential Tools, Organizational Tools, and other system categories.

• Voice File Security - Implemented virus scanning for uploaded voice files in chat.

• Assistant Authorship Tracking - Modified author field to system-generated "Last Edited" with automatic user and timestamp tracking, plus new editor permissions system for team-based assistant management.

• Learn Module Video Update - Updated "Streamlining Data & Compliance with MAIKO" video to reflect current site branding.

• Chat Dialog Management - Enhanced ellipse options menu for better chat context management with improved download formats (text, Word, PDF).

• File Upload Optimization - Implemented automatic file splitting for files over 5MB into manageable chunks to prevent upload failures and improve system stability.

• Audio Processing Enhancement - Added ability to upload audio files to bots for automatic transcription and text processing with auto-chunking support.

• Mermaid Chart Download Enhancement - Improved download experience for Mermaid charts directly from chat view with simplified interface.

• Admin Page Filtering - Enhanced admin page with additional table filters for improved data management.

• User Document Management - Added capability for users to remove uploaded documents.