October 1, 2025

In case you missed it, we also posted a community update blog post recently: https://www.novelcrafter.com/blog/2025-09-community-update

---

We haven't posted an update in a while, so here's what's new today (plus some fixes we've made over the past few weeks):

🤖 AI Connections

We've updated and enhanced the inner workings of all AI connections:

Added a new generic "OpenAI Compatible" provider to support other niche platforms. If we don't have official support for a vendor, you should now be able to use them through this connection!
Google AI Studio: Updated the icon to their new official logo—in case it looks different, that’s why!
Mistral: Fixed thinking steps in some models flooding your screen with
[object Object]
.
Mistral: Added support for the “Detect Characters” feature.
Updated the model list filtering in various providers to only show supported model types.
Removed the legacy “Anyscale Endpoints” connection.

🧑🏻‍💻 Prompting

While we continue to enhance our prompting system (and its documentation), we've cleaned up a few things and added/fixed some functions:

New
min
and
max
functions to get the minimum and maximum value of a list of numbers. For example: when using it in a custom shorten prompt, you can now ensure a min. word count.
Fix
multiply
not working as expecting - it now returns the full product of all provided numbers.

🔧 Other Changes

Fixed timeout-related loading issues with novels that exceed 100MB in total size.
Fixed some more rare AI streaming issues in Chat, which turned some messages blank.
Fixed placeholder labels in text editors not updating in some cases.
Various other fixes and improvements.