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PodOS 2026.11: Create on the fly, mention things and edit literals

Our November release introduces the long-awaited editing of literal values and an exciting new feature that links your Markdown documents to anything on your Pod. You can even create new stuff as you type!

Mention anything from your Markdown notes

Mentioning things with the #-syntax

Capturing your thought in a quick Markdown note is a good way to begin something new. What starts as a word can evolve into a real thing on your Pod. Perhaps you are already planning for Christmas and want to mention #Grandma's cookies recipe which you created with Umai? With the new #-mention you can link anything. All the things that you can find through the navigation bar are mentionable. Use the "Make findable" feature to add something to the items you want to access quickly.

Create new things as you type

Creating a new thing on the fly

The mention feature is not limited to existing content. You can also create a new thing from the words you type instantly. Continue writing your document or follow the link to add structured data about the mentioned item, or use the "Open with" feature to switch to a more suitable app. Starting from Markdown, you can evolve your thoughts to real data assets that can be used within the Solid app ecosystem.

Edit literal values

Editing a literal value

Adding literal values to an item was already possible through the "Data" tool in PodOS Browser. Now you can also edit those values directly, to rename something or fix a typo. It's certainly not the most impressive feature, but an important foundation for actually being in charge of your own data without needing a specific app.

Full changelogs

PodOS 2026.11 includes the following components:

  • @pod-os/elements 0.45.1
  • @pod-os/core 0.34.0

For those of you interested in the full list of changes, here are the release notes:

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PodOS 2026.07: Flexible conditions and document metadata

Our latest release makes it possible to handle document metadata and gives you more flexibility in visualizing your data with custom dashboards.

Access and edit document metadata

The world is messy, and more than often you get a lousy PDF instead of valuable new data for your Pod. You can upload attachments since PodOS 2025.12, and now you can enrich those documents with structured data as well! Add any literal or relation to classic documents like PDFs, Markdown notes or images and give them the meaning they deserve! You could upload your paper invoices, add a schema:Invoice type to them and a totalPaymentDue, link them with a respective Order or Event. Model the data to your needs, and if you like, start building dashboards to visualize all of this!

Programming in HTML?

We know, we know... HTML is not a programming language. But what if you like to shape dashboards fitting to your data? We introduced pos-switch with PodOS 2026.03 and it just got more powerful. You are now able to render different cases depending on the values of properties and even reverse relations! Consult the pos-case documentation for all available attributes.

A practical example? How about a recipe dashboard that highlights your vegan recipes:

<pos-switch>
    <pos-case if-property="https://schema.org/suitableForDiet"
              some-value-eq="https://schema.org/VeganDiet">
        <template>
            This is vegan!
        </template>
    </pos-case>
</pos-switch>

A PodOS dasboard highlighting dietary properties of recipes

You can manage your recipes with an existing app like Umai, but Umai has no feature yet to manage dietary preferences. Thanks to Solid, you can edit your data anyway using PodOS Brower, add a suitableForDiet relation and build a custom dashboard to visualize your cookbook the way you prefer. Bon appétit!

Our Dashboard Garage has a full example of such a dashboard. Explore, mess with it, and build whatever you need.

Full changelogs

PodOS 2026.07 includes the following components:

  • @pod-os/elements 0.43.0
  • @pod-os/core 0.32.0

For those of you interested in the full list of changes, here are the release notes:

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PodOS 2026.05: Remember me, linking things, and IDE superpowers

This release brings a smoother login experience, a long-awaited editing feature, and a treat for everyone building HTML dashboards. As promised, we also continued rolling out reactivity to more components.

More reactivity

In our last release we started making PodOS components react to data changes automatically. With this release, pos-value, pos-label, and pos-description join the club. Edit a label in one place and every spot on the page that displays it catches up immediately.

Data on your Pod is richer when things are connected. Until now you could browse relations between resources, but adding a new link required editing raw RDF.

Add relation

PodOS Browser now lets you create a relation between two things directly from the "Data" tool, the same way you could already add literal values. Link a book to its author. Connect a project to its participants. The data is yours to shape.

Remember me

The login form now has a Remember me checkbox. When checked, your Identity Provider URL is saved locally and pre-filled the next time you log in. One less thing to type.

Remember me

Auto-completion for dashboard builders

If you build HTML dashboards with PodOS elements, your editor can now help you. This release ships a Custom Elements Manifest alongside the package. IDEs that support this standard, like VS Code with the right extension, will suggest component names, attributes, and their descriptions as you type.

Auto-componete
Auto-complete suggesting various PodOS elements

Full changelogs

PodOS 2026.05 includes the following components:

  • @pod-os/elements 0.41.0
  • @pod-os/core 0.30.0

For those of you interested in the full list of changes, here are the release notes:

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PodOS 2026.03: "Open with", conditional rendering and reactivity

Browsing your data using PodOS is great, but nothing compares to an app that is tailor-made for the task. That's why PodOS Brower now allows you to open a resource in another app. We also have some exciting new features for dashboards builders.

The right app, just when you need it

Having a choice: This is a key promise of the Solid ecosystem, and with the latest PodOS release we make this choice available with just two clicks: Press "Share", select an app, seamlessly continue your work. That's it!

Open with

Viewing a recipe? Open with Umai and start cooking. Working with an address book? Switch over to PodOS Contacts. Need to edit a web page? Dokie.li is at your service.

The current release comes with support for several well-known and proven Solid applications. We are going to make this configurable to work with any Solid app in the future.

What if? One dashboard countless possibilities

Your data is as diverse as your life. When building HTML dashboards, you might want to react differently depending on the type and properties of things. This is where pos-switch comes into play! A new component for conditional rendering.

With this new element you can choose an appropriate HTML template for different cases. Here is an example:

<pos-switch>
  <pos-case if-typeof="http://schema.org/Recipe">
    <template>Whatever you want to render for a recipe</template>
  </pos-case>
  <pos-case else if-typeof="http://schema.org/Person">
    <template>This renders in case it is a person</template>
  </pos-case>
  <pos-case if-property="http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#hasPhoto">
    <template>
      The resource has a photo, let's show it: <pos-picture></pos-picture>
    </template>
  </pos-case>
</pos-switch>

Take a look at Storybook for more examples and playing around with it.

Things change: Your dashboards will adjust

When data changes in one place, the user interface needs to reflect those changes elsewhere. This reactivity is key for modern web applications and a great user experience.

When building HTML dashboards, we do not want you to be bothered with this. It should "just work" for you. That's why we started to build reactivity into PodOS core and elements. Components like pos-container-contents and the new pos-switch will update automatically if relevant data changes.

Not all elements follow this approach yet, but we will be adding reactivity to more of them one by one.

Full changelogs

PodOS 2026.03 includes the following components:

  • @pod-os/elements 0.38.0
  • @pod-os/core 0.27.0

For those of you interested in the full list of changes, here are the release notes:

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PodOS 2026.01 adds dynamic module loading

With the latest PodOS release, we are taking a big leap towards modularity and extensibility. You can now dynamically load Solid Data Modules to add new features to the core system.

Our (still experimental) PodOS contacts app already made use of the contacts data module for some time. Now your own dashboards and apps can load a data module of your choice. Check out the tutorial to learn how to do that.

Any rdflib-based data module is supported:

We also did an experimental release of a @pod-os/contacts component library. Since the provided components are currently very tailored to the PodOS Contacts app and due to change, we do not recommend using them yet in your work. But it gives an impression in what direction we are heading to extend PodOS with domain-specific components and features in the future. We will keep you updated!

Full changelogs

PodOS 2026.01 includes the following components:

  • @pod-os/elements 0.36.0
  • @pod-os/core 0.25.0

For those of you interested in the full list of changes, here are the release notes:

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PodOS 2025.12 brings attachments and discovery

The latest release makes it easier to connect files to your digital things and discover your data through the dashboard.

Connecting files to digital twins

Imagine you're cataloging your belongings on your Pod - you have digital representations of your devices, appliances, or other possessions. But what about the PDF manual, the warranty document, or the invoice that came with your new coffee machine?

Upload attachment

PodOS Browser 2025.12 introduces attachments - a way to connect classic files like PDFs, images, or documents to the digital twins of things on your Pod. Store the invoice for your laptop right alongside its digital representation, or keep instruction manuals attached to the things they belong to.

When you open any resource in PodOS Browser, you can now view all its attachments in one place and add new ones. Everything stays connected and easy to find.

Your personal catalog

Your Pod contains all sorts of data - but how do you keep track of what's where? The dashboard now gives you a better overview of your personal data space.

Upload attachment

With this release, the dashboard shows your public and private type index entries in clean, card-style containers. Think of it as an organized catalog of everything in your Pod - all your bookmarks here, your photos there, your contacts in another place. At a glance, you can see what kinds of things you're storing and navigate directly to where they live.

Full changelogs

PodOS 2025.12 includes the following components:

  • @pod-os/elements 0.35.0
  • @pod-os/core 0.24.0

For those of you interested in the full list of changes, here are the release notes:

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Files and more with PodOS 2025.11

Our latest release helps to organize your stuff in files and folders and visualize your things using pictures.

The hierarchy of things

Linked data helps to organize things in relation to each other and build a knowledge graph. PodOS 2025.11 allows you to create folders and files in your Pod to organize them in a traditional hierarchy as well.

Adding a new file

File types are recognized by extensions, so you can create Turtle files for RDF data as well as JSON, plain text, Markdown and more (have you tried the Markdown editor introduced with PodOS 2025.10?)

Pics or it didn't happen

Uploading pictures Take a picture using your Webcam

Uploading pictures is finally there! Go and add a nice visual to things of importance to you. Use drag and drop, or browse your file system — whatever you prefer.

Thanks to Uppy this also includes taking a picture directly from your webcam. How about adding that long-missing profile picture today?

Lists, lists, lists

Good news for the dashboard aficionados among you: Building lists of things is now possible with the pos-list element.

This way you can build a simple friends list with a few lines of HTML:

<pos-resource uri="https://alice.solid.example/profile/card#me">
  <ul>
    <pos-list rel="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/knows" fetch>
      <template>
        <li><pos-label></pos-label></li>
      </template>
    </pos-list>
  </ul>
</pos-resource>

You can also list all things of a certain type that have been fetched so far:

<!-- Fetch happens anywhere else in the document -->
<ul>
    <pos-list all-from-store if-typeof="http://www.w3.org/2002/01/bookmark#Bookmark">
        <template>
            <li><pos-label></pos-label></li>
        </template>
    </pos-list>
</ul>

It is quite impressive what can be done with PodOS elements already. Angelo built a whole profile page making extensive use of the new list element.

Built something yourself using PodOS? Let us know, and we are happy to showcase your work!

Full changelogs

PodOS 2025.11 includes the following components:

  • @pod-os/elements 0.34.0
  • @pod-os/core 0.23.0

For those of you interested in the full list of changes, here are the release notes:

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PodOS 2025.10 is out 🎉

The new release adds create new features to PodOS Browser, including a smoother authentication experience, markdown support and a better integration with the Fediverse.

From informal notes to structured knowledge

Markdown Editor

Often you just want to note some facts quickly, and Markdown is the way to go for many of us.

PodOS 2025.10 allows you to open your existing Markdown documents, renders them nicely and even allows you to edit them using a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get editor.

In the future, we are going to integrate that editor with the structured knowledge you store on your Pod, transitioning smoothly from quick notes to knowledge graphs.

The right tool for the job

Tool Select

We want you to focus on your use cases and choose the right tool for the job. Sometimes you want to mess around with the data in your documents, but more often specialized tools give a much better user experience.

PodOS 2025.10 allows you to switch between all suitable tools for a given resource. The generic data viewer is always available, but if specialized tools fit, those will be opened by default, like the new Markdown Editor for Markdown documents

Smoother authentication experience

Authentication can still be a pain in Solid Apps. PodOS 2025.10 switched to a new authentication library, which improves the experience significantly. You should see fewer login redirects and authorization requests with the new release.

Fediverse + Solid = ❤️

Fediverse Integration

Fediverse applications are built on Linked Data, the same technology Solid is based on. PodOS 2025.10 improves the integration with Fediverse applications by fixing several issues with JSON-LD - a serialization format often used in the Fediverse.

Check it out by opening the Practical Solid Video channel from PeerTube in PodOS Browser!

Full release notes

PodOS 2025.10 includes the following components:

  • @pod-os/elements 0.31.0
  • @pod-os/core 0.20.0

For those of you interested in the full list of changes, here are the release notes: