May 5, 2026: Spring Release 2026
A more powerful, better integrated, and better organised Libra. Four chapters of changes:Better organised work.
- Sidebar split into a Global section (Search, Home, Templates) and a Project section (Chat, Discovery, Review, Documents). How Libra is organised.
- Global Search: press Cmd+K from anywhere to find anything across every project: chats, documents, Reviews, Discoveries, Assistants, Workflows, Templates. With “Ask Libra” fallback. Search.
- Global Home Page: every project you have access to, with metadata, search, sort, star, and inline edit/share/archive/delete. Home.
- Template library: Assistants, Workflows, Review templates, Discovery templates all in one place. Server-backed starring (replaces local pinning). Practice areas + custom tags. Full-screen editor. Templates.
- Reviews and Discoveries become documents: completed Reviews and Discoveries appear in the Documents panel and can be organised into folders alongside PDFs and other files. Folder structure.
- New Review template structure: Topic → Position (Acceptable / Fallback / Not acceptable) → Rule, with optional Ideal Language for each Position. Review templates.
- Auto Mode: turn a Topic into a research-driven question instead of a rule check. “Does this clause hold up under current case law?” Auto Mode.
- Edit Review results on the fly: override rule outcomes directly on a finished Review.
- Word add-in Review: the Word add-in’s Review feature now mirrors the web app’s structure and works with the same templates. The previous Word “Review” feature has been renamed Document Comparison.
- Start work from chat: create a Review or Discovery directly inside a chat. Either explicitly via Tools → Create new, or implicitly when Libra detects the intent. Starting work from Chat.
- Discoveries and Reviews in chat: attach as context with
@-mention. Libra cites specific Topics, columns, rows, or cells. Reviews from chat / Discovery from chat.
- UI overhaul: entire app redesigned for consistency.
- Refined chat input: Tools dropdown groups Assistants, Workflows, Add context, and Create new. Chat basics.
- Chat modes: Default, Deep Thinking, and Fast (new). Chat modes.
@-mention picker works anywhere in the prompt, supporting Assistants, Workflows, Documents, Reviews, Discoveries.- Unified Cited Sources panel: every citation (web, documents, databases, Reviews, Discoveries) in one panel, with cross-turn citation continuity. Citations & sources.
- InView Tax NL: Wolters Kluwer’s Dutch tax research product.
- Fedlex: Switzerland’s official Federal Law collection. FedLex.
- Open Case Law: open-access case-law database. OpenCaseLaw.
- Kleos: copy files from Kleos directly into a Libra project from the Documents panel. Kleos.
- Entscheidsuche is no longer a research source.
- OnlineKommentar has been removed.
- Images (PNG, JPG, TIFF, GIF, WebP, SVG, BMP), email files (
.eml/.msg), text files (.txt,.csv,.xml,.json,.md,.log), and HTML now have native previews, alongside PDFs and Word documents. File types & previews.
- New Export thread to project action: push an email thread (with attachments) into a project as a
.txtthat’s auto-converted to PDF and indexed.
- New flagship model added to the model selector.
- Deep Thinking mode now uses a more powerful model.
Release: 27 April 2026
New.
- Open Case Law (Switzerland): Switzerland’s open-access case-law database is now a connected research source. Open Case Law.
- Fedlex (Switzerland): Switzerland’s official federal-law collection added as a research source. Fedlex.
- InView Tax (Netherlands): Wolters Kluwer’s Dutch tax research product launches in production. InView Tax.
- Swiss sources unlock automatically: Fedlex and Open Case Law switch on for any user with the Swiss jurisdiction enabled, no separate setup.
- More patience for slow research queries: long Wolters Kluwer searches no longer time out prematurely.
- Better Belgian-Dutch wording across the InView Tax interface.
- Audio transcription handles compressed files cleanly: voice notes recorded as M4A/AAC no longer get cut off mid-sentence.
- Uploads no longer fail with a “Failed to fetch” message after a deploy lands while you have the app open.
- Whole-chat exports no longer leak internal IDs into the document.
- Cleaner copy on the Wolters Kluwer entitlement page for German users.
Release: 13 April 2026
New.
- Legal Intelligence (Netherlands): connect Wolters Kluwer’s curated Dutch legal-news platform; citations work across the web app and the Word add-in. Legal Intelligence.
- Faster default reasoning model: Libra now uses a more capable model under the hood for everyday questions.
- Faster follow-ups in Research: repeated research questions in the same chat reuse prior context, so answers come back quicker.
- Buy-Subscription overlay: clearer two-panel layout with explicit “View plans” / “Contact Sales” actions.
- Reasoning continuity: Libra’s reasoning context carries across multi-step tool calls more reliably.
- Country-aware research: customers in one country no longer see content licensed only to another.
- Word add-in: uploaded images used to linger in the input every turn; they now clear correctly.
- A handful of sign-in edge cases when the add-in browser session expired.
- OnlineKommentar as a Swiss research source.
Release: 30 March 2026
New.
- Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and Hungary launch: full go-live for all four Central-European jurisdictions, with self-service checkout. Czech Republic · Slovakia · Romania · Hungary.
- Romanian sign-in and onboarding localised end-to-end.
- Help-center link in the sidebar: quick access to documentation from anywhere in the app.
- Outlook add-in citations: restored after being temporarily hidden, and styled to match the Word add-in.
- Word add-in research sources: the full Wolters Kluwer source list is now usable from Outlook too.
- Smarter anonymisation of company names: business-register fields you need to keep visible no longer get redacted by default.
- Snappier Discovery on large matrices: extracting columns across many documents is more responsive.
- Hungarian and Slovak help-center links pointed at the wrong language. Fixed.
- Image display in the chat input.
Release: 16 March 2026
New.
- Starter Tier: a new entry-level subscription tier alongside Standard and Team.
- User groups: group users for shared permissions and Assistant access.
- More stable long sessions: Deep Thinking responses and chat streams no longer drop unexpectedly during heavy use.
- Better German answers: an issue that occasionally produced garbled German text has been resolved.
- Discovery template creation regression.
- Kluwer Law International permission check restored.
- Web-search edge cases for Netherlands and Belgium.
Release: 2 March 2026
New.
- Italy launch: Italy is live with One LEGALE and self-service checkout (annual subscriptions). One LEGALE.
- Poland self-service checkout: Polish customers can subscribe directly.
- Clearer trial-expiration overlay with a single call-to-action.
- AI-output disclaimer rewritten for clarity in all 12 languages.
- Wolters Kluwer source ordering: WK sources are sorted above Otto Schmidt in the source picker, including expired connections that show “Reconnect”.
- Polish Wolters Kluwer login stays signed in across long sessions.
- Payment buttons on the subscription overlay.
- Belgian checkout edge cases.
- Otto Schmidt checkout price refreshes correctly on annual billing.
- A rare Wolters Kluwer popover crash when a jurisdiction was missing a product link.
Release: 16 February 2026
New.
- Wolters Kluwer Italy (One LEGALE): Italian legal content live, including One Lavoro and One Fiscale (gated by your subscription).
- More accurate document anonymisation: three independent AI judges must agree before any text is redacted.
- More headroom for large teams: projects holding many documents are noticeably more responsive.
- Cleaner citations: duplicate links across tools are now collapsed into one.
- Large Excel files import faster: heavy spreadsheets that used to time out now ingest cleanly.
- Web-search results filtered for quality.
- Onboarding: tighter validation when picking your team’s jurisdiction.
- Word add-in: web-search now respects the Wolters Kluwer setting.
- Chat shows the right disclaimer for the right context.
- Newly added Otto Schmidt modules now route correctly.
- Team-level permissions enforcement strengthened.
Release: 2 February 2026
New.
- Wolters Kluwer Belgium and Poland are now connected, with longer sign-in sessions. LEX content is live for Polish customers. LEX.
- “Enterprise” tier renamed to Team everywhere in the UI and billing.
- Wolters Kluwer always visible: research sources show for everyone; users without access see a connect prompt instead of nothing.
- Wolters Kluwer entitlement page: properly Libra-branded.
- Subscription invoices: preview no longer errors on inactive products.
- Empty Belgian integrations panel removed for users without access.
- The trusted-content disclaimer hides correctly when you’ve uploaded your own documents.
Release: 19 January 2026
New.
- Wolters Kluwer Online (Germany): Wolters Kluwer’s curated German legal content is now a connected research source. Wolters Kluwer Online.
- Kluwer Law International: international-law content is searchable from chat.
- Trusted-source disclaimers: citation tooltips now indicate whether a source comes from a curated, trusted corpus or from open web search.
- Drag-and-drop in the Word and Outlook add-ins: drop documents directly into the add-in chat.
- Delete custom Word export templates you no longer need.
- Wolters Kluwer auto-enabled: for users with access, WK sources are on by default with a one-click toggle to opt out.
- Authoritative content prioritised above open web results in answers; firm-level domain blocklists supported.
- UI-language filtering: Assistants, Review templates, and Discovery templates filter to your interface language by default.
- Word and Outlook add-ins stay signed in across long Office sessions.
- Document tree shows the full filename on hover when truncated.
- Polish case law hidden by default for Polish users.
- GPT-5 vision capabilities re-enabled in chat.
- Otto Schmidt Campus access permissions corrected.
- A Stämpfli search issue was fixed.
Release: 5 January 2026
New.
- EU jurisdiction: selectable across Reviews, Discoveries, and Assistants, with country-specific document formatting where it matters.
- Localised sign-in: the login screen now respects your interface language.
- Workflows scoped to a jurisdiction: keep recurring multi-step tasks tied to the right legal context.
- Deep Thinking extended across more of the pipeline, with a one-click opt-out.
- Quieter background activity for busy teams, with fewer churn-y refresh writes.
- An occasional error during message processing.
- German greeting capitalisation.
- Citation display issues for documents.
- “InView Legal” naming aligned across the app; Assistant card colours varied so the gallery doesn’t look uniform; transactional emails translated for NL and BE.
Release: 22 December 2025
Polish week. Quiet window heading into the holidays. The focus was stability:
- Long-running connections are more stable during heavy use.
- Add-in citations now render reliably in the Word and Outlook add-ins.
- Background capacity upgrades for steadier performance through year-end traffic.
Release: 15 December 2025
New.
- Wolters Kluwer for the Benelux + CEE wired in (NL, BE, IT, PL, HU, CZ, SK, RO).
- Voice input for Discovery prompts: dictate the prompt for an Add column step.
- Sharper Research answers: the deep-research agent’s prompts have been refined for tighter, better-cited results.
- Better performance when large project research contexts are attached.
- Add Document modal in Assistant Knowledge: cleaner buttons, tighter layout.
- Word add-in tracked changes: date display corrected.
- Admin user table: performance and layout polish.
- Translation gaps closed in the Learning Center.
- LEX naming aligned across the UI; cleaner error messages.
Release: 1 December 2025
New.
- Email verification on sign-up: every new account verifies its address before signing in.
- Admin Assistants are admin-only by default: newly created admin Assistants are no longer visible to all admins of a team unless you explicitly share them.
- Partner trials: trial onboarding for partner teams.
- Discovery, multiple documents per row: run a Discovery against several documents at once and see per-document answers in the same row.
- Otto Schmidt module behaviour: clearer for users who don’t know their module entitlement; admins manage modules at the team level.
- Long Deep Thinking responses stay connected instead of dropping.
- Unified Patent Court answer quality continues to improve.
- Team management: admin updates make managing your team easier.
- Excel uploads work again.
- Italian and Dutch UI translations restored across the app.
- Word add-in tracked-change handling refined.
Release: 17 November 2025
New.
- Unified Patent Court: research UPC decisions inside Libra, with smarter ranking and an AI judging step for higher-precision answers. Unified Patent Court.
- Voice input for Assistants: dictate the Assistant system prompt, and dictate prompts in the in-chat and Discovery prompt generators.
- Discovery now extracts currencies: pull monetary amounts into a Discovery column with proper currency handling.
- Discovery row numbers and sticky columns: easier to navigate large matrices.
- Stämpfli and Otto Schmidt FamRZ wired up as connected sources for Switzerland and Germany.
- Zefix: Swiss commercial-register search added. Zefix.
- Outlook add-in feedback dialog: leave structured feedback directly from the add-in.
- Otto Schmidt deep links preserve their fragment, so you land on the exact paragraph.
- Otto Schmidt modules can now be configured per team.
- EU case law (EUR-Lex): refactored for steadier search and faster results.
- Sign-in (SSO and account linking) is more robust on enterprise connections.
- Verification emails retry in the background if delivery fails.
- Long, busy chats run more reliably.
- Jurisdiction selection no longer cascades unexpectedly.
- The Research dropdown resizes dynamically so longer source names fit.
- Onlinekommentar paragraph navigation.
- Sidebar username alignment; jurisdiction-name translations updated.
November 14, 2025: Libra joins Wolters Kluwer
Libra Technology joins Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory as part of an acquisition and strategic partnership worth up to 90 million euros.Together, we are setting a milestone for the future of Legal AI:
- Strategic partnership with a global leader in legal information
- Enhanced access to premium legal content
- Continued innovation in Legal AI technology
Fall 2025: Libra Fall update
The Libra Fall Update is here - and it’s the next step in how AI seamlessly integrates into your daily legal workflows.Libra is coming to where you already work:
- Microsoft Word integration
- Microsoft Outlook integration
- SharePoint integration
- And more coming soon
Fall 2025: Claude Sonnet 4.5 available
Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 is now available in Libra - the most powerful model in its family.
- Available now in the model selector for all users
- Enhanced understanding of complex legal language
- Improved argumentation capabilities