Product updates

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Authentication improvements

• Local development improvements to auth, enabling faster development of auth features and bug fixes in this product area
• Preview deployments now available for auth-protected sites
• Fixed redirect behavior to properly return users to their original page after authentication
• Fixed logout button display for full authentication (previously only worked for partial authentication)

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API playground enhancements

• Fixed multipart/form-data file upload functionality in the API playground
• Fixed anchor link behavior so clicking them updates the URL without scrolling to top of page
• Fixed anchor link issues in nested tabs

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Assistant updates

• New Assistant API so you can build it into your own products, compatible with AI SDK
• Added copy button to chat responses
• Fixed issue with retrying messages in the assistant
• Improvements to default assistant prompt to make it less verbose by default

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Performance and reliability

• Made search feel more crisp and accurate by aborting debounced requests as you type
• Resource provisions for a new CDN - expect image asset and page load times to improve soon
• Fixed bugs for rendering complex Mermaid diagrams like GANTT charts
• Fixed CLI bugs on Windows to improve stability and added tests to prevent regression

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Technical improvements

• Added OpenTelemetry for traces in NextJS application to improve time to first byte for customers
• Migrated from Octokit to GitHub API Client to improve latency in the web editor experience
• Fixed duplicate meta tags for OpenGraph
• Upgraded MongoDB from version 6 to 7 for improved performance and new features

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Slack app

• Zero friction access: Bot responds to DMs, @mentions, and any question in your #ask-ai channel
• One-click setup: Install directly from your Mintlify dashboard in seconds
• Contextual answers: Searches your entire documentation to provide relevant, accurate responses
• Deflect support interruptions: Turn daily questions into instant, self-serve answers

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Hosted MCP servers

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Code block improvements

• Improved syntax highlighting
• Added more customization options including focus mode, expandable code blocks, dark and light mode responsiveness, language dropdown menu, line numbering, and icons

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AI assistant updates

• Improved accuracy through agentic RAG with tool calling
• Provides navigable links to referenced pages so that users can go directly to the source of answers
• Copy shortcut for code examples generated by assistant
• “Ask AI” shortcut on code blocks in documentation to generate explanations from the assistant

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Subscribable changelogs

• Automatically generate an RSS feed from changelog pages
• Integrate RSS-enabled updates with Slack, email, and other tools

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API playground stability updates

• Search to find an endpoint
• Indicate a deprecated endpoint with a tag
• Hide auto-generated API pages from navigation
• Upload multipart or form data files

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mint update

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Web Editor 3.0

• Search for file names using ⌘ + P shortcut
• Pages load 10x faster
• Faster load times when searching for a branch
• Page options tab to configure layout, title, & metadata for SEO
• Floating toolbar when you highlight text

• Fixed top margin for changelog components
• Improved reliability of right click behavior
• After clicking publish, you’ll stay on the same page instead of being brought to an empty state
• Standardized colors in file icons
• Improved reliability after selecting new branches several times in a row
• Removed Diff mode
• More consistency when creating a new folder from the dropdown
• Fixed block quotes creating more block quotes when trying to deselect

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AI Translations in beta

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Export docs to PDF in beta

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React hook support

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MCP server generator

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Improvements

• Tag changelog updates so end users can filter updates
• Sonnet-3.7 supported for AI Chat. Configure your preferred model through the dashboard
• Change your deployment name directly in dashboard settings

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Bug fixes

• OG images fixed
• Fixed icon style inconsistency for anchors without container
• Improved styling nits for dashboard border for mobile-tablet-desktop responsiveness
• Show code examples even when in simple mode for API playground
• Support “command + k” shortcut for search in web editor
• Codeblocks within callouts expand to fill the width of the callout area

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New configuration schema docs.json

1. Make sure your CLI is the latest version

npm i mint@latest -g

1. In your docs repository, run

mint upgrade

1. Delete your old mint.json file and push your changes

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CI Checks

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.md support for LLMs

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More Themes

• Maple
• Palm
• Willow

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Other improvements

• Guide to Technical Writing:Best practices for writing technical documentation, including audience research, content types, and writing tips.
• Dropdown component: Organize navigation with a dropdown, in addition to tabs and anchors.
• AI syntax fixer: The web editor will catch if there’s a parsing error and use AI to suggest fixes.

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AI Assistant Improvements

• New UI with dedicated chat page & pre-filled prompts
• Stability improvements, e.g. bug fixes of editing the wrong file or no files at all
• More robust knowledge for adding & editing components
• Improved docs.json file editing

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Partial Authentication

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Revamped API Playground

• Easier detail expansion for an overview of a field
• More intuitive nested design, e.g. adding or deleting items
• Faster response times

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Quality Improvements

• Support for requiring authentication to access preview deployments

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Authentication

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AI Writer

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GitLab Integration Upgrade

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Web Editor

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/llms.txt support

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Localization

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Quality Improvements

• Return chat & search results based on the current version that the user is reading
• Authenticate users with OAuth, in addition to JWT or Shared Session tokens.

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Changelogs

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Code Line Highlighting

const greeting = "Hello, World!";
function sayHello() {
  console.log(greeting);
}
sayHello();

```javascript Line Highlighting Example {1,3-5}
const greeting = "Hello, World!";
function sayHello() {
  console.log(greeting);
}
sayHello();
```

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Light mode code blocks

"codeBlock": {
  "mode": "auto"
}

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Advanced Footer

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Filter search based on the current user

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Custom Prompts for AI Chat

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Dashboard Improvements

• Added ability to change custom domain to be /docs directly through dashboard settings.
• Consolidated the login and signup pages to decrease friction and confusion.
• Implemented the discovery login flow so that users that are members of multiple organizations can now switch between them.
• Added login with Google OAuth
• Added ability to add new deployment through dashboard settings.

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Bug Fixes

• Can now use leading slashes in navigation.
• Can now edit CSS & JS files in the web editor.
• Fixed suggestEdit not showing up even when enabled.
• Fixed keyboard navigation for Search and Chat such that you can now use the up and down arrow keys to navigate the results.
• Don’t allow search engines to crawl user-auth protected pages.
• Revalidate the cache when an org is deleted.
• We now use the Scalar OpenAPI parser to parse OpenAPI definitions which improves the performance, fixes parsing issues, and surfaces better error messages.
• Top-level descriptions are now supported in API reference pages autogenerated from OpenAPI definitions.
• Add in-line-style support for icons
• Fixed the pop-in of custom CSS in docs.
• Properly show in-line code styling in conjunction with links.
• Maintain scroll position when you click the back button in a browser.

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Custom Fonts

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Images in Card components

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Update Speed Performances

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SEO improvements

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Dashboard Improvements

• App router migration in the dashboard.
• Search analytics are now available in the dashboard.
• Delete an org functionality has been added to the dashboard.
• Shipped GitLab connection UI.
• Fix incorrect analytics data.
• Add-on’s can now be directly purchased through the dashboard.

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Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where the top bar would not stretch to the width of the screen when it’s in custom mode and the sidebar layout is sidenav.
• Fix relative positioning of the AI widget.

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More

• Troubleshooting for API pages: API pages could be complicated so we listed common issues to help you sort them out quickly — Read the docs

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OpenAPI Reference Pages

• Endpoints defined by OpenAPI that are complex and recursive are now 98% smaller.
• We now show additionalProperties in OpenAPI pages.

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File Uploads in API Playground

• Learn more about API configurations

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Mobile SEO improvements

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Support Form

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Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug for the Segment integration functionality.
• We now raise more granular error messages for GitHub permissions when interacting with the editor.
• Fixed bugs where the navigation would not properly expand when a direct link was used.

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AI Widget

• Read the blog announcement

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Pro Plan

• Read the blog announcement

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API Playground Code Example Sync

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Insights

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Launch Week Highlights

• Themes: Customize your styling with pre-configured themes. Just add the theme Quill, Prism, or Venus to your docs.json file and it’ll update your docs styling.
• Search V2: directly query OpenAPI endpoint descriptions and titles to reach API Reference pages, remove hidden pages from search, and enjoy our updated search bar UI.
• Web Editor branching: create branches in our web editor without an IDE.
• User Personalization: authenticate users with Shared Session or JWT so that you can show them customized content, such as pre-filling API keys or showing specific content for customers.
• OpenAPI Automation Upgrades: to auto-populate API Playground pages, you can add an openapi field to an object in tabs or anchors arrays in the docs.json.

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Okta SSO

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Mintlify REST API

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Custom mode

• Create a custom global landing page setup with custom components
• Add full-screen videos or image galleries
• Embed custom iFrame demo elements to add intractability to your docs

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Mintlify MDX for VSCode

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Quality Improvements

• Dashboard upgrades: view update logs to see what’s changed and status of an update, toggle between Mintlify projects to manage deployments
• Versioning with tabs fully supported
• Wildcard redirects now supported
• CLI Error Detection: we now show the position of invalid frontmatter when there are parsing issues during local development

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Launch Week Highlights

• Preview Deployments: When you create a pull request, we’ll generate a unique link that shows a live preview of what your docs look like in prod. You can share this link with teammates.
• Snippets V2: We now support fully reusable components and variables for snippets.
• Open-source MDX Engine: We’ve exposed two APIs—getCompiledMdx and MDXComponent—so you can access Mintlify markdown and code syntax highlighting. Contributions to the project are welcome.
• AI Chat Insights: Segment chat history by date and increase AI Chat quota from the dashboard, and see how often a specific query appears.