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.

🤑 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.

🍨 Nat'l Sundae Day bugfixes and improvements

11/11/2025Erica Beyea
These release notes cover an Enterprise custom roles fix, Confluence and Word import improvements, top 100 article limits for analytics pages, and Owl Analytics audience filtering and timeout fixes.

Early access: AI chatbot & semantic search

11/06/2025Erica Beyea
Learn about the new Early Access features for KnowledgeOwl's AI chatbot & semantic search: external embedding, Reader Group controls, branding options, and authentication.

🍝 Nat'l Pasta Day bugfixes

10/16/2025Erica Beyea
These updates include an enhanced Basic Auth for web crawlers and bugfixes for Reporting configuration errors, refined AI permissions, and Glossary Editor access.