Changelog
Version history and updates
What's New in Redactorr
Stay up to date with the latest features, improvements, and fixes.
Version 2.2 - January 2026
🚀 Major Features
- Dual-Engine Architecture: Introduced Core Engine 1.0 alongside the local detection engine for enhanced accuracy
- 3,000+ detection rules - ML-enhanced validation - Context-aware confidence scoring
- PDF Sanitizer (Beta): Redact sensitive data from PDF files
- Text extraction and detection - Visual redaction with black boxes - Layout-preserving regeneration - Export to PDF or Word
- Enhanced Accuracy: Improved detection across all categories
- Better email validation (handles subdomains, plus addressing) - International phone number support - Credit card validation with format verification - API key detection (OpenAI, Stripe, AWS, etc.)
✨ Improvements
- Faster engine initialization (200ms → 150ms)
- Reduced false positives by 40%
- Improved Excel processing for large spreadsheets
- Better error messages and debugging
🐛 Fixes
- Fixed Excel date formatting issues
- Resolved PDF text extraction edge cases
- Fixed whitelist persistence across sessions
- Corrected redaction map export encoding
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Version 2.1 - December 2024
🚀 Major Features
- Spreadsheet Support: Redact Excel files (.xlsx)
- Column-by-column detection - Preserve formulas and formatting - Export to Excel or CSV
- Breach Checker: Check emails against Have I Been Pwned
- 12+ billion breached accounts - Real-time API integration - Severity scoring
- Custom Patterns: Create your own detection rules
- Regex or keyword matching - Category assignment - Validation rules
✨ Improvements
- Added detection mode selector (Balanced, Conservative, Aggressive)
- Improved Word document processing
- Better redaction map organization
- Enhanced UI for large files
🐛 Fixes
- Fixed Word document styling preservation
- Resolved detection overlap issues
- Fixed whitelist filter edge cases
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Version 2.0 - November 2024
🚀 Major Features
- Complete Redesign: New cyan monochrome design system
- Glass morphism UI - Phosphor Icons throughout - Improved accessibility - Responsive mobile layout
- Word Document Support: Redact .docx files
- Preserve formatting - Track changes support - Export to Word or PDF
- Secure Share: Share redacted documents securely
- End-to-end encryption - Expiring links - Password protection - Restoration with decryption key
✨ Improvements
- Redesigned workspace with split-panel layout
- Real-time detection as you type
- Improved redaction map visualization
- Better performance for large files
🐛 Fixes
- Various detection accuracy improvements
- Fixed clipboard handling on Safari
- Resolved session persistence issues
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Version 1.5 - October 2024
🚀 Major Features
- File Upload Support: Upload text files for redaction
- Export Options: Download redacted content as .txt or .json
- Redaction Map Management: Save, load, and share redaction maps
✨ Improvements
- Added category filters (enable/disable specific types)
- Improved SSN validation
- Better phone number formatting
- Added detection confidence scores
🐛 Fixes
- Fixed email detection for unusual TLDs
- Resolved UTF-8 encoding issues
- Fixed item counter edge cases
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Version 1.0 - September 2024
🚀 Launch
- Initial release of Redactorr
- Core redaction engine with 1,500 patterns
- Basic detection categories (email, phone, SSN, credit card)
- Simple paste-and-redact workflow
- Placeholder-based replacement system
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Roadmap
Q1 2026
- REST API public release
- JavaScript SDK
- Scanned PDF OCR gates
- Batch processing
Q2 2026
- Team collaboration features
- Shared pattern libraries
- Admin controls
- Team access management
Q3 2026
- Mobile apps (iOS, Android)
- Advanced NER (Named Entity Recognition)
- Multi-language support
- On-premise deployment
Q4 2026
- Enterprise features
- Audit logging
- Compliance reporting
- Custom webhooks
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