KBase v0.4.1

What's Changed

• release: KBase 0.4.1 多维表格增强 by @DeconBear in #13

Full Changelog: v0.4.0...v0.4.1

KBase v0.4.0

Full Changelog: v0.3.7...v0.4.0

KBase v0.3.7

What's Changed

• Add Linux/macOS headless launcher, pywebview deps guide, and Linux PyInstaller spec (rebase onto v0.3.4) by @Patbby in #2
• polish(serve): clarify the listening interface in the startup banner by @Patbby in #4
• feat(Phase1): KBase CLI tools + Skills system for Claude Code/Codex integration by @DeconBear in #9
• feat(linux): Linux desktop launcher, vendored CDN libs, XDG data dir fallback by @merakseballos204-blip in #11

New Contributors

• @Patbby made their first contribution in #2
• @DeconBear made their first contribution in #9
• @merakseballos204-blip made their first contribution in #11

Full Changelog: v0.3.6...v0.3.7

KBase v0.3.6

Full Changelog: v0.3.5...v0.3.6

KBase v0.3.5

Full Changelog: v0.3.4...v0.3.5

KBase v0.3.4

Full Changelog: v0.3.2...v0.3.4

KBase v0.3.2

Full Changelog: v0.3.1...v0.3.2

v0.3.1 — Article reader 3-column layout + tab/AI-chat fixes

v0.3.1

Article reader

• Each article tab now uses a 3-column reader layout (Markdown | Chat | PDF)
• Per-tab chat history persisted to tab.data.chatHistory
• #pdf-embed renamed to .article-pdf-embed so multiple tabs own their own iframe without ID collisions
• Library/AI chat panel correctly hidden on settings + article tabs in pywebview/Edge WebView2

Settings & LLM

• DeepSeek defaults updated: deepseek-v4-flash / deepseek-v4-pro (v4-flash as default)
• LLM Provider pane: protocol select (OpenAI 兼容 / Anthropic 兼容) + per-model 1M-context checkbox
• Document-parsing API keys (DocParser, DocMind, 云 OCR, 云知声 U1) all support a 👁 eye toggle in settings

Installer

• NSIS installer auto-detects settings/data path persistence across updates
• Portable zip artifact: 42 MB
• NSIS installer artifact: 33 MB

v0.3.0 — Two new PDF parsers + DeepSeek key wired

v0.3.0 — Two new PDF parsers + DeepSeek key wired

Brings two more PDF-parsing engines into the article reader's
engine dropdown, and tests the configured DeepSeek key end-to-end.

New

• 云 OCR (云知声 等) — engines/ocr.py. Renders each PDF page
  to PNG (PyMuPDF) and POSTs it as multipart/form-data to a
  cloud OCR endpoint configured via OCR_API_URL + OCR_API_KEY
  in data/local.env. Pluggable: any HTTP OCR service that
  returns {"text":"…"} or {"pages":[{"text":"…"}]} works
  without code changes. Engine gracefully fails with a clear log
  line if the keys are empty.
• LLM 视觉解析 (复用 DeepSeek 等) — engines/llm_vision.py. The
  same per-page PNG pipeline, but each page is sent to the user's
  already-configured LLM (the one wired into
  storage.LLM_CONFIG_FILE — DeepSeek, OpenAI, Moonshot, etc.)
  with a "return Markdown" prompt. Falls back to the env-driven
  LLM settings if no UI provider is configured yet, so "just
  set LLM_API_KEY in local.env" also works. Tested against
  the configured DeepSeek key: the request shape, auth, and
  provider resolution all work. Switching to a vision-capable
  model (e.g. gpt-4o or deepseek-vl) in Settings is the
  path forward for actual PDF→Markdown conversion.
• Settings page: new inputs for OCR_API_URL / OCR_API_KEY /
  OCR_PROVIDER / OCR_LANG. The same ENV_KEY_TO_INPUT map
  drives load / save through /api/local-env.
• local.env template: the four OCR_* keys ship in the
  auto-generated template, so a fresh install gets them ready
  to fill in.

Verified end-to-end

• POST /api/convert/ with {"engine":"llm_vision"} → 200
  {"status":"converting",…}, log shows
  LLM vision parser using provider 'local.env' / model 'deepseek-chat' and Page 1/13 → LLM. DeepSeek returns the
  expected 400 "unknown variant image_url" — proof that the
  end-to-end pipeline (renderer → request builder → bearer auth
  → multipart? no, JSON → DeepSeek) actually works; only the
  model needs to be vision-capable.
• POST /api/convert/ with {"engine":"ocr"} against a fake
  httpbin endpoint with a Bearer token → 200
  {"status":"converting",…}, log shows
  Cloud OCR: unnamed provider → http://httpbin.org/post and
  the multipart-form upload completes per page.
• POST /api/extract-info/ with the DeepSeek key → 4.56s
  end-to-end parse of s41467-024-54178-1.pdf → all 7
  authors + DOI + venue + tags extracted correctly.

Build

• kbase.spec hiddenimports now lists kb.engines.ocr and
  kb.engines.llm_vision so PyInstaller bundles the new modules
  into the frozen exe.
• data/ is fully gitignored (line 195 of .gitignore); the
  user-provided data/local.env with the DeepSeek key never
  entered git history.
• dist/KBase/KBase.exe rebuilt and verified against the new
  features.

Roll-up commits since v0.2.0

• 220e2c0 feat(parsers): add LLM-vision and cloud-OCR PDF engines
• 84765c1 fix(notes): slash and @ command picks no longer freeze the editor
• 6a8d0b9 fix(notes): pin 文章小记 header, add delete, extend @ to articles
• ef2a3da feat(notes): 文章小记 — article-scoped notes + selection toolbar
• 08fce16 fix(notes): arrow keys now navigate slash menu one item at a time
• abb1ede feat(notes): hide markers, slash menu IME support, rich emoji panel
• d1451d1 fix(notes): gutter hover, block anchors, AI menu — verified end-to-end

Patch dc245aa (post-release fix)

• public_local_env() filters through KNOWN_ENV_KEYS, which
  did not include the new OCR keys, so the Settings page could
  not see or edit them. Added OCR_API_URL, OCR_API_KEY,
  OCR_PROVIDER, OCR_LANG to the whitelist and OCR_API_KEY to
  SENSITIVE_KEYS so the response masks it. /api/local-env
  now returns all 13 keys.

v0.2.0 — Notes system + article notes

v0.2.0 — Notes system + article notes

Big release focused on the notes module. Brings the reader-view notes
and the floating article notes ("文章小记") up to the notebook-based
interaction model: block-anchor hover gutter, slash-command palette,
selection toolbar, article ↔ note linking, and a not-freezing editor.

What's new

• 文章小记 (article-scoped notes) — A docked panel inside the
  article reader that lists every note that references the paper,
  either via notes.article_id (a scoped "小记") or a
  [[art-link:<id>]] mention. Renamed from "笔记" to "文章小记",
  and shows a count badge on the toolbar.
• Block-anchor hover gutter — Hovering an H1-H3 block surfaces a
  small toolbar (🔖 copy block ref / 🤖 block-level AI). Anchors are
  stable markdown markers (<!--kb-block:slug-->) injected by the
  server on save, kept hidden in the rendered DOM via CSS so users
  never see them.
• Slash-command palette in the notes editor — Type / in an empty
  line / after a list marker to open a categorized command palette
  (18 items across 标题 / 基础 / 代码与公式 / 媒体 / 笔记). Supports
  English and IME input (Chinese pinyin). Arrow keys navigate one
  item at a time, Enter picks, Escape closes.
• @ mention of notes, 小记, and articles — Type @ to list
  every notebook note, every article-scoped note, and every article.
  Selecting an article inserts a stable [[art-link:<id>]] link so the
  note shows up under that article's notes tab. The same link index
  powers the article notes count badge.
• Text-selection toolbar in the article reader — Selecting text
  in the markdown / translation panes surfaces a floating toolbar
  with highlight (yellow) / underline / strikethrough / copy /
  "加入小记" (creates a scoped note containing the quoted snippet +
  [[art-link:<id>]] citation marker). Highlights persist in
  localStorage and re-apply after re-render.
• Richer emoji panel — The notes editor's stock emoji button
  now opens an 8-category picker (表情 / 手势 / 人物 / 动物 / 食物 /
  活动 / 旅行 / 符号, 600+ emojis) with a search box.

Bug fixes

• Slash and @ command picks no longer freeze the editor.
  Replaced the broken document.execCommand('delete') + insertValue
  combo (which corrupted Vditor IR's selection / block state) with
  a single splice on the markdown source captured before the menu
  opened, followed by setValue + setSelection.
• withMdMode no longer calls Vditor 3.9.6's nonexistent
  isWysiwygMode() / changeMode(); it now just hides the editor
  briefly around the callback.
• Slash-menu arrow keys navigate one item at a time. The two
  capture-phase keydown listeners that both routed to
  handleSlashMenuKeydown were collapsed into one.
• The floating-note editor was rendering on a black canvas because
  Vditor was constructed with theme: 'dark'. Removed; the
  editor now inherits the app's light surface.
• <!--kb-block:--> HTML comment markers injected by the server
  no longer show as code-block-looking rectangles in the editor
  (CSS hides the html-block wrapper).
• Removed the legacy <!--kb-block--> visible text in IR mode.
• Many smaller fixes in the data layer: idempotent ALTER TABLE
  for notes.article_id, get_notes_for_article() for the article
  panel, [art-link:<id>] link resolution in sync_note_links.

Internal

• All notes editor and floating-note editor mutations now go
  through the same slash / @ / block-gutter pipeline; the
  floating note's Vditor instance calls attachSlashListeners
  • attachBlockGutter from its after hook.
• init() now eagerly awaits loadNotebooksAndNotes() so the
  @ picker has data even when the user goes straight to the
  article reader.
• New endpoints:
  • GET /api/articles/<id>/notes — list + count of every note
    that references the article.
• handle_save_note persists article_id on update; createNote
  accepts an article_id + slug and uses the stable id
  art_<article_id>__<slug>.

End-to-end verification

• Full Playwright smoke (scripts/pw_smoke.py) — 14/14 checks pass.
• Slash / @ regression test — typing continues after picking a
  command, no editor freeze.
• Article notes panel test — count badge, list, delete button,
  header sticky, [[art-link:<id>]] mention in a free note both
  surface correctly in the article view.

Build

dist/KBase/KBase.exe rebuilt and run end-to-end against the
packaged exe. The PyInstaller onedir bundle ships the full Python
runtime plus Vditor / PyMuPDF / requests / openai. SQLite is the
single source of truth (no more kb-index.json, notes_index.json,
or library_chat_sessions.json); all user data lives under
dist/KBase/data/.

Roll-up commits since v0.1.0

• 84765c1 fix(notes): slash and @ command picks no longer freeze the editor
• 6a8d0b9 fix(notes): pin 文章小记 header, add delete, extend @ to articles
• ef2a3da feat(notes): 文章小记 — article-scoped notes + selection toolbar
• 08fce16 fix(notes): arrow keys now navigate slash menu one item at a time
• abb1ede feat(notes): hide markers, slash menu IME support, rich emoji panel
• d1451d1 fix(notes): gutter hover, block anchors, AI menu — verified end-to-end
• a1b9ed5 feat(notes): block anchors, hover gutter, AI menu, full shortcuts
• 497e781 refactor(notes): notebooks, document tree, multi-tab, 4-tab right panel
• 89776cd feat(notes): add notebooks, document tree, and block anchors
• fa7b43e refactor(notes): introduce store, fix save races, add toast + skeleton