# 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. [Read more](/content/changelog/jira-reconnect-and-more-reliable-setup/index.html) ## 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. [Read more](/content/changelog/cli-async-reviews-pre-push-gate-and-reliability-fixes/index.html) ## 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. [Read more](/content/changelog/smarter-duplicate-detection-and-more-reliable-reviews/index.html) ## 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. [Read more](/content/changelog/auto-detect-review-instructions/index.html) ## 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. [Read more](/content/changelog/review-stats-track-review-metrics-for-your-team/index.html) ## 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. [Read more](/content/changelog/optibot-firmware-update/index.html) ## 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. [Read more](/content/changelog/review-memory-organization-level-and-smarter-maintenance/index.html) ## 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. [Read more](/content/changelog/optibot-monorepo-guidelines---per-directory-review-instructions/index.html) ## 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. [Read more](/content/changelog/pair-review/index.html) ## 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. [Read more](/content/changelog/optibot-release-re-review-code-in-one-click/index.html) ## 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. [Read more](/content/changelog/arcadia-release-v2-5-1/index.html) ## 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. [Read more](/content/changelog/optibot-for-app-sec-ai-security-agent/index.html) ## 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. [Read more](/content/changelog/optibot-claude-code-skill---optibot-code-reviews-built-into-claude-code/index.html) ## 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. [Read more](/content/changelog/optibot-february-ii---release-notes/index.html) ## 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. [Read more](/content/changelog/optibot-feature-update/index.html) ## 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. [Read more](/content/changelog/optimal-insights-february-release-log/index.html) ## 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. [Read more](/content/changelog/optibot-now-finds-dead-code-and-code-quality-issues/index.html) ## 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. [Read more](/content/changelog/introducing-branch-review-analyze-entire-pull-requests/index.html) ## 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. [Read more](/content/changelog/short-summaries-better-comments-cleaner-ci/index.html) ## 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. [Read more](/content/changelog/optibot-slack-integration---real-time-pr-reviews-productivity-alerts/index.html) ## 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. [Read more](/content/changelog/automatic-reviews-on-new-commits/index.html) ## 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. [Read more](/content/changelog/optibot-release---cursor-extension-launch/index.html) ## 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. [Read more](/content/changelog/vs-code-extension-support-and-gitlab-enhancements/index.html) ## 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. [Read more](/content/changelog/optibot-now-in-vs-code-new-release/index.html) ## 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. [Read more](/content/changelog/inline-gitlab-comments-on-demand-compliance-checks-and-smarter-re-reviews/index.html) ## 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. [Read more](/content/changelog/individual-vs-team-comparison-now-live-in-insights/index.html) ## 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. [Read more](/content/changelog/optibot-improved-context-understanding-and-unified-architecture-for-smarter-reviews/index.html) ## 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. [Read more](/content/changelog/gitlab-integration-and-faster-code-review-performance/index.html)