convertpdfgo

Changelog

Everything we've shipped.

Versioned release notes from the first commit in October 2022 to today. Honest log — patches and milestones both appear.

  1. v0.5.0

    May 28, 2026

    major
    • Chat with PDF / Word / Excel / PowerPoint — RAG-backed conversations with page-level citations.
    • Real Dropbox and Google Drive picker integration on the homepage and every tool's drop zone.
    • Account dashboard rewrite — profile, quick actions, sign-out, settings in one place.
    • AI tools now require sign-in (per-user quota + history). Non-AI tools stay open to guests.

  2. v0.4.0

    March 2026

    minor
    • Favicon set: proper SVG + ICO + PWA manifest. Browser tabs no longer show the generic file icon.
    • Multi-format chat: Word/Excel/PowerPoint uploads get converted to PDF behind the scenes.
    • Citation jumps in the PDF viewer — click [page N] and the embedded viewer scrolls there.
    • Smarter Gotenberg timeouts (180s) + 2 dedicated CPU cores for LibreOffice conversions.

  3. v0.3.0

    May 2026

    minor
    • Added OCR tool with multi-language support.
    • Watermark tool: image watermarks now supported.
    • Chat with PDF: citation highlighting.

  4. v0.2.0

    April 2026

    minor
    • Sign PDF: draw, type, and upload signature modes.
    • Protect & Unlock PDF with AES-256.
    • Language switcher — 12 languages at launch, 27 today.

  5. v0.1.0

    January 2026

    major
    • Public re-launch on the new Next.js 15 / Go stack.
    • Account system rewritten — Google + GitHub OAuth, no password handling on our end.
    • Cloud connections (Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive) for one-click output export.

  6. v0.0.9

    September 2025

    minor
    • Asynq-backed worker queue: long-running jobs (OCR, large conversions) no longer block the API.
    • Postgres migrated to pgvector — groundwork for the PDF Chat AI feature.
    • Public file-stats counter on the landing page (live, not faked).

  7. v0.0.8

    March 2025

    minor
    • PDF ↔ Office conversions powered by LibreOffice via Gotenberg.
    • HTML → PDF and URL → PDF via Chromium (same Gotenberg pipeline).
    • Public stats endpoint + admin dashboard for monitoring throughput.

  8. v0.0.7

    September 2024

    patch
    • Tool grid redesign — search, category filters, AI badges.
    • Per-tool soft caps (30 MB guest, 50 MB signed-in) replaced the old hard 20 MB ceiling.
    • Files auto-delete after 1 hour by default (used to be 30 minutes).

  9. v0.0.6

    April 2024

    minor
    • Multi-language UI — first 12 languages, hand-translated.
    • Mobile-first redesign of the landing page and tool flows.
    • Server-side hashing (sha256) for file dedup — same file uploaded twice in a session reuses the row.

  10. v0.0.5

    November 2023

    patch
    • Compress PDF: three quality levels (eBook / Printer / Press), backed by Ghostscript.
    • Drag-drop upload on every tool page, not just the homepage.
    • Caddy migration off Nginx — TLS auto-renewal and HTTP/3 by default.

  11. v0.0.4

    July 2023

    milestone
    • Performance pass: median compress + convert latency under 3 s for files under 10 MB.
    • OCR (Tesseract) shipped as our first AI-ish tool.
    • Image watermark support (PNG with alpha) added to the watermark tool.

  12. v0.0.3

    March 2023

    minor
    • JPG ↔ PDF batch conversion (single archive download).
    • Add page numbers tool: position, format, page-range selection.
    • Watermark: text or image, opacity, rotation.

  13. v0.0.2

    December 2022

    minor
    • Extract pages / Remove pages tools.
    • Rotate PDF with per-page control.
    • Initial Word ↔ PDF via LibreOffice (LibreOffice on the same box back then — Gotenberg came later).

  14. v0.0.1

    October 17, 2022

    major
    • 🚀 First public release. Three tools: merge, split, compress.
    • Single-box Hetzner deploy, no CDN, no caching layer. Worked surprisingly well.

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