v0.8.6

simstudioai/simv0.8.6Aug 19, 2026by github-actions[bot]

AI Summary

Improves knowledge base handling by reading PDF text layers before OCR and adding empty states for resources. Enhances search capabilities and fixes various connector and document processing issues.

Key Highlights

PDF text layer reading before OCR processing
Empty state graphics for knowledge, tables, logs, and files
Improved search error reporting
Connector document indexing improvements

New Features

PDF text layer reading
Empty state graphics
Knowledge base improvements
Search improvements

Full Release Notes

## Features

- feat(knowledge): empty state for a base that holds no documents (#6855)
- feat(resources): empty-state graphics for knowledge, tables, logs, and files (#6828)
- feat(knowledge): read a PDF's text layer before paying for OCR (#6850)
- feat(library): AI Agent Orchestration Frameworks Explained (#6846)

## Improvements

- improvement(search): search every folder, and document real API error bodies (#6861)
- improvement(condition): batch condition evaluation into one sandbox call, and stop the transport from undercutting a route's own deadline (#6854)
- improvement(settings): drop the Delete account row's description (#6845)

## Bug Fixes

- fix(auth): drop the redundant "Continue with" from the Google sign-in button (#6862)
- fix(branding): refresh Google branding (#6786)
- fix(knowledge): say what went wrong when a document's chunks fail to load (#6858)
- fix(knowledge): stop one env knob from setting the embedding request fan-out (#6852)
- fix(connectors): treat a zero-byte source file as nothing to index (#6848)
- fix(settings): drop the settings return url when the workspace changed (#6847)

## Other Changes

- polish(resources): stop the tables grid reappearing past its fade (#6853)

## Contributors

- @BillLeoutsakosvl346
- @andresdjasso
- @icecrasher321
- @waleedlatif1

[View changes on GitHub](https://github.com/simstudioai/sim/compare/v0.8.5...v0.8.6)