What's new

What changed for you, one plain sentence per change, newest release first. Written by each release from the line every change carries; nobody edits this page by hand.

2026.11.01.1f0d8decb (2026-11-01)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.11.01.11aa5ea2f (2026-11-01)

• Mark private on a new connected workbook now marks your cells once its first save finishes, updates the ribbon's Status at once, and tells you in words if the save did not happen.
• Pressing F6 into the side panel now puts you in the provider's page, or on the picker when no page is open, and the add-in's log records how far each key press got.

2026.11.01.a3234c367 (2026-11-01)

• From the first save of a connected workbook, the ribbon keeps showing it as connected, and Disconnect pressed right after that save lets the AI go.
• Restarting into or out of protected mode now asks to save every open workbook first, with Don't Save for unsaved new ones, and cancelling any of them leaves Excel and the setting as they were.
• The support logs now name a newly saved workbook by its file name alone, so its folder and any user name in it stay out of support bundles.

2026.11.01.a00cf098f (2026-11-01)

• A question from the ribbon now always opens in front of the AI Bridge's own windows, so you can see it and answer it.
• Undo AI change greys as soon as there is nothing left to take back, with or without a switch to the side panel; its green or red dot and its card still say how the last undo went.

2026.11.01.8aba5b7c1 (2026-11-01)

• A private mark AI Bridge cannot fully read is no longer lost or treated as covering nothing: Mark private on that sheet refuses and says so, and a write keeps the mark.

2026.11.01.5e92a429e (2026-11-01)

• The Status line now says "at least N private" when a private mark covers cells it cannot fully count, and no longer says "No private" while part of a mark is still live.
• If AI Bridge cannot finish unlocking a workbook after it closes, you now get one notice saying the book is locked and its data is safe, now or at the next Excel start.
• When AI Bridge cannot count the private cells, the Status line now says "Private: could not count" instead of showing old words or going blank.

2026.11.01.ac011b4ee (2026-11-01)

• Cells you mark private are counted on the Status line even when Excel will not hand back the mark's range, and when they cannot be counted the line says so without a private icon or card.

2026.11.01.cf6e42365 (2026-11-01)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.11.01.db27b42e5 (2026-11-01)

• Cells marked private through a name the bridge cannot read (an R1C1 or formula reference) now stay hidden: the AI's read is refused instead of returning those cells.

2026.11.01.648ff129a (2026-11-01)

• If AI Bridge can't unlock a workbook when it closes, Excel now tells you at once that the file is locked and safe, and a bridge that was quit can still unlock it.

2026.10.31.de315cdc9 (2026-10-31)

• Keyboard users can press F6 to move from the grid into the side panel's provider page, and Esc or F6 to return to the grid.

2026.10.31.263931b9c (2026-10-31)

• Screen readers can now press a provider in the side panel without stalling, and they read the plan warning's words aloud.

2026.10.31.f1374cbd9 (2026-10-31)

• Undo lines in the add-in and bridge logs now name only the workbook's file, so support bundles no longer show your folders or user name.

2026.10.31.797059771 (2026-10-31)

• Pressing Side panel off on the ribbon now hides the docked panel, pressing it on brings it back still signed in, and closing the panel sets the toggle off.

2026.10.31.0094fb37e (2026-10-31)

• When the Excel add-in and bridge are on the same release, the Version button reads One step left, then Up to date, and a failed private-column mark no longer advises reinstalling.

2026.10.31.0fd6c522d (2026-10-31)

• When the AI Bridge is slow to answer, pressing Task pane now waits for the pane to open instead of showing an error box, and Excel's other buttons keep working.
• Pressing a ribbon button or card answer at Excel's Start screen now shows a message that AI Bridge will do it once a workbook is open.

2026.10.31.97f8dd612 (2026-10-31)

• On an Alpha or Beta seat, pressing Side panel opens Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini in a panel docked beside the workbook, after a one-time plan warning per provider.

2026.10.31.4a8ed8fea (2026-10-31)

• When some of a workbook's private marks cannot be read, the Status line now says "at least N private" instead of a count that looks exact, and shows the count again once the marks can be read.
• When protected mode is on but Excel was started normally, Excel asks once, after a workbook opens, and on the Protected mode press, whether to restart protected, turn it off, or leave it for now.

2026.10.31.0e2af02ae (2026-10-31)

• Excel opened to its Start screen and closed with no workbook now quits cleanly, and a workbook opened later still gets the AI Bridge tab, its events and first save.
• The Version card's add-in line names the release the window add-in runs, not an older build left from the removed VBA add-in.

2026.10.31.c5b72f441 (2026-10-31)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.31.5155e3bb7 (2026-10-31)

• Workbooks closed just as the bridge restarts, one or several at once, now have their password taken off as Excel lets go of them, so reopening them opens straight away.

2026.10.31.9afeb3aea (2026-10-31)

• If AI Bridge cannot start to unlock a book when it closes, the next Excel start names the file, says its data is safe and locked, and tells you to reinstall AI Bridge.
• Pressing Protected mode in a protected Excel now asks to turn it off: Restart normally saves your workbook first and reopens it in a normal Excel; Cancel leaves everything as it is.

2026.10.31.5dd2c92f2 (2026-10-31)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.31.a3b2cd9ce (2026-10-31)

• Protected mode on the Private group now reads Protected only when this Excel really runs protected, and otherwise offers to restart it protected.
• A workbook the bridge unlocks while starting up, or when Excel closes it with no close signal, now has an audit line recording that unlock.
• The Status line shows the private count right after you press Mark private, and keeps its last count instead of saying "No private" when the marks could not be read.

2026.10.31.3d58a6733 (2026-10-31)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.31.b01e16b81 (2026-10-30)

• In the side panel test build, the bridge's confirm step now loads in the pane and in the sign-in window, so connecting the bridge there no longer stops at that page.

2026.10.30.c7824658c (2026-10-30)

• After you pick a Read-back setting in its card, Excel is the active window again and the Read-back button shows your new choice straight away.
• A workbook AI Bridge locked now opens normally after you close it with the bridge not running, and if you stopped the bridge yourself, it stays stopped.

2026.10.30.0d4685e08 (2026-10-30)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.30.c70ea8dec (2026-10-30)

• Support files and bridge logs now name a seat code only by a short hash, so no part of the code itself is written to them.
• On a release with no VBA add-in, the Version button reads Up to date when the window add-in matches the AI bridge, and no longer asks you to restart Excel.

2026.10.30.a1fb12c68 (2026-10-30)

• After closing your last workbook, opening or creating another in the same Excel brings the AI Bridge tab, its flyouts and the pane back without restarting Excel.

2026.10.30.740ac9daa (2026-10-30)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.30.b73f8da3a (2026-10-30)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.30.52408d81c (2026-10-30)

• Excel now closes fully on Quit while the AI Bridge chat pane is open: the chat pane and its browser close as soon as Excel is asked to quit.
• An AI Bridge seat now stays active when the same customer's payment for a different product sold through the same Paddle account fails or is refunded.
• The Version button on the add-in's tab shows Restart Excel, Update ready or Up to date within two seconds, even while the AI connection is also changing.

2026.10.30.1d626ae2f (2026-10-30)

• Undo AI change and Undo all now take back the AI's changes to a workbook that has never been saved, and still do after its first save.

2026.10.30.90f9233f0 (2026-10-30)

• Disconnect on the AI Bridge tab now works even when Excel stops running the add-in's queued work, and every button press is recorded in the add-in log.
• When a WebView2 debugging setting keeps AI Bridge's window or flyouts closed, every later page and button says to remove that setting instead of telling you to reinstall WebView2.
• A choice in the Read-back card now shows on the Read-back button straight away, without opening the card again.

2026.10.30.850762790 (2026-10-30)

• A choice made in the Read-back card now shows on the Read-back button within a second, without opening the card again.

2026.10.30.063867b19 (2026-10-30)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.30.31b90dc0b (2026-10-30)

• A workbook that another program briefly locks while the bridge recovers it keeps its key, and the bridge unlocks it on its next try.

2026.10.30.f292a86dc (2026-10-30)

• A workbook a restarted bridge unlocks as Excel closes it now has the same unlocked-on-close entry in its audit journal as any other book unlocked on close.
• In the Excel chat panel, pressing Apply on a proposed change now writes the cells; a change the bridge would refuse is explained instead of shown as a card.
• Updates now install even after the tray has restarted the bridge, because no bridge process holds the program folder open any more.

2026.10.30.8a95a5d7b (2026-10-30)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.30.c6c10df7c (2026-10-30)

• Pressing Apply on a chat write card now writes exactly the cells and values the card showed, and a card whose change is refused says so on the page.

2026.10.30.e9f916b31 (2026-10-30)

• After the AI Bridge restarts while a workbook is open, closing that workbook takes its password off at once, so reopening it a moment later opens it plain.
• After a seat moves to another computer, the admin log shows whether the owner's notice mail went out, naming the owner only by a short hash.

2026.10.30.280b2430c (2026-10-30)

• Connect AI goes ahead with the AI Bridge already running on your computer instead of saying AI Bridge isn't fully installed.

2026.10.30.f0d27ddb2 (2026-10-29)

• Before you press Connect AI, the Version card shows the add-in's own version and says AI Bridge starts when you press Connect AI.

2026.10.29.67d4b7f8d (2026-10-29)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.29.ad3edc24a (2026-10-29)

• When Connect AI links, it suggests a connector name with your computer's name and install date, so two installs on one seat show as separate connectors in claude.ai.

2026.10.29.518dd49b4 (2026-10-29)

• After the AI Bridge was stopped or crashed, a workbook Excel is still closing opens plain moments later, and the bridge no longer keeps polling Excel while that book stays open.

2026.10.29.94cfa4e9f (2026-10-29)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.29.470488037 (2026-10-29)

• Excel now closes on its own when you quit it, even when the add-in's task pane is slow to let go.

2026.10.29.c5a115392 (2026-10-29)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.29.7ee4764f9 (2026-10-29)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.29.be9396997 (2026-10-29)

• Opening Excel to its Start screen now starts AI Bridge right away: the confirm-computer page and flyouts come up without first creating a workbook.

2026.10.29.df79fa43a (2026-10-29)

• Uninstalling now tells the licence broker the bridge is gone and removes its sign-in identity; if the broker can't be reached, the uninstall record says why the identity was kept.
• When AI Bridge's bridge program is missing from the install, Start and open and Connect AI now say the install is incomplete and to reinstall AI Bridge.

2026.10.29.eaed4971d (2026-10-29)

• With no key kept, the chat pane now offers Sign in with OpenRouter next to the paste box, and a Remove key button takes a kept key off this PC.

2026.10.29.841908f2e (2026-10-29)

• Pressing Apply on a change the chat panel proposes now writes it to the workbook the first time, instead of bringing back the same card.

2026.10.29.a0fc89a88 (2026-10-29)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.29.e8e741527 (2026-10-29)

• The Private group's Select all button now has a dropdown with Protected mode. It reads Protected while on, and is greyed for accounts that are not Windows administrators.

2026.10.29.1b0ae9b5e (2026-10-29)

• Pressing Protected mode now asks first, saves your workbook and restarts Excel with administrator rights with it open; saying No to Windows' prompt keeps protected mode off and reopens the workbook.
• After you pick a Read-back choice in its card, the Read-back button's label names that choice, without reopening the card.

2026.10.28.7e30f9390 (2026-10-28)

• A workbook left locked when the AI Bridge was stopped is unlocked moments after Excel closes it, so reopening it right away opens with no password or File in Use prompt.
• Quitting Excel with the AI Bridge task pane loaded, including from a script or another program, now closes Excel promptly with no need to end it from Task Manager.

2026.10.28.192b24f64 (2026-10-28)

• After your seat moves to another computer, the old computer's ribbon and Task pane say "Moved to another computer" with the time, until you press Connect AI there again.
• Closing the Google sign-in window now removes its browser profile, and the sign-in session in it, within seconds instead of at the bridge's next start.
• Turning protected mode off now asks 'Restart normally' or 'Cancel', and Restart normally reopens your workbook in a normal Excel; keys move back only once the book is unbound.

2026.10.28.0ded7eea6 (2026-10-28)

• On One step left, Show me how now always shows the refresh steps: in the card, or in an AI Bridge box when the card cannot show them.

2026.10.28.738072b1d (2026-10-28)

• The Version button now shows its new state within about two seconds, for example right after you press Done, when an update is ready, or when Excel needs a restart.
• The AI Bridge now keeps its connection to the broker alive while idle, so it stays connected through quiet stretches instead of dropping and reconnecting.
• Every tool call the in-Excel chat makes now appears in the workbook's audit journal, including ones the chat turns down itself, so what a chat did can be checked afterwards.

2026.10.28.d0f17bd96 (2026-10-28)

• After Undo all, both undo buttons grey out together, and the Read-back button shows your new choice as soon as you pick it.
• Closing the Google sign-in window now removes its browser profile, and the sign-in it holds, within seconds instead of at the bridge's next start.

2026.10.28.08dbef023 (2026-10-28)

• A workbook the AI was connected to has its password taken off as soon as Excel closes it, so reopening it right away, or after quitting Excel, opens it with no prompt.

2026.10.28.a4fc7f7ed (2026-10-28)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.28.74a219ee8 (2026-10-28)

• A workbook the AI Bridge left locked when it stopped or was killed now opens without a password prompt; the bridge takes its password off on exit or at its next start.

2026.10.28.90de8f296 (2026-10-28)

• The chat pane has a box to paste your OpenRouter key and a Save key button, so a chat can start right away using your own key.
• Undo AI change and Undo all now take back AI changes in a workbook that started unsaved, before and after its first save, and the Undo buttons are live straight after the AI's first change.
• Paying for a seat no longer sends the seat holder's e-mail address to our payment provider; only an anonymous seat id is shared.

2026.10.28.1537cc954 (2026-10-28)

• When your seat is taken up on another computer, the AI Bridge window now says it moved there and when, in your local time, instead of telling you to reinstall.

2026.10.28.a145c8d7c (2026-10-28)

• The Google sign-in window now opens on a clean Edge profile that copies nothing from your other Edge or Chrome profiles, and it is removed from the computer once it closes.

2026.10.28.169e28f67 (2026-10-28)

• Undo AI change now takes back the AI's change on a workbook you have not saved yet, even when an older bridge is also running.

2026.10.27.febbaede6 (2026-10-27)

• Each version card now has a What's new row that screen readers announce as a button, and Restart Excel has a row that tells you to save your workbooks before you restart.

2026.10.27.e401560da (2026-10-27)

• A Read-back choice made in its card now shows on the Read-back button straight away, without opening the card again.

2026.10.27.436b58370 (2026-10-27)

• Screen readers and UI Automation now read how many AI changes Undo all will take back, straight from the button's name (for example "Undo all 3").
• Right after you switch to the side panel, the ribbon shows Side panel and keeps Undo AI change and Undo all ready for the AI's earlier changes.

2026.10.27.6d43b078d (2026-10-27)

• The whole AI Bridge tab now fits a 1366 px wide Excel window at 100% with every group open, including Support and AI changes.

2026.10.27.f426ab23f (2026-10-27)

• After switching a workbook to the side panel, Undo all's tooltip and screen readers say how many AI changes it takes back, matching the badge on its icon.
• The account button on the C# AI Bridge tab opens your License page in the bridge's window while the bridge is running.

2026.10.27.e5b6329d5 (2026-10-27)

• Screen readers and automated checks can now read how many AI changes Undo all will take back, from the button's own tooltip.

2026.10.27.81793d99a (2026-10-26)

• The status bar line and the Task pane come back after a connection or update change even when the classic AI Bridge tab is shown, without the old add-in's macros.

2026.10.27.ca3400e38 (2026-10-26)

• Undo AI change and Undo all now work on a new workbook before you first save it, and the AI stays connected through that first save so earlier changes can still be undone.
• The Excel tab's Version button now reads Up to date when the installed add-in is the release's own, even if the add-in carries an older build stamp.
• A workbook you open right after closing Excel now gets the AI Bridge C# tab and its flyouts, even when it opens in the Excel that was still closing.
• After you disconnect a workbook, the status bar's 'disconnecting' line clears as soon as the Connect AI button comes back, instead of lingering a beat longer.

2026.10.26.9de12590d (2026-10-26)

• Pressing Undo AI change once now takes back only the latest AI change, even when the bridge picks up the click twice at the same moment.
• Ribbon keeps Undo AI change and Undo all live for a workbook switched to the side panel with AI changes left.

2026.10.26.916c6320c (2026-10-26)

• Flyout buttons that open your License page, Task pane, report pages or What's new, and Start AI Bridge from the status box, now work without the VBA add-in.

2026.10.26.672af15c5 (2026-10-26)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.26.531e86537 (2026-10-26)

• Pressing Hidden readable or Hidden private on the AI Bridge tab now changes the setting and the button's label straight away.

2026.10.26.8f002eb65 (2026-10-26)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.26.f500cbee4 (2026-10-26)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.26.781d4ba0e (2026-10-26)

• Hovering a greyed Suggest private ranges now shows why it is greyed, even while the bridge draws its own hover cards.
• Excel now closes normally when you quit it with the AI Bridge add-in loaded, on either ribbon tab, and the add-in log records what it shut down or what refused.

2026.10.26.ffcd49479 (2026-10-26)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.25.6ea53239b (2026-10-25)

• The Excel ribbon's Version button shows Versions differ only when the bridge's own file check finds the add-in changed, the same as the window add-in's Version button.
• Hovering a greyed Suggest private ranges now tells you why: connect the AI, save the workbook, or a plan without private marking.

2026.10.25.ccc194f8d (2026-10-25)

• The AI Bridge tab now holds still to the pixel when the AI connects, attaches or disconnects: no button to the right of AI shifts.

2026.10.25.da5495675 (2026-10-25)

• The chat pane now names the workbook it sits on, and if that workbook is not connected yet it says so and tells you to press Connect AI.

2026.10.25.db703e03a (2026-10-25)

• After you disconnect the AI, the AI Bridge tab title switches away from "connected" within a few seconds, matching the button and the bridge.
• In protected mode, your AI may need to reconnect once after this update; after that, its connection stays signed in when a workbook is locked.

2026.10.25.e2d868a13 (2026-10-25)

• After you press Disconnect and answer Yes, the AI Bridge tab switches back to Connect AI within a few seconds of the bridge letting go.

2026.10.25.c754ff8d1 (2026-10-25)

• Answering Yes to the cross-sheet private warning now keeps every part of a private range that covers several areas hidden from the AI.

2026.10.25.e6f3df26d (2026-10-25)

• Signing in to confirm this computer now also reaches the licence server over both IPv4 and IPv6, without slowing the sign-in window, so the confirmation is heard whichever route the bridge uses next.
• Broker: a sign-in's same-network check accepts any address key its bridge reported (v4 exact, v6 /64).
• The Confirm this computer window now shows dark text on a white background on a Windows dark theme, so every line is readable.
• The Version and Read-back buttons on the AI Bridge tab now stay still while you press other buttons, and change only when their state really changes.
• When your seat moves to another computer, you get one email from no-reply@ram.sh with the time and a link explaining how to take the seat back.
• The Google sign-in window now opens in a clean Edge profile with no browsing history, account or imported data carried over from Windows or other browsers.

2026.10.25.60f94dd55 (2026-10-25)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.25.cd3025368 (2026-10-25)

• Saving a connected new workbook for the first time now writes it locked, with its password kept under the file name you chose.
• The AI Bridge tab now has a Chat button on every plan that opens and closes an AI chat docked on the right of your workbook window, using your own model key.
• Pressing a button on the AI Bridge tab, or the bridge changing state, now leaves the Account, Read-back and Version buttons still.
• When one of the bridge's installed files has been changed, the bridge's own log now names that file.

2026.10.25.8273eef18 (2026-10-25)

• When the bridge repairs a changed ribbon add-in, your licence record now shows the files were changed once, then clean again.

2026.10.25.7d1b7bc7c (2026-10-25)

• Groundwork for the in-Excel chat: the chat pane can now be created inside the Excel window. You will open it with a Chat button in a later release.

2026.10.25.cc36f6293 (2026-10-24)

• With the window add-in installed, the bridge sees the Excel add-in as running as soon as the add-in finishes loading.
• After you press Sign in with Google, the AI Bridge window moves to the left and stops staying on top, so Google's sign-in window shows in full beside it.
• The bridge no longer reads or announces the xlam build stamp (ADDIN_BUILD).

2026.10.24.b933d5262 (2026-10-24)

• With Excel closed, the AI Bridge no longer opens a browser page to confirm this computer: it says Confirm this computer in Excel and asks in the AI Bridge window when Excel opens.
• A release that ships without the old VBA add-in now signs, and the bridge's shipped-files check reads it as clean.

2026.10.24.8e8d38e2b (2026-10-24)

• A new workbook's first save while connected is written locked, and unlocked again when you close it or the bridge stops; one first saved as you close it is saved unlocked, as before.
• Support can now look up a seat's licence-server problems (refusals, failures, payment and account pages) for the past 30 days, not just the last 3.
• The AI Bridge tab's buttons now stay where they are while you connect, the AI attaches, you switch Hidden private, or your plan changes.

2026.10.24.4cfda2dd2 (2026-10-24)

• The Google sign-in window now opens at the right of the screen, beside the AI Bridge window instead of on top of it, and stays clear of the taskbar.

2026.10.24.59f835bcc (2026-10-24)

• When you move the AI Bridge to another computer, the old computer is told it was moved and when it happened.

2026.10.24.db1c23e7a (2026-10-24)

• The bridge checks its shipped files against a fingerprint list the release signs (a release built without the key reads them unverified), and the licence server records the result per seat.

2026.10.24.6cb28b916 (2026-10-24)

• Hover cards for AI Bridge buttons in a folded group's dropdown now open on top of the dropdown, so their whole card, title included, can be read.
• Pressing Sign in with Google in the AI Bridge window now opens Google's sign-in directly, with no extra confirm page or second click in the browser.

2026.10.23.ae866cddc (2026-10-24)

• The AI Bridge tab's Status group now keeps one width as its lines change, so Read-back, Support and Version stay in place when you connect, attach or disconnect an AI.

2026.10.23.012ac5766 (2026-10-23)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.23.20496f495 (2026-10-23)

• The hover card does not show for AI Bridge controls inside a group Excel has folded into a dropdown on a small screen.

2026.10.23.2e2e2b9b4 (2026-10-23)

• Pressing AI connected or Waiting for AI on a workbook you have never saved now asks to disconnect it, and Yes takes the AI's access to it away.

2026.10.23.5adea6931 (2026-10-23)

• The AI Bridge tab's buttons now keep the same width as they change state, so no group on the tab shifts when you connect, switch hidden cells, undo AI changes or change Read-back.

2026.10.23.3ac1003a6 (2026-10-23)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.23.6466ef6eb (2026-10-23)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.23.01d328c50 (2026-10-23)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.23.82f2e613b (2026-10-23)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.23.ccb5dee81 (2026-10-22)

• Bridgehost --recover --forget and --show now say whether a key was dropped, was never on file, or is on file but could not be deleted or read.

2026.10.22.6b7534729 (2026-10-22)

• The tray's hover text says an AI is working in your workbook only once an AI has actually taken it, matching the ribbon's AI connected.

2026.10.22.7fea1f905 (2026-10-22)

• Connect AI on a workbook you have not saved yet now offers it to the AI, and the button shows Waiting for AI and then AI connected for it.

2026.10.22.59675c5c1 (2026-10-22)

• On the Free plan, the greyed Side panel (Pro) button's tip now tells you to upgrade to Pro from Account on the AI Bridge tab, like the other Pro buttons.
• Hovering the tray icon now shows whether you are signed in, waiting to sign in, or refused, even when opening a workbook started the tray.
• Paying for a seat no longer sends its access code to the payment provider; Paddle now holds only a non-secret seat id.
• Mark private, Highlight private and Select all now shade private cells and add their notes from the C# add-in, leaving your own formatting and notes untouched.
• The AI Bridge tab's groups now stay in place when the Private switch, AI connection, model, Read-back or Version button changes state.
• The setup guide's steps for showing a workbook's saved password, or forgetting its saved key, now work on an installed bridge.
• The bridge's chat page can now be opened by naming a workbook's full path, and it shows that workbook's own chat.

2026.10.22.34338c4cb (2026-10-22)

• The AI Bridge tab's groups now stay in place as Connect AI, the model name, Read-back, Version and the hidden-cells switch change state.

2026.10.22.ecab36558 (2026-10-22)

• Connect AI now works on a workbook you have never saved; the bridge leaves it unlocked and never saves it for you until you save it yourself.
• Pressing Task pane on the ribbon, or Start and open in its flyout, now starts the bridge and opens the pane without relying on the Excel add-in's macros.
• Undo AI change and Undo all now work on a workbook you switched to the side panel, and the web app still gets no access to it.

2026.10.22.03963f82d (2026-10-22)

• After you switch a workbook to the side panel, the web AI can no longer reconnect to it on its own; press Web app to give it back.

2026.10.22.42beb5249 (2026-10-22)

• Cutting, pasting or filling a private cell, or typing under a private column, keeps it private through the AI Bridge add-in's own C# code, with no VBA macro run.

2026.10.22.a9a29fe9 (2026-10-22)

• The Hidden private / Hidden readable switch on the AI Bridge tab now runs inside the add-in itself, with no VBA macro behind it.
• Connecting a workbook saved to OneDrive or SharePoint now binds it and says plainly that cloud workbooks are not locked on disk.
• An AI client's chat stays connected to a running Excel bridge instead of being told the connection dropped partway through a chat.

2026.10.22.309464a3 (2026-10-22)

• Saving a workbook with private marks as CSV shows the AI Bridge warning again before the marks are lost.
• Saving a workbook with private columns as CSV, text, SYLK, DIF or a web page still shows the AI Bridge marks-lost warning once, now from the window add-in.

2026.10.21.f262029f (2026-10-21)

• Once you open or close the Task pane in an Excel session, reconnecting the AI no longer opens a second Task pane window, whichever ribbon tab you use.

2026.10.21.f8e9f940 (2026-10-21)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.21.1896a283 (2026-10-21)

• Mark private on the AI Bridge tab now runs inside the add-in, keeps every part of an existing private range, and no longer reports a failure when only the shading fails.
• After an update, or when Update now starts the bridge, the bridge now stops when you close Excel instead of staying Running.

2026.10.21.5e41112c (2026-10-20)

• A mark the workbook refuses on the private-columns page now shows its reason on the page, without Excel's run-time error dialog popping up.

2026.10.21.b7cb1b7a (2026-10-20)

• Marking a range private now warns, in the add-in's own C# code, about cells on other sheets that read it, and can mark them private sheet by sheet.
• Excel now closes normally after Quit with the AI Bridge add-in loaded, on both the C# and the VBA ribbon tab, instead of staying open in the background.

2026.10.20.835f0259 (2026-10-20)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.20.41265b90 (2026-10-20)

• A confirm window that opens or ends up past the edge of the screen is now moved back fully on screen within a few seconds.

2026.10.20.aa4bfa03 (2026-10-20)

• With the add-in's new ribbon tab on, connection, update and version changes now repaint that tab straight away.

2026.10.20.836dd868 (2026-10-20)

• The install tutorial now sends you to the ribbon's Account group to find the Account button.

2026.10.20.d28af2eb (2026-10-20)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.20.6a9f5ee8 (2026-10-20)

• In protected mode, a workbook password is never saved through a linked keys folder, and a keys folder another program made first is locked down before the password goes in.
• With the VBA add-in closed or busy, the AI Bridge tab still shows the Undo buttons live, with their change-count badge and the last undo's dot.
• If a key file is redirected outside the protected keys folder while it is being saved, the bridge now deletes it, logs the tampering, and leaves the workbook unencrypted.
• Undo AI change and Undo all on the AI Bridge tab now work without the VBA add-in's macros running.
• On the AI Bridge tab, Show password now sits at the end of the Private group, next to the other controls for this workbook's privacy.
• Port NotePrivateGrowth, NotePrivateEdit and the fill branch of NotePossibleCopy to C# (pure Guard logic over fakes).
• The AI Bridge ribbon's Status group now stays the same width as you connect, disconnect or bind a workbook, so the buttons to its right no longer shift.

2026.10.20.6b6c0afa (2026-10-20)

• With an AI connected to the workbook, even one idle for a while, pressing the other Work-with toggle first asks on the bridge's page before it switches.
• The Version button on the AI Bridge tab stays one width and changes its words, picture and tip in place when the version state changes, instead of swapping buttons.
• Connect AI on the AI Bridge tab now offers the workbook, watches for the AI and starts the bridge from the add-in itself, without running any VBA macro.
• After choosing Continue, the new AI is told what the previous AI read and changed only once, even if Excel or the bridge restarts afterwards.

2026.10.20.e0d2ef4a (2026-10-20)

• In protected mode, the bridge keeps workbook passwords in a folder that only programs run as administrator can read.

2026.10.20.3f243ec2 (2026-10-20)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.20.a818f58e (2026-10-20)

• A private value copied and pasted into another sheet or another open workbook stays masked from the AI there, and a public copy stays public.

2026.10.20.41b97da3 (2026-10-20)

• With the window add-in loaded, saving a workbook now shows the warning when private marks would be dropped, as it does with the xlam alone.

2026.10.20.677cf1d1 (2026-10-20)

• The AI Bridge tab has Web app and Side panel toggles to pick how you work with your AI, remembered on this computer; on Free, Side panel shows greyed with a Pro tag.

2026.10.20.9a9f7698 (2026-10-20)

• Suggest private ranges on the AI Bridge tab now works without the VBA add-in: live on a connected saved workbook, greyed on Free, and a press opens the scan page.

2026.10.20.c9caa07e (2026-10-20)

• Disconnect and Withdraw now work from the AI Bridge tab, and the disconnecting line leaves the status bar once the bridge lets go of the workbook.

2026.10.20.11722a57 (2026-10-20)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.20.4f9e5c81 (2026-10-20)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.20.0def00f8 (2026-10-20)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.20.8d4c870d (2026-10-20)

• On the AI Bridge tab, your sign-in state and plan badge now sit in their own Account group, just before the AI group.

2026.10.20.d5804849 (2026-10-20)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.20.686085ad (2026-10-20)

• Mark private on a new workbook asks you to save it first, opens Save As, and marks once it is saved as an Excel workbook; a CSV or text save marks nothing and says why.

2026.10.20.63229d4c (2026-10-19)

• The Assistant and Read-back buttons on the AI Bridge tab stay in place and only change their words, picture and tip when the AI connects or drops, or when Read-back turns amber.

2026.10.20.5e67ff6a (2026-10-19)

• The Status group on the AI Bridge tab stays the same width as you connect or disconnect, so the buttons to its right stay where they are.
• While the bridge runs, the Undo AI change and Undo all hover cards come from the Excel window add-in and show the bridge's last undo answer and the Ctrl+Z note.
• The AI Bridge tab's Status lines now get their icons and click cards from the add-in itself, unpacked once per Excel session.
• Switching between claude.ai and the side panel now asks first on the bridge's own page, lets go of the workbook as Disconnect does, then asks whether to continue the previous AI's work.
• When the bridge starts without admin rights and cannot read protected mode's keys, it now says the workbook stays encrypted until Excel is started in protected mode again.

2026.10.19.dd2f845e (2026-10-19)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.19.e9a81189 (2026-10-19)

• The AI Bridge tab now has one AI group that shows the Connect AI button next to the attached model (for example Opus 5.5 or No AI), in place of the separate Assistant group.

2026.10.19.cdac9181 (2026-10-19)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.19.ec948de4 (2026-10-19)

• While Excel and the bridge run elevated, the tray tooltip says the workbook is in protected mode; after a normal start it does not.

2026.10.19.d3f4f63c (2026-10-19)

• After the bridge reconnects on its own, the ribbon's Status line now always shows the fresh connection instead of the old "no AI has called" message.

2026.10.19.48bd83c0 (2026-10-19)

• Connection group: one Connect AI button and one account button that change their picture and words in place.

2026.10.19.1b961757 (2026-10-19)

• The Private group's hidden-cells button now changes its picture, words and tip in place, and a press always does what the button showed.

2026.10.19.e67c47e4 (2026-10-19)

• A seat that presses Confirm this computer too many times now always gets the wait-and-press-again sentence, even when the presses come slowly.

2026.10.19.8348e463 (2026-10-19)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.19.7f97bf21 (2026-10-19)

• On the AI Bridge tab, Undo AI change and Undo all show the workbook's AI change count and the last undo's result straight from its history, and stay off when they cannot be pressed.

2026.10.19.7c51e9f9 (2026-10-19)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.19.5dc40149 (2026-10-19)

• Pressing a button on the AI Bridge tab, or the bridge changing state, now repaints only the buttons that changed; the rest of the tab stays still.

2026.10.18.261ac3be (2026-10-18)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.18.abc9c724 (2026-10-18)

• After you close Excel, the AI Bridge started by Connect AI now shuts down by itself and the tray goes back to showing it is not running.

2026.10.18.672929c9 (2026-10-18)

• When no AI has called after Connect AI, the Status dropdown card now says so and tells you to add this computer's connector or switch the connector to it.

2026.10.18.5a601e14 (2026-10-18)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.18.2bb543df (2026-10-18)

• On the AI Bridge tab, the Connection button and the tab title now say waiting until an AI first calls, matching the Status line, then all three say connected.

2026.10.18.166400c8 (2026-10-18)

• The tray at sign-in no longer shows the bridge running when none runs: it checks the recorded bridge process is alive, also for a bridge started as administrator.

2026.10.18.aa9f1182 (2026-10-18)

• Pressing Task pane now shows the AI Bridge pane on screen, docked over Excel, instead of opening it out of sight.
• The AI Bridge tab now comes from the C# window add-in; the VBA tab stays as the fallback (switch off, 32-bit Excel, Disabled Items).

2026.10.18.ed2e103f (2026-10-18)

• When no AI has called this computer since Connect AI, the Status button now reads "No AI call: connector?", and its tip says how to point your AI connector at this computer.

2026.10.18.cac90d49 (2026-10-18)

• After Connect AI binds a workbook, Excel keeps it open instead of closing it and exiting a few seconds later.

2026.10.18.50c3c5f7 (2026-10-18)

• After Connect AI binds a book that no AI has called yet, the Status line says no AI has called this computer, on the "waiting" card, instead of "Reading" and the book name.

2026.10.18.712eba5b (2026-10-18)

• On Free, Mark private and Task pane are greyed with a Pro tag and new private marks are refused; existing marks can still be removed, and the privacy scan and its hold stay.

2026.10.18.34dc8708 (2026-10-18)

• If installing a bundle without the tray app removed the tray's start at Windows sign-in, the next update that brings the tray puts it back; a sign-in start you removed yourself stays off.

2026.10.18.96fbc461 (2026-10-18)

• While Connect AI's offer is waiting and no AI has called this computer, the ribbon's status line now shows that message and its connector hint instead of the "Locked: undo starts here" notice.

2026.10.18.b0c0a8a0 (2026-10-18)

• Excel no longer closes your workbook and exits seconds after Connect AI when Excel reports no window for that workbook.

2026.10.15.83393b53 (2026-10-15)

• QA tooling: route b of the protected-mode probe reads ERROR, not CLOSED, for a pid that is not Excel; route a/b refusals check the pid too.

2026.10.15.3d9378cc (2026-10-15)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.15.ccb20d84 (2026-10-15)

• When Connect AI is linked but no AI has called this computer within a minute, the ribbon now says so and tells you to add or switch your AI client's connector, instead of waiting for ever.

2026.10.15.5ef57be0 (2026-10-15)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.15.c3bd8e4f (2026-10-15)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.14.10edd38e (2026-10-14)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.14.b25f68fa (2026-10-14)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.14.186a3c30 (2026-10-13)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.13.8b7f9e0d (2026-10-13)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.13.0ac696d7 (2026-10-13)

• Excel no longer lists the AI Bridge window add-in's internal methods as worksheet functions, and a workbook formula can no longer call them.

2026.10.13.69e1d090 (2026-10-13)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.13.16ced9b7 (2026-10-13)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.13.839baa46 (2026-10-13)

• Pulling out a pie slice by its category name now works on a pivot chart too, whose category names Excel reads back blank.

2026.10.13.d66cdb9e (2026-10-13)

• The bridge on your computer now refuses requests from web pages and other sites, so only its own add-ins and pages can reach it.

2026.10.13.0d4e4182 (2026-10-13)

• Confirming a new computer now takes one Google sign-in; it no longer sends you back to the confirm page to sign in again.

2026.10.13.f21dec4c (2026-10-13)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.13.4fd76a3c (2026-10-13)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.13.5d7d2038 (2026-10-13)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.13.1184ac6f (2026-10-13)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.13.9e55cd61 (2026-10-13)

• After installing the newest release, the Version button no longer offers an older release, and Update now never puts an older release back unless the running one was withdrawn.

2026.10.13.b58621fe (2026-10-13)

• The ribbon's Status line now says the AI Bridge is not running, and to press Connect AI, as soon as Excel opens without it, instead of "Not attached".

2026.10.12.a3237001 (2026-10-12)

• Once you answer the private-columns window it shows only its done message and Close, no longer the instructions asking you to choose.

2026.10.12.401b2926 (2026-10-12)

• The account page now opens in a window titled "License", matching the ribbon's "Your License page", instead of "Google account".

2026.10.12.f722a66a (2026-10-12)

• A bug report the AI files for you now carries only what you confirmed in the read-back, and anything else is shown to you for a Yes first.

2026.10.12.91f3ed67 (2026-10-12)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.12.3b5a18ec (2026-10-12)

• After you answer the "Ranges that look private" window, it shows only the result and Close; the instructions asking you to choose are gone, for screen readers too.

2026.10.12.81a83cf6 (2026-10-12)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.12.4f04fd52 (2026-10-12)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.12.586a5b61 (2026-10-11)

• A second answer to a private-columns list that was already answered, from another tab, changes nothing and is noted as ignored.

2026.10.12.a1d9805e (2026-10-11)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.12.9945bf09 (2026-10-11)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.11.52077cfa (2026-10-11)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.11.3fe0bee5 (2026-10-11)

• When a subscription ends, the account page offers Subscribe again and the AI's refusal says how to restart it.

2026.10.11.0298ad6c (2026-10-11)

• The ribbon's Account button now shows your plan - Alpha, Pro or Firm - and reads Paused while your license is paused; hover it for the full story.

2026.10.11.f09a4b53 (2026-10-11)

• After a payment, the account page and the ribbon keep showing the new plan instead of briefly going back to the old one for up to an hour.

2026.10.11.878278b4 (2026-10-11)

• After a payment, the ribbon tooltip and the account page show your new plan within seconds, without a restart and without opening the account page.

2026.10.11.22d70ed5 (2026-10-11)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.11.a9ac5b7c (2026-10-11)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.11.acc7c44c (2026-10-11)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.11.5aca3c67 (2026-10-11)

• An update that changes the Excel window add-in now says before you press Update now that the new add-in loads the next time you start Excel, instead of promising an update that keeps Excel running.

2026.10.11.21646a20 (2026-10-11)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.11.a08d45f6 (2026-10-11)

• The Version button's card (and the other ribbon cards) now follow Windows' light or dark app mode instead of staying dark.

2026.10.11.5cac15fa (2026-10-11)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.11.daed6cdc (2026-10-11)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.11.56b4e0a9 (2026-10-10)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.11.6bbafffe (2026-10-10)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.10.54870d86 (2026-10-10)

• The Version, Assistant and Read-back buttons open a small card of their own under the button, with real buttons (Update now, Later, Done, the Read-back choices), instead of Office's drop-down picture.

2026.10.10.21b9099e (2026-10-10)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.10.e4ff89dd (2026-10-10)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.10.f57b0eb2 (2026-10-10)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.10.4eb8da8d (2026-10-10)

• The tray's locked-book notices no longer hold up other bridges while Windows is slow, and a notice just shown is never withdrawn by mistake.

2026.10.10.127bc4fa (2026-10-10)

• Windows' notification list now keeps only the AI Bridge's latest connection notice, and a "still locked" notice disappears once that workbook is unlocked.

2026.10.10.545e9ef2 (2026-10-10)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.10.5423b3a8 (2026-10-10)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.10.ce486ea5 (2026-10-10)

• On claude.ai, the next message of a chat after a report question paused keeps its introduction and its late answer, so the customer is not asked the same question twice.

2026.10.10.c56564f5 (2026-10-10)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.10.69ae7a9e (2026-10-10)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.10.ae6e16a1 (2026-10-10)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.10.9f7e0c29 (2026-10-10)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.10.4ca2eac9 (2026-10-10)

• The Task pane you left switched on now opens beside an unanswered hidden-cells notice when the AI introduces itself, instead of silently not opening.
• After you answer a question in the AI Bridge window, Excel gets your keyboard back right away, even while the window still shows its thank-you note.
• An update that does not change the Excel window add-in no longer asks you to close Excel and open it again.

2026.10.10.4cd1eddb (2026-10-10)

• When Microsoft Edge WebView2 cannot start, the AI Bridge's message about it now opens in front of Excel instead of behind it.

2026.10.10.de620df8 (2026-10-09)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.10.dadda6f2 (2026-10-09)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.09.d05749bc (2026-10-09)

• After you answer a question, the keys you type next go to the sheet every time, not into the closing question window.

2026.10.09.7484895e (2026-10-09)

• The AI Bridge tab no longer keeps saying "waiting" after a connection has ended; its title now matches the Status line.

2026.10.09.34e5bea3 (2026-10-09)

• The tray now records each notification it raises in its log, and a locked-workbook notice Windows refused to show is shown again later instead of being lost.

2026.10.09.c484f8be (2026-10-09)

• Right after an update that leaves an add-in waiting for Excel, the Version button and the status bar both ask you to restart Excel.

2026.10.09.5c39e141 (2026-10-09)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.09.e1d597a2 (2026-10-09)

• After you close an AI Bridge page you opened from a second workbook, Excel goes back to that workbook and your typing lands there, never in the other open workbook.

2026.10.09.5af2af3c (2026-10-09)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.09.3c2595ee (2026-10-09)

• The ribbon's What's new names the release you are running, also after an update that kept the add-in unchanged.

2026.10.09.ffbf9740 (2026-10-09)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.09.b91d9369 (2026-10-09)

• When an AI names your connected workbook without its file extension, the bridge now works on that workbook instead of refusing it.
• A chart can now be drawn from two columns that are not side by side, such as names in one column and salaries a few columns over.

2026.10.09.70b5f3db (2026-10-09)

• The Task pane no longer replaces an unanswered hidden-cells notice; it opens beside it, and the notice stays on screen until you answer it.

2026.10.09.eb0dc3c9 (2026-10-09)

• A workbook closed and reopened in the same Excel while the bridge keeps running now shows Connect AI again instead of staying on Starting the bridge.
• When the AI Bridge stops right after a slow sign-in, the reason is now always recorded, so the cause can be found instead of the bridge stopping silently.
• An update that changes only the bridge now keeps the add-in you already have, so it no longer asks you to restart Excel.
• An update whose new bridge fails to start no longer leaves a newer AI Bridge window add-in behind for the bridge that keeps running.

2026.10.09.7ae8f9cf (2026-10-08)

• When you say Yes to replacing a range such as B2:B13, the whole range is replaced on the sheet the card names, even if you have since switched to another sheet.
• A value typed into a column marked private as a whole is now marked private, with a warning, even when an internal check fails, instead of being left readable.
• Writing or reading a cell note no longer leaves the bridge holding that note until Excel closes, which could crash Excel on close.
• When the chat panel overwrites a filled cell, it can apply only the exact change you said Yes to on AI Bridge's question page, and only once.
• A chat can now be given read-only access to your workbook from the Access page, and the bridge refuses anything it was not allowed to do.
• When the AI Bridge window is missing and private columns wait for your choice, the ribbon now says so and how to bring the window back, instead of reading connected.
• The installer now stops with a plain message when it is run as SYSTEM or under an account other than the signed-in person's, instead of installing a background tray for the wrong account.
• A chat on a workbook connected from the ribbon now gets the privacy and change rules before its first change, and a new claude.ai chat after 10 minutes idle gets them again.
• After you answer a question asked over the private-columns page, the AI Bridge window brings the private-columns choice back 10 seconds later, or as soon as you press Close.
• A cell you skip on the private-columns page, such as a lone IBAN, is no longer proposed again every time you connect the same workbook.
• After a workbook is closed and reopened in an Excel that stayed open, the ribbon no longer says "Starting the bridge..." forever once the bridge has stopped; it offers Connect AI again.
• Undo now takes back the AI's earlier change after the workbook was saved under a new name or moved to another folder.
• With nothing connected, the AI now tells you to press Connect AI on the workbook's AI Bridge tab instead of only asking for the file's full path.
• Bug reports and the evidence handed to the assistant no longer carry a workbook's folder, and never name a workbook the bridge holds under a password.
• After you answer a question in the AI Bridge window, Excel's worksheet has the keyboard again even when the window was still in front as it closed.
• When you add something or correct the summary at the end of a bug report, the summary is shown again with your words in it, and the report is sent only after you say Yes to it.
• After an update, a background connection left over from an older version no longer makes the tray icon restart.
• A column marked private as a whole column now stays private as it grows. One marked before this update needs Mark private pressed twice; typing into it clears Excel's Undo.
• The taskbar no longer pops up while the AI works in Excel when it is set to auto-hide.

2026.10.08.7898c0e0 (2026-10-08)

• A value typed into a column marked private as a whole is now marked private, with a warning, even when an internal check fails, instead of being left readable.
• Right after an update, the Version button now reads Restart Excel, the same step the status bar asks for, and What's new names the release you just received.
• When the chat panel overwrites a filled cell, it can apply only the exact change you said Yes to on AI Bridge's question page, and only once.
• A chat can now be given read-only access to your workbook from the Access page, and the bridge refuses anything it was not allowed to do.
• The installer now stops with a plain message when it is run as SYSTEM or under an account other than the signed-in person's, instead of installing a background tray for the wrong account.
• A chat on a workbook connected from the ribbon now gets the privacy and change rules before its first change, and a new claude.ai chat after 10 minutes idle gets them again.
• After you answer a question asked over the private-columns page, the AI Bridge window brings the private-columns choice back 10 seconds later, or as soon as you press Close.
• A cell you skip on the private-columns page, such as a lone IBAN, is no longer proposed again every time you connect the same workbook.
• With nothing connected, the AI now tells you to press Connect AI on the workbook's AI Bridge tab instead of only asking for the file's full path.
• When you add something or correct the summary at the end of a bug report, the summary is shown again with your words in it, and the report is sent only after you say Yes to it.
• When you ask the AI to analyze a sheet by name, it now does so on the first try instead of having its request refused and retried.
• After an update, a background connection left over from an older version no longer makes the tray icon restart.
• A column marked private as a whole column now stays private as it grows. One marked before this update needs Mark private pressed twice; typing into it clears Excel's Undo.

2026.10.08.972e6135 (2026-10-08)

• The installer now stops with a plain message when it is run as SYSTEM or under an account other than the signed-in person's, instead of installing a background tray for the wrong account.
• A chat on a workbook connected from the ribbon now gets the privacy and change rules before its first change, and a new claude.ai chat after 10 minutes idle gets them again.
• After you answer a question asked over the private-columns page, the AI Bridge window brings the private-columns choice back 10 seconds later, or as soon as you press Close.
• A cell you skip on the private-columns page, such as a lone IBAN, is no longer proposed again every time you connect the same workbook.
• After a workbook is closed and reopened in an Excel that stayed open, the ribbon no longer says "Starting the bridge..." forever once the bridge has stopped; it offers Connect AI again.
• With nothing connected, the AI now tells you to press Connect AI on the workbook's AI Bridge tab instead of only asking for the file's full path.
• Bug reports and the evidence handed to the assistant no longer carry a workbook's folder, and never name a workbook the bridge holds under a password.
• After you answer a question in the AI Bridge window, Excel's worksheet has the keyboard again even when the window was still in front as it closed.
• On a small screen the AI Bridge window grows to the full screen height when 80% of it is too short to read a long question, and the question keeps its first lines above the answers.
• When you add something or correct the summary at the end of a bug report, the summary is shown again with your words in it, and the report is sent only after you say Yes to it.
• When you ask the AI to analyze a sheet by name, it now does so on the first try instead of having its request refused and retried.
• After an update, a background connection left over from an older version no longer makes the tray icon restart.
• A column marked private as a whole column now stays private as it grows. One marked before this update needs Mark private pressed twice; typing into it clears Excel's Undo.

2026.10.08.960a865a (2026-10-08)

• Uninstalling now removes every program folder earlier updates left behind and the product's version records, not just the current release.
• With nothing connected, the AI now tells you to press Connect AI on the workbook's AI Bridge tab instead of only asking for the file's full path.
• Bug reports and the evidence handed to the assistant no longer carry a workbook's folder, and never name a workbook the bridge holds under a password.
• An update that changes only the connection to the AI no longer replaces the Excel add-in or asks you to restart Excel.
• After you answer a question in the AI Bridge window, Excel's worksheet has the keyboard again even when the window was still in front as it closed.
• The local audit now records every request the AI makes, including those made before a workbook is connected and connects that were refused.
• When you add something or correct the summary at the end of a bug report, the summary is shown again with your words in it, and the report is sent only after you say Yes to it.
• When you ask the AI to analyze a sheet by name, it now does so on the first try instead of having its request refused and retried.
• A scripted install or uninstall that redirects its output or chains a command after it no longer gets a stray error in its log or runs the chained command twice.
• After an update, a background connection left over from an older version no longer makes the tray icon restart.
• A column marked private as a whole column now stays private as it grows. One marked before this update needs Mark private pressed twice; typing into it clears Excel's Undo.

2026.10.08.d5fe0140 (2026-10-08)

• Uninstalling now removes every program folder earlier updates left behind and the product's version records, not just the current release.
• With nothing connected, the AI now tells you to press Connect AI on the workbook's AI Bridge tab instead of only asking for the file's full path.
• Bug reports and the evidence handed to the assistant no longer carry a workbook's folder, and never name a workbook the bridge holds under a password.
• On a small screen the AI Bridge window grows to the full screen height when 80% of it is too short to read a long question, and the question keeps its first lines above the answers.
• When you add something or correct the summary at the end of a bug report, the summary is shown again with your words in it, and the report is sent only after you say Yes to it.
• When you ask the AI to analyze a sheet by name, it now does so on the first try instead of having its request refused and retried.
• After an update, a background connection left over from an older version no longer makes the tray icon restart.
• A column marked private as a whole column now stays private as it grows. One marked before this update needs Mark private pressed twice; typing into it clears Excel's Undo.

2026.10.08.bceb48bd (2026-10-08)

• Bug reports and the evidence handed to the assistant no longer carry a workbook's folder, and never name a workbook the bridge holds under a password.
• An update that changes only the connection to the AI no longer replaces the Excel add-in or asks you to restart Excel.
• After you answer a question in the AI Bridge window, Excel's worksheet has the keyboard again even when the window was still in front as it closed.
• On a small screen the AI Bridge window grows to the full screen height when 80% of it is too short to read a long question, and the question keeps its first lines above the answers.
• When you add something or correct the summary at the end of a bug report, the summary is shown again with your words in it, and the report is sent only after you say Yes to it.
• When you ask the AI to analyze a sheet by name, it now does so on the first try instead of having its request refused and retried.
• A scripted install or uninstall that redirects its output or chains a command after it no longer gets a stray error in its log or runs the chained command twice.
• After an update, a background connection left over from an older version no longer makes the tray icon restart.
• A column marked private as a whole column now stays private as it grows. One marked before this update needs Mark private pressed twice; typing into it clears Excel's Undo.

2026.10.08.3ae4923b (2026-10-08)

• After you answer a question in the AI Bridge window, Excel's worksheet has the keyboard again even when the window was still in front as it closed.
• The local audit now records every request the AI makes, including those made before a workbook is connected and connects that were refused.
• When you add something or correct the summary at the end of a bug report, the summary is shown again with your words in it, and the report is sent only after you say Yes to it.
• When you ask the AI to analyze a sheet by name, it now does so on the first try instead of having its request refused and retried.
• A scripted install or uninstall that redirects its output or chains a command after it no longer gets a stray error in its log or runs the chained command twice.
• A column marked private as a whole column now stays private as it grows. One marked before this update needs Mark private pressed twice; typing into it clears Excel's Undo.

2026.10.08.c4b460cc (2026-10-08)

• On a small screen the AI Bridge window grows to the full screen height when 80% of it is too short to read a long question, and the question keeps its first lines above the answers.
• The local audit now records every request the AI makes, including those made before a workbook is connected and connects that were refused.
• When you add something or correct the summary at the end of a bug report, the summary is shown again with your words in it, and the report is sent only after you say Yes to it.
• When you ask the AI to analyze a sheet by name, it now does so on the first try instead of having its request refused and retried.
• A scripted install or uninstall that redirects its output or chains a command after it no longer gets a stray error in its log or runs the chained command twice.
• After an update, a background connection left over from an older version no longer makes the tray icon restart.
• A column marked private as a whole column now stays private as it grows. One marked before this update needs Mark private pressed twice; typing into it clears Excel's Undo.

2026.10.08.651275cb (2026-10-08)

• When you add something or correct the summary at the end of a bug report, the summary is shown again with your words in it, and the report is sent only after you say Yes to it.
• When you ask the AI to analyze a sheet by name, it now does so on the first try instead of having its request refused and retried.
• After an update, a background connection left over from an older version no longer makes the tray icon restart.
• A column marked private as a whole column now stays private as it grows. One marked before this update needs Mark private pressed twice; typing into it clears Excel's Undo.
• The taskbar no longer pops up while the AI works in Excel when it is set to auto-hide.

2026.10.08.1bb3ea67 (2026-10-08)

• When you add something or correct the summary at the end of a bug report, the summary is shown again with your words in it, and the report is sent only after you say Yes to it.
• When you ask the AI to analyze a sheet by name, it now does so on the first try instead of having its request refused and retried.
• A column marked private as a whole column now stays private as it grows. One marked before this update needs Mark private pressed twice; typing into it clears Excel's Undo.

2026.10.08.eec1aa8a (2026-10-08)

• When you ask the AI to analyze a sheet by name, it now does so on the first try instead of having its request refused and retried.
• A scripted install or uninstall that redirects its output or chains a command after it no longer gets a stray error in its log or runs the chained command twice.
• After an update, a background connection left over from an older version no longer makes the tray icon restart.
• A column marked private as a whole column now stays private as it grows. One marked before this update needs Mark private pressed twice; typing into it clears Excel's Undo.

2026.10.08.92541003 (2026-10-08)

• A scripted install or uninstall that redirects its output or chains a command after it no longer gets a stray error in its log or runs the chained command twice.
• After an update, a background connection left over from an older version no longer makes the tray icon restart.
• A column marked private as a whole column now stays private as it grows. One marked before this update needs Mark private pressed twice; typing into it clears Excel's Undo.

2026.10.07.831a9c70 (2026-10-08)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.07.800fd8f6 (2026-10-07)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.07.5df239a7 (2026-10-07)

• The ribbon's Status tip now shows each failed connect's own reason and a long workbook's full name, and a long model name no longer squeezes the AI Bridge tab.
• Test-only: the tray tests no longer fail a release gate when another test briefly puts a file in the shared build folder. Nothing the customer installs changes.

2026.10.07.63e4eade (2026-10-07)

• Quitting Excel with the AI Bridge window add-in loaded now shuts the add-in's window down first, so Excel's own shutdown no longer races it.
• While Excel stays open, the Version button now turns to "Update ready" within a few minutes of a new release, with no click and no restart.

2026.10.07.ca55f2c0 (2026-10-07)

• When Microsoft Edge WebView2 is broken or missing, the AI Bridge window shows one plain message on how to fix it, and the AI is told why it cannot show pages.

2026.10.07.e891a65b (2026-10-07)

• A chart over cells you keep private is now drawn even when they hold no numbers, so the AI can no longer tell from its answer what those cells contain.

2026.10.07.879224f1 (2026-10-07)

• ChatGPT should no longer flag the bridge's tool text as a "Suspicious Instruction": tool descriptions now only say what each action does and returns.

2026.10.07.19bb90bb (2026-10-06)

• Internal test fix only: the add-in's tests no longer create script files that antivirus can block. Nothing changes in the add-in.
• Charts can now be fully designed in one request: fonts for the title, labels, legend and axis titles, percent or category labels, a pie slice pulled out, and background fills.

2026.10.07.003fae05 (2026-10-06)

• A short network blip no longer shows a scary "offline" message: you are told only if the AI can't reach Excel for more than 10 seconds, then told when it reconnects.

2026.10.06.8eee1cfe (2026-10-06)

• After an update made with Excel open, the status bar no longer keeps saying the update is downloading: it tells you once to restart Excel when the new add-in is waiting, or goes back to normal.

2026.10.06.601f6737 (2026-10-06)

• Fixed a crash that could close Excel after the AI Bridge restarted; a background check that once failed with "Access is denied" is now logged and skipped.

2026.10.06.a50f7082 (2026-10-06)

• Closing Excel now closes any open AI Bridge window, so a question nobody answered no longer keeps Excel running or holds back an update.

2026.10.06.c15367da (2026-10-06)

• The AI Bridge window's title bar now turns dark when Windows apps are set to dark, and switches at once when you change the setting.

2026.10.06.df0ac0ba (2026-10-06)

• The Task pane now opens as a narrow panel at Excel's right edge instead of over the grid, and a question asked while it is open gets its own window above it.

2026.10.06.d30f531b (2026-10-06)

• A full install now records the window add-in's release, so the bridge names the right release in its log and can update an older add-in when it starts.
• The tray icon now shows connected while Connect AI's bridge runs, says "running, no workbook connected" before a book is bound, and keeps the account items in its menu.

2026.10.06.ce0bd61c (2026-10-06)

• A question or private-columns page in Excel opens above every window, the browser too, until answered; the Task pane opens at once beneath it; the AI says "on screen" only when it is.
• Connecting a workbook no longer squeezes the AI Bridge tab: the Status line says "Locked: undo starts here", and hovering over it shows the full sentence, so the Private switches stay in sight.

2026.10.06.8a614694 (2026-10-06)

• When the AI restyles a chart, a new colour palette now recolours it even if it was drawn with its own colours, and the AI is told exactly which changes took effect.

2026.10.06.243fd45b (2026-10-06)

• The AI Bridge window now fits its page. It is as tall as the content, and the buttons always sit the same distance from the bottom edge.
• A chart over cells with no numbers, such as a column of names, is refused in plain words; no empty chart is left and the AI is not told it was added.
• After an update or rollback the tray restarts from the installed release, and sign-in starts that release's tray, never an older one.

2026.10.06.3c687522 (2026-10-06)

• A Yes given after its question closed no longer opens undo all, the calculation mode, a delete, macros or the labelling model download; a late No still declines.
• An answer you give after the AI stopped waiting reaches only the chat that asked, on its next step, and never approves a change to your workbook.

2026.10.06.101c8645 (2026-10-05)

• A Private columns window whose page timed out now says so and keeps only Close, and a press on it changes nothing.

2026.10.06.50e9686f (2026-10-05)

• An update now always brings every file that changed in the release, including the uninstaller, and Windows' Apps & features uninstalls the version you are running.

2026.10.05.9c967668 (2026-10-05)

• If the window asking which columns are private closes before you answer, the AI's next change opens it again so you can decide; until then each refused change says why.

2026.10.05.dd23fba8 (2026-10-05)

• A question from the AI now shows in the Excel window even while another AI Bridge window is open there or still drawing, and the AI only says it is on screen once it is.
• Answering a question twice, or after the AI stopped waiting, now tells you plainly that it was already answered or has expired, and changes nothing.
• An answer to a confirmation (overwrite, undo all and the like) given after the AI stopped waiting never counts as your go-ahead; the AI asks again.
• The Private columns window always has a Close button and closes itself 10 s after you answer.
• A report interview goes on by itself when you take up to 50 s to type an answer.
• An AI Bridge window left open across a restart says how to open it again, instead of an error.

2026.10.05.ed9595ea (2026-10-05)

• An update now always brings the new Excel add-in with it; if Excel has the old one open, the new one loads the next time Excel starts, and you are told once to restart Excel.
• If an earlier update left you on an older add-in, this update brings it up to date.
• Uninstalling now stops the AI Bridge before it removes the add-in, so the add-in stays removed.

2026.10.05.42ca470e (2026-10-05)

• The bridge's tool text now describes what each action does instead of giving the AI orders. This is aimed at ChatGPT's "Suspicious Instruction" warning, which could hold the bridge's changes back.
• To pick up the new text, refresh the connector once: in Claude, open Settings > Connectors, choose Excel AI Bridge and press Refresh tools list. In ChatGPT or Gemini, refresh or reconnect the Excel AI Bridge app.

2026.10.05.7810c785 (2026-10-05)

• An AI can now draw a chart over your private cells; Excel draws it, and the AI is never told the values, a title taken from those cells, or where the chart reads from.
• Charts the AI adds can now be sized, styled, coloured and labelled, and the AI can restyle a chart later, a chart over private cells included, without seeing its values.
• After you answer a question or close a page in the AI Bridge window, Excel's worksheet has the keyboard again: the cell cursor is back, and keys, arrows and shortcuts work without a click first. This holds however the page ends. If you moved to another program meanwhile, Excel stays behind it. If Excel is busy, the keyboard returns once it is free.
• This update adds new things the AI can do. In Claude, open Settings > Connectors, choose Excel AI Bridge and press Refresh tools list once.

2026.10.05.e1f82010 (2026-10-05)

• While the AI Bridge window asks about cells, Excel outlines them on screen; the outline never changes your workbook and disappears when the window closes.
• The AI Bridge window now opens centred on your screen, follows your Windows light or dark setting, and shows its buttons centred in one row.
• The AI Bridge's own pages now open only in its window inside Excel, never in a browser tab; if the window can't show one, you are told why, and private columns stay unreadable until you choose.

2026.10.05.e54ba0e6 (2026-10-05)

• After updating from an older version, the AI Bridge window add-in is now installed and loaded the first time the new bridge starts, so pages open in Excel's window.
• When a private-columns choice cannot be saved, the window now says so and offers the buttons again, instead of asking whether Excel AI Bridge is still running.
• With the Excel window add-in loaded, other programs and scripts that attach to your running Excel now reach Excel itself again after you answer a question in the AI Bridge window.

2026.10.05.bb06386c (2026-10-05)

• After an update, the AI's questions and pages open in the AI Bridge window in Excel at once, without restarting Excel, instead of in browser tabs.

2026.10.05.ac396b1a (2026-10-05)

• The first time you connect a workbook, the Status line now says that connecting saved and locked it, so Excel's undo list starts again from there.

2026.10.05.74b4fb75 (2026-10-05)

• A first-connect note about hidden cells no longer stops the AI's question from appearing, and the AI now says where its question is.
• The AI no longer sees the names of hidden or very-hidden sheets in the list of connected workbooks or in the list of named ranges.

2026.10.05.2e697485 (2026-10-05)

• A computer that has used the bridge for a long time no longer waits a minute after every start before Connect AI works.

2026.10.05.78667dd4 (2026-10-05)

• With several workbooks connected, a newly connected workbook no longer stays "offered - waiting" on the status bar, and the Status line follows the workbook in front.

2026.10.05.c101ed31 (2026-10-05)

• After an End on Excel's "Code execution has been interrupted" box, the AI Bridge tab and private-copy marking come back on their own within a few seconds.

2026.10.05.6049a272 (2026-10-05)

• A workbook on a USB stick or network share, or bound while the private-column files were busy, is asked about its private columns again instead of inheriting another file's answers.

2026.10.05.a60b234e (2026-10-04)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.04.6bfe16f4 (2026-10-04)

• An open AI Bridge page in your browser now tells you how to open it again after the bridge restarts, instead of turning into a browser network error.

2026.10.04.901101dc (2026-10-04)

• Undoing an AI change now takes the whole change back in one step, even when it touched several cells, and the list of changes you can undo shows each one once.

2026.10.04.ae9fa3ce (2026-10-04)

• After you answer the Private columns window, it shows a Close button and closes by itself after ten seconds.

2026.10.04.5ea89a68 (2026-10-04)

• Pressing Esc while the add-in is busy, including while a private mark from the Private columns window lands, no longer stops the add-in or removes its tab.

2026.10.04.e7b34f6e (2026-10-04)

• A different workbook saved over a file the bridge knew is now asked the private-column question again, instead of inheriting the old file's "not private" answers.

2026.10.04.d724a3fe (2026-10-04)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.04.47a2996b (2026-10-04)

• An update now also stops the black window that flashed at every Windows sign-in on older installs, and records why the tray could not start at sign-in.

2026.10.04.57697cd4 (2026-10-04)

• The AI can connect right after the bridge starts or updates, instead of waiting about a minute on some computers.

2026.10.04.edd02f4b (2026-10-04)

• A workbook you save under a new name or move in Excel keeps its AI change history, so Undo still reaches the AI's earlier changes.

2026.10.04.1e08fd70 (2026-10-04)

• A "replace this cell?" question now names the sheet it is about, and your Yes changes that cell on that sheet only, even if you switch sheets before the change is made.

2026.10.04.dffd6904 (2026-10-04)

• With the Excel window add-in, a second workbook's Private columns window now opens beside the first at once, and answering one window (Mark or Skip) no longer keeps the other workbook's reads waiting.

2026.10.04.46bec597 (2026-10-04)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.04.97e3dbf6 (2026-10-04)

• A bug report's interview now waits up to 50 seconds for a typed answer, and an answer given later tells you to write anything in the chat to go on.

2026.10.04.a388971c (2026-10-04)

• A write to a locked cell on a protected sheet is now refused as locked straight away, without first asking you to confirm an overwrite it could never make.

2026.10.04.1d986213 (2026-10-04)

• My reports now says "Already known: this is how it works" for a report that matched a decision about how the bridge is meant to behave, instead of "Received".

2026.10.04.9538fa42 (2026-10-04)

• The assistant's questions in the Excel window keep every answer, the text box and Send in view; only a long question's text scrolls.

2026.10.04.162dbc7f (2026-10-04)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.04.7e0673b3 (2026-10-04)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.04.685370bc (2026-10-04)

• When Gemini is the connected assistant, the ribbon now names it as "Gemini, model not reported" instead of only "Model unknown".

2026.10.04.548cc6c8 (2026-10-04)

• With two workbooks connected, the second one's private-columns page opens right away instead of waiting on the first, and each page applies only to its own workbook.

2026.10.04.70798534 (2026-10-03)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.04.99efb6f6 (2026-10-03)

• No black console window flashes any more when the tray starts at Windows sign-in.

2026.10.04.64a6f171 (2026-10-03)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.03.186f57b7 (2026-10-03)

• A problem report made right after a change that worked now describes that change and what you expected, not an earlier error that was already recovered from.

2026.10.03.cc90dd24 (2026-10-03)

• Gemini can now read and write in your workbook without being asked to introduce itself first, and the audit log names which AI made each change.

2026.10.03.68c4f088 (2026-10-03)

• The AI in Claude Code now gets the hidden-cells and password rules even though Claude Code shows it only the start of the bridge's instructions.

2026.10.03.13e4beb9 (2026-10-03)

• When AI Bridge cannot take the password off a workbook at start-up, the tray now tells you once which workbook it is and what to do.

2026.10.03.14e0ab5f (2026-10-03)

• When you mark cells private partway through a chat, the assistant now just says they are private instead of describing it as a correction of its own earlier answer.

2026.10.03.ea7f238b (2026-10-03)

• The end of the install no longer flashes a black console window for a moment when the tray icon starts.

2026.10.03.680fcb28 (2026-10-03)

• When you report a problem, the AI now asks its questions on the bridge's page once instead of first in the chat and then again on the page.

2026.10.03.1972029f (2026-10-03)

• The question and proposal windows keep every answer button in view on scaled screens and small laptops, instead of hiding No or Skip below a scrollbar.

2026.10.03.a02dc103 (2026-10-03)

• When Excel is waiting on a question on screen, connecting a workbook now says to answer that question and ask again, instead of saying the workbook is not open.

2026.10.03.da113f75 (2026-10-03)

• The ribbon's and the tray's pages now open in the AI Bridge window over Excel instead of a new browser tab; anything that window cannot show still opens in your browser.

2026.10.03.448fd306 (2026-10-03)

• After a formula over a private column, the AI no longer warns that the private values are text and may be skipped.

2026.10.03.294f483a (2026-10-03)

• A first Connect AI click right after the bridge starts connects the workbook within seconds, and if the bridge must first finish the last session's work on it, the ribbon says so.

2026.10.03.ff9b13d8 (2026-10-03)

• Gemini's writes are no longer refused with "Introduce yourself first" after it has introduced itself.

2026.10.03.a99286b7 (2026-10-03)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.03.d62f375b (2026-10-03)

• A page you leave unanswered in the browser no longer stops the next workbook's page from opening.

2026.10.03.7eacc629 (2026-10-03)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.03.fb3b1923 (2026-10-03)

• A chat that never asked for a bug report no longer gets the report interview's instructions in its replies.

2026.10.03.b4954071 (2026-10-03)

• When you ask for public and private cells in one question, the AI now answers the public part and declines only the private cells.

2026.10.03.fc25c9f8 (2026-10-03)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.03.4ca0fe08 (2026-10-03)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.03.52ea50bc (2026-10-03)

• A workbook you close is no longer shown as connected on the ribbon or offered to the AI; press Connect AI again after reopening it.

2026.10.03.c13b63c0 (2026-10-03)

• After a refused Connect AI click, the Connection button reads Connect AI again instead of Waiting for AI, so it can be pressed once the cause is fixed.

2026.10.03.c4db8add (2026-10-03)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.03.a6d10864 (2026-10-03)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.03.6c0e0ee4 (2026-10-03)

• On Windows 11 the AI Bridge tray icon now shows next to the clock after install instead of under the hidden-icons arrow, and stays hidden if you move it back.

2026.10.03.78793ce7 (2026-10-02)

• The first Connect AI after the AI Bridge starts connects the workbook within seconds, instead of waiting about 30 seconds for the bridge's start-up workbook recovery to finish.

2026.10.02.ff2684eb (2026-10-02)

• Right after an update the Version button and the status bar now say the same thing: Restart Excel first, then the one step to refresh the tools list.

2026.10.02.04212df0 (2026-10-02)

• When a seat is paused, ChatGPT and other AI apps signed in to it are told "This AI Bridge is paused" on every request instead of a bare connection error.

2026.10.02.c07f681a (2026-10-02)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.02.043e325b (2026-10-02)

• Reinstalling no longer leaves a dead Excel AI Bridge icon in the hidden-icons area of the taskbar.

2026.10.02.06c1be2d (2026-10-02)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.02.f8a1da0e (2026-10-02)

• Gemini can now finish connecting to the bridge; its sign-in was refused because its request carried a longer state value than the server allowed.

2026.10.02.47574e23 (2026-10-02)

• When Excel and the AI Bridge run at different permission levels, a Connect AI click now says so on the ribbon's Status line instead of leaving the tab on "waiting".

2026.10.02.5cc967ea (2026-10-02)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.02.489d8aa3 (2026-10-02)

• A private value a sort moved out of a marked cell stays hidden from the AI when you unmark another cell that holds the same value.

2026.10.02.f5a7edad (2026-10-02)

• A paused AI Bridge seat keeps its AI app signed in, so the AI says the bridge is paused instead of asking you to reconnect.

2026.10.02.b7e61392 (2026-10-02)

• ChatGPT can write to your workbook after it introduces itself, instead of being asked to introduce itself again on every change.

2026.10.02.3f6dd529 (2026-10-02)

• Unmarking a cell no longer makes a figure readable when the same figure still sits in another cell you marked private, so a later sort or fill cannot reveal it.

2026.10.02.ff44836e (2026-10-02)

• ChatGPT no longer shows a security warning about the Excel AI Bridge when you confirm a change to your workbook.

2026.10.02.cdeb66ea (2026-10-02)

• When Connect AI cannot take a workbook, the bridge log now says why.

2026.10.02.7fdc10c5 (2026-10-02)

• Gemini custom apps can now connect to your bridge through Google sign-in, alongside Claude and ChatGPT.
• ChatGPT can now list the Excel AI Bridge tools after it signs in, instead of showing an app with no actions.

2026.10.02.d31f2d41 (2026-10-02)

• The bridge can now be connected from ChatGPT as well as claude.ai, and ChatGPT stays connected after its first sign-in expires.

2026.10.02.795ed6e7 (2026-10-02)

• After Connect AI, a running bridge now binds the workbook within seconds, even when Excel was still busy with the click.

2026.10.02.57fc7109 (2026-10-02)

• After a bridge restart or update, the ribbon no longer says "AI connected" until an AI actually connects to the new bridge.
• After the AI Bridge stops unexpectedly while a workbook is connected, it starts again by itself within a few seconds, so opening that workbook no longer asks for a password you never set.

2026.10.02.8b1e703a (2026-10-02)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.02.5ab39664 (2026-10-02)

• Connect AI starts the bridge even right after a bridge was closed, and the add-in keeps its own log of each start so a slow connect can be explained.

2026.10.02.f589b24b (2026-10-01)

• After the AI Bridge stopped unexpectedly, a workbook that asked for a password you never set is unlocked again as soon as you cancel that prompt while the bridge is running.
• The install guide now says to click the ^ (Show hidden icons) arrow by the clock when the AI Bridge tray icon is not shown there.

2026.10.02.084f4c6a (2026-10-01)

• When the AI cannot change private cells it now says nothing was changed and no longer makes a different change in their place or offers to unmark them.

2026.10.01.ceaf831a (2026-10-01)

• The tray icon now keeps trying to appear while Windows is still starting its taskbar, and comes back after Explorer restarts.

2026.10.01.cc64e0d2 (2026-10-01)

• An Excel 97-2003 .xls is no longer passworded while bound, so saving it no longer asks to convert it to the newer format.

2026.10.01.d3565ddb (2026-10-01)

• After the AI Bridge stops unexpectedly while a workbook is connected, an Excel you closed no longer keeps running hidden: the next bridge start ends it.

2026.10.01.2d4b1d6e (2026-10-01)

• An old-format Excel workbook that you protected with your own password keeps that password after the AI works with it.

2026.10.01.b7118214 (2026-10-01)

• After an update from the ribbon, the AI Bridge keeps writing its log, so a bug report sent afterwards still carries the bridge's lines.
• When the AI Bridge on your computer is not running, Claude now tells you to start it instead of blaming the connector.

2026.10.01.08c34f97 (2026-10-01)

• A password-locked .xls left behind when Excel was closed abruptly is now unlocked at the next start, instead of the bridge trying and failing on every start.

2026.10.01.f9ef564c (2026-10-01)

• A workbook opened into an Excel you just closed now shows the AI Bridge tab even when no workbook was connected.

2026.10.01.70f6337e (2026-10-01)

• The install tutorial's ribbon tour now describes every group on the AI Bridge tab, including AI changes, Assistant, Read-back and Version.

2026.10.01.ac262c2 (2026-10-01)

• After an update, the Version button now says One step left (refresh the tools list) even before the AI connects to a workbook, matching the status bar.

2026.10.01.438d553 (2026-10-01)

• A workbook opened into an Excel that stayed running after you closed it now shows the AI Bridge tab again.

2026.10.01.8b16863 (2026-10-01)

• Closing a workbook the AI Bridge had protected no longer starts a hidden second Excel in the background to remove the protection.

2026.10.01.5da523f (2026-10-01)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.01.3d1e446 (2026-10-01)

• Closing Excel after the AI has worked in a workbook no longer leaves a hidden Excel behind, so the next workbook you open shows the AI Bridge tab again.

2026.10.01.78357c6 (2026-10-01)

• When a chat ends, the ribbon's Assistant button now switches at once to the chat still open, or to "No AI", without a click.

2026.10.01.3e8c3f9 (2026-10-01)

• When the AI Bridge loses its connection mid-answer, Claude now checks whether the change landed and tells you, instead of being told to try again.

2026.10.01.bd5af05 (2026-10-01)

• When find and replace would put text starting with "=" into a cell, its refusal now says Excel could take it for a formula, and no longer says the change could not be undone.

2026.10.01.56cf83c (2026-10-01)

• When the bridge cannot do something right now, its message tells you what to do and to ask again, so the AI no longer schedules its own retries.

2026.10.01.9220638 (2026-10-01)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.10.01.2ef97b3 (2026-10-01)

• If the connection drops for a moment during a change or an undo, the AI now gets the real result after the bridge reconnects instead of being told it may not have happened.
• Undo AI change now takes back the AI's own write of text that starts with "=" instead of refusing it as changed.
• After undoing the only AI change, the Undo AI change button keeps its green or red result dot in colour, and its tip says "Last undo: done" or "Last undo: failed".
• The Undo AI change tooltip says the change history is kept on this computer only from the first AI change in a read-only folder, not minutes later.
• When the AI Bridge is still recovering a workbook after a restart, the assistant now tells you to ask again in a minute instead of scheduling a retry of its own.
• The Version button shows Versions differ until the add-in and the AI bridge are the same build, and only then asks you to refresh the connector's tools.

2026.10.01.6694c9c (2026-10-01)

• A new chat no longer shows the previous chat's AI model on the Assistant button; it shows Model unknown until the new chat says which model it is.

2026.10.01.58f9e80 (2026-10-01)

• The first Excel start after an add-in update shows one AI Bridge tab, not two.

2026.10.01.97898d7 (2026-09-30)

• After you answer No to "Undo all", the Undo AI change card now says "Not undone: no Yes in Excel." instead of going blank.

2026.10.01.44ef9fe (2026-09-30)

• A short Wi-Fi or connection blip no longer resets the AI Bridge ribbon: after it reconnects, the connection button, the last-change line and Undo AI change are as they were.

2026.10.01.28551a4 (2026-09-30)

• A bound workbook you close and reopen a few seconds later opens without asking for a password.

2026.10.01.3e066fc (2026-09-30)

• After you answer the private-columns page, the AI is told you answered it, so it no longer says it is still waiting for you.

2026.10.01.ae90433 (2026-09-30)

• Closing Excel after connecting a workbook to the AI now lets Excel exit completely instead of leaving a hidden Excel running.

2026.10.01.3688c30 (2026-09-30)

• Starting the bridge a second time while it is already running no longer disconnects the AI - the second start stops at once and the running bridge keeps its connection.

2026.09.30.39b5530 (2026-09-30)

• The Undo AI change and Undo all buttons show their icons again, with the change count and the last undo's result, and so do the Status group's small buttons.

2026.09.30.a88b996 (2026-09-30)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.30.9fdd99c (2026-09-30)

• When the link between Excel and the broker drops, every AI tool call now gets an answer within 30 seconds, and one that may already have run says so instead of inviting a blind retry.

2026.09.30.6538e07 (2026-09-30)

• The ribbon's Version button now shows whether you are up to date, have an update ready, or have one step left after updating, and its card updates on one click; Support is three small buttons.

2026.09.30.6027f8d (2026-09-30)

• While the bridge runs, the Account button's hover card shows your address, plan and license state, in the same words as Excel's tooltip.
• If your AI Bridge seat is paused, the bridge keeps running, the AI tells you the seat is paused instead of failing, and it reconnects by itself once the seat is restored.

2026.09.30.60f7be4 (2026-09-30)

• The ribbon's Assistant group is now one button showing the model in two words ("Opus 5.5", "Model unknown" or "No AI"); hover it for the provider, effort and what it is connected through.
• The assistant no longer tells you the bridge sent it "instructions of its own" when it connects to a workbook.

2026.09.30.7e42406 (2026-09-30)

• Undoing an AI change to a date, currency or percent cell puts back the original value and format, and an undo that cannot be done is always recorded with its reason.
• After a short network drop, the bridge now reconnects within about a second instead of waiting up to a minute.
• After you mark columns private, the page now names each one ("Salary (C2:C4) is private now. The AI cannot read it.") instead of showing an unrelated "No hidden cells" page.
• After the bridge restarts while your workbook is open, closing and reopening that workbook no longer asks for a password.
• The Account page no longer adds or removes Google accounts; it shows your seat's account, plan and state, and whether the last sign-in was allowed.
• Closing Excel after connecting the AI no longer leaves a hidden Excel running in the background.
• A workbook that another Excel still holds after you close it is no longer reported as having a key that does not open it, and its password comes off as soon as that Excel lets go.
• When the AI Bridge's connection drops for a moment, a request from Claude now waits for it to reconnect instead of failing, and if it cannot reconnect Claude says so plainly.

2026.09.30.ae5bed5 (2026-09-30)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.30.c6da81c (2026-09-30)

• In a new chat the AI reads your workbook right away, without first stopping to ask you whether it may send the bridge its own model details.

2026.09.29.f990686 (2026-09-29)

• A new conversation's first read of a range now always returns its values, even when an earlier conversation read the same unchanged range.
• Right after the AI writes a formula that spills, Undo AI change turns on and the Status line names the change within seconds, without a click.
• Who may use your AI Bridge is now decided only by bridge.ram.sh: the Google account your seat belongs to connects, and no list on your computer lets anyone else in.
• On a computer linked to a test broker, Connect AI no longer starts a second bridge against the production service.

2026.09.29.5a62d94 (2026-09-29)

• The Account button on the ribbon now names the e-mail address your license belongs to.

2026.09.29.e0a5b7b (2026-09-29)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.29.1dca3cd (2026-09-29)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.29.d090f14 (2026-09-29)

• When the assistant's model is unknown or its effort says low, Read-back on Auto now repeats every change instead of only the risky ones.

2026.09.29.a0ec7ce (2026-09-29)

• Replacing a filled currency or date cell after you answer Yes now works instead of failing with an internal error.

2026.09.29.c2f35db (2026-09-29)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.29.87c5b6e (2026-09-29)

• On a workbook's first connect, the bridge's page now tells you how many rows, columns and sheets are hidden and that the AI cannot read them, and lets you allow the AI to read them with one button.
• The Mark and View ribbon groups are now one Private group, Show password sits under Connection, and hidden rows and columns have a large switch that reads Hidden private or Hidden readable.
• A workbook disconnected while its unlock failed no longer asks for a password when it is closed and reopened before the bridge stops.

2026.09.29.98d633f (2026-09-29)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.29.ba38a8e (2026-09-29)

• Pressing Disconnect now really takes the AI off the workbook: the ribbon returns to Connect AI and the AI can no longer read it.

2026.09.29.92d907d (2026-09-29)

• The Account button on the AI Bridge tab shows your sign-in state with its own badge and a two-word label, and hovering it tells you your license and what to do next.

2026.09.29.311fb34 (2026-09-29)

• Pressing Connect AI now connects the workbook within seconds instead of about half a minute later.

2026.09.29.3383351 (2026-09-29)

• The install tutorial's opening now says Windows shows one prompt, a security warning for the install script, and nothing more.

2026.09.29.b24c7af (2026-09-29)

• The Assistant and Version cards you open with a click now say the same words as that control's tooltip and hover card.

2026.09.29.d094df9 (2026-09-29)

• A computer that is re-invited after its seat was revoked now connects with the new invite on its own, instead of staying stuck on the old seat.

2026.09.29.72c86b5 (2026-09-29)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.29.be1a1b6 (2026-09-29)

• A computer you have just confirmed now stays connected, and a computer removed by an administrator is refused straight away instead of up to a minute later.

2026.09.29.c03d377 (2026-09-29)

• While an AI is connected, resting the mouse on an AI Bridge button shows a clearer card with the button's explanation instead of Excel's small tooltip.

2026.09.29.f636e97 (2026-09-29)

• Ask for a feature now copies a feature-request sentence (it copied the bug-report one), and the Report a bug and Ask for a feature pages say which sentence was copied to your clipboard.

2026.09.29.22a6aa6 (2026-09-29)

• A downloaded install now asks once; the bridge, its tray at sign-in and the uninstaller then start with no Windows warning.
• When the Excel window is narrow, each folded AI Bridge ribbon group now shows its own icon instead of a blank circle.
• After several Undo AI change presses on the ribbon, the AI now hears about every one of them, not only the last.
• A seat invited at a Gmail address with a +tag (name+tag@gmail.com) now confirms and signs in with the plain Google account (name@gmail.com).
• The Connect AI button shows a robot head whose face tells the connection state: eyes closed, one eye open, smiling, or looking aside at another workbook.
• Clicking the connection, private-count, last-action, assistant or version line on the AI Bridge tab now opens a card that explains what the line means right now.
• Claude's first request to colour cells or to write a cell now succeeds instead of being refused and retried.

2026.09.28.5ec9250 (2026-09-28)

• A format asked for a cell that is merged with a private cell is now refused and leaves the private cell as it was, while the rest of the request is still applied.

2026.09.28.3ef27f5 (2026-09-28)

• While a private-columns question is waiting, a hidden column's heading is shown as private instead of by its name.

2026.09.28.ad41148 (2026-09-28)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.28.792ad38 (2026-09-28)

• A highlight or other formatting over rows that include a private cell now formats the other cells and leaves the private ones exactly as they were, instead of refusing the whole request.
• Reading a cell or a range that holds a date now returns the date instead of refusing the read.

2026.09.28.3e2f4d7 (2026-09-28)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.28.889bd72 (2026-09-28)

• Pressing Esc right after pasting or filling private cells no longer brings up a Visual Basic interrupt box, and the AI Bridge tab stays on the ribbon.

2026.09.28.b212453 (2026-09-28)

• An update from the ribbon now installs the add-in half right after the bridge half, without downloading the whole release again or restarting the bridge a second time.

2026.09.28.67469fd (2026-09-28)

• When a workbook waits for you to choose private ranges, the assistant now points you to the browser tab that is actually open.

2026.09.28.5dee00c (2026-09-28)

• Connect AI now connects a workbook only for the Excel session you clicked it in; reopening the workbook later no longer hands it to the AI without a new click.

2026.09.28.d7094f2 (2026-09-28)

• When the connection to the AI drops or comes back, the ribbon's Status line now updates on its own, without clicking a cell.

2026.09.28.d08b1fc (2026-09-27)

• After a restart, the AI Bridge Status line no longer shows an old "workbook is not open in Excel" error left by an earlier session; it reads "AI not attached" until something current happens.

2026.09.28.0703213 (2026-09-27)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.28.cb9ca82 (2026-09-27)

• A formula the AI writes now lands in the cell, or the AI is told the write was refused - it no longer says Done over an empty cell.

2026.09.28.28aac8d (2026-09-27)

• The ribbon's Status line now shows the AI's last action as soon as the call lands, instead of waiting for you to select a cell.

2026.09.27.01949b7 (2026-09-27)

• The bridge no longer reports "linked" while its connection to the service is down, and its log says why each connection ended.

2026.09.27.e0ab631 (2026-09-27)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.27.6068e5d (2026-09-27)

• Connecting claude.ai to a newly installed bridge now signs in without any manual setup on our side.

2026.09.27.1e28b5d (2026-09-27)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.27.904a1fa (2026-09-27)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.27.b7bdf4a (2026-09-27)

• Confirming a new computer now takes a press of the button on the confirm page and always shows Google's own screen, so a browser that is already signed in cannot move the seat by itself.

2026.09.27.2c53b3d (2026-09-27)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.27.742e67f (2026-09-27)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.27.2d3f4a4 (2026-09-27)

• When you connect a workbook with macros, the AI now tells you that a change or selection it makes may run them.

2026.09.27.0291819 (2026-09-27)

• When a workbook's macros change other cells after an AI edit, the assistant now tells you which cells they changed, on any visible sheet.

2026.09.27.0474544 (2026-09-27)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.27.cd03d20 (2026-09-27)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.27.b6dd64e (2026-09-27)

• The warning on the new-computer confirm page, that confirming disconnects your other computer, is now shown in full instead of having its first line cut off.

2026.09.27.8770973 (2026-09-27)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.27.2af1dab (2026-09-27)

• A formula in an unmarked cell that shows a placeholder like [redacted] can no longer show a private value to the AI.

2026.09.27.6dd5418 (2026-09-27)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.27.7344fad (2026-09-27)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.27.85d24dd (2026-09-27)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.27.fded52f (2026-09-27)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.27.c9804bc (2026-09-27)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.27.e2d853b (2026-09-27)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.27.06f912f (2026-09-26)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.27.3441698 (2026-09-26)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.27.f4cd45b (2026-09-26)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.26.52ba21e (2026-09-26)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.26.19da327 (2026-09-26)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.26.190a8b5 (2026-09-26)

• After an admin update finishes, Excel's status bar now shows the Refresh tools list step even when no workbook is connected to the AI.

2026.09.26.0b5d562 (2026-09-26)

• This update adds new things the AI can do. In Claude, open Settings > Connectors, choose Excel AI Bridge and press Refresh tools list once.

2026.09.26.db0c458 (2026-09-26)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.26.8b6efd5 (2026-09-26)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.26.f48b938 (2026-09-26)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.26.66531df (2026-09-26)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.26.9ee2487 (2026-09-26)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.26.f02010d (2026-09-26)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.26.951a2d6 (2026-09-26)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.26.23ba0f2 (2026-09-26)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.26.fa82528 (2026-09-26)

• When the assistant reaches your workbook through the AI Bridge link, it now says so, instead of naming a local port on your computer.

2026.09.26.b1f2f52 (2026-09-26)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.26.299083e (2026-09-26)

• When an update finishes the add-in asks you to press Refresh tools list in Claude once, so the connector stops showing the previous version.

2026.09.26.8cd9755 (2026-09-26)

• The ribbon no longer says Linked after the bridge has gone when Windows hands the bridge's process number to another program.

2026.09.26.228b595 (2026-09-26)

• The uninstall now writes the time of each of its steps to its record file, so a slow uninstall shows which step took the time.
• Closing Excel while the AI Bridge is connected no longer leaves a hidden Excel running in the background.

2026.09.26.c9f7eea (2026-09-26)

• After Connect AI on the C# bridge, the ribbon's Status line now says "Linked, waiting for the AI" once the bridge links, instead of staying on "Starting the bridge...".

2026.09.26.6a973a2 (2026-09-26)

• Uninstalling no longer leaves a dead Excel AI Bridge icon behind in the notification area.

2026.09.26.251b2e7 (2026-09-26)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.26.31e767b (2026-09-26)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.26.5079788 (2026-09-25)

• The ribbon asks you to press Connect in claude.ai only when your bridge has actually moved to the new sign-in, and never because some unrelated request was turned away.

2026.09.26.dfcdf89 (2026-09-25)

• The C# download no longer carries a folder of its own just to hold the version number, and an installed copy keeps reporting its version after it updates.

2026.09.26.5c7ee67 (2026-09-25)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.25.3be0f2c (2026-09-25)

• After Connect AI the ribbon says the bridge is linked and waiting for the AI, and a link the service refuses shows why instead of "Linked".

2026.09.25.1d2f958 (2026-09-25)

• The connect guide now describes only the hosted-broker route the installed bridge supports, and the tutorials describe what you ask and see in plain words.

2026.09.25.2d7734d (2026-09-25)

• Press Connect once in claude.ai and sign in with Google once; your connector address stays the same. Only bridges moving to the C# engine ask this; a Python-engine bridge does not.

2026.09.25.ebf3b41 (2026-09-25)

• When another program holds the bridge list open, a refused connect no longer leaves the AI attached to that workbook without its privacy check.

2026.09.25.aad9ac6 (2026-09-25)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.25.42494f9 (2026-09-25)

• Quitting Excel while a locked workbook the bridge is bound to is still open no longer leaves Excel running in the background.

2026.09.25.eb609fc (2026-09-25)

• The connect guide and the bridge's own error messages no longer mention the development team's password manager; the guide says who can sign in to an invited bridge and where your own token lives.

2026.09.25.1a8d67c (2026-09-25)

• A pivot table that uses distinct count now says so in words when it cannot be changed or deleted, instead of showing a number.
• The C# bridge accepts the sign-in pass the AI Bridge service hands your AI client, and still checks it against this bridge's own allowed accounts.

2026.09.25.972a985 (2026-09-25)

• A pivot read while Excel is busy now answers busy instead of reporting no filter, and one unreadable pivot no longer fails the whole workbook read.

2026.09.25.325a354 (2026-09-25)

• When another program briefly holds the bridge list open, Disconnect, closing the bridge and connecting a workbook now say so in plain words instead of crashing or showing a generic error.
• An update that finds the add-in or another program file in use now changes nothing and asks you to press Update again, instead of leaving a half-updated install.
• A delete that cannot check the sheet now says so, instead of reporting that you had not chosen Yes to it.

2026.09.25.95b73ec (2026-09-25)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.25.83dfe66 (2026-09-25)

• On the C# engine the ribbon's Report a bug and Undo AI change buttons now act on the next heartbeat instead of doing nothing at all.
• A Yes to deleting a sheet, chart or pivot table now lasts five minutes, so the AI asks again rather than acting on an answer you gave a while ago.
• New installs and updates of the Excel AI Bridge now get the C# engine; the Python bundle is no longer published.
• An update no longer stops halfway when the tutorial workbook is open in Excel; the rest of the update lands and the open workbook is left alone.

2026.09.25.2fc07dc (2026-09-25)

• The tutorials in the download no longer show broken images where screenshots were never included.
• A Yes to a delete question that never said sheet, chart or pivot table now deletes nothing, and the AI is asked to say which one it means.
• A bind no longer fails when another program briefly has the bridge list open, and when it stays held the bind says so in plain words.
• The download now carries the install guide, the tutorials and the demo workbook on both engines, and nothing but the docs written for customers.
• A Yes to deleting rows, columns, cells or the values on a sheet no longer deletes the whole sheet; the AI asks again about the sheet itself.

2026.09.25.d861862 (2026-09-25)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.25.e9f23b1 (2026-09-25)

• An Excel 97-2003 workbook or a rights-managed one is no longer recorded as already password-protected when the bridge locks it.
• Connecting a workbook no longer fails when another program is holding the bridge's own list of connections open for a moment.

2026.09.25.a9e7ec0 (2026-09-24)

• A Yes to delete a chart or a pivot table now only deletes the one on the sheet the question named, never one of the same name on another sheet.
• Right-clicking the tray icon opens its menu, and the menu stays open until you pick an item or click away.
• A sign-in refused because the Google account is not allowed now says so in claude.ai, and the ribbon and account page name the account the bridge is set up for.
• The record of the private-columns page in your audit trail no longer says the page was shown to you a second time after you answer it.
• A workbook connects on the first try right after the bridge restarts, instead of being refused while the bridge finishes putting a workbook right from its last run.
• When the question about private columns is still waiting, the assistant now says where to find that page again if you closed its tab.
• When Excel is too busy to check a typed answer for private values, the bridge now holds the text back and asks again instead of sending it to the assistant.
• The tray icon now appears in the Windows 11 notification area instead of only inside the hidden-icons flyout, and one you put back in that flyout stays there when the bridge updates.
• A Yes to delete a sheet no longer counts for a different sheet whose name is the end of it, such as a Yes for Raw_Data counting for Data.
• A workbook you have already password-protected keeps your own password through a bind: the bridge no longer replaces it, and no longer leaves the file unprotected when it lets go.
• Asked which cells are private, the assistant now checks the workbook before answering, so a marked range it had not read is named and a cell that only shares a private value is named apart.
• Taking back an AI change stays quick on a workbook with a long history of changes, instead of pausing for several seconds.
• The bridge now checks that it is still answering on this computer and, if it has gone quiet for a minute, writes down why and restarts itself.
• A private mark Excel can no longer place now refuses that one read in plain words naming the mark and the workbook it is in, instead of failing with an internal error.

2026.09.24.9ba89b9 (2026-09-24)

• The page that suggests private cells now names a suggested cell by the private word it matched instead of copying the text written beside it, and remembers each skipped field on its own.

2026.09.24.952e5aa (2026-09-24)

• Saving a connected workbook as CSV now explains, before Excel's own warning, that the protection being removed is the AI Bridge's encryption of the connected file.

2026.09.24.b9474ca (2026-09-24)

• The C# engine bundle is attached to every release, beside the Python one.

2026.09.24.f29bbcb (2026-09-24)

• A chart or pivot table Excel would not delete is left alone: you are told why, and the Yes you already gave still counts for the next try.

2026.09.24.77db8fa (2026-09-24)

• When the assistant cannot read cells it now says they are private, instead of claiming they were marked private when they were only hidden.
• The ribbon now shows an assistant as connected as soon as it makes a call, even while the page asking which columns are private is still open.
• Quitting Excel while the AI Bridge is running now really closes it, so an update's new ribbon is there the next time you start Excel.
• The activity record now credits a privacy decision you make on a bridge page to you, not to the assistant.
• A bridge whose token the service no longer knows now repairs itself on the next start instead of failing to start with a missing-credentials message.
• Asked how to unhide a hidden column, the assistant now gives at most a short general Excel answer and can point you at the ribbon's "AI reads hidden" toggle, instead of walking you through the steps.
• Pressing Esc around a paste that includes privately marked cells no longer pops Excel's "Code execution has been interrupted" dialog over your workbook.

2026.09.24.e0b4515 (2026-09-24)

• A Yes to delete a sheet now deletes only the sheet it was given for, never another sheet that later takes its name, and never a chart or pivot table of that name.
• The ribbon's Task pane, Account, Support and What's new buttons now open their page in your default browser directly, so a company link-protection policy can no longer block them.

2026.09.24.0cac8e9 (2026-09-24)

• A sheet delete that Excel refuses no longer leaves Excel quietly closing unsaved workbooks without asking first.
• The Mark private button now updates as soon as an insert, delete or move changes whether the selected cells are private.

2026.09.24.19dc7b1 (2026-09-23)

• A read taken while you insert or delete rows or columns is taken again, and refused rather than answered if the sheet keeps moving, so a private cell is never shown as a public one.

2026.09.23.9fb1617 (2026-09-23)

• A pivot table whose field Excel cannot read no longer loses the whole report or shows an internal error number - the value is named unreadable and the rest of the report reads normally.

2026.09.23.e46ba04 (2026-09-23)

• A tool call made while the bridge is recovering from a stuck Excel now always counts, so the bridge no longer waits for a second one before it tries Excel again.

2026.09.23.37d0973 (2026-09-23)

• When the assistant selects a range, its reply now says whether the cells really ended up on screen, and only offers a way to jump to them when they did not.
• The security and privacy notes now say correctly that a seat file which is there but cannot be read lets nobody in, whichever way your bridge was set up.

2026.09.23.62c11c8 (2026-09-23)

• The task pane keeps naming the assistant on the line while a dropped connection comes back, instead of saying nobody is there until the next answer.

2026.09.23.875b193 (2026-09-23)

• A change the bridge cannot take back is now listed as blocked among the changes you can undo, with the same reason the undo itself gives.

2026.09.23.36deb03 (2026-09-23)

• The first answer about a workbook's linked files now says whether each one needs a password, not only the protected one.
• An Update click no longer fails when a newer release is published while the download is running; the click installs what the broker is serving.
• Connecting a workbook now waits out another program that is briefly holding the file the request is written to, and says in plain words what to try when it cannot.

2026.09.23.6b9199e (2026-09-23)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.23.7b58559 (2026-09-23)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.22.1277b44 (2026-09-23)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.21.aa30414 (2026-09-21)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.21.a92f1e4 (2026-09-21)

• A cell that errors or stays blank because its formula mentions a private value is no longer shown in the clear, and inserting cells around a private column no longer unmasks a neighbouring cell.

2026.09.21.cf069c8 (2026-09-21)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.21.62a6497 (2026-09-21)

• Uninstalling now keeps trying to remove the installed folder for about twenty seconds, so it no longer leaves an empty folder behind, and it writes down what it did.

2026.09.21.08a653c (2026-09-21)

• After changing a PivotTable the assistant is told the new layout, instead of being told it is unreadable.

2026.09.21.8cfe13f (2026-09-21)

• The bridge's sign-in pages no longer pass their one-time id on to the next page they open.
• A bridge no longer refuses every sign-in when its broker sends one allowed account instead of a list.

2026.09.21.0defc24 (2026-09-21)

• A refused change is explained in plain words only, never by quoting the assistant's own instructions.

2026.09.21.32cc552 (2026-09-21)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.20.03e2f38 (2026-09-20)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.20.0f74920 (2026-09-20)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.20.9c7d109 (2026-09-20)

• The privacy and security pages now say what bridge.ram.sh keeps for your seat and for a sign-in, and what someone who took it over could reach.

2026.09.20.d54d0a5 (2026-09-20)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.20.fc40292 (2026-09-20)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.20.67e25f3 (2026-09-20)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.20.1b93dbf (2026-09-20)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.20.60d02f4 (2026-09-20)

• Suggest private ranges no longer calls cost figures phone numbers, and now finds a salary or a bank account written as a label beside its value.

2026.09.20.b826817 (2026-09-19)

• If the bridge cannot read its seat file it now lets nobody sign in, instead of falling back to a wider list.

2026.09.19.7c25f63 (2026-09-19)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.19.d949686 (2026-09-19)

• A change the add-in only records as evidence, or one recorded by a newer version, is now refused by name when Undo meets it instead of putting unrelated cells back.

2026.09.19.183757b (2026-09-19)

• Uninstalling now also closes the "Connecting Excel AI Bridge" window, so the installed folder is removed instead of being left behind - including on a Windows account whose name has an apostrophe.
• A value hidden as private is never spelled out as a number the assistant worked out from the cells around it.

2026.09.19.480a709 (2026-09-19)

• A bridge started before the network is up now waits for it (up to 15 minutes) instead of stopping, and still stops at once when its Google credentials are genuinely missing.

2026.09.19.568fb85 (2026-09-19)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.19.bd533d4 (2026-09-19)

• A privacy read made while you are typing in a cell now waits and reports Excel as busy instead of possibly leaving a private range unmasked.
• A Yes to replacing a cell no longer makes the add-in act as if a problem report were under way, unless another page question was answered shortly before it.

2026.09.19.57485bf (2026-09-19)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.19.e9e10d7 (2026-09-19)

• If Excel could not read part of a pivot table, the assistant now says which part it could not read instead of showing an error number in its place.

2026.09.19.e9c3d33 (2026-09-19)

• The question page now says when a connected workbook is held for a private-columns choice and links to the page that lifts the hold, instead of reporting that nothing is waiting.

2026.09.19.426b7c3 (2026-09-19)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.19.1c3c923 (2026-09-19)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.19.50e61b2 (2026-09-18)

• When Excel refuses to add, rename or delete a sheet because the workbook's structure is protected, the bridge now reports exactly what Excel said.

2026.09.18.98f4d7e (2026-09-18)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.18.6d7d379 (2026-09-18)

• When a cell pulls a value another workbook marks private, tracing it no longer shows that value or names the cell it came from, and the error scan lists no error that derives from it.
• Marking cells private now adds its note in a way that cannot close Excel and lose unsaved work on affected Office installations.

2026.09.18.8f1423d (2026-09-18)

• The bridge now remembers the plan your service granted it, says plainly when access is paused, and offers the upgrade and billing buttons on its accounts page.

2026.09.18.3390eb6 (2026-09-18)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.18.ec90513 (2026-09-18)

• With the new engine, the ribbon's connection light updates the moment a workbook is bound, and Excel's taskbar button turns green while an assistant is connected.

2026.09.18.ed59e3d (2026-09-18)

• A read taken while the workbook is being restructured no longer shows a value from the neighbouring cell where a private one was marked.

2026.09.18.3770063 (2026-09-18)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.18.6121637 (2026-09-18)

• The C# bridge now takes its password off a workbook you close while it is connected, so reopening it never asks for a password you did not set.

2026.09.18.93970c5 (2026-09-18)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.18.4971662 (2026-09-18)

• A search now matches letters the way Unicode says they match, so a ligature, a long s, a micro sign or a Cherokee syllable finds the cell that holds it.
• A workbook this one pulls values from is now described as password-protected when it needs a password, instead of only as closed.
• When Excel stops answering mid-change, AI Bridge now says so plainly, refuses further changes until Excel is free rather than piling them up, and restarts itself so Connect AI works again.
• With the new C# engine, the ribbon's Suggest private ranges button now acts within seconds, and the ribbon keeps showing where the AI change history is kept.
• A read of a range now names the other workbooks its cells pull from and says whether each of those files is open, closed or missing.
• The new engine can now put a note or a link on a cell, take either one off again, and undo the change.
• The new bridge engine now password-protects the connected workbook file on disk while the AI is connected and removes the password when it lets go, as the previous engine did.
• The question page now finishes a bug report by itself when the assistant's turn.
• The assistant can add, change, refresh and delete pivot tables and set Excel's calculation mode through the new bridge engine, and undo each change.
• The Excel AI Bridge's new engine can now format cells, sort, filter, add conditional formats and dropdown lists, freeze panes and set column widths, and undo each of those.
• The assistant can define and delete named ranges through the new bridge engine and undo either change.

2026.09.17.4d0e188 (2026-09-17)

• The install window now closes by itself 10 seconds after a successful install; if the install fails it stays open so you can read the error.

2026.09.17.d1c5b5b (2026-09-17)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.17.d1ff1f4 (2026-09-17)

• The new engine can now map a sheet and the whole workbook, and says when a sheet's layout has not changed since its last map.

2026.09.17.fc858e8 (2026-09-17)

• The new engine now says a workbook with a sensitivity label or rights management keeps its own protection when it connects, as the current engine does.

2026.09.17.24449b4 (2026-09-17)

• The C# engine no longer shows a private cell's value when another cell pulls it from a second open workbook.

2026.09.17.105b64f (2026-09-17)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.17.3852db0 (2026-09-17)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.17.48be318 (2026-09-17)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.17.26dcd62 (2026-09-17)

• A write asked while Excel shows a dialog now answers busy within seconds instead of holding Excel's worker until the dialog closes.
• Suggest private ranges no longer calls a column of amounts phone numbers, and now proposes a salary or bank account written as a label with its value beside it.

2026.09.17.6eb6cb3 (2026-09-17)

• The C# engine now starts from the ribbon's Connect AI without a preset token, keeps a log of its own start-up, and reports its real release version.

2026.09.17.28ecf2a (2026-09-17)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.17.6da07ce (2026-09-17)

• The install download is smaller, about 59 MB, because it no longer carries a help file and an editor the bridge never uses.

2026.09.17.56fd45b (2026-09-17)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.17.1f471d0 (2026-09-17)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.17.03f1b82 (2026-09-17)

• When Excel stays stuck behind an open dialog, AI Bridge now restarts itself through Connect AI and waits for the dialog to close before touching the workbook again.

2026.09.17.01ad9b8 (2026-09-17)

• Adding, changing or undoing a cell note through the AI no longer closes Excel on Office installs where it used to crash.
• A change asked while Excel shows a dialog or is editing a cell now answers "Excel is busy" within about ten seconds instead of tying up Excel until the dialog is closed.

2026.09.17.47623b2 (2026-09-17)

• The archive inventory tool can now report, without opening Excel, which workbooks and templates hold which categories of personal data and which ranges are already marked private.

2026.09.17.7e1124f (2026-09-17)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.17.54e7424 (2026-09-17)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.17.0f44c17 (2026-09-17)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.17.6aad6ce (2026-09-17)

• When Excel stops a large change partway (a locked cell, or text longer than a cell holds), the reply now names exactly which cells changed, and undo puts back only those.

2026.09.17.17e0f38 (2026-09-16)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.17.4186bc6 (2026-09-16)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.16.7208aa3 (2026-09-16)

• The privacy page now shows, per sheet, how many cells are hidden only because they hold the same value as a private cell.
• Suggest private ranges now recognises a column of Israeli ID numbers (teudat zehut) by their check digit, even when the heading says nothing.
• After Excel stops answering, the bridge waits until Excel is free again before touching the workbook, then says whether the earlier change went in.

2026.09.16.32b92b8 (2026-09-16)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.16.907c6d9 (2026-09-16)

• A registration confirmation page now opens only on the service's own confirmation address; any other address stops registration and says to contact support.

2026.09.16.672f8f5 (2026-09-16)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.16.3307aa0 (2026-09-16)

• The first time a workbook with personal-looking columns is connected, the private-columns page opens on its own and the password page waits until you have answered it.

2026.09.16.32f1dda (2026-09-16)

• When Excel does not answer, for example while a dialog is open, the assistant now tells you what to close within the deadline instead of waiting with no reply.

2026.09.16.8eb57a1 (2026-09-16)

• Installing the AI Bridge on a computer now asks you to confirm it by signing in with your own Google account, so a forwarded installer cannot take over your seat.

2026.09.16.a93ef01 (2026-09-16)

• A new install asks you to confirm the computer by signing in with your Google account in the browser before it connects.

2026.09.16.74706f2 (2026-09-16)

• A bug report or session summary no longer shows the internal name of your answer to the macro question; it says in plain words that you answered it.

2026.09.16.7152d28 (2026-09-16)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.16.1ec7ccb (2026-09-16)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.16.9d3c24b (2026-09-16)

• The task pane no longer says no assistant is connected right after the AI changed your workbook.

2026.09.16.c81d208 (2026-09-16)

• A bridge whose install report fails no longer retries every five seconds; it backs off from one minute up to an hour and says "no identity" once.

2026.09.16.3dfd20b (2026-09-16)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.16.e65fa0d (2026-09-16)

• Excel AI Bridge now tells you when a workbook contains macros, asks once before its first change to it, and lists any cell a macro changed outside the range it wrote.

2026.09.16.3c47357 (2026-09-16)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.16.339eacf (2026-09-16)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.16.c3d08b1 (2026-09-16)

• The ribbon's Status dropdown now says what the AI last did in plain words - "Last: read cells Sheet1!C2:C4" - instead of the internal name of the action.

2026.09.16.fac3b50 (2026-09-16)

• On the new engine, the ribbon's Status line reads "AI not attached" within seconds of the bridge starting, instead of repeating the registration message for two minutes.

2026.09.16.e6d6cde (2026-09-16)

• A large write no longer leaves Excel's screen frozen, even when the bridge stops in the middle of it.

2026.09.16.277487a (2026-09-16)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.16.d54e4c7 (2026-09-16)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.16.a0bc240 (2026-09-16)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.16.fa38faa (2026-09-16)

• The task pane now says what the assistant did and what it changed in plain words instead of the bridge's internal names.

2026.09.16.0bd1feb (2026-09-16)

• The Excel ribbon has a new Task pane button that opens the bridge's pane, and the pane comes back by itself the next time Excel starts.

2026.09.16.bf92428 (2026-09-15)

• Numbers, dates and formulas written in the same request as text no longer end up in Excel's Text format, so what you type in those cells afterwards stays a number.

2026.09.16.38a9f98 (2026-09-15)

• The tray started at sign-in now shows "installed, not connected" once the last bridge stops, and stops rewriting the ribbon's connection file while idle.

2026.09.16.5cdfb35 (2026-09-15)

• Binding a workbook set to Manual calculation no longer recalculates its formulas, so values waiting for a recalculation stay as they were.

2026.09.16.d713926 (2026-09-15)

• Reporting a bug no longer hangs while an Excel window is showing a dialog; after a few seconds the report goes ahead and says Excel did not answer in time.

2026.09.15.3d518f2 (2026-09-15)

• A bridge the broker has rejected signs in again with its invite the next time you press Connect AI, and the ribbon says the invite is invalid only when it really is.

2026.09.15.6365469 (2026-09-15)

• The bridge now refuses requests that reach it under a foreign host name, on every route, closing a DNS-rebinding opening.

2026.09.15.13f1ee4 (2026-09-15)

• Dates the assistant writes land as real dates, text keeps the cell's format, and filling a column with a formula no longer shows #SPILL!.

2026.09.15.4731779 (2026-09-15)

• The preview download of the new engine is about forty megabytes smaller, because its tray icon now runs from the same program.

2026.09.15.52579e5 (2026-09-15)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.15.eecd9d5 (2026-09-15)

• The ribbon's Status line now shows "AI not attached" right after the bridge links, instead of the registration message for two minutes.

2026.09.15.9dc9932 (2026-09-15)

• The assistant's numbers, dates and text now land in cells exactly as intended in every language setting, and formulas that fetch from the internet or other files are refused.

2026.09.15.fefbdbc (2026-09-15)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.15.4c7f2e8 (2026-09-15)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.15.4ab3c32 (2026-09-15)

• When an update adds new things the AI can do, its notes now say to press Refresh tools list in Claude once.

2026.09.15.1432184 (2026-09-15)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.15.70ac2a0 (2026-09-15)

• After you unhide cells, the assistant now reports their values plainly without remarking that they were private before.

2026.09.15.e6d568c (2026-09-15)

• When removing a workbook password gives up on a stuck hidden Excel, the bridge now ends only that Excel and never another process that reused its number.
• With the C# bundle, the tray icon now appears at the end of install and every time you sign in to Windows, reading "Installed, not connected" until you press Connect AI.
• A change too large to take back is now refused before it touches the sheet, and each change the AI makes says how many AI changes can still be undone.
• When Excel is set to Manual calculation, the assistant now says that formula results it reads may be out of date until the workbook is recalculated.

2026.09.15.a34520d (2026-09-15)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.15.cef8f4d (2026-09-15)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.15.8ae6e35 (2026-09-15)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.15.27d46ea (2026-09-15)

• The assistant can now see and change Excel's calculation mode and recalculate, asking before a change that would affect other open workbooks, and undo puts the mode back.

2026.09.15.c832ceb (2026-09-15)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.15.06548d6 (2026-09-15)

• A formula that reads private cells through a trimmed range, a sheet name in another alphabet, or a range across several sheets is now treated as reading them.

2026.09.15.0615d46 (2026-09-15)

• A formula that reads a whole private column or row is now treated as reading the private cells in it.

2026.09.15.a516598 (2026-09-15)

• After making or deleting a pivot table, the assistant now tells you the pivot's name, its sheet and the cells it covers.

2026.09.15.0a21048 (2026-09-15)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.15.d52c348 (2026-09-15)

No customer-visible change in this release.

2026.09.15.b57ea9d (2026-09-15)

• The docs site has a new Tools page that lists every action an assistant can ask the bridge to take, with its parameters.

2026.09.15.8f51676 (2026-09-15)

• A pivot table placed on a new sheet is one change, so a single undo removes both the pivot and the sheet it added.

2026.09.15.fbf9b63 (2026-09-14)

• A release that turns out to be bad can be withdrawn; Excel then offers the previous release and the old one is told to update.

2026.09.14.d3259a9 (2026-09-14)

• A Suggest private ranges button on the AI Bridge ribbon lists the columns that look private, with a reason each, and hides nothing until you tick them on that page.

2026.09.14.43752fa (2026-09-14)

• The ribbon's Update line now says which half is coming, a bridge update that restarts the bridge or an admin update that leaves it running, and the click asks Yes or No with the same words.

2026.09.14.13d2087 (2026-09-14)

• The bridge's hourly report now says how many calls of each kind succeeded, were refused, or timed out, and how long they took, as counts only.

2026.09.14.42bf9a7 (2026-09-14)

• A What's new button on the ribbon opens the list of what each release changed, in plain words.