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05-01-2026 - NaviGator Toolkit Cloud Model Consumption

NaviGator Toolkit teams will be charged for their monthly consumption of cloud models. First bills will be issued in June 2026 for their May 2026 consumption.

04-30-2026 - NaviGator Toolkit Budget Increase

NaviGator Toolkit personal API key budgets have been increased from $25 to $100 per month for all local models.

04-17-2026 - New Models

New models available:

03-12-2026 - New Models

New models available:

03-10-2025 - Gateway Update

NaviGator Toolkit was updated to add additional functionality:

  • Support for latest models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google
  • bug fixes and UI improvements
03-10-2026 - Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet removal

Removed the following models since they are not deprecated:

  • claude-3.5-sonnet
  • claude-3.5-sonnet-v2
03-02-2026 - Model Lifecycle Update

Added a new models to the legacy list and updated EOL dates for some models. For more details, see the Model Lifecycle Policy page.

02-24-2026 - New model
02-18-2026 - New model
02-10-2026 - Assistant widget v1.3.3
  • Fixed issue with the widget affecting font styling on the embedding page.
02-09-2026 - Assistant widget v1.3.2
02-06-2026 - NaviGator Toolkit updated

NaviGator Toolkit was updated to v1.81.0.

  • This version has fixes for when using the Responses API. It also fixes a major bug with rate limiting.
01-26-2026 - New Models
01-12-2026 - claude-3-sonnet removal

Claude 3 Sonnet ( claude-3-sonnet ) has been deprecated and removed.

12-16-2025 - New Models

New models available on NaviGator Toolkit and Chat:

  • GPT-5.1
  • GPT-5.1-Codex
  • GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini
12-2-2025 - NaviGator Chat Upgrade to v0.6.36

NaviGator Chat upgraded to v0.6.36 and brings the following new features:

  • Notes within Workspace
  • Performance and UI improvements
11-25-2025 - NaviGator Assistant Upgrade to v1.79.3

NaviGator Assistant upgraded to v1.79.3 and brings the following new features:

  • Performance Improvements: /responses API 19× Lower Median Latency
11-06-2025 - NaviGator Assistant Upgrade to v1.78.5

NaviGator Assistant upgraded to v1.78.5 and brings the following new features:

  • Team Member Rate Limits: Individual rate limiting for team members (RPM/TPM)
  • RPS and Request/Response Throughput Performance Boost
  • Team Spending Reports: Team admins can now export detailed spending reports for their teams
11-06-2025 - NaviGator Assistant Widget Upgrade to v1.2.0

NaviGator Assistant widget upgraded to version 1.2.0 and brings the following new features:

  • Dark mode
  • Citations drop-down
11-05-2025 - Model Lifecycle Policy

Adding a Model Lifecycle Policy to help users understand the states and transitions of models within the NaviGator AI platform.

11-03-2025 - o3 available in chat

In this release, we have made OpenAI's o3 available in chat

09-30-2025 - Claude 4.5 Sonnet

In this release, we published the following new models:

09-02-2025 - OpenAI gpt-oss and model retirement

In this release, we published the following new models:

We have also retired the following models:

  • mixtral-8x7b-instruct
08-22-2025 - Gateway Update

NaviGator Toolkit was updated to add additional functionality:

  • Auto-Router: Automatically route requests to specific models based on request content
  • MCP Header Propagation: Propagate headers from client to backend MCP
  • Responses API Session Management: Support for managing responses API sessions with images
08-7-2025 - OpenAI gpt-5

In this release, we published the following new models:

  • gpt-5
  • gpt-5-mini
  • gpt-5-nano
07-30-2025 - IBM Granite Models Updates

In this release, we published the following new models:

  • granite-3.3-8b-instruct

We also removed the following models:

  • granite-3.1-8b-instruct
07-07-2025 - Google Gemini 2.5 Models Updates

In this release, we published the following new models:

  • gemini-2.5-flash
  • gemini-2.5-pro
06-25-2025 - Chat Updates

NaviGator Chat was updated to a new platform that provides a better user experience and new features. Notable changes:

  • web search
  • code interpreter
  • image generation
  • custom user prompts
  • voice calls with the ai models
06-14-2025 - Model Updates

In this release, we published the following new models:

  • magistral-small
06-01-2025 - Model Updates

In this release, we published the following new models:

  • claude-4-sonnet
  • claude-4-opus
05-02-2025 - Model Updates

In this release, we published the following new models:

  • gpt-image-1
04-18-2025 - Model Updates

In this release, we published the following new models:

  • gpt-4.1-mini
  • gpt-4.1-nano
  • o3
  • o4-mini
  • o4-mini-medium
  • o4-mini-high
04-17-2025 - Model Updates

In this release, we published the following new UF HiPerGator models:

  • gemma-3-27b-it
04-14-2025 - Model Updates

In this release, we published new cloud models:

  • gpt-4.1

We also removed the following models:

  • gpt-4-turbo
  • o1-preview
03-26-2025 - Gateway Update

NaviGator Toolkit Gateway was updated to address UI issues and add functionality for new Reasoning/Thinking models. list of notable changes:

  • support for OpenAI Responses API
  • UI updates and fixes
  • Support for Mistral Small 3.1, o1 Pro, GPT 4.5
  • MCP bridge support
03-25-2025 - Model Release

In this release, we published a new cloud and local models:

  • Mistral Small 3.1 added
  • Nova Micro added
  • Nova Lite added
  • Nova Pro added
02-20-2025 - Model Release

In this release, we published a new cloud model:

  • Gemini 2.0 Flash added
12-23-2024 - Model Deprecation

Initial Release of NaviGator Toolkit Self Service.

  • llama 3 8b instruct will be deprecated on 1-6-2025
  • llama 3 70b instruct will be deprecated on 1-6-2025
11-17-2024 - Initial Release

Initial Release of NaviGator Toolkit Self Service.

  • Local LLM models added.
  • Local Image models added.
  • local speech-to-text models added.
  • Budget set to $5 monthly.