Changelog
What has actually shipped, with dates, newest first. Entries are grouped into releases rather than listed commit by commit.
Every tool page rewritten with real technical documentation — what each engine does, in what order, and where the result is lossless rather than reconstructed. Several engine specifications on the site were wrong or out of date and have been corrected against the code.
Non-English blog posts are machine translated, so they are now excluded from search indexing while remaining fully readable for anyone who lands on them. English articles are unaffected.
The trust pages — privacy, terms, acceptable use, security, contact, and this changelog — were rewritten from templates into text that describes how this specific site works.
Google renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook on July 16, 2026. The site now uses both names throughout, so it stays findable under either, and a new article explains what changed for people arriving from the old branding. Translated into 12 languages.
Blog pages were emitting hreflang tags that pointed at other languages instead of themselves, which is a contradictory signal to search engines. Fixed across every article and every locale.
Orphan pages — real pages with no link pointing to them — were connected to the rest of the site. Over-long titles and meta descriptions were trimmed, and images were recompressed at roughly 90% smaller for faster loads.
Five new guides published and translated into 13 languages, for 60 new pages in total.
Alongside them: structured data added across the site, internal links rebuilt, broken links repaired, every URL aligned to its trailing-slash form, and page titles reworked against real Search Console query data. Direct answers were added near the top of articles, and sources were cited where a claim needed one.
Fixed a broken meta description and several descriptions that were too short to be useful, and added an IndexNow key so new pages are submitted for crawling as soon as they are published.
The blog was only linked from the footer, which meant most visitors never found it. It now appears in the header navigation in all 13 languages. Two new articles published with full translations.
The sitemap had drifted from what the site actually publishes. It is now generated from the build output itself — 654 URLs, matching the deployed pages exactly.
Vietnamese, Indonesian, Turkish, and Thai added, bringing the site to 13 languages. Fifteen new guides published across this release and the one that followed.
The policy was expanded to name the advertising and analytics services in use, describe the cookies they set, and link to the relevant opt-outs. Updated in all nine languages the site had at the time.
Added events that record which engine ran, the file's type and size in megabytes, how long the job took, and whether it succeeded or failed — so a broken format shows up in the numbers instead of being discovered by accident.
Filenames and file contents are never included. What is collected is described in full on the privacy policy.
The 27 planned guides finished and published in nine languages, covering where the watermark sits in each export format, what the paid tiers change, and how the tools compare. A separate guide covering watermarks across other AI tools followed on June 23.
The host serves the trailing-slash form of every URL and redirects the other. Canonical tags, hreflang tags, and the sitemap were all pointing at the redirecting form, so search engines were being sent to a redirect instead of the page. All three now point at the URL that actually returns the page.
First guides published in nine languages, with a guides section on the homepage and reworked meta tags across the site.
Added the security, about, and acceptable use pages, and translated the legal pages into eight languages. A Content-Security-Policy header now restricts which sources may load scripts, styles, fonts, and connections — details on the security page.
Internally, the single translations file was split into one file per locale, which is what made adding four more languages later a manageable change.
FFmpeg, pdf.js, pdf-lib, and JSZip were being pulled from a public package CDN. They are now served from our own CDN at cdn.notebooklmremover.org, so the exact version delivered to your browser is pinned and under our control.
The processing interface was also translated into nine languages, rather than only English and Chinese.
PPTX and infographic files whose watermark could not be located automatically were failing outright. They now fall back to removing the mark at its expected position instead of giving up.
Rebuilt on Astro as a static site with multilingual routing and faster page loads, and deployed to Cloudflare Pages with automatic deploys on every push.
Shipped in this release: seven languages beyond English; the podcast trimmer and metadata cleaner; per-tool options including video frame rate, PDF quality mode, PPTX aspect ratio, and image output format; per-page progress and scrollable previews for PDF and PPTX; support for any image size in the Gemini remover rather than only the standard dimensions; and a mobile layout with a full-screen menu.
Two build-level problems were solved on the way: the FFmpeg module bundle is self-hosted so its Worker is same-origin, and watermark detection was rewritten to work against PDF and PPTX pages rendered at double scale.