Released September 2026. Focused on polish, documentation, and brand identity.
What's new:
- Landing page redesign — premium UI with animated gradient hero section and agent logos showcase. New CTA flows for waitlist and self-hosted install.
- Docs overhaul — corrected SDK class names (JiroClient for Python/JS, NewClient for Go), updated all code examples to 2026 dates, added missing error handling sections.
- Build fixes — resolved sitemap generation timeout by switching from dynamic fetch to fs.readFileSync, fixed loader component for static content delivery.
- Brand logos — added real SVG logos for all 9 search engines and 12 social platforms. Replaced placeholder images with high-fidelity brand assets.
- Minor fixes — fixed typo in rate-limits table, corrected credit cost for Google search (10 credits), added missing request_id to error response examples.
Released August 2026. Major landing page and infrastructure overhaul.
What's new: - Full landing page redesign — 15 marketing components rebuilt from scratch with modern design system. Consistent typography, spacing, and colour palette across all sections. - Data-driven features — YAML-based content system for easy updates without code changes. Features, pricing, and testimonials are now driven by structured data files. - Animated counters — real-time GitHub stars, forks, and contributor counts displayed with smooth counter animations on the landing page. - Vercel deployment — migrated to Vercel for edge-first hosting. searchjiro.vercel.app is now the primary domain with automatic preview deployments for PRs. - Performance — reduced initial page load by 40% through code splitting and lazy loading of below-the-fold sections.
Released July 2026. Windows compatibility, stealth improvements, and new CLI features.
What's new:
- Windows Unicode fix — added _safe_print() utility that handles cp1252 encoding on Windows terminals. Prevents UnicodeEncodeError when printing non-ASCII characters from search results.
- Stealth engine — integrated curl-cffi with browser impersonation profiles (Chrome, Firefox, Safari). Requests now mimic real browser TLS fingerprints to avoid detection.
- WebSocket streaming — search results can now be streamed in real-time via WebSocket connections. Reduces time-to-first-result for large result sets.
- Parallel search — fan-out search across multiple engines simultaneously. Results are merged and deduplicated. Enabled with --parallel flag.
- Interactive mode — guided search wizard that walks users through engine selection, query refinement, and result filtering. Run with jiro search --interactive.
- Benchmark tool — new jiro bench command for performance testing. Measures throughput, latency percentiles, and engine response times.
Released June 2026. Enterprise features, agent framework extras, and 28 tools.
What's new:
- Agent Framework Extras — pip install extras for OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain, and LlamaIndex. Install with pip install jirosearch[openai,anthropic,langchain,llamaindex].
- Pro Deep Lock — removed boolean feature flags from config. Features are now mapped to tiers (free, pro, enterprise) with automatic feature gating.
- Server-side License Verification — HMAC-SHA256 license token middleware validates enterprise licenses on every request. Tokens are signed with a server-side secret.
- Anti-tamper Check — package integrity verification at startup. Detects modified source files and prevents running tampered installations.
- MCP Setup Wizard — jiro mcp setup provides one-command configuration for 8+ MCP clients including Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Continue.dev.
- jiro doctor — built-in diagnostics command that checks Python version, dependencies, Redis connection, configuration validity, and package integrity.
- 9 Search Engines — Bing, Google, DuckDuckGo, Brave, YouTube, Amazon, eBay, Yandex, Baidu. Each with circuit breaker and rate limiting.
- 12 Social Platforms — Reddit, Twitter/X, YouTube, LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Hacker News, Bluesky, Telegram, Pinterest.
- 16 MCP Tools — 9 free tools (search, scrape, status, etc.) and 7 enterprise-only tools (deep research, social scrape, batch processing).
Released May 2026. Enterprise tier, free tier expansion, and security hardening.
What's new:
- Enterprise Tier Deep Lock — HMAC-SHA256 license validation for enterprise features. Licenses are bound to installation fingerprints and validated server-side.
- Free Tier Power-Up — expanded free tier to 100 RPM, 10,000 RPD, and 12 free features. Previously limited to 30 RPM and 5 features.
- Anonymous Access — expanded anonymous (no API key) access from 3 to 12 free features. Includes search, scrape, status, and basic AI endpoints.
- Security Headers — added Content Security Policy (CSP), HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, and Referrer-Policy headers to all responses.
- Self-Hosting — official self-hosting support with pip install jirosearch && jiro serve. Includes Docker image, docker-compose template, and systemd service file.
- Configuration — YAML-based configuration at ~/.jiro/config.yaml with environment variable overrides for all settings.
- Engine improvements — added circuit breakers with automatic recovery, per-engine rate limiting, and request deduplication.