Changelog

Highlights

This release introduces MCP (Model Context Protocol) server support, enabling AI assistants (e.g., Claude Desktop) to search and interact with your Glean RSS subscriptions. A full API token management system was added to support secure authentication for MCP clients.

🚀 New Features

MCP Server

A built-in MCP server exposing Glean’s core functionality to LLM clients via Streamable HTTP transport. Available tools:

• search_entries — Search articles by keyword across title, content, and summary
• get_entry — Retrieve full details of a specific article
• list_entries_by_date — List articles within a date range, with optional read status and feed filters
• list_subscriptions — List RSS feed subscriptions with unread counts

API Token Management

A complete token lifecycle system for MCP authentication:

• Create named, long-lived API tokens with optional expiration (30 days / 90 days / 1 year / never)
• Tokens are hashed with bcrypt at rest; the plain token is only shown once upon creation
• List, revoke tokens, and automatically track last-used timestamps

Settings UI — API Tokens Tab

A new tab in the Settings page for managing API tokens from the browser:

• Token creation dialog with name and expiration options
• One-click copy-to-clipboard for newly created tokens
• Revocation with confirmation dialog
• Built-in MCP configuration guide showing Claude Desktop JSON config with the current domain auto-filled

🚀 New Features

Desktop & PWA Support

• Electron Desktop App: Native desktop application support for Windows, macOS, and Linux
• Progressive Web App (PWA): Install Glean as a standalone app on mobile and desktop browsers
• Improved Server Configuration: Enhanced API configuration dialog with health checks, timeout management, and URL validation

User Management

• Default Admin Account: Automatically creates default admin account on first startup for easier deployment
• Admin Creation Script: New command-line script for creating admin users (backend/scripts/create-admin.py)
• Simplified Setup: Removed password strength requirements for more flexible user management

UI/UX Enhancements

• Enhanced Mobile Navigation: Improved mobile UI with better transitions and navigation experience
• Article Reader Improvements: Enhanced button visibility and accessibility in ArticleReader and sidebar components
• Smart Sorting: Optimized smart sorting logic for folders and feeds
• Better Layout: Improved settings page layout with adjusted grid spacing

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Settings UI: Fixed overlapping appearance selector in settings page
• Smart Filters: Clarified smart filter behavior and updated conditional rendering in ReaderPage
• Electron Build: Resolved Electron build issues
• Deployment: Fixed deployment-related issues
• Session Management: Updated session management in create-admin script

📚 Documentation

• Updated Best Practices: Added guidelines for using window vs globalThis in browser-specific APIs
• Deployment Guide: Enhanced deployment documentation with new admin account setup instructions
• Improved Comments: Enhanced code comments to clarify filter behavior

🔧 Dependencies

• Updated react-i18next to v16.5.3
• Updated typescript-eslint to v8.53.0
• Updated turbo to v2.7.4
• Updated zod to v4.3.5
• Updated @tanstack/react-query to v5.90.16
• Updated react-hook-form to v7.69.0

🚀 New Features

Full-Text Content Extraction

• Bookmark Full-Text Content: Automatically extract and display full article content for bookmarks, making it easier to read and search saved content
• RSS Full Content Support: Enhanced RSS parser to extract complete article content from feeds
• Improved HTML Processing: Better handling of HTML content with inline code formatting support

Security & Code Quality

• XSS Protection: Added HTML sanitization with DOMPurify to prevent cross-site scripting attacks
• Pre-commit Checks: Implemented automated code quality checks before commits

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Embedding System: Fixed Milvus connection issues and race conditions that caused “collection not found” errors
• Database Sessions: Resolved database session management issues in embedding functionality
• HTML Processing: Removed duplicate scripts and improved HTML content processing
• Admin UI Settings: Updated embedding functionality and admin UI settings

🐛 Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Deployment hotfix: Fixed issues in the deployment/upgrade flow (Hotfix/Deployment)
• Crypto compatibility: Improved Secure Context detection; falls back to crypto-js when Secure Context isn’t available to prevent features from breaking

🐛 Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Deployment/migration fixes: Fixed a database migration error and updated docker-compose configuration
• Runtime compatibility: Reverted to a more stable runtime setup to keep deployments working reliably

⚠️ Important Note

Upgrading from older versions may involve incompatible data. Per the release notice, you may need to run docker compose down -v to purge old data (this command permanently deletes data).