Version 2.3.5 (Major Release)
Summary
Version 2.3.5 is a major release focused on the refreshed EtherAssist experience, clearer administration workflows, AI and regional processing wording, reliability fixes, and a major documentation refresh.
What changed
Interface refresh
- Refreshed the main EtherAssist interface with updated branding, spacing, navigation, and surface styling.
- Improved light-theme consistency across the application.
- Improved chat layout, composer controls, response cards, menus, popovers, and shared modal styling.
- Improved sidebar readability with clearer conversation grouping and date context.
- Refined onboarding, subscription, notes, settings, and integration screens to better match the current product experience.
Administration and user management
- Refreshed user management with a clearer Users experience, improved role and status presentation, and more consistent action menus.
- Improved administrator-only access handling for Security & Compliance detail pages.
- Improved user quota and notification badge state handling.
- Improved notification drawer behaviour so read and dismissed notifications stay in sync with the sidebar badge.
- Improved partner and customer administration screens with clearer forms, tables, billing surfaces, and organisation detail views.
AI, models, and regional processing
- Improved AI mode and topic-source wording so users see clearer choices for general, automatic, and topic-grounded responses.
- Improved reflective response grounding behaviour.
- Improved model handling and documentation around agent and chat experiences.
- Clarified regional AI processing language so customers can better understand where model and knowledge processing occurs.
- Improved assistant memory and context handling for longer-running conversations.
Documents, templates, diagrams, and integrations
- Improved Document Manager and document preview layouts so longer content is easier to read.
- Refined template creation, editing, import, and document-selection workflows.
- Improved Draw.io and PlantUML diagram rendering, sizing, and continuation behaviour.
- Improved API and PowerShell entry points so integration options are easier to find.
- Improved GitHub and Azure Blob source views.
Documentation refresh
- Reworked the documentation site structure to follow a clearer task-based flow.
- Added and refreshed screenshots across Getting Started and Administration content.
- Added annotated screenshots for key workflows where callouts make the task easier to follow.
- Updated the Getting Started section with Microsoft Learn-style prerequisites, step-by-step instructions, expected results, troubleshooting, and next steps.
- Fixed hidden legacy documentation routes so duplicate sidebar entries no longer appear.
Reliability and quality
- Added broader UI workflow, accessibility, and visual regression coverage.
- Improved template modal scrolling and general modal behaviour.
- Improved cache and response handling for AI workflows.
- Improved sign-in, onboarding, and shared tenant-context reliability.
- Improved defensive UI behaviour around menus, focus rings, and theme-specific readability.
Customer impact
- Users get a cleaner and more consistent EtherAssist experience across chat, administration, settings, documents, templates, and integrations.
- Administrators get clearer user management, notification, quota, and security-page behaviour.
- Documentation now better reflects the current interface and includes more task-oriented guidance.
- Existing customer workflows should continue to work without configuration changes.
Next steps
- Review the refreshed user management, settings, documentation, and integration pages that apply to your organisation.
- Tell users about visible interface and navigation changes before rollout.
- Validate any tenant-wide administration or security settings after the update.
- Contact support if a documented behaviour does not match your environment.