Changelog

What we shipped

Every release since v1.0. New capabilities, bug fixes, and improvements to the review engine — with enough detail to know whether a change affects your workflow.

v1.8.0
May 12, 2026

Feature Custom rule engine

  • commitloom.yaml config file now supports custom pattern rules with full regex
  • Per-rule severity override: promote any warning to error for your codebase
  • Path-based ignore rules with glob support (e.g. vendor/**, **/*_test.go)
  • Schema documentation added to docs/configuration
v1.7.2
Apr 28, 2026

FixImprovement Review quality + latency

  • Fixed: comments not posted on PRs with binary file changes alongside code changes
  • Fixed: summary generation timing out on diffs exceeding 2,000 lines — now chunked
  • Improvement: average first-comment latency reduced from 82s to 54s (p50)
  • Improvement: Go interface satisfying detection added to nullability checker
v1.7.0
Apr 14, 2026

Feature Slack notifications

  • Team plan: post review summaries to Slack channels when issues above threshold are found
  • Configurable routing: channel per repo, or DM to PR author
  • Deep-link buttons to each annotated diff line from Slack
  • Quiet hours setting to suppress notifications outside of work hours
v1.6.1
Mar 31, 2026

Fix GitLab webhook reliability

  • Fixed: webhook signature verification failing for GitLab.com on IPv6 addresses
  • Fixed: push events on PRs with force-push not triggering re-review
  • Added retry with exponential backoff on GitLab API rate limits
v1.6.0
Mar 17, 2026

Feature Review analytics dashboard

  • New analytics view: track issue categories over time per repo
  • Team-level metrics: average time to first review, comment dismissal rate
  • CSV export for weekly snapshots (Team plan and above)
v1.5.0
Feb 28, 2026

Feature GitLab integration

  • Full GitLab merge request review support — same feature set as GitHub
  • Inline comments on MR diffs (requires MR maintainer access token)
  • GitLab self-managed instances supported (v15.0+)
  • Setup guide: docs/gitlab-integration
v1.4.0
Jan 20, 2026

Feature PR summary auto-population

  • Commitloom now writes the PR description on open (not just comments)
  • Summary includes: what changed, risk areas, suggested review order
  • Authors can edit the generated summary freely before merge
  • Opt-out via summary: false in commitloom.yaml
v1.0.0
Oct 1, 2025

Feature Initial release

  • GitHub App with inline AI comments on pull request diffs
  • Logic error, nullability, and missing coverage detection
  • Free plan: 1 developer, up to 3 repos, 50 PR reviews per month
  • Inline install — no CLI, no config required to get started