# Bear Notes MCP v2.12.0 -- what is new since March

**URL:** <https://community.bear.app/t/bear-notes-mcp-v2-12-0-what-is-new-since-march/19039>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** workflow, third-party\
**Created:** [April 21, 2026, 8:23am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/bear-notes-mcp-v2-12-0-what-is-new-since-march/19039 "2026-04-21T08:23:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![vasylenko](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/vasylenko/32/7539_2.png) [@vasylenko](https://community.bear.app/u/vasylenko)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2026, 8:23am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/bear-notes-mcp-v2-12-0-what-is-new-since-march/19039/1 "2026-04-21T08:23:30Z")

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Hey Bear community! First of all, I want to thank you for your support. Bear Notes MCP Server open source project has crossed 170 stars on GitHub, which I still can’t quite believe. Every star, issue, and question keeps me shipping. Thank you! ❤

**Two new tools:**

- **Rename a tag across your whole library** — one command, every note updated.
- **Delete a tag** without touching any of the notes it was on.

**Smoother AI workflows – better for your agent, better for you:**

- Creating a note and then adding to it in the same conversation now chains cleanly — the AI gets the note’s ID back and doesn’t need to search for it first.
- Open a note by title, no need to know the ID.
- Searching by tag returns each note’s full tag list in one go — the AI can cross-reference without opening every result.

**Fixes:**

- Tags from trashed, archived, and encrypted notes no longer show up in the tag list — it now matches what Bear’s UI shows.
- Attachments without OCR text (MHTML files, for example) used to silently disappear — they now always appear, with a note when text isn’t available.
- Database reads no longer fail when Bear happens to be mid-write.

**Also** :

- The repo was renamed to [bear-notes-mcp](https://github.com/vasylenko/bear-notes-mcp) (client-neutral name).
- And there’s a small landing page now — [https://bear-notes-mcp.vercel.app](https://bear-notes-mcp.vercel.app) — that explains how to get started and what the MCP server does.

Give it a try!

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_UPD: original post announed three new tools but I removed the “bear-grab-url” tool from the MCP server as potentially insecure – a prompt injection can lure the LLM to give away the data through Bear calling a URL for fetching. Security of this MCP server is important to me so I hope that the absence of that tool is not a big deal._