🎊 Pivotal moments of 2025 and WebSpellChecker strategic plans

Dear WebSpellChecker clients! 

Here it is: our traditional December newsletter. Before we fall into holiday hibernation (just kidding), we’d like to share the joyous moments of the past year at WebSpellChecker.
Let’s celebrate our achievements together while the holidays are pending.

Unwrapping WProofreader core

Behind every successful product, there is Santa and his team working enthusiastically on its core, and we’re no exception. Throughout 2025, we added new and improved existing integrations, reconsidered features’ logic, and rolled out new product versions. Specifically, we:

• collaborated with CKSource to provide WProofreader integration for Drupal, now available in two new modules
• developed a dedicated plugin for TinyMCE with support for versions 6+
• released WProofreader for WordPress v.2.8.0, which includes global refactoring and enabled WProofreader in all editable fields, including public ones
• added support for CKEditor 5 latest versions
• improved browser extension integration with Notion and Google Docs
• Added demos to showcase highly-demanded integrations with Tiptap and Syncfusion
• addressed accessibility issues and made UI updates
• improved text splitting on the frontend for abbreviations
• improved autocorrect functionality for names in emails and undo actions
• enhanced autocomplete suggestions to speed up and improve accuracy by filtering those that don’t match the user’s input of first characters.

Get more details from our release notes.

Playing with upgraded admin panel

This year we were good guys and gals: we migrated all our clients with the cloud version to the new admin panel for the proofreading functionality management. We continue encouraging our clientele to start benefiting from the cool functionality, so if you’re eager to share your feedback, just drop us a line.

Recently, we’ve made a bunch of changes to give the registration and management flows:

• added domain permissions feature
• improved the analytics functionality
• made minor UX improvements
• enhanced the Analytics page with updated chart displays, tooltips, and filters to make this feature more effective for your daily tasks 
• introduced new user roles and modified the permissions of admin role
• added a monthly subscription option
• provided context awareness fields for Style guide builder.

Additionally, during the year, the team polished the UI, texts, dialogs, fixed bugs related to the subscription flow, and proper handling of various exceptions.

Doing holiday magic: 🪄AI writing assistant

All you need for Christmas is … our AI writing assistant. What is so special about it?

• As of today, we provide support for English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Swedish and Ukrainian and their dialects.
• We’re constantly polishing prompts against common LLM attacks.
• We’ve improved the LLM output to make it more human-like and pass detectors.

For the self-hosted version, we’ve extended the support of models from AWS Bedrock (Claude and Mistral). The latter has proved to work better for French.

If you still haven’t tried WProofreader AI writing assistant, let us know.

Revising and shining with proofreading engines

The 2025 mistletone (thanks WProofreader—milestone) was a huge one for us. All the year round, our linguists were working superhard polishing dictionaries, grammar rules and AI engines in order to:

• release 2 massive upgrades to the AI engine for English with fixes of shifted suggestions, better punctuation handling, reduced false positives, improved contextual understanding, etc.
• make huge improvements to spelling dictionaries for English, German, Spanish, Ukrainian, French, Swedish, Portuguese and other languages in terms of the relevancy of entries, the dictionary logic, suggestions prioritization, etc.
• contribute to the improvements of logic performance of third-party grammar engines by fixing grammar rules with irrelevant suggestions or confusing descriptions
• improve the quality of autocorrect suggestions by filtering and adding relevant pairs 
• enhance AI engines for German and Spanish by disabling problematic rules and excluding non-existent suggestions and enable the AI-driven configuration for German and dialects by default
• introduce new categories for style check suggestions: anglicisms detection, regional lexicon for language dialects, etc.
• do even more: improved the exclude word functionality in terms of case-sensitivity, added medical dictionary support for German dialects, etc.

All this was to make the next year a grammatically correct one!

Making the most of your security

Another year down, another security challenge for us. We’re not among those who do it all in one night. We keep making constant updates and remediation of vulnerable 3rd party libraries that arose as the result of the proofreading engines updates.

Besides, in 2025, we filtered API input for potential threats by adding additional security headers and kept updating the Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing report. On-prem users can request the report v6.6 on demand.

Request our VA&PT report.

Other holiday presents

Our year-end performance wouldn’t be complete without these important improvements:

• check API: added correct_text query parameter that returns already applied suggestions
• Style guide API: added support of different languages and context awareness for specific rules 
• a breaking change to the on-prem Docker configuration: we added prefixes for all variables to protect the application settings from the system one and avoid possible conflicts within different environments
• a multi-layer build: another important update. Now, on-prem clients can set any set of languages ​​and models will be displayed in a prebuilt configuration and will be built without a package.
• Also, we updated error messages across the custom dictionary API and the licensing for the self-hosted version for the sake of clarity and safety.

Wishlist for 2026

The whole new year, ‘same us’ thing. Every year reflecting on what was in the past, we don’t forget to dream about the future. In the next couple of months, we’re going to:

• add usage-based pricing options to the admin panel for clients who go slightly above the plan, allowing clients of custom/advance to buy extra word packages automatically
• ship the admin panel for the self-hosted version to add visibility of the analytics and convenience for feature management
• make huge upgrades to the AI proofreading engines for Spanish and German
• offer new AI writing assistant operations (translation and tone of voice), support new languages and deliver this functionality for more clients who rely on other providers other than AWS Bedrock.

Thank you for your loyalty and sincere trust. Let your business be a successful and prosperous one in Year of the Horse. And meanwhile, proofread, polish, party!

From WebSpellChecker with cheers,

XOXO