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Appsmith

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Velocity3.8

Open-source low-code platform for building custom internal applications.

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Appsmith kills its own AI datasource and puts the AI assistant in the product instead

low-codeai-copilotdeprecationself-hostedwidgetscommunity-edition
◆Current state
v2.3 does two things at once: it ends Appsmith AI datasources — no new ones after the upgrade, existing ones dead on September 30, 2026 — and ships a native AI Copilot for Custom Widgets plus Ask AI in the Community Edition. Around that sit ordinary builder increments: a Card widget with a composable body canvas, Button label styling, a shared tabOrder for keyboard navigation, and a configurable HTML lang attribute. The releases before it were dominated by CVE remediation and the MongoDB 7 / Java 25 re-platform in v2.0.
◆Where it's heading
The AI story is being rebuilt one layer up. Instead of AI reachable as a datasource you wire into a query, it is becoming an assistant embedded in the authoring experience — Ask AI stubs appeared in v2.0, and v2.3 makes it real and gives it to the free tier. Meanwhile the security-fix volume that defined v1.98 through v2.1 has thinned, which suggests the hardening backlog opened by the re-platform is largely worked off and feature capacity is returning.
◆Prediction
Expect the Copilot surface to widen from Custom Widgets to general app authoring — queries, JS objects, bindings — before the September 30 datasource cutoff makes the old path unusable. The entries do not indicate whether Ask AI in Community Edition stays free once it is past this release.

◆Recent moves

  1. 5d ago

    v2.3 ends Appsmith AI datasources, adds native Copilot and Ask AI to CE

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    The release where the AI strategy changes shape: the datasource-shaped version of Appsmith AI is scheduled for removal while a native Copilot and Ask AI arrive in the editor, the latter reaching Community Edition users for the first time. The widget work — Card, Button label styling, tabOrder — is routine alongside it.

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  2. 1mo ago

    v2.2 adds cross-app copy for APIs, queries and JS objects

    v2.2 adds cross-application copy of APIs, queries, and JS objects — a real developer-productivity feature — atop the usual batch of CVE fixes and a breaking swap of IN_DOCKER for APPSMITH_DISABLE_SSRF_FILTER.

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  3. 2mo ago

    v2.1: SSRF hardening, Pylon support swap, memory-sizing script

    v2.1 is mostly SSRF and infrastructure hardening, with an Intercom-to-Pylon support swap and a memory-sizing script — no user-facing capability change.

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  4. 2mo ago

    v2.0 re-platforms on MongoDB 7 and requires a v1.99 upgrade step

    v2.0 re-platforms onto MongoDB 7, Java 25, and Node 24 with a required v1.99 intermediate-upgrade step — a significant runtime modernization delivered alongside heavy security fixes.

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  5. 4mo ago

    v1.99: CVE remediation and the bridge release before v2.0

    v1.99 is entirely fixes and CVE remediation — SSRF, injection, and permission guards — the migration-bridge release before v2.0.

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  6. 4mo ago

    v1.98 adds TLS support for the Redis datasource

    v1.98 adds TLS (SSL mode) support for the Redis datasource among a set of critical-CVE fixes — a small but real capability increment.

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