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.
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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: falsein commitloom.yaml
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