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Our public postmortem for the incident on September 1st, 2026.
Monthly RSS-to-email sends can now land on any day of the month, not just the first, last, or a given weekday.
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Our public postmortem for the incident on May 8th, 2026.
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Multiple concurrent writers. Multiple processes. Same SQLite. No modifications.
New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: Extract Text From Document New Extract Text From Document command (CmdDocumentExtractText) in the Ctrl + k command palette saves the text of a document’s pages to a .txt file. Better comic book archive support (libarchive) Comic book archives (.cbz, .cbr, .cb7, .cbt) are now read with libarchive, which adds support for more archive variants, including bzip2 compression. RAR archives are opened with libarchive first, falling back to unrar.dll. DDE Open can reuse the current tab The [Open] DDE command now honors its inCurrentTab flag: setting it to 1 opens the file in the current tab instead of a new one (#4079). EPUB file list in Properties Document Properties (Ctrl + D) for EPUB files now shows the list of files inside the book. Own Explorer icons for CHM and DjVu The installer registers distinct File Explorer icons for .chm and .djvu files, so they no longer look like PDFs. More: changes from April 5, 2026 and the full changelog.
Brilliant jerks, ZIRP-era managers, and how psychological safety lost the plot. Part 3 of my conversation with Dr. Cat Hicks.
Say you're deploying an AI assistant that processes online order returns. For it to work, it would need access to your store's purchase policy, item…
