v2.0.2

rnwood/smtp4devv2.0.2Jul 21, 2026by robinv8

AI Summary

This release introduces support for AI reasoning content in chat UI, allows disabling email verification from site settings, and adds middleware to handle HTTP panics gracefully. It also improves email queue handling and updates build tools.

Key Highlights

  • Add reasoning content support in AI conversation records
  • Allow disabling email verification from site settings
  • Add recovery middleware to handle unexpected panics

New Features

  • AI reasoning content support
  • Disable email verification setting
  • HTTP panic recovery middleware
  • Email queue throttling to dedicated worker

Full Release Notes

## What's New in Apache Answer 2.0.2

### New Features

- Add reasoning content support in AI conversation records and chat UI to preserve model thinking output across follow-up rounds (@hgaol #1530)
- Allow disabling email verification from site settings for deployments that do not require mandatory email confirmation (@AsyncAssassin #1540)
- Add recovery middleware to handle unexpected panics more gracefully in HTTP requests (@hhc7 #1537)
- Add interval support for new question email notifications (@AsyncAssassin #1545)

### Improvements

- Move new question email throttling to a dedicated worker and make the email queue configurable for better operational control (@AsyncAssassin)
- Update Docker and CI build flow to use Buildx and Go 1.25 for image builds (@LinkinStars)

### Bug Fixes

- Fix edit question failing when short links are enabled (@LinkinStars #1554)
- Fix missing license entry for mozillazg-go-unidecode (@LinkinStars #1552)
- Prevent incorrect external login account binding during connector sign-in flows (@LinkinStars)
- Align revision audit permission checks for both approve and reject actions (@LinkinStars)
- Enforce avatar cleanup ownership checks when updating profile images (@LinkinStars)
- Harden Accept-Language parsing against malformed oversized headers (@LinkinStars)
- Remove stale administrative API key access after role or account changes (@LinkinStars)
- Restrict deleted or pending answer visibility in answer and MCP retrieval paths (@LinkinStars)
- Preserve accepted answer operations when short links are enabled (@hgaol #1541)
- Limit JSON 500 rewriting to API routes and avoid rewriting responses after they have already been flushed (@hhc7)
- Avoid the `/topic` fallback for non-Latin titles by generating pragmatic ASCII slugs (@ahmedqasid #1526)

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/apache/answer/compare/v2.0.1...v2.0.2