Release notes

A record of all notable changes made to KnowledgeOwl since March 15, 2017.
You can also view our roadmap to see some of our largest upcoming projects.

πŸͺ New: Webhook, Slack, and email notifications for category events

07/09/2026Erica Beyea
Extend your knowledge base notifications with events within categories. Build custom alerting integrations tailored to your needs.

🍨Nat'l Strawberry Sundae Day bugfixes and improvements

07/08/2026Erica Beyea
These fixes address bugs with shared content syncing, custom CSS search, inherited reader group permissions, and creating from templates. It also includes improvements to the AI Chatbot and blocking search indexing in your knowledge base.

🎨 AI chatbot improvement: Brand your chatbot

06/24/2026Erica Beyea
Customize your AI Chatbot with branded colors, avatars, and text. Learn how to personalize your chatbot's appearance and voice to match your brand.

✍️ New: Customize your llms.txt file

06/18/2026Erica Beyea
Create llms.txt in KnowledgeOwl to help AI understand your help content better. Set up this emerging standard for improved AI discoverability today.

πŸ“² AI chatbot improvement: Add custom response rules

06/09/2026Erica Beyea
Set custom response rules for your AI Chatbot to route inquiries and automate responses. Control triggers, direct traffic, and improve customer experience.

🍦 Nat'l Rocky Road Ice Cream Day improvements

06/02/2026Erica Beyea
New improvements released: Semantic search and AI chatbot are now available on all accounts, and you can now search within your CSS.

⌯⌲ Nat'l Paper Airplane Day improvements and bugfixes

05/26/2026Erica Beyea
These updates include further improvements to the URL checker and the AI chatbot and fixes for the HTML zip export and copy knowledge base functions.

πŸ€‘ New: Customer referral program

05/20/2026Erica Beyea
Earn $500 for each customer referral. Share your unique link, watch them become a paid customer, and collect your reward after 3 months. Here's how the new referral program works.

πŸ€– New: Customize your robots.txt file

05/13/2026Erica Beyea
Control your knowledge base crawling with customizable robots.txt settings. Allow or block AI bots and search crawlers to protect your content and optimize SEO.

πŸ‘€ Introducing Find and replace

05/12/2026Erica Beyea
We've transitioned Advanced search to be a full Find and replace so you can easily update terms or phrases in bulk.

URL Checker: new name, and better than ever!

05/07/2026Erica Beyea
We've revamped the broken link checker to check all URLs, include src attributes to help you detect broken images and videos, and more!

πŸ• Nat'l Adopt a Shelter Pet Day release notes

04/29/2026Erica Beyea
These releases include improvements to our AI Chatbot reporting, AI chatbot wildcard and multiple domain support, URL redirect improvements, and version activation via the API. And as a bonus: shelter pet photos from the KnowledgeOwl team.

🌿 Nat'l Haiku Day bugfixes and improvements

04/17/2026Erica Beyea
These notes address AI chatbot fixes, new content imports from Helpjuice and Document360, glossary highlighting controls, and our new editor.

πŸŽ‰ Article editor redesign: Opt in for early testing!

04/11/2026Kate Mueller
Try out the redesigned article editor! We've taken a streamlined approach which is radically different from the current editor, and we know that's a big change. Give us your feedback and help us make it the best we can before we officially release it.

🌯 Nat'l Burrito Day bugfixes

04/02/2026Erica Beyea
These changes add special character support in glossaries, move the homepage merge code, and fix AI chatbot reader group restrictions.

🧰 New learning resource: Change management toolkit!

03/26/2026Kate Mueller
We've created a knowledge base change management toolkit and framework to help you successfully launch or relaunch your knowledge base.

🌷 First Day of Spring bugfixes and improvements

03/20/2026Erica Beyea
These fixes address bugs with the HTML zip export and email notifications. We also added a Document360 importer!

πŸ“ˆ Owl Analytics Export API now available

03/19/2026Kate Mueller
Say hello to our new Owl Analytics Export API for exporting your analytics data into third-party tools of your choice. Available to Business and Enterprise subscribers.

πŸ“© HubSpot, CSV, and other new import options

02/25/2026Kate Mueller
Imports, imports, and more imports! We've added a HubSpot importer, a generic CSV importer, and some import options when we don't have the tool you need. Plus we made the imports page prettier.

πŸ§€ Nat'l Cheddar day bugfixes

02/13/2026Erica Beyea
These bugfixes address issues with glossary terms and the table of contents and snippet rendering optimization. Plus we've added AI agent tracking in Owl Analytics!