> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.clairelabs.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Changelog

<Update label="March 2026">
  ## EU-compliant AI agents and GDPR

  We've ensured that all our powerful new AI agents and platform features are fully compliant with EU data protection standards.

  ### New features

  * **EU data residency:** All data for AI agents is now hosted exclusively on servers located within the European Union.
  * **GDPR compliance:** We've implemented strict data handling measures to ensure full GDPR compliance across all new agentic features.

  ### Improvements

  * **New Help Centre:** We have launched a completely new Help Centre to provide better support and documentation.
  * **Contextual queries:** The Insights Engine now supports contextual queries, allowing you to focus your insights on specific assessments rather than just basic workspace-level queries.
  * **Data visualizations:** The Insights Engine is now much more capable, with the ability to render diagrams, pie charts, bar charts, and line charts directly inside the AI's response.
</Update>

<Update label="February 2026">
  ## Agentic AI and Insights Engine

  We're bringing powerful agentic AI capabilities to the platform alongside major compliance tools.

  ### New features

  * **Agentic AI:** You can now build and deploy powerful AI agents tailored to your specific workflows.
  * **Insights Engine:** Leverage our new Insights Engine, powered by agentic AI, to extract deep analytical insights from your data.
  * **Audit and compliance:** A new section dedicated to auditing and compliance to help institutions maintain strict oversight and reporting.
</Update>

<Update label="January 2026">
  ## Advanced reference panel, course page, and student portal

  This month focuses on improving organization and navigation for educators and students.

  ### New features

  * **Student portal:** We've launched a dedicated student portal to improve how students interact with their feedback and assessments.
  * **Reference panel:** We've introduced a sophisticated new reference panel featuring three dedicated tabs: Table of contents, References, and My notes.
  * **Course page:** Discover our newly redesigned course page, which now serves as the central hub for all your assessments.
</Update>

<Update label="December 2025" description="Public Beta v03">
  ## Class-level performance reports and AI safeguards

  We’ve made a big leap in terms of stability, bug fixes, and testing infrastructure.

  ### New features

  * **Class-level performance reports:** Generate comprehensive performance reports for an entire assessment to evaluate overall class progress.
  * **AI safeguards:** Discrepancies are now highlighted directly in the Reader, acting as a safeguard against AI hallucinations.

  ### Improvements

  * Enhanced AI interference tracing and hallucination detection capabilities.
  * Repositioned the note input dialog to the bottom of the screen for better ergonomics.
  * Upgraded our testing infrastructure for more stable releases and quality of life upgrades.
</Update>

<Update label="November 2025" description="Public Beta v02">
  ## Welcome to Europe 🇪🇺

  We’ve made a big leap on our mission to become fully GDPR and EU AI Act compliant.

  ### New features

  * **EU data processing:** All data processing and storage are now securely handled within the European Union.
  * **Email notifications:** You now receive an email notification automatically when your document uploads are finished.

  ### Improvements

  * Added a **Next submission** action after publishing a report to speed up your grading workflow.
  * Uploaded submissions are now always pinned to the top of your list.
  * Added a useful placeholder to the scratchpad and removed the `ID` prefix from the Reading view.
  * Streamlined the new assessment creation user flow.
</Update>

<Update label="October 2025" description="Public Beta v01">
  ## Onboarding and public beta

  With this update, we’re officially entering our public beta 🎉

  ### New features

  * **Self-service signup:** You can now sign up and log in using our new self-service portal.
  * **Dedicated onboarding:** Experience a guided onboarding flow designed to help you get started quickly.
  * **Upload notifications:** Receive email alerts as soon as your submission uploads are complete.

  ### Improvements

  * Enhanced the structure and readability of grading reports.
  * Improved the Course management interface for better organization.
  * Added a **Grade** field directly into Feedback reports.
</Update>

<Update label="September 2025" description="Beta v02">
  ## Improved security and AI suggestion workflow

  This update introduces an improved AI suggestion workflow and state-of-the-art security measures required by institutions for university-wide rollouts.

  ### New features

  * **Batch uploads:** You can now upload student submissions in batches to save time.
  * **Enterprise security:** Added support for state-of-the-art security testing and infrastructure.
  * **Context menus:** Added a new context menu specifically for flagged submissions.

  ### Improvements

  * Streamlined the document-level AI suggestion workflow for a smoother grading experience.
  * Improved the user experience and responsiveness of the AI chat interface.
</Update>

<Update label="August 2025" description="Beta v01">
  ## AI settings, rubric view, and improved onboarding

  This update introduces new AI settings, enhanced UX components, improved feedback features, and important navigation fixes.

  ### New features

  * **AI settings:** You can now restrict specific inline suggestion types through the new AI settings menu.
  * **Clipboard support:** Easily copy feedback report access details directly to your clipboard.
  * **Rubric suggestions:** Redesigned the rubric suggestion component for a better user experience.

  ### Improvements

  * Separated comments and remarks in the Note dialog for better clarity.
  * Improved the overall feedback generation quality and writing style.
  * Added the ability to close the AI copilot chat panel with a mouse click, and included information about focused *Blocks* in the chat.
  * You can now press the annotation key twice to quickly remove an annotation.
</Update>

<Update label="July 2025" description="Alpha v01">
  ## Inline suggestions, focus mode, and dynamic feedback

  We're introducing inline AI suggestions, a minimalistic focus mode, and dynamic feedback reports.

  ### New features

  * **Inline AI suggestions:** Receive contextual, inline AI recommendations as you review submissions.
  * **Focus mode:** A new minimalistic version of the Reading view designed to reduce distractions.
  * **Dynamic reports:** Launched dynamic Feedback reports that adapt to your grading remarks.

  ### Improvements

  * Remarks now automatically adopt the sentiment (positive or negative) of the *Block* they are attached to.
  * Added quick access to the Help Center directly via the navigation bar.
  * Cleaned up the Inbox by removing the context menu for a more minimalistic view.
  * Updated the Reading view and improved *Block* chunking.
</Update>

<Update label="June 2025" description="Alpha">
  ## Initial alpha release

  We are excited to share the very first version of Claire Labs with our early testers.

  ### New features

  * **Core grading engine:** Experience our first iteration of AI-assisted grading to speed up evaluation workflows.
  * **PDF support:** Upload and read PDF submissions directly inside the application.
  * **Rubric creation:** Define custom rubrics for consistent evaluations across your courses.
</Update>