Version 8.1.0

New features

• Plugins and Macros:

  • Reworked the Get Started section with improved quick-start tutorials.
  • Added Hello World Plugin guide.
  • Added Hello World Macro guide.
  • Added Comment Text AI Tool tutorial.
  • Added Insert Formulas Row macro sample for spreadsheet editor.
  • Added Create AI assistant documentation with example.

• Docs API:

  • Added comprehensive Document Server configuration documentation.
  • New configuration sections include ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Redis, AI settings, security, token, storage, WOPI integration, and more.
  • Restructured Automation API documentation into a dedicated section with separate pages for Connector class and Connector window methods.
  • Added Working with content controls sample for Automation API.
  • Added links to all editor methods (text document, spreadsheet, presentation, PDF, form) in the connector executeMethod section.

• Office API:

  • Added Creating spreadsheet with alternating row colors sample for Spreadsheet API.
  • Updated PDF API documentation (ApiRun, ApiRichRun, ApiTextPr, ApiShape classes).
  • Updated Presentation API documentation.
  • Updated Spreadsheet API documentation.

Improvements

• Common:

  • Updated 165 images across the documentation with higher quality screenshots.
  • Added new dark mode variants for plugin-related images (plugin-manager.dark.png, submit-plugin.dark.png).
  • Enhanced visual clarity for plugin screenshots and structure diagrams.
  • Added rebuild-server-config.yaml workflow for automated DocServer config documentation rebuilds.
  • Removed legacy GIF assets and replaced with webm videos.
  • Renamed webm files from camelCase to kebab-case for consistent naming.
  • Replaced non-breaking spaces (U+00A0) with regular spaces across documentation.
  • Enabled new S3 sync scheme for production deployment.

• Docs API:

  • Removed outdated Office JavaScript API limitation notes.
  • Removed redundant callback descriptions from how-to-call-commands.
  • Consolidated ContextMenuItem type definitions in connector class documentation.
  • Updated server config link to internal documentation.
  • Redesigned review changes sample with live demo UI and change counter.
  • Updated filling out the form and working with comments samples.
  • Added List toggle button to content controls panel header.
  • Improved content controls external toolbar with additional color options.
  • Removed live demo labels from external toolbars.

• Plugins and Macros:

  • Converted blockquotes to admonitions in macro samples.

• Homepage:

  • Redesigned SamplesGrid cards with icons, features list, view links, and pastel tags.
  • Swapped DocSpace/Docs positioning on the first screen.
  • Replaced blog articles on homepage.
  • Fixed Cyrillic "С" (U+0421) replaced with Latin "C" in CSS class names.
  • Reduced DOM nesting and removed unused assets.
  • Changed navbar sorting.

• Localization:

  • Localized external links on zh-CN plugin and macro pages with Chinese equivalents.
  • Added zh-CN translation for AI plugin page with localized links.

• Playground:

  • Removed unused legacy scripts (cell/api.js, slide/api.js, word/api.js).
  • Removed deprecated plugin folder.
  • Restructured DEFAULT_SCRIPTS configuration for better flexibility.

Bugfixes

• Fixed link in documentation.
• Fixed Docusaurus configuration to exclude index.md from category index convention.
• Fixed unnecessary setTimeout wrapper in insert-formulas-row macro sample.
• Fixed example in macro documentation.
• Changed warning admonition to info where appropriate.
• Fixed broken links across documentation.
• Fixed external components.