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.

📲 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 Airpane 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.

🤑 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.

🤖 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.

👀 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!

🐕 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.

🎉 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!

📈 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.

📩 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.

🧀 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!

🌍 Nat'l Plan for a Vacation Day bugfixes

01/27/2026Erica Beyea
These fixes address issues with related articles not working in private knowledge bases and the widget, along with broken links within custom content categories in the widget.

👋 Int'l Bye-Bye 2025 Day bugfixes

12/31/2025Erica Beyea
End the year on a high note! These fixes address issues with widget contact forms and video playback issues, HTML exports, and improved how our AI Chatbot cites its sources.

🥐 Nat'l Pastry Day bugfixes and improvements

12/09/2025Erica Beyea
These notes address bugfixes for our contextual help widget and article import tool, as well as improvements to bulk editing in Manage and data export in Owl Analytics.

🎶 Nat'l Jukebox Day bugfixes

11/26/2025Erica Beyea
These fixes address bugs for Word imports, video playback with secure files, glossary styling, file references, and UI improvements.