Release history

February 16, 2026

New & Improved

Email Integrations

• Publishers can now connect Mailchimp, MailerLite, and Kit to automatically add consenting users to their newsletter.
• Multiple providers can be enabled simultaneously for a single domain.
• Secure credential storage and server-to-server subscription handling.
• Destination selection (audience, group, or tag) configurable per provider.

Pico Chat v2

• Major improvements to responsiveness and conversational flow.
• Better context awareness across recipes and pantry data.
• More reliable answers and reduced hallucinations.

Shopping & Lists

• Added checkable grocery lists during shopping sessions.
• Improved syncing between grocery list and pantry updates.
• Better handling of multi-recipe ingredient aggregation.

Recipe & Parsing Improvements

• Improved recipe detection accuracy across supported sites.
• Better quantity parsing and normalization.
• More consistent ingredient handling across formats.

Overview & UI

• Added Allspice Overview Block on supported recipe pages.
• Improved action bar placement logic.
• Updated floating button positioning to reduce layout conflicts.
• Numerous UI fixes and small interaction improvements.

Performance & Compatibility

• Improved widget performance and load timing.
• Enhanced WordPress caching compatibility.
• Improved interactions with themes and optimization plugins.
• Further reductions in Core Web Vitals impact.
• Improved ad avoidance behavior around sticky and video ads.
• Reduced layout shifts and unexpected element overlap.

Platform & Infrastructure

• Backend improvements for email collection and subscription tracking.
• More reliable analytics aggregation.
• Stability improvements across the Allspice widget runtime.
• Expanded compatibility across different publisher configurations.
• Ongoing migration toward full production infrastructure.

Fixes

• Various widget UI bugs resolved.
• Improved floating button collision handling.
• More reliable action triggers from page elements.
• Multiple parsing edge-case fixes.

What's Coming Next

• Guided Cooking Mode
• New chat interface with smart suggestions
• Recipe folders and organization
• Additional monetization controls
• Expanded ad placement compatibility
• More personalization features

January 26, 2026

New & Improved

• Publishers can now more easily choose which Allspice buttons appear on recipe pages.
• Improved support for custom button triggers using provided CSS classes, allowing any site element to launch Allspice actions.
• Added widget color theme selection.
• Further optimizations to reduce potential interactions with Core Web Vitals.
• Foundation work for publisher-level toggles around Cook Mode behavior and monetization.

Partner Analytics

• More consistent aggregation of recipe-level usage data in the Partner Dashboard.
• Backend improvements to support upcoming revenue analytics and deeper audience insights.

Platform & Infrastructure

• Improved compatibility with common WordPress setups, including caching, themes, and optimization plugins.
• Improved internal validation around recipe detection to reduce false positives.

What's Coming Next

• Improve support for common ad placements
• Add ability for users to remove recipes from grocery lists
• Add shopping sessions with checkable lists
• Pico chat version 2.0
• Conversion to production environments

January 20, 2026

New & Improved

• Initial rollout of the Partner Dashboard for managing integrations and viewing high-level analytics.
• Early visibility into recipe usage and ingredient-level data.
• Better handling of JSON-LD recipe data, added backup systems.
• Improved filtering to ensure Allspice appears only on valid recipe posts (e.g., recipes with more than one ingredient).
• Smoother transitions when launching the Allspice widget from recipe pages.
• More reliable anonymous usage flow before prompting users to create an account.

Smart Features

• Backend improvements to ingredient normalization and list consolidation for smarter grocery lists.
• Continued tuning of proprietary ingredient data to reduce duplicates across recipes.
• Improved response handling and action reliability when users ask questions or perform recipe-related tasks.

Platform & Infrastructure

• Ensured Allspice scripts load only on recipe pages and after primary page content.
• Reduced risk of conflicts with ad providers and third-party scripts.
• Internal monitoring improvements in support of uptime targets.

Looking Ahead

• White-label widget controls for premium partners
• Plugin optimizations
• Theme hardening