# Release 2026.04 3 min read ### **πŸ“Œ Release Overview** - **2026.04** - **Unique hosted:** January 22, 2026 - **Self hosted:** January 30, 2026 * * * # Chat Platform ### **πŸš€ What’s New (Business/End-User Focus)** User **Session timeout**: A user can now be automatically logged out after 30 minutes of inactivity. A warning modal appears 5 minutes before logout with a live countdown timer, giving you the option to extend your session or log out immediately. The session timer automatically resets when you interact with the app or return focus to the tab, and session state is synchronized across all open browser tabs. User **Analytics services user IDs**: Service users in analytics reports are now identified by their exact IDs rather than generic placeholder email address. This helps to identify correctly each service user in the analytics report. ### **🐞 Bug Fixes** Admin **Product metrics and model usage analytics access control**: Fix required roles to request and download product metrics and model usage analytics; from `CHAT_ADMIN_ALL` to `CHAT_DATA_ADMIN` and `CHAT_FEEDBACK_READ`, uniform with other analytics types. # RAG ### **πŸš€ What’s New (Business/End-User Focus)** UserAdmin **Tiered access control (BETA)**: Managing scope and file access is now more intuitive through a tiered permission model available in the UI: - **Can view** β€” includes read access - **Can edit** β€” includes read and write access - **Can manage** β€” includes read, write, and manage access This structure simplifies permission assignment while making access levels easier to understand. # Agentic Table ### **πŸ”§ Improvements** User **Visually Distinguish Verified Rows in Agentic Table:** Verified rows are now visually de-emphasized (greyed out) to make it easier to identify rows that still require review or interaction. _Rows Pending Review (Row 2) vs. Verified Rows (Row 3)_ ### **🐞 Bug Fixes** User **Preserve Cell Reference Formatting on Submit**: Submitting cell text now retains the original reference ID format (e.g. underscores in reference IDs), ensuring references continue to render as clickable badges unless explicitly edited. User **Synchronize Row Metadata with Sheet Metadata:** Row metadata is now automatically updated when sheet-level metadata changes, ensuring consistency across the table. # Unique AI ### **πŸš€ What’s New (Business/End-User Focus)** User **Reference Style -** Inline references have been refreshed for easier navigation. Instead of rendering as plain numbers, references are now clickable, with the linked files/webpages shown directly. When multiple sources are cited at the same point, you can switch between them using the arrow controls. ### **πŸ”§ Improvements** Admin **Configuration cleanup and improved input display -** Performed a general configuration cleanup by removing redundant settings and improving how existing configurations are displayed. In particular, text-based configurations now render more clearly. Admin **Multiple internal search queries for internal search tool**: Multiple internal search queries are now generated by default when the internal search tool is called, enabling broader retrieval coverage through parallel query execution within a single tool call. To avoid changing existing space behaviour, this is enabled only for newly created spaces. If you’d like to activate it for an existing space, check the corresponding box in the configuration of the internal search tool. Admin **Default Web Search mode updated to v2 for new spaces**: When creating a new space, **Search Mode v2** is now selected by default. This significantly improves result quality by allowing the agent to generate **multiple, context-aware web search queries**. More details on this mode can be found in this page: [Web Search](https://docs.unique.ai/administrators/space-management/tools/web-search) You can still switch back to **v1** at any time, but for the best overall search quality, we recommend keeping **v2** enabled. ### **🐞 Bug Fixes** User **Fix apostrophes vs. backticks in assistant outputs**: Fixed an issue where the assistant used backticks (`) instead of apostrophes (’) in text outputs, causing text to be misformatted as inline code. Updated the system prompt to reserve backticks exclusively for code formatting.