ePublisher 2026.1 and WebWorks Platform Are Live
ePublisher 2026.1 is available for download and WebWorks Platform is open for sign-ups. An AI Assistant in Reverb 2.0, federated documentation sites, author-controlled URLs, and a live demo you can check for yourself.
Ashton French
Lead Software Engineer
ePublisher 2026.1 is available for download, and WebWorks Platform is open for sign-ups. Together they complete the story this site has been telling all year: documentation that is AI-ready from the source line to the published answer.
What shipped
ePublisher 2026.1 centers on AI-enabled documentation. Turn on the new Generate Assistant setting and your Reverb 2.0 output carries a chat-style AI Assistant in the Menu, alongside Contents and Index — answering from your own published documentation and citing the topics its answers came from.
The release reaches well beyond the Assistant. Federated documentation sites let each team publish its own parcel on its own schedule, while an AutoMap composition job assembles the deployed parcels into a single site with shared navigation, search, and index — in seconds, without rebuilding any content. Source ID landmarks turn a paragraph's authored identifier — a FrameMaker ID, a DITA element ID, or a Markdown++ alias — into its published URL, so a citation reads #configure-tls-certificates instead of #7f3a9c2e. Reverb 2.0 output now caches landmark, search, and index data across sessions for faster revisits to large sites. And Designer now works fully on its own, opening and building Express projects directly.
WebWorks Platform is where the Assistant runs. Create an Assistant, upload the Knowledge Base archive your Reverb 2.0 build already produces, and connect the Assistant ID to your output target — grounded answers on your next publish. The dashboard shows what your readers are asking, so documentation gaps surface as data instead of support tickets. Pay-As-You-Go is free to start with a $5 starter credit.
Don't take our word for it
Our documentation answers for itself. The WebWorks docs are built with ePublisher 2026.1, published as a federated Reverb 2.0 site, and answered by a live Reverb AI Assistant — the same feature set described above, running in production.
Try the live demo. Ask it how to turn on the Assistant. Then click the citation — it lands on the exact passage the answer came from. That's the difference between an AI feature you're told about and one you can verify.