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Changelog

Every fix and addition, newest first.

This is the same log the app shows under Settings → Changelog, in the same plain English. The suite does not update itself, and the corollary matters: fixes reach you only when you download a new version — so this page is how you decide whether a release is worth the trip to the download page.

Newest release: 1.1.5 · per-platform availability is on /downloads — not every platform is always on the newest build, and that page says which.

  1. 1.1.5

    4 October 2026

    Added

    • Set up AI: the first time the app starts with AI switched on and nothing to run it, an assistant checks this computer — memory, graphics, free disk, whether Ollama is installed and running, and which models are there — and walks you through only the missing steps: installing Ollama (one click on Windows), starting it, downloading a model sized to this machine, and checking that the model answers before it is saved. Skip turns AI off instead of leaving every request to fail. It stays on the Home screen and in Settings, AI Model.
    • Docs: version history. Each save keeps the previous version (automatic saves at most once every ten minutes), up to the newest 20 and about 200 MB per document, and at most 1 GB for all documents together. File, Browse Versions lists them with date and size; open one as a separate copy, restore it over the current document, or delete all of a document’s versions.
    • Docs: Review, Reviewing Pane lists every tracked change with its kind, author, date and a short excerpt. Filter by author, click a change to jump to it, and accept or reject changes one at a time.
    • Docs: Review, Check Style asks the local model for clearer rewrites of the sentences in the paragraph you are in, or in your selection, and lists each original beside its rewrite to accept or dismiss. Accepting keeps the text’s formatting and is one undo step. It appears only while AI is on.
    • Windows and Linux: spelling is checked offline in the word processor, with right-click suggestions. English dictionaries only (US and British), used when the app is set to English; Review, Spelling turns it off. macOS keeps using its own spellchecker.
    • Sheets: File, Export CSV saves the sheet you are on, as displayed, in UTF-8, UTF-8 with a byte-order mark for older Excel, or Western-European Windows encoding, separated by commas, semicolons or tabs.
    • PDF: a Redact tool. Drag boxes over what must go, review or remove them in a list, and on Save the text, annotations and picture pixels under each box are deleted from the file, not covered, including on scanned pages. You can also ask the assistant to mark every match of a phrase; it only adds boxes to the list. You confirm before anything is written, and redactions are never autosaved.
    • PDF: Recognise Text makes a scanned PDF searchable. It reads the image-only pages on this computer, in English, and saves a new searchable copy that opens in its own tab; your original is not changed.
    • PDF: Annotate, Add text field and Add checkbox let you drag a form field onto a page. The fields are written into the file when you save, so other PDF readers can fill them in. The assistant can add them too.
    • PDF: Sign with certificate signs a copy of the document with a certificate you create on this computer or import from a .p12 or .pfx file. Software that checks signatures shows a self-made certificate’s identity as unknown, and the signing time comes from this computer’s clock rather than a trusted timestamp.
    • Slides: Set Up Show can loop the slideshow until you press Esc, or run it as a kiosk, which loops, ignores clicks and keys, and advances on each slide’s timing (5 seconds when a slide has none). The choice is saved in the .pptx.

    Fixed

    • When the local AI is not installed, not running or missing its model, the AI panels in Docs, Sheets and Slides now say so and point to Set up AI, instead of showing a raw connection error such as “fetch failed”.
    • Sheets: a CSV saved on a Western-European Windows machine opens with its accents intact. 1.1.4 could misread it as Chinese, so Müller opened as M黮ler.
    • The assistant reads attached Western-European Windows text files correctly, for the same reason.
    • Linux: the AppImage no longer needs the FUSE 2 library, which recent Ubuntu and Fedora leave out. The .deb and .rpm now declare the sound and graphics libraries a minimal system was missing.
    • macOS: the build seals the application itself, so macOS offers Open Anyway on first run rather than calling the download damaged.

  2. 1.1.4

    8 September 2026

    Changed

    • The window now appears before the app looks for a local model, not after. On a machine where the model daemon is busy or unreachable, start-up used to sit on that check with nothing on screen.

    Fixed

    • Docs: Keep with next, Keep lines together and widow and orphan control now survive a save. A heading set to stay with the paragraph beneath it was losing that setting the moment the file was written, so it could end up stranded at the foot of a page in the copy you sent out.
    • Docs: on a document whose page setup is written out in long form, a two or three column section now puts its column settings where they belong in the file, instead of appending them to the end of the section.
    • Docs: a gap you set between columns is now written as you set it rather than replaced by the default, and turning a section back to a single column clears the column settings out of the file instead of leaving them behind.

  3. 1.1.3

    2 September 2026

    Added

    • Docs: a Font Checker on the Review tab lists every font the document asks for that this machine does not have, and names the substitute being drawn in its place — so what you see stops silently differing from what a colleague sees.
    • Docs: saving now warns in the status bar when the document uses fonts that are missing on this machine, at the moment the file is written rather than after someone else opens it.
    • Sheets: an operation that touches every cell now states the cell count and a realistic cost estimate before it starts, so you decide with a number instead of watching a spinner and hoping.
    • Slides: the review pane now checks charts and tables for alt text, not just pictures — and the app’s own internal markers no longer count as a description a screen reader would be left to read out.

    Changed

    • Docs and Slides: the whole-document AI rewrite now asks for consent in a proper in-app dialog — the confirm button names the action, Escape backs out, and the message is translated — replacing the browser-style pop-up that blocked the window.
    • Docs: a References operation that fails now reports through the in-app toast instead of a system dialog, so the error reads in your language and does not freeze the window.

    Fixed

    • PDF: the PDF-to-Word notice no longer claims cloud services are "disabled in this offline build" — they were removed from the source entirely, and the dialog now says so plainly, in all 19 languages.

  4. 1.1.2

    24 August 2026

    Fixed

    • Turning AI off now also stops work already in flight: a model probe or download in progress is cancelled at once, and the daemon is not contacted again — not even to ask whether it is installed — until AI is turned back on.

  5. 1.1.1

    22 August 2026

    Added

    • Settings → AI Model → Get a model: it checks this machine's memory, graphics and free disk, then labels every model comfortable, tight or too big before you spend twenty minutes downloading one that cannot load.
    • Models can be downloaded from inside the app, with progress, from the Ollama library or from any GGUF repository on Hugging Face. The finished model is selected for you.
    • When Ollama is missing the app now says so plainly and offers the download link and the one-line install command for your platform, instead of failing as though something were broken.
    • SETUP-AI.md: how to install Ollama on macOS, Windows and Linux, how to size a model against your hardware, how to pull from Hugging Face, and why a model without tool calling changes nothing on the page.
    • This changelog, in Settings.

    Fixed

    • Slides: AI-built pages can no longer run off the edge of the slide. Everything the assistant places is fitted to the canvas as it is written, so content is never left where nobody can see it.
    • Slides: text that outgrows its box now shrinks to fit instead of drawing over whatever sits beneath it. A 44pt title in a small box used to print straight through the subtitle.
    • Slides: a generated deck no longer opens on a blank page with the title slide stranded at the end. The opening page is used for the first page built.
    • Slides: the assistant is told how much actually fits on a page, and splits dense material across pages rather than packing it onto one.
    • Slides: bullets sent as escape sequences by a local model now break into real lines instead of printing a literal backslash-n on the slide — including when a whole list arrives inside one paragraph, which is how a 12-week roadmap ended up as a single run-on box.
    • Slides: the layout check now runs after every change, not only after a layout script — so problems are reported when they are caused.
    • Slides: the page budget that stops a runaway deck is now per request. It used to count for the lifetime of the window and eventually refused every new page, leaving the assistant repeating itself until it gave up.
    • Slides: a request can no longer keep deleting and rebuilding the pages it has just made, which used to burn a whole run and finish with an empty deck.
    • A tool call that fails the same way several times over now ends the run with an answer, instead of repeating until the turn limit.
    • A layout script that reaches for something it cannot do — adding or deleting elements — now names the tool to use instead of inviting an impossible retry.
    • Local models are given three minutes to answer rather than one. A larger model needs 45 to 80 seconds just to start replying, and was being cut off mid-thought and reported as not responding.

  6. 1.1.0

    22 August 2026

    Added

    • An AI on/off switch, for people who want no AI at all.
    • Sheets: slicers, including saving and reloading them.
    • Sheets: centre across columns without merging cells, and paste as text that leaves your data alone.
    • PDF: compress a document without ever making it bigger; an image repeated on many pages now genuinely compresses.

    Fixed

    • First run no longer sends you to a terminal to finish setting up.
    • Text attachments are no longer assumed to be UTF-8.
    • Slides: stopped the assistant eating its own run.

  7. 1.0.0

    17 August 2026

    Added

    • CIA N.I.C.K.E.D. Office 1.0.0 for macOS, Windows and Linux — Docs, Sheets, Slides, PDF and Markdown.
    • Mind maps: a real layout engine that emits shapes with attached connectors, from a plain outline.
    • A theme switcher reaching every editor, including a true black theme.

    Changed

    • Runs entirely on this machine: Ollama is the only AI provider, and the cloud pipeline, web search, image search and vendor account are gone rather than merely disabled.
    • No auto-updater, no third-party dictionary download, and no telemetry leaving the machine.

    Fixed

    • Slides: accept the tool-argument shapes small local models actually produce, so a local model can build a slide at all.
    • The AI setup dead-end that left a first-run user with no way to choose a model.

What to do with this

If a fix you need is here, download it.

Nothing on this page improves the copy you already have. If an entry above fixes something that has been biting you, the newer build is on the download page with its checksum beside it — and if something is biting you that no entry mentions, tell us: hello@consultancyinaction.com.

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