With this release you can now embed GitBook Assistant in your product or website — plus we’ve made performance improvements, added new cover resizing options and more
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Earlier this year, we released GitBook Assistant — a powerful AI tool that helps your users when they’re browsing your documentation. It was our first step towards what we see as the future of documentation, where product and docs are more intelligently connected.
Now, we’re adding ability to embed the same GitBook Assistant from your docs directly into your product or website.
So your users can access knowledge from your docs — and other tools you choose to connect via MCP — without needing to switch tools. And you can improve customer success by offering them seamless, context-aware answers and suggestions. Paired with adaptive content, it’s like giving every user a personalized product expert, available 24/7.
Head to our Embedded GitBook Assistant docs to learn more about how to get started.
This is a huge step towards our goal of bringing documentation and product closer together. We’d love to hear your initial feedback as it rolls out in beta.
If you’ve added a cover image to your page, it’s now easier than ever to adjust the size to your liking.
You can use the drag handle or keyboard controls to make it taller or shorter, and you can see the percentage size of the image so you know it’s going to fit properly.
We’ve also added a crosshair to the UI, so that when you drag to reposition the cover you know when it’s perfectly centered.
Working on your content is now faster and more performant than the editing experience in Notion. We’ve been working on backend improvements over the last few weeks, and we’ve now achieved a 2x performance improvement in the editor.
Our work on performance and stability improvements continues, but we wanted to share the results of our work with you as we hit this milestone!
When you’re editing your work and select something on the page, the inline palette appears to offer you important controls like formatting, links and annotations.
With this release, we’ve rebuilt the behavior of the palette from scratch. It’ll now be more stable if you scroll when it’s open — and it won’t blink when the selection changes. Plus, we’ve just made some overall improvements to performance and moved the link palette so it now appears below your selected text, not above it.
You can now drop images in the space between two blocks to add a new image block to the editor. Before, you had to create a new line first. Now you can simply drag your image right where you want it and boom — you’ll get a new image block.
We’ve added a small pop-up message to tell you when there’s a new version of the app available, so you can quickly refresh to get the latest features and best performance (i.e. all the stuff we talk about in this changelog)
You’ll notice a number of small tweaks to the sidebar and table of contents in the GitBook app that make their design more consistent. The icons and tooltips for the Actions menu 
are now the same, and the line height and icon size are also identical.
We’re constantly working to improve the way you and your team work in GitBook, and value your input on features, bugs, and more. Make sure you head to our official GitBook community to join the discussion.