v0.8.0

Release Date: February 9, 2026

This release brings significant AI Agent enhancements with contact search and tag-based filtering, a modern animated homepage, improved SEO with hreflang support, and the new Automations workflow (formerly Scheduled Tasks). We've also made numerous stability fixes and cross-app improvements.

✨ What's New

🤖 Smarter AI Agent — Contact Search & Campaign Improvements

The AI Agent is now more capable with direct access to your contact database.

• Contact Search Tool — AI can search existing contacts by name or email with a new search_contacts tool
• Tag-Based Contact Filtering — Filter contacts by tags (e.g. find "Kelly" in "VIP" tag) with case-insensitive partial matching
• Contact Search UI — New visual cards showing name, email, tags, and unsubscribed badges
• Optional Recipients — generate_campaign recipients are now optional (default to empty array)
• Campaign Create & Update — AI can now update existing campaigns, not just create new ones
• Cleaner Email Design — Reduced emoji usage in AI-generated emails for more professional appearance
• Skill Icons — New ContactRound amber icon in prompt input for contact search

💬 Enhanced AI Chat Experience

Better interactions and content viewing within AI conversations.

• Message Actions with i18n — Copy, retry, and other actions now fully localized (EN/zh-CN/ja)
• Artifacts Panel Auto-Toggle — Panel automatically opens when AI generates content
• Improved Chat Messages — Better rendering of code blocks, HTML previews, and structured content

🎨 Modern Animated Homepage

Complete homepage refresh with stunning visual effects.

• Grid Background Animations — Flowing grid lines with floating orbs for visual depth
• Spotlight Features Grid — Mouse-tracking glow effects on feature cards
• Scroll-Triggered Animations — Smooth reveal animations as users scroll through sections
• AI-First Positioning — Updated hero messaging emphasizing AI-powered email marketing
• Blog Navigation — Blog link added to main website navigation

🔄 Automations (formerly Scheduled Tasks)

Rebranded and improved task automation workflow.

• Renamed to Automations — "Scheduled Tasks" renamed to "Automations" across the platform
• Dashboard Integration — Automations now accessible directly from dashboard navigation
• New URL Structure — /agents/schedule moved to /agents/automations
• Recent Tasks Expand/Collapse — Restored expand/collapse functionality for recent tasks

🌐 SEO & Content Enhancements

Better search engine optimization and content discoverability.

• Hreflang Sitemap — Proper hreflang annotations via generateAlternates() for multi-language SEO
• Cookie Policy — New cookie policy page with EN and zh-CN translations
• OG Images — Custom OpenGraph images for better social media sharing
• llms.txt — Updated AI discoverability file with Maildrone branding and Quick Links
• Blog Content — New "Maildrone vs Mailchimp" comparison post and updated hello-world article
• Discord Community — Discord server setup with automated channel decoration

🔍 CJK Search Support

Full-text search now works for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean content.

• Chinese & Japanese Document Search — Implemented across all apps
• Locale Validation — Fixed static params for [lang] routes

🐛 Bug Fixes & Improvements

Stability & Reliability

• Scheduled Email Date Fix — Fixed Date serialization issue in scheduled email SQL queries (#1354)
• Onboarding Preview Sync — Fixed onboarding preview sync and removed AI plan requirement (#1352)
• AccessMode 500 Error — Fixed AccessModeSettingSchema updatedBy nullable crash (#1290)
• Seed Improvements — Added source_url migration and fixed user creation for seed (#1346)
• Zh-CN Route Fix — Fixed server exception on /zh-CN route by enabling dynamic rendering
• Welcome Wizard — Fixed welcome wizard persistence bug
• Seed Idempotency — Improved seed script idempotency and Space ID display

Infrastructure & DevOps

• Scheduler Fix — Auto-tick + transactional due-task processing for reliable scheduling (#1413)
• Instrumentation — Moved instrumentation files to src/ directory
• OTEL Cleanup — Removed OTEL_SERVICE_VERSION for cleaner observability config
• Centralized Logging — Implemented centralized request logging
• Billing — App name prefix added to Creem product names

UI & Navigation

• App-Specific Auth Logos — Replaced generic icons with Maildrone logo on auth pages
• Navigation Icons — Applied navigation icons and layout refinements
• About Page — Updated about page content and gallery images
• Dashboard Icons — Aligned about page icons and i18n across apps

System Admin

• Session Tracking — Added last active time and sessions tracking
• Customer Reviews — Added Customer Reviews Block and Featured Reviews Section
• Waitlist Notifications — Added waitlist apply notification
• Growth Analytics — Systemadmin growth analytics home improvements

🔧 Technical Improvements

Architecture

• Modular i18n — Split large translation files into modular structure
• Seed Defaults — Removed ACCESS_MODE seed, using fallback defaults instead
• System Reviews — Only create System Reviews when none exist (idempotent)

Upgrade Notes

This is a minor version update. No breaking changes are expected. Note that /agents/schedule has been renamed to /agents/automations — update any bookmarks accordingly.

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