Changelog
Follow up on the latest improvements and updates.
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In this release, Aline added:
- Semantic diffing of AI changes. This makes Aline AI redline contracts more "like a human lawyer".
- Exporting comments from DOCX including replies.
- Running core AI properties on documents is enabled via the AI Repository, Reports, and other areas of the application.
In this release, we added:
- Justification of text.
- Aline starting moving our rendering engine to HTML Canvas to improve DOCX compatibility and provide improved performance.
- Error handling is added to Aline AI Associate. If the AI chat encounters an error, it will now be output to users so they can see the error details.
In this release, we added:
- Automatic conversion of MS Word files to Aline documents to allow for easier editing, collaboration, and use of Aline AI.
- Importing of comments and replies from MS Word files to Aline when MS Word files are converted to Aline documents.
- Performance enhancements and bug fixes.
In version 5.3.0, we added the ability to set global access to documents and workflows using Aline Groups via
labels
. Simply head over to https://app.aline.co/admin/groups where you will see an ability to add Groups and then use Permissions by Label
to set which documents and workflows the Group has access to:
By clicking into a Group, you can also give global access to all documents and workflows in Aline, if that makes sense for the particular group (
e.g.
, the Executive
Group).The major features released in Version 5.2.7 include the ability for Aline AI to automatically detect contract type and parties on uploading of files, and to facilitate uploading of third-party paper when launching templates in Aline.
Now, when you upload files into Aline, Aline AI automatically detects contract type and parties. This means your files are now auto-categorized by type and parties 🚀.

When launching templates, you can
Replace with third-party paper
, as shown below. This means you can have a single NDA template that works with your form NDA AND third-party paper.
Other minor enhancements in this release include:
- Adding more actions to AI Reports to enable easy labeling, deleting, sharing of files.
- Allow deletion of AI chats by users.
- Added additional filters in Aline AI Repository of parties, contract type, owner. These include "is none of", "is empty", and "is not empty" filters to facilitate locating files faster.
Users can now run AI Playbooks on all document types, including Aline documents, PDFs, and more. Access playbooks via the AI button on the right of Aline Editor:

We also had the following minor fixes:
- Fixed how Aline Editor handles spacing before/after for adjacent paragraphs to be consistent with DOCX.