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What's new ​

The headline changes, newest first. The full list lives in CHANGELOG.md.

v0.2.10 - right events, phone-friendly ​

"What's coming up?" now answers with events that are actually upcoming, judged in the cafe's own timezone. The admin works properly on phones, and the chat footer fits one line.

v0.2.7 - smoother chat ​

Messages and chips now animate in, and image builds are much faster.

v0.2.6 - faster, safer, more accurate ​

Upgraded the framework to Next.js 16, which clears the outstanding security advisories. Faster tool answers (caching + parallel + shorter timeouts), no invented menu items or bean origins, and raw backend errors never shown to visitors.

v0.2.2 - safety hardening ​

Shaped by real questions people asked the live bot on launch day.

  • Protection rules per tenant. A plain-words box on the tenant form for hard boundaries ("never quote rental prices", "no stories"). It can only tighten the bot, never loosen the platform rules. See The admin UI.
  • Answers only from real data. The bot no longer names menu items from memory; if the live menu does not list something, it says so. No invented dishes.
  • No off-topic writing. Stories, poems and role-play are declined.
  • Stays private about itself. It won't discuss its tools, data sources, models or hosting, even to someone claiming to be the owner.
  • Speaks the visitor's language. English, Filipino, Taglish, and more, matched automatically.
  • Instant refusal of obvious attacks, with no model call, plus a multilingual model backstop for the rest.

v0.2.0 - the platform grew up ​

  • Roles and an audit trail. Owner and staff logins; every change is recorded. See Running it day to day.
  • Analytics per tenant. What visitors ask, which tools they reach for, busy hours, and where they come from.
  • Move a whole tenant as one file. Export settings and knowledge, import elsewhere.
  • Instant repeat answers. Common questions are cached and served at zero cost.
  • Graded answer quality. A second model checks the bot's answers for faithfulness.
  • Branding: your logo, accent colour, light/dark, and a visitor notice.

v0.1.0 - first release ​

The multi-tenant assistant: per-business persona, tools and knowledge base, an embeddable widget, and the operator admin.