Product Updates

New updates and improvements

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May 2025

API playground stability updates

• Search to find an endpoint
• Indicate a deprecated endpoint with a tag
• Hide auto-generated API pages from navigation
• Upload multipart or form data files

Learn more at API playground docs.

npm i mint

Can now use npm i mint@latest -g to upgrade your CLI.

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April 2025

Web Editor 3.0

Overhauled usability in the WYSIWYG editor.

Major improvements

• Search for file names using ⌘ + P shortcut
• Pages load 10x faster
• Faster load times when searching for a branch
• Page options tab to configure layout, title, & metadata for SEO
• Floating toolbar when you highlight text

Additional fixes

• Fixed top margin for changelog components
• Improved reliability of right click behavior
• After clicking publish, you’ll stay on the same page instead of being brought to an empty state
• Standardized colors in file icons
• Improved reliability after selecting new branches several times in a row
• Removed Diff mode
• More consistency when creating a new folder from the dropdown
• Fixed block quotes creating more block quotes when trying to deselect

AI Translations in beta

Translate all of your documentation with AI. Learn more.

Export docs to PDF in beta

Export all of your documentation, a subdirectory, or a singe page as a PDF.

React hook support

Bring interactivity to your docs. All standard React hooks are automatically available in your MDX files. Learn more.

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March 2025

MCP server generator

Generate MCP servers so that AI applications can interact with your docs or APIs. Written content is automatically generated as an MCP server, and you can generate an MCP server from your OpenAPI spec with one click. Check out docs on getting started with MCP.

Improvements

• Tag changelog updates so end users can filter updates
• Sonnet-3.7 supported for AI Chat. Configure your preferred model through the dashboard
• Change your deployment name directly in dashboard settings

Bug fixes

• OG images fixed
• Fixed icon style inconsistency for anchors without container
• Improved styling nits for dashboard border for mobile-tablet-desktop responsiveness
• Show code examples even when in simple mode for API playground
• Support “command + k” shortcut for search in web editor
• Codeblocks within callouts expand to fill the width of the callout area

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February 2025

New configuration schema docs.json

We’ve introduced a new docs.json schema as a replacement for mint.json, to support better multi-level versioning, easier visual comprehension, and more consistent terminology. For more information on what’s changed, check out our blog.

Upgrade from mint.json to docs.json with the following steps:

1. Make sure your CLI is the latest version

npm i mint@latest -g

1. In your docs repository, run

mint upgrade

1. Delete your old mint.json file and push your changes

CI Checks

Automatically lint your docs to find broken links, discover spelling and grammar issues, or enforce writing styles with your own Vale config. Learn more in our docs.

.md support for LLMs

All documentation pages are now automatically available as plain Markdown files—just append .md to the URL. This makes it easier for LLMs to ingest individual pages from your documentation.

More Themes

New pre-built themes to modify the look & feel of your docs. Configure via your docs.json file.

Now available:

• Maple
• Palm
• Willow

Other improvements

• Guide to Technical Writing:Best practices for writing technical documentation, including audience research, content types, and writing tips.
• Dropdown component: Organize navigation with a dropdown, in addition to tabs and anchors.
• AI syntax fixer: The web editor will catch if there’s a parsing error and use AI to suggest fixes.

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January 2025

AI Assistant Improvements

• New UI with dedicated chat page & pre-filled prompts
• Stability improvements, e.g. bug fixes of editing the wrong file or no files at all
• More robust knowledge for adding & editing components
• Improved mint.json file editing

Partial Authentication

Customize access to any page or section of content depending on user permissions. Supports connecting with your own authentication system.

Revamped API Playground

We’ve overhauled the design and performance of the API Playground. Updates include:

• Easier detail expansion for an overview of a field
• More intuitive nested design, e.g. adding or deleting items
• Faster response times

Quality Improvements

• Support for requiring authentication to access preview deployments

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December 2024

Authentication

Make docs private by setting up authentication via JWT, OAuth, or a universal password. With this privacy, you can create an internal knowledge base or prevent competitors from seeing your docs.

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November 2024

AI Assistant

You can now ask AI to make changes to your docs, with the context of all existing documentation. Type in a prompt and the assistant will propose changes by generating a pull request.

GitLab Integration Upgrade

We’ve improved our support for syncing with GitLab, such as enabling automated updates and preview deployments. Check out our docs on GitLab to get started.

Web Editor

We’ve revamped our web editor so that you can now update docs with a fully WYSIWYG experience, while syncing with markdown.

Check out our docs on getting started with Web Editor.

/llms.txt support

All docs instances are now automatically hosted at /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt so that LLMs can easily ingest your documentation. For more information, read the docs on the new llms.txt standard.

Localization

You can now localize your docs which operates similarly to versioning. Add a locale to a version and fixed content in Mintlify like “Was this page helpful?” will also match the locale.

Quality Improvements

• Return chat & search results based on the current version that the user is reading
• Authenticate users with OAuth, in addition to JWT or Shared Session tokens.

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October 2024

Changelogs

Launched a new Update component to make it easier to display and report updates (like this one) to your users.

Code Line Highlighting

You can now highlight lines of code in your docs to emphasize and bring attention to important parts by adding a special comment after the language identifier. Use curly braces {} and specify line numbers or ranges separated by commas.

Line Highlighting Example

const greeting = "Hello, World!";
function sayHello() {
  console.log(greeting);
}
sayHello();

```javascript Line Highlighting Example {1,3-5}
const greeting = "Hello, World!";
function sayHello() {
  console.log(greeting);
}
sayHello();
```

Light mode code blocks

Code blocks now have a light mode variant which can be enabled by adding the following to your mint.json:

"codeBlock": {
  "mode": "auto"
}

Advanced Footer

You can now add more links to the standard footer. This upgrade provides more consistency between landing pages and docs, or greater customization if you want to spotlight specific pages like socials or status logs.

Filter search based on the current user

When personalization is enabled, search results are now filtered based on the current logged in user so that they only see the relevant content.

Custom Prompts for AI Chat

You can now customize the prompts for the AI chat. Please reach out to support if you’d like to customize the prompts.

Dashboard Improvements

• Added ability to change custom domain to be /docs directly through dashboard settings.
• Consolidated the login and signup pages to decrease friction and confusion.
• Implemented the discovery login flow so that users that are members of multiple organizations can now switch between them.
• Added login with Google OAuth
• Added ability to add new deployment through dashboard settings.

Bug Fixes

• Can now use leading slashes in navigation.
• Can now edit CSS & JS files in the web editor.
• Fixed suggestEdit not showing up even when enabled.
• Fixed keyboard navigation for Search and Chat such that you can now use the up and down arrow keys to navigate the results.
• Don’t allow search engines to crawl user-auth protected pages.
• Revalidate the cache when an org is deleted.
• We now use the Scalar OpenAPI parser to parse OpenAPI definitions which improves the performance, fixes parsing issues, and surfaces better error messages.
• Top-level descriptions are now supported in API reference pages autogenerated from OpenAPI definitions.
• Add in-line-style support for icons
• Fixed the pop-in of custom CSS in docs.
• Properly show in-line code styling in conjunction with links.
• Maintain scroll position when you click the back button in a browser.

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September 2024

Custom Fonts

Personalize the font of your docs to your own font hosted on a CDN or by choosing from Google fonts to match your docs with your brand.

Images in Card components

Add an img property to a card to display an image on the top of the card. Learn more about it here.

Update Speed Performances

For large projects (~3,000 files), the download step for docs updates is now ~440x faster - a 99.8% time reduction. Across the board, file downloads during updates are now ~5.5x faster - an 81.8% time reduction.

SEO improvements

We’ve fixed both the mobile and desktop layout of our docs so that they are more SEO-friendly - including adding proper aria tags to navbar and toggle elements.

Dashboard Improvements

• App router migration in the dashboard.
• Search analytics are now available in the dashboard.
• Delete an org functionality has been added to the dashboard.
• Shipped GitLab connection UI.
• Fix incorrect analytics data.
• Add-on’s can now be directly purchased through the dashboard.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where the top bar would not stretch to the width of the screen when it’s in custom mode and the sidebar layout is sidenav.
• Fix relative positioning of the AI widget.

More

• Troubleshooting for API pages: API pages could be complicated so we listed common issues to help you sort them out quickly — Read the docs

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August 2024

OpenAPI Reference Pages

• Endpoints defined by OpenAPI that are complex and recursive are now 98% smaller.
• We now show additionalProperties in OpenAPI pages.

File Uploads in API Playground

By default, API playground requests are proxied by Mintlify. Now you can use disableProxy to disable this behavior and support request types like file uploads.

• Learn more about API configurations

Mobile SEO improvements

We’ve fixed the mobile layout of our docs so that they are more SEO-friendly - including adding proper aria tags to elements.

Support Form

We added a more detailed support form to the Mintlify dashboard. You can now submit a form to get in touch with us.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug for the Segment integration functionality.
• We now raise more granular error messages for GitHub permissions when interacting with the editor.
• Fixed bugs where the navigation would not properly expand when a direct link was used.

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July 2024

AI Widget

For Pro users, we introduced Mintlify Widget, an extension of your docs to answer your users’ questions when and where they asked. You can add this AI-powered chatbot to any web page: your landing page, inside your product, or on your existing documentation pages.

• Read the blog announcement

Pro Plan

We also updated our pricing plans for better customizability and scale.

• Read the blog announcement

API Playground Code Example Sync

When you browse API docs, the selected code example now syncs across your pages.

Insights

Currently in beta, this feature summarizes common user questions and patterns into easy-to-digest reports with AI-powered suggestions on how to improve your product.

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June 2024

Launch Week Highlights

• Themes: Customize your styling with pre-configured themes. Just add the theme Quill, Prism, or Venus to your mint.json file and it’ll update your docs styling.
• Search V2: directly query OpenAPI endpoint descriptions and titles to reach API Reference pages, remove hidden pages from search, and enjoy our updated search bar UI.
• Web Editor branching: create branches in our web editor without an IDE.
• User Personalization: authenticate users with Shared Session or JWT so that you can show them customized content, such as pre-filling API keys or showing specific content for customers.
• OepenAPI Automation Upgrades: to auto-populate API Playground pages, you can add an openapi field to an object in tabs or anchors arrays in the mint.json.

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May 2024

Okta SSO

We now support sign-on via Okta SAML and OIDC.

Mintlify REST API

Programmatically rigger updates to your documentation.

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April 2024

Custom mode

Add a configuration to the metadata to remove all elements except for the top bar. Example use cases:

• Create a custom global landing page setup with custom components
• Add full-screen videos or image galleries
• Embed custom iFrame demo elements to add intractability to your docs

Check out our Custom Mode docs.

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March 2024

Mintlify MDX for VSCode

Call snippets of our pre-built components and callouts without leaving VSCode. Install the extension here.

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February 2024

Quality Improvements

• Dashboard upgrades: view update logs to see what’s changed and status of an update, toggle between Mintlify projects to manage deployments
• Versioning with tabs fully supported
• Wildcard redirects now supported
• CLI Error Detection: we now show the position of invalid frontmatter when there are parsing issues during local development

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January 2024

Launch Week Highlights

• Preview Deployments: When you create a pull request, we’ll generate a unique link that shows a live preview of what your docs look like in prod. You can share this link with teammates.
• Snippets V2: We now support fully reusable components and variables for snippets.
• Open-source MDX Engine: We’ve exposed two APIs—getCompiledMdx and MDXComponent—so you can access Mintlify markdown and code syntax highlighting. Contributions to the project are welcome.
• AI Chat Insights: Segment chat history by date and increase AI Chat quota from the dashboard, and see how often a specific query appears.