v2026.08.2

Released 2026-08-14.

Features

• Quotes and invoices are built from templates you write yourself. A template decides the paper layout, the fields you fill in, the default terms and line items, and the sequence of statuses a document moves through — so a document type that matches how your trade actually works no longer has to be one of the shapes we shipped. Templates can be written by a minion from a document you already use, previewed, cloned, and shared. Documents freeze the lifecycle they were created with, so editing or deleting a template never strands a document that is already in flight.
• Documents work outside Japan. Country profiles now carry the currency, the name of the tax, the name of the tax ID, default rates, rounding, paper size, date format, and honorific, and an unregistered country falls back to neutral defaults rather than refusing to issue. Tax is rounded at the currency’s minor unit — a 20% VAT on USD 19.99 came out as 4.00 instead of 3.99, and the wrong figure was stored, not just displayed. Rates take three decimals, so a local sales tax of 8.875% is no longer rounded to 8.88%. Zero-rated, reverse-charge, and out-of-scope joined the tax categories, the recipient’s address and tax ID are printed on the paper, and screens and PDFs follow your language instead of always being Japanese.
• Invoices carry the payment details your bank actually needs. Alongside a Japanese bank transfer you can now record IBAN, ACH, sort code, SWIFT, or a payment link, and the form asks only for the fields that method requires.
• Contacts is a workspace-wide address book. The companies and people you do business with live in one place, and quotes and invoices pick their recipient from it instead of from the accounting ledger — so issuing a document no longer means creating a counterparty you only wanted for billing.
• The calendar is available in every workspace. It’s out of experimental: events can repeat on a schedule, the people you add as participants are notified, and the week view can be narrowed to a single project or attendee.
• The public site reads in Japanese, English, Korean, and Traditional Chinese. The landing page, pricing, and the /explore gallery each have their own address per language with a switcher in the header, and every shared skill, workflow, or note gets a proper preview card when it’s posted to a social app.
• The landing page says what Minion is. It now presents Minion as one deliberately thin workspace with AI teammates you add as members, rather than a list of features.
• Images and video in a minion’s ~/files open in the browser. You can play, seek, and flip through them in place instead of downloading each file first to find out what it is.
• Media Home lets you rename files and folders. An ebook whose filename doesn’t match its series folder can be fixed from the storage browser instead of by shelling into the minion.

Improvements

• Apps declare the minion runtime they need. An app can state a minimum agent version, and HQ refuses to push it onto a minion too old to run it — with an explanation that the minion needs updating, rather than a failure later that looks like a bug in the app.
• /explore pages load without re-querying the database on every visit, and publishing, unpublishing, or turning off workspace sharing now takes effect immediately rather than after a delay.

Fixes

• Dates and times render in your own timezone. On the admin reports, billing, connected accounts, ownership transfer, and workspace invitation screens, a timezone different from the server’s would break the page instead of just showing the wrong hour.
• The contact form accepts submissions again when you’re signed out. They were being blocked silently by the auth gate. The form now lives at /inquiry, and the old /contact address redirects permanently in every language.
• Document numbers no longer break at a thousand. The next number was found by sorting numbers as text, so Q-2026-999 counted as higher than Q-2026-1000 and the thousandth document onward couldn’t be created at all. Each numbering prefix also gets its own unbroken series rather than sharing one counter and showing gaps.
• An issued document can’t be edited behind the screen’s back. The form only offered editing on drafts, but the API accepted changes to an invoice that had already been sent — including its amounts. Changes are now refused until the document is reverted to draft.
• Searching documents by a company name containing a comma or bracket works. It returned a server error.
• The document list reaches past its first hundred rows, with paging, status filtering, and search that waits for you to stop typing.

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Includes @geekbeer/minion 4.47.1 and Media Home 0.17.0.