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# What's new?

Version 6.17.0

**Cloud release:** August 27, 2026\
**Self-hosted version:** August 31, 2026

Key updates:

* Released **German AI-based proofreading engine v3.1** with improvements to separable verbs, modal verbs in the simple past, passive voice, agreement, and punctuation
* Extended **AI proofreading match classification to German and Spanish**, with unified rule IDs, categories, and curated correction descriptions
* Improved Spanish AI proofreading for ordinal numbers, em dashes, spaces, and colons
* Updated the third-party grammar engine with rule refinements for Portuguese and Italian
* Expanded dictionaries with 970+ new words across English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian, plus 170 new shared proper names and abbreviations
* Enhanced English and Spanish medical terminology with 64 new words and expanded English dialect support with 7 new dialectal pairs
* Refined autocorrect with 8 new English and Spanish pairs targeting common misspellings
* Updated AI writing assistant prompts to improve English dialectal corrections and preserve emojis during text operations across all languages
* Security fixes. Updated **Micrometer** to 1.16.7 and **Netty** to 4.1.137.Final to address Snyk-reported vulnerabilities

For full details, [see the release notes](https://webspellchecker.com/release-notes/).