What's new

• Automatic counting now finds a device whichever way it's turned on the drawing.
• On tablet, "Continue with Microsoft", "Google" and "Apple" are now at the top of the sign-in screen.
• On tablet, signing in with Microsoft, Google or Apple does open your measurements — and Kantibat now tells you so.
• Signing in with Google or Microsoft no longer asks for your password and verification code every single time.
• Signing in with an Apple account is ready, without being switched on yet.
• A drawing whose title block can't be read now calibrates itself anyway, from its own staircase.
• Switching between tabs is instant again, even with a lot of drawings open.

• Your projects are there when you restart, even after another machine has taken over the seat.
• A machine that has lost the seat stays on the free version until it has properly reconnected.
• Settings finally say the same thing as the rest of the screen.
• Line-drawn plans are finally counted without falling back on image recognition.
• Two symbols sharing the same outline are no longer counted together.

• A second worked example of a plan being read, on the site.

• A large CAD plan opens faster, and it shows exactly the same drawing.

• A machine that reconnects no longer starts up in the paid version while another of your machines is working.
• The window frames on a layout sheet stay thin when you zoom in.
• A CAD plan that claims to be in millimetres while actually drawn in metres no longer forces a scale a thousand times too small on you.
• A highly detailed symbol no longer makes the simple symbols around it disappear.
• The ring marking a symbol that wasn't drawn stays a ring when you zoom in.
• DWG plans saved in AutoCAD 2010 format finally show their layout tabs.
• Kantibat finally carries its own logo in Explorer's "Open with" menu.
• Cable trays, ducts and outlines drawn as wide polylines now display as bands, at their true width.
• A fully drawn DWG plan no longer reports itself as "99% drawn".
• When another machine takes the seat, this one is signed out of the account — and your projects stay put.
• The version number is no longer followed by a technical code.
• On Mac, the menus are finally Kantibat's own, in your language.
• The embedded contract now spells out individual users' rights, warranties, updates, and the continued availability of free viewing.
• The underlay now fades behind your own drawing.
• DWG plans heavy with symbols now open roughly twice as fast.
• A plan where some symbols couldn't be drawn now tells you so, with a count.
• The plan stays sharp for longer when you pan it by hand.
• Kantibat checks its own installation on every launch, and repairs itself.
• The update check now stops itself when it risks doing more harm than good, and resumes as soon as the situation is back to normal.

• Kantibat is now available on macOS.
• The iPad version has gone into testing.

• A plan whose underlay is drawn in a different unit finally displays in full.
• Kantibat now offers itself directly in the right-click "Open with" submenu, without first having to go through "Choose another app" (F1325).

• Very heavy CAD plans now display instead of freezing the window (F1311).
• DWG plans saved in the 2000 or 2007 format also now get the designer's intended drawing order (F1310).
• An outdated sort table is no longer applied (F1309).
• On a plan opened directly as DWG, fills also stack in the designer's order, as TrueView does (F1309).
• On a DXF plan, fills stack in the designer's order, as TrueView does (F1308).
• Received project packages are now more thoroughly checked.
• Storage errors no longer put existing projects at risk.
• A DWG plan where a class carries a recent maintenance version reads in full again (F1297).
• When another machine takes the seat, this one switches to the free version — and says so with a single, consistent voice (F1292, F1293).
• On a DWG or DXF plan, a label written in a wide text box now shows where the designer put it — inside its ellipse, as TrueView does (F1289).
• Tables and third-party application objects in a DWG plan now display via their preview, as TrueView does (F1288).
• Dashed lines in a DWG plan now follow the file's linetype scale, as in TrueView (F1287).
• Centred or justified text in a DWG plan is back in its exact position (F1286).
• Fills whose outline is made of arcs drawn clockwise get their shape back (F1285).
• The site now states which version it's serving.
• Rolling back a server is now done from the status page, and you first see what you're rolling back to.
• The trial banner has been removed from the three site pages that carried it (F1283): /tarifs/, /installer/ and /entreprises/.

• A rule number published twice is now flagged straight away (F1269).
• An eTransmit folder no longer comes in with its underlays (F1273).
• The "XREF" panel is now called "File references" and lists every file in the drawing (F1274).
• A misfiled changelog entry can now be corrected from the status page, with no terminal needed.
• The pricing page now says "Account required", like the download page, and its "Schools, training centres and universities" section no longer has a button.
• Fix: closing Kantibat now waits for the plan's last save to finish.

• The iPad version is now also built without anyone having to prepare anything (F1264).
• A single rented machine can now build both the Mac AND the iPad versions (F1261).
• The "Unit" column narrows a second time, down to the last possible notch (F1259).
• Confirming the scale read from the plan: click in the field, press Enter (F1260).
• The project tree now shows twelve floors where it used to show nine (F1263).

• The site now reports the pages you visit to the server, with no cookie (audience.js).
• Your machines now show their own name in your account area (F1246).
• Kantibat now offers to restore a backup when it can no longer open your data (F1249).
• Every backup is now re-read immediately after being written (F1248).
• A "Check my data" button in the Backup tab (F1247).
• Deleting or archiving a client folder is now confirmed in a dialog (F1238, F1239).
• Every client now has their own colour in the portfolio (F1240).
• Fix: "another machine has taken the seat" after an update, when no one had taken anything (F1243, F1244, F1245).
• The "Project sheet…" entry in a project's menu is now called "Edit project details" (F905).

• Fix: a zone was making the plan unreadable in the PDF report (F1237).
• A zone now looks like an area, and each room has its own colour (F1236).
• The watermark house moves to the top right, and it's finally shown in full (F1235).
• The plan toolbar reclaims some room: the word "Scale" now fits inside the field (F1231).

• Mac builds are now published without anyone needing to touch a machine (F1230).
• The machine that builds the Mac version can be swapped without touching the code, and the checks no longer depend on it (F1229).
• The "Unit" column in the quantities table gives a third of its width back to the rest of the row (F1224).
• Mac versions are now released through the same pipeline as Windows and Linux (F1221).
• Duct diameter can now be measured just as in a drafting package — and the table writes "Ø 315" (F1225, F1226).
• "Fill the room with one click" finally works on DWG plans (F1219).
• "← Change project" responds again (F1228).
• The top bar is now aligned: all its indicators share the same height, and "See pricing…" no longer overlaps the version number (F1217).
• The "Drop a received project here" zone no longer takes up half the screen on a large monitor (F1215).
• Your projects display as soon as the app opens, without going back through the home screen (F1216).
• Your address now shows in the top-right corner of the window, next to the menus (F1214).

• On Windows, three fewer buttons in the workspace: what the window's menus already say is no longer repeated (F1213).
• The portfolio now fills a laptop's screen, instead of leaving half of it empty (F1210, F1211, F1212).
• Three figures at the top of the portfolio: jobs, plans measured, plans left to measure.
• The "go further" links on the home page are now a list, not a run-on sentence (F1208, T916).
• On phone, the home page shows its title twice as soon (F1207, T915).
• The File · Edit · View · Tools · Help menus now live in the window's title bar, like a desktop application.
• On phone, the home page no longer opens with a column of one word per line (F1206, T914).
• A CAD plan is no longer cropped by its own auto-framing (F1204).

• The site no longer promises two gaps that the product has since closed (F1202, T912).
• The rest of the site now also knows the Mac is supported (F1202, T912).
• System requirements for Mac are now published (F1202).
• The controls at the top of the window now stay on a single line.
• The project column gains a row: the chevron that collapses it now joins the row of controls.
• A "View" menu now groups the plan toolbar's less-used commands.
• The title-block scale is now read even when the plan writes it across two separate cells.
• The site's introductory blurb now matches the client app's home-screen summary (F1115, F1200). site/index.html had, since F1115, shown on its own a prose paragraph that had been removed from the application's home screen; it now shows the same accueil.resume table, word for word, across all eight languages.
• The touch adaptation of the drafting workspace (F1192) now has direct test coverage.
• On tablet, you can now sign in WITHOUT leaving Kantibat: a code sent by email.
• On tablet, a signed-in account now finally unlocks measuring.
• Outline a room on the plan, and its measurements take its name.
• The measuring workspace now adapts to finger and Pencil input, on tablet.
• The pen, highlighter and eraser now track finger and Pencil input smoothly on tablet — and a hand resting on the screen while you draw no longer causes glitches.
• A project received on iPad or tablet now arrives WITH its plans.
• Kantibat's icon now sits properly on the Android home screen.
• "Export project…" now asks which of the two files you want, and tells you the size of each.
• A project can now travel to iPad or tablet, plans included.
• On tablet, Settings finally offers a way to sign in.
• The button that closes the sign-in window no longer says "Cancel".
• "Resume" now asks WHICH sheets to place the equipment on.
• "Start my 60 days" now opens sign-in directly.
• The confirmed scale is finally REMEMBERED.
• Several rows can now be corrected in one go.

• The title-block scale is finally read on plans that aren't in French — and Kantibat now asks you to confirm it.
• A declared allowance now carries through into the documents you deliver.
• "Continue with Apple" joins the account sign-in screen.
• When a colleague opens your Kantibat account on another machine, your own machine now warns you instead of cutting you off mid-sentence.
• And the machine that loses the seat now REALLY does, without waiting to be restarted.
• The "Choose a project on this machine" screen now says what it's actually looking for.
• On Mac, a folder or plan can be renamed again when only its capitalisation changes.
• A DWG plan now fills the entire drawing area, edge to edge.
• "Sign in" moves to the top of the account screen, and every action now states what it does.
• The activation screen has been redesigned.
• The background house no longer sits in front of your projects.
• A DWG plan always opens with thin lines.
• Takeoff detail can be exported to CSV again.
• Ownerless projects can finally be recovered — the mechanism was already written, it just never had a button.
• A school, training centre or university can now subscribe without requesting a quote.
• Your plans no longer vanish when you sign out.
• A room can now be measured with a single click.
• Ctrl+F finally searches the sheet.
• A set of plans can finally be browsed like a book.
• When the sheet declares several scales, the ribbon now says so.
• The layers panel now resizes: drag its edge to read names in full.

• Snapping to the drawing now works on DXF and DWG plans.
• On Linux, Kantibat now updates itself.
• Setting up a machine now means signing in to your account — and nothing else.
• An "XREF" button on the toolbar for DWG and DXF plans.
• The download page finally states the 60-day trial, right above the buttons.
• On a DWG/DXF plan, a measurement line stays thin even when zoomed in very close.
• Three new columns in the quantities table: Perimeter, Wastage and Net qty.
• Text at the edge of a DWG plan is no longer cut in half: the framing now follows text right to its last character.
• A "show all" button reveals what the framing leaves out.
• Drawing masks and images in DWG 2004 plans are finally read: no more "98% drawn".

• The tool's instructions no longer take up a line of the plan.
• The account button now says what it does: "Sign in or create an account".
• The price can finally be found from a signed-out machine.
• Your usage rights are checked when you sign back in.
• Taking back your licence on this machine: a single action, and it asks who you are.
• The first three windows finally look alike.

• Kantibat's windows finally carry Kantibat's colours.
• A length can be entered in millimetres or centimetres, row by row.
• Zooming into a large DWG plan finally reveals its text, dimensions, dashed lines and hatching — just as in your viewer.
• DWG layout (paper space) tabs finally show their drawing.
• The only text with an opaque BACKGROUND in a real project file was missing from the drawing: it's now read.
• Only one of your machines can be working at a time, free trial included.
• Your online account area shows all your machines, including those still on the free trial, and shows which one is currently working.
• Kantibat keeps measuring when there's no network.
• The welcome screen says the same thing in half the words, in a form you can actually scan.
• Kantibat's house no longer disappears at the first click.
• The update button now says what it found, instead of resetting as though nothing had happened.
• That click also searches better than before: it starts a fresh lookup, and so finds both routes Kantibat can take to reach its versions, where previously it had only one left after a first attempt went unanswered.
• An item recognised on other plans regains its "⟳ Count" button, even if it was recognised before the application knew where to look for its symbol.
• The same applies on a third plan, and for items counted across all plans at once.
• A DWG plan now opens just as it would in your viewer: layers the file turns OFF arrive hidden.

• The licence lookup after a payment no longer stops too soon.
• A machine that recovers its licence on its own no longer shows an outdated status.
• Businesses now see both real ways of ordering.

• After a payment, the application fetches the licence on its own, without waiting for a restart.
• The automatic licence recovery announced in 0.5.19 actually works now.

• A machine the server no longer recognises recovers its licence on its own, with no code to retype.
• Kantibat's logo is back in the taskbar.
• The business journey now states the action that actually works.
• The button that recognises an item on other plans is now called "⧉ Recognise".
• The business deployment will trust the machine's own certificate store, rather than a pinned fingerprint.
• The problem-report form now says what happens after you submit it.

• An item recognised from another plan is counted without re-outlining it.
• AI can run on your company's own server.
• The plan gets back the space the table was reserving for nothing.
• The toolbar drops down a notch once the scale is set.
• Tools can now be armed from the keyboard.
• 3D polylines and leader lines now appear on DWG plans.
• "Rational" curves in a DWG plan now display correctly.
• The plan list no longer shows file size.
• The "Apply to following pages" button has been removed.
• The pen and highlighter tools now open at their thinnest setting.
• The quantities table gains space, and the banner now only shows what's actually useful.
• Zooming into the plan now goes five times closer: up to 3,200%, instead of 600%.
• DWG plans with dimensions are no longer riddled with white dots.
• On the download page, each button now states the version it delivers.
• On the pricing page, the three "Subscribe" buttons sit on the same line again.
• Schools, apprenticeship centres and universities now find their rate on the pricing page.

• Photos inserted into a DWG plan now display.
• Plans carrying photos are no longer rejected.
• Photos on a plan no longer fall outside the frame, and photos inside symbols now display.
• Logos and stamps drawn with curves reappear on DWG plans.
• A DWG plan with no colour book regains its drawing unit.
• Line weights become a button — off by default, as in viewers.
• Signing out once again blocks any automatic reconnection.
• The DWG drawing is refined further: thin lines and fills where they belong.
• Colour-book colours (RAL, Pantone, etc.) now display on DWG plans.
• A DWG plan finally reads just as it does in TrueView.
• The title-block logo returns on DWG plans, and foliage regains its correct shape.
• The chat window no longer closes when you switch pages.
• A verified address now says it's verified, immediately.

• "Apply to following pages" now propagates the correct scale to every page.
• Kantibat's logo now also shows in the taskbar.
• Some DWG plans wrongly rejected now open.
• The "Export" menu now reads in full, one export per line.
• Title blocks on layout tabs finally display their values.
• Kantibat's shortcut now carries Kantibat's logo, and stops changing.
• DWG/DXF plans now open on the dark background of model space.
• A missing external reference can now be located by hand.
• Layout tabs finally show the plan.
• Hatching on DWG/DXF plans now shows its real pattern.
• Layout tabs of a DWG/DXF plan now open inside Kantibat.
• The account's email address can now be changed from the subscriber area, with verification of both mailboxes.
• The support agreement now states exactly what happens after a report is filed.

• DWG/DXF plans now display with their line weights.
• An "External References" panel for DWG/DXF plans, as in AutoCAD viewers.
• A recent DWG plan (AutoCAD 2018 and later) regains its base plan: external references are detected and loaded again.
• The quantities table has been redesigned: tighter columns, "Save now" removed, and recognising an item on other plans now happens row by row.
• A single "Export" button, next to "Import a file".
• The student rate now opens a sign-in step first, like the other two plans.
• The "and us" block on the pricing page gets to the point, and stops promising something it has no business promising.
• The student rate button now uses the same wording as the other two plans, and marks what's genuinely different in a different way.
• On the student pricing card, the annual price no longer hides behind a sentence.
• The pricing page used to say "60-day trial, no card required" without saying how to get it.
• The site's fonts still weren't being cached — 0.5.13 had only fixed half the problem.

• The "Notify me at launch" form wasn't losing entries any more, but it was losing all of them on two pages out of three.
• The student rate finally states who it's for.
• The legal notice no longer says you can't buy anything.
• The site no longer tells search engines that Kantibat isn't for sale.
• Pricing and downloads can now be read by machines.
• The site's fonts and images no longer redownload on every visit.
• The three pricing plans are finally named the same way as the rest of the product.
• The pricing page also says who runs the service, and where.
• Live chat is now on EVERY page of the site.
• The application now opens on kantibat.com's own look — the warm paper turned white, and the dimensioned gable as a watermark in the corner.
• Verifying your address finally gives you feedback.
• "Display name — none" now finally says what this line is for, and where to fill it in.
• The pricing page now states who processes your payment.
• The student rate now appears on the right of the row, after the two full-price plans, rather than at the front.
• The "← Home" button now sits in front of the logo, on every page of the site and in your customer area.

• Symbols redrawn by hand are finally counted.
• The list of third-party components can be viewed from within the software, and consulted online.
• A marker you removed by hand no longer comes back on the next count.
• Signing in with Google or Microsoft? Your address is already verified.
• The account screen now states what an unverified address doesn't cost you.
• The verification window no longer describes a send that never happened, and recognises the clicked link on its own.
• The changelog now gives the exact time of each release.
• Your corrections now work whatever zoom level you made them at.
• Referrals are now stated on the pricing page — a free month for each side.
• The whole site finally carries the same identity as your customer area.
• The "← Home" button now sits at the page's left edge.
• The 60-day free trial is now announced prominently, above the prices.
• Requirements can now be read on the download page, just below the files: two tables, Windows and Linux.

• You can finally see which page your scale covers, and extend it.
• A calibrated plan is no longer reported as "not calibrated" in the supporting document.
• The quantities table now reads as a single, coherent block, and shows three more rows.
• A symbol counted for the first time now benefits from corrections you've already made elsewhere.
• The 60-day free trial is now stated plainly, right where you look at prices.
• A real "← Home" button, on the left, on every page of the site.

• The PDF supporting document now carries the scale bar, just like the screen.
• The "Profile" screen in your settings has been redesigned.
• Text you write on a plan now stays horizontal in the exported PDF.
• A plan that fails to open no longer wipes out the quantities on it.
• A scale bar is now placed on your calibrated plans.
• Counting on the plan now responds twice as fast.
• The "Downloading…" indicator now stays on its own line.
• The "Cloud" (markup) tool gives the plan back the two lines of text it used to sit on top of.
• "Ascent/descent" and "Connection" now actually count, and no longer start at 3 ml.
• An item's name now reads like ordinary text.
• Measurement traces no longer scatter dots across the plan.
• Snap-to-drawing now starts OFF: you switch it on.
• "🔍 View" now brings a trace within reach, ready to be corrected.

• A declared sheet format no longer contradicts the line describing your photo.
• An expired licence no longer closes the application.
• The end of a subscription is announced on the correct date.
• The browser tab finally tells you it's done.
• And this landing page is finally in your language.
• The "Ongoing", "Completed" and "Archived" views stay in place.

• Declaring "A1" on a photo straightened crooked no longer goes through.
• The homepage finally says that Kantibat also opens your scans and photos of drawings.
• The account-creation screen finally announces the right window.
• Kantibat now says itself when it turns away a passkey.

• The drawing gets back the strip that warnings were taking from it.
• A drawing split across zones no longer announces itself twice.
• The website exists in English and Vietnamese.
• On the download page, "Coming soon" is now visible.
• Your free trial no longer runs down while you're paying.
• Signing in now takes just one click.
• The student rate is finally written on the pricing page.
• The update download bar finally looks like something.
• Signing out stays in effect after closing Kantibat.
• "Continue with Google" works again, even when Google refuses our window.
• The download page shows all three systems at a glance.

• Kantibat is published by KANTIBAT SAS, and the agreement you accept finally says so.

• The CSV export now says what you declared, and what the drawing gave.
• Kantibat can now be downloaded for Linux.
• You buy during your trial, and Kantibat notices at the next launch — even with an email-and-password account.
• Layers switched off in the file are finally RECOVERABLE.
• A DWG drawing no longer collapses because of a handful of out-of-scale dimensions.
• A company-managed computer no longer offers to change the subscription's email address.

• DWG drawings now open with their base drawing.
• Your job reference no longer looks like the project name written twice.
• The "Restart" button on an update no longer turns white when you hover over it.

• Right-clicking a project finally opens its menu — and it files it away.
• The update finally shows that it's working.
• Kantibat now checks for a new version every half-hour, instead of every four hours.
• You buy, and the application knows at the next launch — no code to copy in.

• The path you're editing is finally visible, and its points stop covering the drawing.

• Solid fills in a DWG drawing now display: arrowheads, stamps, plain fills.
• Polylines from the old format are finally read — and those did count in your take-offs.
• Markers on a CAD drawing finally display.
• Kantibat now tells you what a drawing does NOT show.
• Hatching in a DWG drawing displays.
• Dimensions on a DWG drawing finally display.
• A DWG drawing no longer loses its large blocks.
• What goes up and what goes down now enters the take-off.
• "Import a project" no longer opens Windows Explorer.
• Aligning a revision comparison can now be corrected by hand, in four clicks.
• The straightening label was pointing at the wrong rectangle.
• State the sheet's format, and a photo of a drawing calibrates like a scan.

• The agreement you accept finally states what the product promises you.
• Snapping to the drawing also helps when you EDIT a path.
• Shift also straightens a vertex you're EDITING.
• A project moves from one machine to another with a single file.
• Received drawings link to the tender-package folder as it's organised on your machine.
• An import states what it did, and what it couldn't do.
• A deletion now shows up in the comparison of two revisions.
• Other formats of the same drawing remain openable after saving.
• A large TIFF is downscaled while being read.
• A single supporting-evidence PDF for the WHOLE project.
• The document states what it doesn't cover.
• The scale written in the title block is indeed the one for the sheet you're viewing.
• The scope question is now asked whenever there's actually a choice.
• A photo of a drawing taken at an angle is now STRAIGHTENED, and becomes measurable.
• SCANNED drawings now open, and can be measured.
• File a job under a client without having to drag it, and manage its branches by right-click.
• A revised sheet is no longer recounted from scratch.
• Changing your account's email address from your customer area also changes it on your machines.
• "Export drawing": your drawing, at its original size, with what you've drawn on it.
• Your password manager is finally accepted: passwords move to twelve characters, with no mandatory special character.
• An area's outline no longer covers the drawing either.
• A botched path no longer needs redoing entirely: its points can now be fixed one by one.
• A DWG drawing stays sharp when you zoom in.
• The top of the project column now carries only two commands.
• The scale status no longer repeats the number sitting right next to it.
• Writing on the drawing no longer leaves a black dot.
• The drawing toolbar drops "Fit", and snapping moves position.
• Snapping to the drawing is now set right where you measure.
• Installing Kantibat finally carries the product's name and logo.
• Kantibat now displays its icon in "Apps & features".
• A length is now drawn with the thinnest line, and no longer covers the drawing.
• Your projects no longer disappear when the window restarts.
• A project that refuses to open finally says why.
• Vietnamese becomes a language of the WEBSITE, no longer a language of the application.
• The Vietnamese interface stops writing like French.
• The Vietnamese workspace finally names every action just one way.
• The Vietnamese project portfolio drops its last French turns of phrase.
• The "Scale" field no longer shows "100" on a drawing that doesn't announce its own scale.
• A marker no longer hides the symbol it points to: the last white halos are gone.
• The equipment list no longer needs retyping on every drawing: it can now be carried over to every other drawing with one click.
• On a laptop screen, the toolbar used to span two rows and the take-off table showed only two or three lines.
• The welcome note shipped with the installer described a first launch that no longer exists.
• A public spec sheet finally states what machine you need, and on which system.
• Two claims on the website that were no longer true have been corrected.
• The Excel take-off workbook has been redone, and it now prints properly.
• Your account's email address can be changed from the application.
• Pricing can finally be found from the application, from the very first screen.
• Prices now display inside the application, and follow the price list with no update needed.
• The website finally leads to its own pricing page, and stops claiming to hide it.
• Your account's email address can be changed from the application.
• Scales written on your drawing stay one click away.
• The "Known dimension" button finally looks like what it is.
• The quantities table no longer redraws itself while you're working on the drawing.
• The plan-switching option is removed from settings while the service catches up.
• Your updates keep arriving even if the service that announces them goes down.
• macOS: drawings now open from the Desktop, Documents and Downloads.
• The address-verification window no longer asks for a code it doesn't display, and no longer sends you looking for the fault elsewhere.
• "Continue with Microsoft" is now in EVERY package, whichever machine builds it.
• Cutting out an area: openings, ducts and excluded rooms are now deduced automatically.
• You can now change your own plan, from monthly to annual and back.

• Two-factor authentication (phone code) is removed.
• The "Security" tab of your settings has been redone.
• "Count on all drawings" now reads your drawings instead of guessing at them.
• The window that opens on a locked tool states what you gain, not what you owe.
• The "Profile" screen in your settings finally says something accurate.
• The "Export drawing" button is now called "Export supporting evidence", and it can now cover the whole drawing at once.
• Right-click menus now actually look like menus.
• DWG drawings from 2019 to 2026 had always been readable — the messaging said otherwise.
• A single action to report an issue.
• "Your data" now tells you WHO holds what — you used to only see your machine.
• The password asked for when creating an account is finally the one you're told about.
• Settings no longer ask you for the password of an account you don't have.
• You can finally see, at the top of the window, that you're working in the free version — and what it doesn't do.
• Your customer area can be found from the website, on every page.
• The top of the project column no longer scrolls away while you browse your drawings. "← Switch project", the two import buttons, the take-off export and the project's name now stay fixed at the top of the column: the tree scrolls underneath.
• A poorly outlined symbol can be re-outlined, without starting over.
• After "Count", the screen gives you back the drawing instead of explaining what it just did.
• Two blocks differing only by the letter written inside them are now counted separately.
• Automatic counting no longer confuses a symbol with the pictogram placed next to it.
• You can now search settings, export your data, and close your account.
• Settings are now browsed via a menu on the left, and your account has three pages there.
• Your account's security settings are now readable at a glance.
• Kantibat now deploys across a company via an MSI package.
• Updates no longer cut you off mid-count.
• Managed machines no longer update themselves on their own.
• The "What does Kantibat's AI do?" window no longer opens, and it's gone for good.
• AI settings now tell you first whether it's working.
• The AI model installed on your machine can be removed.
• A greyed-out tool now tells you what unlocks it.
• Kantibat can be bought and managed from the application.
• The application states who publishes it.
• Signing out returns you to the free product, without asking you anything again.
• Large drawings now import using much less memory.
• Content-heavy folders and network locations respond faster.
• You can finally see where you stand, and how to go further.
• Your take-offs are backed up without you having to configure anything.
• A backup is written even when Kantibat is closed.
• Restore a backup in one click, with no file to hunt for.
• An impossible destination folder is refused right away.
• For companies: backup can now be deployed fleet-wide.
• Kantibat now opens asking you nothing at all.
• Your surveyors can work without creating an account.
• Counting still states that it left the legend and title block aside.
• A neighbouring symbol is no longer counted in place of yours.
• Opening a drawing no longer modifies it.
• Count things that have no symbol: rooms, steps, columns.
• Your machine no longer asks you again for a password your account doesn't have.
• Kantibat now starts faster.
• Moving a drawing no longer lags.
• The "Projects" screen now fits into two panes: your views on the left, your jobs on the right.
• Your clients now have branches.
• Create a client, archive a folder, file with a drag.
• The chat bubble reads better, and shows who's replying to you.
• Your jobs are now browsed as a tree: client, project, drawing.
• The "ⓘ" marker has left the quantities table's bar.
• The sign-in window no longer forces the passkey prompt on you, and stops insisting.
• The chat bubble collapses, expands, and gives you back the conversation.
• A chevron folds the quantities table downward, giving all the space back to the drawing.
• Kantibat offers to create a passkey, if you want one.
• The "Deploy Kantibat across a managed fleet" page finally answers questions on backup and networking.
• Live chat on the website, in your language.
• The homepage now only displays once: after that, you land directly on your projects.
• The passkey remains usable for signing in, when you ask for it.
• Signing in with Google or Microsoft no longer triggers "Choose a passkey".
• Once the trial is over, Kantibat keeps opening.
• The "Layers" button has moved in with the drawing tools, right after "Cloud", under an icon of two overlapping sheets.
• Open a drawing via right-click in Explorer.
• The "Your Kantibat account" window no longer cuts off its content.
• The account now works from the installed application.
• You know which version you're testing, not just which one is installed.
• The website publishes the version log, at kantibat.com/nouveautes/: what each version brings, in order of release, with its date.
• The website finally explains how to equip a whole team, at kantibat.com/entreprises/: a single subscription covering as many seats as surveyors, an invitation for each of them, and seats assigned with no account or password to remember.
• Your machine recognises you at launch, and your projects stay yours.

• "Choose drawing folders" now shows the drawings of the open folder.
• The shortcut icon switches to the application's blue.
• Forgotten password: reset by email.
• "Import a file" now opens the same browser as "Import folders": no more Windows dialog box.
• "Back up now" in the backup folder: once the folder has been designated (Settings → Backup), a button writes an archive there immediately — without asking again where to save it and without waiting for the day's or week's schedule.
• "Choose drawing folders" now shows only folders: the list of files in the open folder, which used to fill the bottom of the dialog with everything lying around on a Desktop, is gone.
• Purchase starts from the application, and the licence arrives on its own: the "Buy" button carries this machine's code through to Stripe.
• One-click activation from the email: the application registers kantibat:// at install time, and the "Activate Kantibat on this machine" button received after payment opens it with the code already filled in.
• Immediate activation via the subscription server: the subscriber pastes the code received after payment, the application requests this machine's licence and installs it.
• Product icon redesigned within the "dark tile + document" visual family (charcoal, white sheet, terracotta dimension line); desktop shortcut and Programs and Features entries labelled "Kantibat" (Squirrel title).
• Short user guide (docs/guide-utilisateur.md), automatically attached to the client-delivery folder (livraison:preparer).
• Product icon, publisher information and version details in the executable and installer (T141); web-tool favicon.
• Full Squirrel cycle: shortcuts created on install and update, removed on uninstall (T136).
• "Export diagnostics" button in the desktop client: version, platform and logs — never AI keys (T138).
• Verified backup/restore of the tool's PGlite database (T137).

Published without a changelog: these lines were reconstructed afterwards from the repository history, and stick to only what it records.

• Multi-provider local vision AI, optional: the deterministic engine depends on no model.
• Electron desktop-client startup stabilised.
• Interface selectors made readable.

• First standalone Windows x64 version.
• Electrical, HVAC and plumbing profiles.
• Manual, deterministic counting on PDF drawings.
• Local PGlite persistence and CSV export.
• Offline Ed25519 activation tied to the machine.