Release Notes

Release notes for PDF Redaction Studio Desktop. Starting with version 0.1.6, one version number covers all platforms — Windows, macOS, and Linux. Changes that only affect one platform are marked with its name.

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0.1.8 — 23 October 2026

🚀 Features

• Support chat with unread badges: the rebuilt support chat adds an emoji picker and shows unread messages on the app icon — a number on the macOS Dock and Linux launcher, a red dot on the Windows taskbar. The badge clears when you return to the app.
• In-app notifications: a bell icon with an unread count and a notifications list, including alerts before your documents expire and a notice when credits are added to your account.
• Request a demo: a new checkbox on the sign-in and sign-up screens lets you ask for a demo session.

🔄 Updates

• The workspace billing page now lists your payment methods on file, with card brand, last 4 digits, and expiry date.
• The editor sidebar now has quick links to upgrade your plan, and to earn free pages by inviting colleagues or sending feedback.

🐛 Fixes

• Upgrade, billing, and pricing links now open inside the app. Before, they opened in your web browser, where you weren't signed in.
• Fixed the marketing consent checkbox briefly flashing on the sign-in and sign-up screens.

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0.1.7 — 15 October 2026

🚀 Features

• macOS: Studio Desktop is now available for Macs with Apple Silicon (M1 or later, macOS 11 or newer), as a .dmg disk image or a portable .zip.
• Open PDFs from your file manager: right-click a PDF in Windows Explorer and choose Redact PDF, or use Open With in macOS Finder and on Linux. The file opens straight in the editor.
• Support Center: a new Help section in the sidebar collects support tickets, email, documentation, and live chat in one place.
• Better manual redaction: select and redact text on scanned pages, redact every occurrence of the selected text with the new All button, and get boxes that follow the angle of slanted words.
• Vertical and rotated text is now detected and redacted with boxes that follow the text angle, both in the editor and in the exported PDF.
• PaddleOCR is now available as an OCR engine, plus an Always run OCR option that forces OCR on every page. See OCR Language Support for supported languages.
• Support tickets: create tickets with file attachments and track their status from your account, or use the new Report Bug button in the editor toolbar.

🔄 Updates

• New processing engine: text-layer results appear in about a second, text inside embedded images is detected too, and values found on one page are flagged everywhere else they appear in the document.
• Redesigned detection settings: settings moved into a dedicated Settings dialog. Each detector (PII, OCR, objects) has its own tab with an on/off switch, you can choose between cloud AI, the local model, or rule-based patterns only, and AI model download progress appears inside the editor.
• The PII type filter lists every found item with its page numbers, you can remove a single item from the list, and the toolbar has a new Search button.
• Easier email sign-in: Continue with Email sends one email with both a sign-in link and a 6-digit code.
• A new About page shows the app version and where it was installed from (Microsoft Store, installer, Snap, or .deb).

🐛 Fixes

• Fixed Google and Microsoft sign-in.
• Windows: the app now starts reliably on slow machines, where antivirus scanning can delay startup by 30 seconds or more. This fix and the sign-in fix first reached Microsoft Store users on 6 October.
• Fixed processing that could hang on some pages: a stuck step now fails cleanly, and the status bar shows text and image detection progress separately.
• Clearer error messages for damaged or password-protected PDFs.
• Fixed requests failing silently after a long session: the app now refreshes your sign-in automatically or asks you to sign in again.
• Fixed local PII detection not working for new users and hanging on machines with many CPU cores.
• The sign-in prompt in the editor now shows all available sign-in methods instead of only Google.

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0.1.6 — 12 August 2026

🚀 Features

• Windows: Studio Desktop is available on the Microsoft Store, with automatic updates.

🔄 Updates

• One version number for all platforms: Windows, macOS, and Linux builds are now released together as 0.1.6.

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0.1.1 (Windows) — 10 August 2026

🚀 Features

• Windows installer: a setup .exe with a branded install screen and Start Menu shortcuts, next to the portable .zip.
• Builds for every platform are published on GitHub Releases.

🐛 Fixes

• Fixed the app icons on Windows and macOS.
• Fixed Google and Microsoft sign-in in packaged builds.

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0.1.1 – 0.1.3 (Linux) — June – July 2026

Before version 0.1.6, Linux builds were numbered separately from Windows.

• 0.1.3 (19 July): sign in with a password or an email code, in addition to Google and Microsoft. Adds local PII detection, which finds personal data on your computer without sending page text to the server, in many languages.
• 0.1.2 (7 July): fixed the page usage check.
• 0.1.1 (26 June): first Linux release, as a Snap package and a .deb. Includes the Dashboard for managing workspaces and projects.

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0.1.0 — 11 June 2026

• First release of PDF Redaction Studio Desktop, for Windows: the full Redaction Studio editor as a native app, with AI-powered PII detection, OCR, and face detection running on your computer.