Release notes

Changes to Proxyma Desktop and Proxyma Server. Both are built from one codebase and released together under a single version number, so an entry applies to both editions unless it says otherwise.

1.0.0 unreleased

First public release.

Proxyma Desktop

• AddedWindows installer with a bundled Java runtime and Python tooling - no prerequisites to install.
• AddedSemantic and keyword search over indexed documents, combined and reranked so both exact terms and vague descriptions find the right material.
• AddedChat with citations. Answers are drawn from retrieved passages and say so when nothing relevant is indexed.
• AddedConnectors for local files, Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, SharePoint, Teams, SVN, and websites crawled from a starting URL.
• AddedCommunity, Personal and Professional tiers. Community indexes one local folder (up to 100 files) and one website (3 levels deep, 100 pages); Personal lifts that to unlimited folders, files and websites, indexes subfolders and crawls deeper; Professional adds the credentialed connectors above. Each is a one-time purchase covering one installation.
• AddedSettings → Licence → Release, to free this installation's seat so the licence can be activated on another computer.
• AddedDocument conversion covering PDF, Office formats, Markdown, HTML and plain text, with optical character recognition for scanned PDFs and table-aware extraction.
• AddedLocal models through Ollama, or hosted models from Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepSeek, Mistral, Azure OpenAI and Google.
• AddedModel Context Protocol server, so editors and AI assistants can search your indexed documents directly.
• AddedLicence activation. Activating needs an internet connection once; it is the only step that waits for the network. Deactivate moves a licence to a new machine.
• AddedBackground licence re-check, so a refunded or revoked licence stops working. It never blocks you: if the check cannot be made, nothing changes for 14 days, a banner warns you for several days beforehand, and Proxyma then falls back to the free Community tier's limits until it can check again. Nothing indexed is deleted, no settings are lost, and everything returns the moment a check succeeds. Only the licence key and a random installation identifier are ever sent.
• NoteA licence covers one installation. Reinstalling on the same computer counts as a second one, because identity is a random value created at setup rather than a hardware fingerprint - fingerprints change when you swap a dock or clone a disk, which locked people out of computers they had never replaced. Deactivate before reinstalling, or release the old installation afterwards.
• AddedIn-application update checks.
• AddedCredential storage through Windows DPAPI.

Proxyma Server

• AddedEverything above, plus the items below.
• AddedMulti-user accounts with Viewer, Admin and Super Admin roles, and per-user isolation of conversations, files and derived indexes at every storage layer.
• AddedSingle sign-on through Google, GitHub and Microsoft, alongside email and password. Configuring a provider is four values in .env; the sign-in buttons appear on their own. See the install manual.
• AddedAcceptance of the Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and End User License Agreement is collected when an account is created - including the first administrator - and the version accepted is stored against the account, not just a yes. A separate, optional, unticked opt-in covers contributing anonymous usage counts, changeable afterwards under Settings → Privacy.
• AddedPostgreSQL with pgvector for storage and vector search.
• AddedAdministration pages for users, storage breakdown and system status.
• AddedPer-user storage quotas and API rate limiting.
• AddedScheduled backups, using pgBackRest continuous archiving where Proxyma manages the database and pg_dump snapshots otherwise.
• AddedEvaluation Mode: opt-in latency instrumentation for chat and search, visible to Super Admins.
• AddedInstall package that works on a host you do not control - one container serving interface and API on one port, with PostgreSQL and TLS as opt-in extras rather than assumptions. See the manual.

Known limitations

• MissingLinux and macOS desktop installers. The application is cross-platform; the packaging is not written yet.
• MissingThe Windows installer is not signed with an Extended Validation certificate, so SmartScreen warns on first run.
• NoteChanging the embedding model requires a full reindex. Vectors from different models are not comparable, and Proxyma does not currently warn before you make the change.
• NotepgBackRest continuous archiving is only available when Proxyma manages the database. Against your own PostgreSQL, backups fall back to pg_dump.

How to read future entries

Anything requiring action during an upgrade is called out in the release entry itself, not left to be discovered.