Release overview — July 2026

The Curiosity Team

• 2026-07-27

July was about less waiting: search that shows results while it is still working, a node page you can explore without leaving it, and chats that no longer run out of room. Here are the July highlights.

Search that shows its work

Searching now returns a fast top-results preview first, then fills in the complete, correctly ranked page in place once the full search finishes. While it runs, the result area says what it is doing (parsing the query, searching each index, traversing the graph, applying permissions) with a live timer per index. If a search runs long or the connection drops, the preview stays on screen, marked incomplete, instead of turning into an error.

A new node page

• Opening a node now shows all its properties alongside its key relationships, one searchable tab per relationship, and a Graph tab with an interactive explorer.
• A side panel previews a neighbour without leaving the page, and a clickable breadcrumb trail records how you got there.
• Node previews are part of the page address, so a reload or a shared link reopens the same preview.

Chats that go further

• Long chats continue past the context limit. As a conversation nears the model's context window, the assistant summarises the history and carries on from the summary. Administrators choose the provider and can edit the prompt.
• One picker for tools and agents in the composer, with separate Agents and Tools sections, plus an inline picker when you type "@".
• Attachments are part of the conversation. Adding an item shows up in the transcript where you added it, at any point in the chat, and a built-in consult tool lets the assistant read attached items on demand, access-checked.
• The fixed five-minute chat cap is replaced by a configurable Chat Timeout (1 to 360 minutes) that resets on every streamed token and tool call.

Meet Sudo

The built-in administration assistant now has a name and a face: Sudo, Curiosity's pixelated cat. His instructions make him verify intent and impact before acting, ask first for anything destructive or ambiguous, and never report a success he has not confirmed. He can also read an existing endpoint, tool, agent or skill and apply small, line-anchored edits instead of rewriting the whole file.

Tighter access control

• Node-type access control is enforced on every read path (direct and bulk fetch, traversal, counts, facets and export), and access changes take effect immediately.
• Static, deployment-pinned access tokens for the Library API, interface uploads and custom code endpoints, managed through configuration.

Replicas and operations

• If the primary is down but a read-only replica can serve, the workspace continues in read-only mode behind a banner instead of a full-screen error.
• A new User Analytics page reports chats, messages, searches, sessions and language-model cost per user.

Front-ends now build with Transpose

Every front-end project moved to Transpose, a Roslyn-based C# to JavaScript compiler. Builds are 3 to 4 times faster, modern C# language features are accepted, and a watch mode rebuilds on save and live-reloads the browser.

The little things

• Amazon Bedrock uses the instance role when no access key is supplied.
• The built-in file search tool matches any of the words in multi-word queries, and broadens over-constrained searches instead of returning nothing.
• The assistant knows today's date again.

This overview covers builds v26.7.68081 → v26.7.68702. For the full, build-by-build detail see the changelog.