What's New at Changebot

Publishing & Publications stay accurate (and failures are easier to understand)

Publishing has a lot of moving parts, and it’s easy to end up looking at an out-of-date status. This release tightens the loop so the Publications and Updates pages reflect what’s actually happening—and when something fails, you can see why and retry.

• See a clear Publishing… state while work is in progress, plus Failed badges with error details when something doesn’t go through.
• Get up-to-date statuses and counts on Updates/Publications when events happen in real time—or when you come back to a page.
• If a background refresh can’t complete, you’ll now see a visible error instead of silently viewing stale data.
• Bulk delete in Publications is now all-or-nothing, so you don’t end up with a partially deleted selection.

New Features

• MCP setup is now in Settings (with per-client tabs). You can follow step-by-step setup for clients like Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, and VS Code in one place.

Improvements

• Email confirmation now signs you in automatically. After confirming, you’ll land where you would after a normal login (like onboarding).
• Faster page loads for integration pickers. Channel and Webflow site pickers no longer block the page from loading, and they show clearer reconnect/error states when access expires.

Bug Fixes

• Clearer, field-level errors across the app. Forms now show errors next to the exact fields to fix, instead of generic messages.
• Customer update editor won’t drop your draft on save errors. Your title, content, and tags stay in place so you can fix issues and try again.
• More reliable repository connect. You’ll see clearer “already connected” messages, and connection failures no longer look like an empty list.
• Webflow connection screens are more consistent. Connected accounts reliably show the right configuration state, with clearer error messages.
• Published update links redirect correctly. Older URLs now resolve to the canonical friendly URL instead of 404ing.
• Builder chat recovers better after interruptions. When you return to a thread or a send fails, you’ll see what happened and can retry.

We're excited to introduce a new Automation that allows you to configure automated periodic recaps for your products. A "periodic recap" is just a customer update we write on a regular cadence — every day, every week, or every month — based on the frequency you pick. Think of it as a short, regular summary of what's changed that you can send to customers automatically.

This feature makes it easier than ever to keep your customers informed. The system automatically collects data such as merged pull requests, notable commits, and tickets to generate a polished update.

Where the recap goes is up to you. You can send it to your inbox for review first, or publish it directly to any destination — Slack, Discord, your hosted Changelog, or anywhere else you communicate with customers.

• Example: Send a private Slack message to customer-success once a month for manual review.
• Example: Publish weekly recaps straight to your hosted Changelog without manual steps.
• Example: Deliver daily summaries to a channel in Discord for an internal engineering channel.

Setting up these recaps is simple. This is an additional Automation available in the automation form — choose the 'Periodic Recap' option when creating or editing an automation, select the product, and pick the desired cadence. You can add it alongside other automations for the same product.

We hope this helps you keep customers in the loop with almost zero effort — spend less time writing updates and more time building great things.

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