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Follow up on the latest improvements and updates.
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Release 743
Highlights
- Aline Editor now runs on an HTML Canvas-based editor surface, a major foundation upgrade for legal drafting. This sets up better DOCX fidelity, faster document performance, and a more reliable editing experience for lawyers working in complex documents.
- Enforced Viewer restrictions across the app so view-only users are more consistently prevented from accessing editing actions and other restricted functionality.
- Improved table of contents behavior and content parsing so entries render more accurately for inline instructions, with related DOCX tab-handling improvements.
- Added drag-and-drop file upload across the repository.
Fixes
- Fixed annotation marker interactions so clicking and cycling work more reliably after the editor migration.
- Fixed multiple document picker issues, including broken infinite loading and selection behavior so newly loaded documents correctly respect “Select all.”
- Fixed a failure mode where internet search could error when input exceeded the model context window.
- Addressed backend cache and update consistency issues, including a database foreign key constraint failure affecting document cache records.
- Improved retry behavior for a backend quorum failure by adding a fallback path for vector lock quorum handling.
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Release 742
Highlights
- Added document navigation and structure features for DOCX, including an editor outline for quick navigation and table of contents support.
- Improved inline formatting support in the editor, including correct handling for strikethrough and for inline “void” elements like page numbers and input fields.
- Shipped page number support for import and export, alongside related export formatting improvements.
- Added PDF text search for AI workflows and reports.
- Improved linking and URL behavior in the editor, including safer link rendering and fixes for multi-line link editing.
- Improved find/replace and selection editing workflows, including global find/replace and behavior around suggested deletions.
Fixes
- Fixed DOCX import issues including invalid or undefined formatting attributes, problems importing page and section header/footer variations, and DOCX parsing crashes.
- Fixed editor content and rendering issues such as copy/paste collapsing spaces, incorrect reflow after changing page margins, and selection and shortcut regressions including shift-click selection expansion behavior.
- Fixed PDF export problems, including strikethrough formatting on existing documents.
Introducing Phases in Aline Workflows
Workflows in Aline just got a major upgrade. We've completely redesigned how work moves through a workflow by introducing
Phases
-- distinct, sequential stages that guide your team from kickoff to completion.What's new:
Sequential phase-by-phase execution.
Workflows now progress automatically from one phase to the next. When all tasks in a phase are complete, the next phase begins. No more manually starting tasks or coordinating handoffs -- Aline handles the sequencing for you.Signing is now truly optional.
Not every legal workflow ends with a signature. You can now build workflows entirely out of task-based phases -- no signing phase required. This opens up Aline for the full range of legal operations work:- Vendor & third-party security reviews
- Regulatory and compliance assessments
- Board and committee approval processes
- M&A due diligence checklists
- Policy reviews and updates
- Legal hold and litigation response tracking
- Privacy impact assessments (DPIAs / PIAs)
- Employment onboarding documentation
- IP and patent portfolio reviews
- Audit preparation and evidence gathering
- Insurance renewal and risk assessments
Documents serve different roles.
Attach documents as general reference materials for any phase, or designate them as signing documents when signatures are needed. Your team always has the right context at the right stage.A completely redesigned workflow detail view.
The new workflow page gives you a clear, top-down view of every phase, its tasks, and overall progress -- all in one place. Drag and drop to reorder phases, expand or collapse them, and manage collaborators, documents, and comments from the side panel.What's coming next:
Aline AI will soon be able to complete tasks within your workflow phases -- reviewing documents, flagging issues, and moving work forward automatically. Phases are the foundation for making that possible.
Watch the walkthrough video below to see Phases in action:
Today we released the ability for Sharepoint integration users to connect to any document library in their Sharepoint sites, enabling more seamless syncing of files and folders from Sharepoint to Aline.
In this release, we have significantly upgraded Aline's AI Chat:
- Performance, stability, and accuracy of Aline's AI has been improved in this release. As a user, the best frontier AI models are used for varying use cases, optimized for legal use. AI drafting (Claude 4.5 Sonnet), legal research (GPT 5.1/5.2), and AI redlining (Claude 4.5 Sonnet) are all optimized significantly for core legal tasks across speed and accuracy, tuned to legal workloads.
- The AI Chat Editor with "mentions" to attach files, links, and other context to AI Chat has been introduced. This allows true "semantic prompting" (e.g., "Compare @NDA X with my @Template NDA.docx and highlight material differences.").
- Saving prompts to your personal space, sharing prompts with your organization, and accessing battle-tested "Aline Prompts" has also been released. We've released 15-20 key legal prompts in Aline Prompts to help with everyday legal tasks that are critical for in-house teams.
Here is a video of how to get the most out of AI Chat in the latest release:
The following items were also released:
- Superscript/subscript in Aline Editor.
- Better organization management of users.
- Improve OCR engine by using Trigger.dev to handle OCR-ing very large files (e.g., 1000+ pages).
We’ve shipped a series of upgrades focused on making Aline faster, easier to use, and more reliable:
📄 Document & Editing Improvements
- Fixed an issue where multi-line hyperlinks wouldn’t open the link editor
- DOCX exports now fully support merged table cells
- PDF exports now render tables correctly
📊 Reporting & Data Enhancements
- Column pinning in Reports is now more consistent and reliable
- New Reports automatically pin the report name by default
📁 Document Management
- Added pagination to the document picker for easier navigation of large document sets
- Document Drawer now works properly inside Parties
⚡ Performance & Speed
- App build system upgraded (Webpack → Vite) for noticeably faster load times
- Maker signing is now significantly faster
- Numerous small improvements across the editor to prevent cursor glitches and layout issues
🌐 Compatibility
- Updated core Aline packages to support modern ESM modules, improving browser compatibility and stability
In this release, we:
- Added the ability to mark contracts Expiredin Aline. This will allow users to mark contracts inactive but retain them in their repository for AI Analysis, document retention policies, etc.
- Fixed a bug where exporting AI Reports to Excel was missing information.
- Released a large enhancement to Aline's AI infrastructure to handle analyzing documents using AI at scale.
- Moved Aline's OCR engine to a different service to accommodate OCRing PDFs that are 1000+ pages to meet customer demands.
Today, Aline released the ability for Report Questions to be user-driven. To use this feature, go to a report, create a question, and select mode "Manual Entry". See below:
When connecting to file storage (e.g., Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, etc.), sometimes syncing can fail for a variety of reasons. Now, you can view files that have failed, retry the failed files, and fix any errors that might occur with your file-storage integration in Aline!
Today, we released the following in Aline:
- Performance improvements for loading workflows.
- Full text searching in PDFs.
- Use of Claude Sonnet 4.5 in Aline AI.
- Improvements to our AI infrastructure to support running AI on a large amount of files.
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