2025.5.4

🔎 Full Text Search

Now the search bar will search for all content, not just document titles. Resulting text is highlighted and when you click, you are taken to the block with the matching result.

We now support searching old versions as well, the search results will indicate "Current Version" or the older version publish date

✨ Features

• "Enable Web Activity Panel" in document options, to disable web commenting and citations panel
• Directory has been removed from the outline sidebar,

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix broken layout of comments in some situations
• Web: show the correct alias'ed author for all comments
• Web: Improved performance of panel resizing on
• Web: Footer is always at the bottom of the page when panel is closed
• Desktop app: Fixed situations where panel would unexpectedly change or show double
• Desktop app: Fixes to panels in the document draft
• Desktop Linux app: Fixes to auto-update logic

Full Changelog: 2025.5.3...2025.5.4

2025.5.3

💬 Improved Web Commenting

The web now has an improved commenting panel which allows you to quickly navigate between replies and discussions about a block of the document.

🍇 Web Site Importing

You can now import a whole web site to your site or document. From the document options menu, click "Import" and then "Import Web Site" and paste the URL of your site.

This process is mostly optimized for WordPress sites. If your import does not work as expected, please reach out to us on discord so we can improve it.

✨ Other New Features

• Document Directory has been removed from the outline sidebar
• When creating a new comment on web, we automatically create an account for you with a randomized name
• Block embeds have new collapsed experience in the commenting panel
• New mobile web UI to invite new discussions

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with web device linking
• Fixed an issue where app startup fails
• Citations now load more reliably when content is partially missing
• Web layout improvements
• Gracefully handle situation with invalid query blocks
• Fixed desktop app error reporting

Full Changelog: 2025.5.2...2025.5.3

2025.5.2

🎨 New Activity and Directory Panels

We have brought the activity section into the desktop sidebar. This gives you easy access to browse the past activity of the document, including discussions, new versions, and children documents. You can focus on children documents in the new directory panel.

As we are experimenting with this new panel experience, we have disabled the document activity section for now.

📩 Email Notifications

We are bringing our email notification experience to the desktop app. When you publish your first document, we invite you to subscribe to email notifications when somebody replies to your comment or mentions you. You can also edit your email notification settings from the account settings.

🎭 Merging Web and Desktop Identities

It is now possible to sign in to the web using your identity from the desktop app. This will keep your keys safe but give you a consistent identity when commenting from your phone or other computer with web access.

To link your identities or log in on the web, click "Link Web Session" from the account settings.

✨ Other New Features

• Instagram posts can now be embedded into a document by pasting the URL or using the Web Embed Block
• New sort option of "display time" in Query Blocks, so you can order by the publish date that is manually set on documents
• New panel organization with collaborators and directory separated from activity
• Link edit panel now allows searching of documents to link

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixes to panel resizing
• Fixed app opening after partial draft migration
• Fixed pasting of text with links in some cases
• Fixed pasting of videos and images copied from publications
• Fixed query block column count not saving

Full Changelog: 2025.5.1...2025.5.2

2025.5.1

🔦 Cross-window Hypermedia Highlights

To help visually understand how content is shared between documents, we now highlight matching blocks and documents that appear in other windows, as you hover over links and embeds.

⚓️ Better Linking Options across all Entity types

Hypermedia documents support many types of links: text links, buttons, embeds, cards, and mentions. The fragmented UI for editing these links have been unified into an easy-to-understand experience that shows you the link, allows you to switch between link types, and edit the appropriate options.

🖌️ Enhance the Editor's Formatting toolbar

The formatting toolbar has been improved to help you understand what options you have to format your document.

✨ Other Features

• Unified Accessory panel design with persisted width
• Added "Card" option to paste link menu
• Added keyboard shortcut for "New Document" (CmdOrCtrl+Alt+N) and added to app menu
• Draft page now has options panel open by default
• Card rendering now falls back to the first document image, when no cover image has been set
• Improved Site Header with better menu item visibility and layout
• Windows and Linux: Implemented window controls (hide, maximize/minimize) with keyboard shortcuts

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed card embeds navigating on click in drafts
• Fixed block side menu disappearing on scroll
• Fixed pasting copied text from editor into image caption
• Fixed pasting text with links in image caption
• Fixed pasting text with links resulting in indentation and splitting text
• Fixed query settings position for empty blocks
• Fixed draft nested marker list left margin
• Fixed logo and header layout appearing in home doc options panel
• Fixed videos on Safari, video scrubbing, and IPFS range requests
• Fixed account icon in "add collaborators" form

Full Changelog: 2025.4.7...2025.5.1

2025.4.7

✨ Features

• Linking and embedding UI improvements with hover toolbars and better editing experience
• Added button alignment options to link edit form
• Web commenting panel implementation
• Resizable panels for web interface
• Enhanced responsive design for document pages with improved panel behavior
• Custom domain hostname input improvements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed link handling and previews
• Improved heading spacing accuracy
• Fixed embed rendering on comment references
• Fixed backend issue where old document generations appeared in lists after deletion
• Fixed marker list alignment below headings

Full Changelog: 2025.4.6...2025.4.7

2025.4.6

💬 New Discussions Panel

One of our goals is to enable deep discussions about your documents, so we built a new panel in the desktop app that gives easy access to your discussions. You can click the new comment panel icon, or click the comment icon of a block to see the discussions that reference that block.

The discussions panel will be enabled on the web soon.

🌐 Web Commenting on All Sites

We have introduced a workflow that allows all web sites to redirect to hyper.media to create comments. This allows users on the web to use a single identity across the web to comment on any Hypermedia site.

Your identity (private key) is securely saved in your browser (although this currently "feels like" a centralized solution). With Seed, our servers NEVER have the ability to impersonate your account. In the future you will be able to securely link your web identity to an account in the desktop app.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Site Header Search now filters results to the current site
• Editor: you can now add list markers above videos, images, and embeds
• Editor: remove bullet or number when pressing backspace on first list item
• Improved alignment on document rendering
• Fix internal race condition in app startup
• Fix issue with protocol negotiations

Full Changelog: 2025.4.5...2025.4.6

2025.4.5

🔗 Document and Block Citations

To give you new perspectives across the network, we built a new panel in the app and website, so you can see what other documents have linked to the current document.

When another document embeds or links to a specific block, you will also see the citation count next to that block. Click it to see all documents that reference that block specifically.

🎉 Features

• The left navigation sidebar in the app is now resizable
• Improved layout for app navigation buttons
• Experimental new Explore app to view the data from the protocol
• Redesigned Content Image for Social Media publishing of your Seed Web content

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Youtube embeds, when the video is complete, will suggest other videos on the same channel
• Fixes to dark mode of library
• Small improvements search across the app
• Improved copy/paste of links in some cases
• Clicking a link in the editor will no longer follow the link, you can press the "Open in New Window" button instead
• Prevent empty paragraphs at the end of a comment
• Fixed rendering of soft line breaks (created by typing shift-enter in the editor)

Full Changelog: 2025.4.4...2025.4.5

2025.4.4

🎨 New App Redesign

The app has received a major visual overhaul with several key improvements:

• Modernized container components with improved spacing and alignment
• Refined sidebar behavior that adapts to content width

🔍 Enhanced Document Search

The document search functionality has been significantly improved:

• Faster search results with optimized backend query performance
• More detailed search results showing document paths and metadata
• Improved search UI with better keyboard navigation
• Better handling of recent documents in search results
• Enhanced fuzzy matching for more accurate results

Other Features

• Redesign the Draft label on navigation items and the app's titlebar
• Improved error handling in document discovery

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed issues with document layout in certain view modes
• Resolved search result sorting inconsistencies
• Fixed dark mode color contrast issues

Full Changelog: 2025.4.3...2025.4.4

2025.4.3

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix "Recents" menu so title is shown
• Hide development buttons that were accidentally shown in previous release
• Slash menu is not triggered when in the middle of a word

Known Issues

On Linux/Ubuntu, there is a dialog box that shows up when the app launches. The app works after you dismiss. To suppress this dialog, run the following commands on your machine

sudo sysctl -w net.core.rmem_max=7500000
sudo sysctl -w net.core.wmem_max=7500000

Full Changelog: 2025.4.2...2025.4.3

2025.4.2

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Desktop: Fixed issue where Linux app would not start

Known Issues

On Linux/Ubuntu, there is a dialog box that shows up when the app launches. The app works after you dismiss. To suppress this dialog, run the following commands on your machine

sudo sysctl -w net.core.rmem_max=7500000
sudo sysctl -w net.core.wmem_max=7500000

Full Changelog: 2025.4.1...2025.4.2