28 January: /llms.txt support, improved sitemapping and more

All GitBook sites now automatically generate an /llms.txt file to make it easier for large language models to process your site data

✨ New and noteworthy

llms.txt support for published content

We’ve just added support for /llms.txt for your published docs. That means that GitBook will now automatically generate and host a plain text version of your docs, to make it easier for large language models to process.

You can find this file by simply adding /llms.txt at the end of your docs site’s URL. For example, you can check out the version generated for our docs at https://docs.gitbook.com/llms.txt.

This follows a proposition from Jeremy Howard, Co-founder of Answer.AI, to use the llms.txt file format as a standard to help LLMs gather information from a website at inference time, without needing to parse HTML, JavaScript or ads.

Improved sitemap support

We’ve improved our sitemap support for your published site. Now, all indexable pages in your site are listed in the sourcemap, with one sitemap for each published space. That means all your site sections and variants include all the pages within them in the sitemap.

Improved

• Ask AI now takes context from the site, site space and site section title, which should result in better answers for people asking questions.

• When you visit GitBook, it should take you back to the last space you were viewing in the app. We’ve now added support for sites and the home screen, so you should always jump back to what you were doing last.

• If you see a feature with an ‘Upgrade’ badge next to it, you can now click that badge to see your options and start the upgrade process if you want.

Fixed

• Fixed a bug that let you upload an SVG for your site’s social image, because SVGs are not supported for social images in GitBook.

• Fixed a bug that prevented logos added for dark mode from working properly in the site footer.

• Fixed a small visual bug that caused the placeholder text in cards to truncate.

• Fixed an issue that could crash the app if you navigated from the sites page to organization settings.

• Fixed an issue where triple-clicking a block would not select the entire block.

• Fixed a bug that could stop you from adding or editing text in cards. We’ve also fixed a bug that showed the editing UI on cards even when you were in read-only mode within the GitBook app.

• Fixed an issue with Ask AI which meant it wouldn’t return an answer at all. Also fixed a bug that prevented suggested questions from appearing.

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