The release of our new version control system comes at at time when collaboration amongst researchers is increasingly important for publication and research. In fact, there has been a five-fold increase in the number of authors per paper in the last century, a number growing very rapidly in recent years \cite{Aboukhalil_2014}. That collaboration amongst researchers is increasing calls for better version control as well as better tools for researchers from different disciplines to work together. Authorea offers the most advanced version control system for writing research papers whether you're writing in a rich text WYSIWYG environment or Markdown or LaTeX. Try out the new version control system for research writing by logging into Authorea Beta (make sure you have switched to the Authorea Beta Editor).
What's coming next? We will add the ability to revert to previous versions (e.g. "undo all the work done by Mark yesterday") and adding a "suggestion mode" capability to allow co-authors to suggest edits which are then approved and merged in by the lead author(s).