v1.8.1 Update - Bug fixes & UI updates

James Drayson

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v1.8.1 Update - Bug fixes & UI updates

29th December 2025, Release Notes

Improvements

Enhanced JavaScript Rendering 

  • Improved Webpage Content Extraction - Added Playwright and Chromium support for improved webpage content extraction with JavaScript rendering capabilities 

Agent 

  • Updated Agent - Updated agent with enhanced webpage reading capabilities and improved tool handling 

Discord Integration 

  • Enhanced OAuth Callback - Improved Discord OAuth callback with better error handling and user feedback 

Tool Call Handling 

  • Enhanced Error Tracking - Improved error handling and status tracking for tool calls, providing better visibility into tool execution 
  • Redundant Call Prevention - Enhanced tool call filtering logic to prevent redundant failed calls and improve overall reliability 
  • Content Preservation - Ensured accumulated content is preserved during tool call output to prevent content cutoff during streaming 

User Interface 

  • Mobile Keyboard Handling - Prevented auto-focus on mobile screens after sending a message to avoid unwanted keyboard pop-ups 
  • Smoother Navigation - Updated scroll delay in navbar for a more fluid navigation experience 
  • Dynamic Greetings - Updated welcome text to use dynamic hourly greetings (Good morning/afternoon/evening) 
  • Responsive Title Sizing - Improved welcome text length threshold for better responsive title sizing 
  • Thread Sorting - Updated thread grouping logic to prioritise last activity, ensuring most recent conversations appear first 

Bug Fixes 

  • Landing Page Navigation - Fixed "Get Started" button on the landing page that was not working properly 
  • Markdown Rendering - Improved underscore handling in message actions component for better markdown display 
  • Layout Consistency - Adjusted margin for welcome text based on length to improve layout consistency across different screen sizes 

Known Issues 

  • LaTeX Formula Rendering - Some mathematical formulas are not being returned in LaTeX format by the model, affecting proper rendering. We are investigating this behaviour 
  • Continuous Message Spam - In some cases, the model continuously generates and repeats messages without stopping, requiring users to manually interrupt using the stop button 
  • Side Panel Width - The side panel is too narrow to read chat titles properly and needs to be made wider 
  • Browser Cache Not Refreshing - When new updates are deployed, user browsers may not refresh to the latest build automatically. Users may need to hard refresh (Ctrl+Shift+R / Cmd+Shift+R) or clear their browser cache to see the latest changes 

The Locai Tech Team 

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