Changelog

Every feature, improvement, and fix we ship — straight from the team building Optibot and Insights.

July 9, 2026

Jira: Reconnect Instantly, Connect More Reliably

Broken Jira credentials? Just re-save them, no need to disconnect first. This update adds a Cloud / Server toggle and fixes service account setup failures.
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July 5, 2026

CLI: Async Reviews, Pre-Push Gate & Reliability Fixes

Reviews now run in the background so you can keep working. A new --fail-on-issues flag blocks a push when the review does not pass, giving you a final check before code ships.
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July 1, 2026

Optibot Now Catches Duplicate Code Before It Ships

Optibot proactively detects when new code duplicates something already in your codebase, re-verifies prior issues more accurately, and handles model failures more gracefully.
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June 25, 2026

Auto-Detect Review Instructions

Stop registering review instruction files by hand. Give Optibot a glob pattern like /REVIEW.md and it discovers every matching file automatically.
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June 23, 2026

Review Stats: Track Review Metrics for Your Team

A new Review Statistics page gives you a live view of review activity across your team — total reviews, per-member breakdowns, top repositories, and a timeline chart you can filter by day, week, or month.
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June 19, 2026

Reviews That Learn As You Push

A foundational upgrade to the review engine. Push reviews now zero in on your latest commits for faster, more targeted feedback with every push, automatically.
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June 11, 2026

Review Memory: Shared Knowledge & Smarter Suggestions

Review Memory now operates across your entire organization — shared patterns, automatic contradiction detection, and a self-maintaining knowledge base that stays accurate over time.
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June 8, 2026

Monorepo Guidelines — Per-Directory Review Instructions

Define different review standards for different parts of your monorepo. Optibot applies the right rules based on which directories each PR touches.
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June 3, 2026

Pair Review

Optibot's biggest review upgrade yet: multiple passes on every review, instant PR summaries, faster replies, and a rebuilt, more reliable engine.
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June 1, 2026

Optibot Release - Re-review code in one click

One click re-review in GitHub and Slack, richer Slack notifications with author and comment counts, and clearer review status messages.
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April 15, 2026

Arcadia 2.5.1: Smarter Reviews with Noise reduction

Suppress repeated issues with context-aware tracking, revamped members page with pagination and search for large teams, upgraded AI engine, and smarter bot responses.
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March 30, 2026

Optibot for AppSec — AI Security Agent

Optibot now ships with a dedicated AppSec mode. On every PR it automatically surfaces OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, insecure dependency versions, injection risks, and secrets exposure — without any manual configuration.
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March 18, 2026

Optibot Claude Code Skill — Code Reviews Built Into Claude Code

Optibot is now available as a native Claude Code skill. Trigger a full code review from inside your AI coding session — no tab-switching, no copy-paste. The review comes back in the same chat with file-level context.
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February 24, 2026

Optibot February II — Release Notes

Improved multi-file reasoning, faster review latency, and better handling of large monorepo PRs. Plus: Optibot now understands your team's custom linting rules and incorporates them in every review.
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February 12, 2026

Optibot February Feature Update

New: ask Optibot follow-up questions directly on any review comment. Added support for test coverage analysis and detection of missing test cases for changed code paths.
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February 6, 2026

Optimal Insights February Release Log

Engineering Insights now shows PR size trends over time, reviewer load distribution, and a new "bottleneck score" that pinpoints exactly where cycle time is being lost.
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January 30, 2026

Optibot Now Finds Dead Code and Code Quality Issues

Optibot's static analysis engine now flags unreachable functions, unused exports, and redundant abstractions — helping teams keep codebases clean as AI-generated code volumes increase.
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December 11, 2025

Branch Review: Analyze Entire Pull Requests

Branch Review is a new mode that analyzes all commits in a PR together, giving Optibot full context of the entire changeset rather than reviewing commits individually.
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December 4, 2025

Shorter Summaries. Better Comments. Cleaner CI in Optibot

Reviewed and tightened Optibot's output quality across the board. Summaries are now 40% shorter on average. Comments are more actionable. CI check output is cleaner and easier to skim.
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December 3, 2025

Optibot + Slack Integration — Real-Time PR Reviews & Productivity Alerts

Optibot now posts review summaries and productivity alerts directly to Slack. Get notified when a PR is ready to merge, when a review is blocked, or when an engineer is overloaded.
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December 3, 2025

Automatic Reviews on New Commits

Optibot now automatically triggers a fresh review whenever new commits are pushed to an open PR, keeping your review always up to date without manual re-requests.
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December 1, 2025

Optibot Release — Cursor Extension Launch

Optibot is now available in the Cursor editor. Run full code reviews and ask questions about your repository inside the AI-native editor you already use.
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November 24, 2025

VS Code Extension Support and GitLab Enhancements

VS Code extension now supports all Optibot review features. GitLab integration improvements include better diff rendering, faster MR analysis, and inline comment threading.
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November 18, 2025

Optibot, Now in VS Code

The Optibot VS Code extension is now available. Review PRs, ask questions about your codebase, and get inline suggestions without leaving your editor.
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November 17, 2025

Inline GitLab Comments, On-Demand Compliance Checks, and Smarter Re-reviews

GitLab now gets inline diff comments just like GitHub. Added on-demand compliance checks you can trigger any time. Re-reviews are now smarter — Optibot only re-examines what changed.
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November 13, 2025

Individual vs. Team Comparison Now Live in Insights

The Insights dashboard now lets you compare any individual engineer's metrics against team averages — PR cycle time, review turnaround, comment resolution rate, and more.
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November 5, 2025

Optibot Improved Context Understanding and Unified Architecture

Optibot now understands cross-file dependencies and import chains at review time. The underlying architecture has been unified across GitHub and GitLab for consistent review quality.
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September 29, 2025

GitLab Integration and Faster Code Review Performance

Optibot now works with GitLab. Inline comments, MR summaries, and CI checks all work the same way as with GitHub. Review latency improved by 2× across all platforms.
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