Polar 1.16.0 Released

A number of major changes went into Polar 1.16.0 but the big highlights include a big performance bump for the desktop app on startup, an updated chrome extension to improve stability during loading PDFs, and a new context menu for the document repository.

This also includes a new timing system which allows us to detect slow operations in Polar to help improve performance over time. The plan is to keep an eye on these metrics to help track down any performance regressions and also to improve performance over time.

Polar 1.17 (the next major version of Polar) is already under development and should include:

Initial version of sharing of documents publicly.

Fix for a major bug involving large PDFs and the “white screen of death”

Removal of some important legacy code for content capture in the desktop app.

Full changelog for 1.16.0