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Updated 2026-05-25 Changelog eCommerce Insights team

Every notable change since v9 with the date and the highlight. Versions ship roughly weekly. The latest is v19; older versions remain documented for users on slower release cadences and for context on when a feature shipped.

Versions ship roughly weekly. The latest is v19. Highlights below.

v19 2026-05-25

Pingback protocol GA. API early access broader. Personas regenerate flow polished.

  • Pingback protocol moves from preview to GA. Cloudflare Worker, Vercel Edge Middleware, Fastly VCL, and Lambda@Edge templates published.
  • API early access expanded to 100 keys. Webhooks for audit.completed, prompt-runs.completed, alert.fired, recommendation.applied, recommendation.pushed.
  • Personas regenerate now shows a diff of new vs old clusters with one-click apply.
  • AI Agent Lens adds Amazonbot and Bytespider, bringing the tested bot count to twelve.
  • Shopify integration: ecommerceinsights namespace metafields now respect Theme Editor visibility settings.
v18 2026-05-22

Direct API for Yotpo and Judge.me reviews. Brand voice URL crawl.

  • Yotpo direct API integration. No more CSV exports for Yotpo customers; hourly refresh by default.
  • Judge.me direct API integration. Same hourly refresh.
  • Brand voice can now be derived from a public style-guide URL — paste, preview, edit, save.
  • Image Enhancer: AI creative brief now writes against top three personas instead of brand average.
  • Listing rewrite: capsule view shows the diff highlight against current value rather than a side-by-side replacement.
v17 2026-05-21

Workspace polish. ScrapingBee retry tuning. Internal bug fixes.

  • Workspace-level theme polish: paper-grey palette refined for higher contrast on score badges.
  • ScrapingBee retry budget tuned to halve fallback fetch time on Cloudflare-protected stores.
  • Personas: minimum corpus warning ("under 50 reviews; clusters may be coarse") added when applicable.
  • Schedule: per-task "Run now" buttons added next to each task entry.
v16 2026-05-20

AI Agent Lens, onboarding ring, email/Slack/webhook alerts, cron heartbeat.

  • AI Agent Lens shipped. Paste any URL; get per-bot crawler verdict (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, and friends), structured-data inventory, plain-text view an LLM extracts, AI Agent Readiness score, and auto-generated shopper test prompts with direct ChatGPT/Perplexity/Claude links.
  • Onboarding checklist on Home: progressive 6-step ring (import → first audit → brand voice → reviews → first Monitor → first alert), auto-ticks from real state.
  • Email alerts via Resend (RESEND_API_KEY) plus Slack plus webhook delivery wired into Alerts.deliver().
  • Cron heartbeat at /?api=cron_tick for cron-as-a-service, plus "Run scheduler now" button on Schedule.
  • Hidden versions index page.
v15 2026-05-20

Sentiment Analysis shipped. Competitive Position promoted out of Beta.

  • Sentiment Analysis: themes, voice-of-customer rollup, tone-gap detection between reviews and AI engine responses.
  • Brand-wide Sentiment rollup with per-SKU table.
  • Competitive Position moved out of Beta into the main Visibility section.
  • SALES_READINESS.md audit doc.
v14 2026-05-20

Listing rewrite restored. ScrapingBee fallback. Beta hub. Action Inbox polish.

  • Listing comprehensive rewrite restored. Amazon now gets capsule diffs plus bullets diff plus Enricher output stacked.
  • PdpFetcher no longer caches blocked content. PdpParser handles array-wrapped JSON-LD plus unescaped control chars (the RobotShop fix).
  • fetchText() falls back to ScrapingBee on 403 or Cloudflare challenge; finds llms.txt and robots.txt behind Cloudflare.
  • Beta hub at /?view=beta; single Beta link in nav replaces five separate entries.
  • Action Inbox polished: hero stats, filter pills, ranked cards, dismiss button.
  • Alerts page redesigned with hero stats, fire cards, iOS-style toggles rules grid.
v13 2026-05-20

Analyze Page full audit detail. Crawler Access preflight. Force JS rendering.

  • Analyze Page report now renders full audit detail via shared audit_report partial.
  • Crawler Access preflight card on every audit (Score, Rufus, Analyze).
  • "Force JavaScript rendering" toggle on Analyze (ScrapingBee with render_js).
  • FUNCTION_AUDIT.md document.
v12 2026-05-20

Brand Voice. Monitor modes. Scheduler. Action Inbox home.

  • Analyze Page report fix: full audit detail, not just buckets table.
  • Brand Voice in Settings prefixes system prompt for all generation.
  • Monitor: Neutral vs Persona-segmented run modes with cost preview.
  • Scheduler plus frequency fields plus cron docs plus Run-history page.
  • Action Inbox becomes the default home page.
v11 2026-05-19

Nav restructure. Channel-aware Listing. Analyze a Page. Image Enhancer pillars.

  • Restructured nav: Visibility and Optimize headers.
  • Unified Listing view: channel-aware rewrites (Rufus for Amazon, Enricher for D2C and retailer).
  • Built Analyze a Page: paste-any-URL audit, channel detection by host.
  • Image Enhancer 4 named pillars: Feature Sentiment, Mobile Glanceability, Competitive Benchmarking, AI Creative Brief.
  • Wired Image Enhancer to Persona reviews.
v10 2026-05-19

Channel-resolved score. URL auto-redirect. Retailer banner.

  • Single channel-resolved score nav entry: Amazon to Rufus, D2C/retailer to PDP.
  • Auto-redirect score and rufus URLs based on SKU channel.
  • Retailer banner plus recommendation filter (no robots.txt advice for Macy's SKUs).
  • Products column score is channel-aware.
v9 2026-05-14

Settings page consolidation. Personas v2. Rufus 15-relation breakdown.

  • Settings page with Catalog Import, Prompt Library, Personas, and Alert Rules cards.
  • Personas v2: CSV upload plus LLM clustering (4-8 buyer personas from real reviews).
  • Rufus / COSMO report clarity update: explicit 15-relation breakdown panel.
  • Labels renamed: PDP Score, Prompt Runs, PDP Enrich, Rufus Score.

Common questions

How often does eCommerce Insights ship?
Roughly weekly. Big features land every two to four weeks; minor versions ship between for fixes and copy refinements.
How are breaking changes handled?
Breaking changes to the public API or the Pingback protocol are announced with at least 60 days notice during early access. Internal changes (scoring weight tweaks, new criteria) are documented per version but do not require migration.
Where is the RSS feed?
At /docs/changelog/feed.xml. Updated when each version ships.
Can I subscribe to release emails?
Yes — Settings → Notifications → Release announcements. One email per major version (skips minor patches).

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eCommerce Insights changelog from v9 to v19. Releases roughly weekly. v19 latest: Pingback protocol GA, API early access broader, Personas regenerate UI polish. v18 (May 2026): Yotpo and Judge.me direct API for reviews, Brand voice URL crawl. v17: workspace-level theme polish, ScrapingBee retry tuning. v16 (May 20 2026): AI Agent Lens with 12 bot verdicts, onboarding 6-step ring, email/Slack/webhook alert delivery, cron heartbeat /?api=cron_tick, hidden versions index. v15 (May 20 2026): Sentiment Analysis with themes voice-of-customer tone-gap, Competitive Position out of Beta, SALES_READINESS.md. v14 (May 20 2026): Listing comprehensive rewrite restored, PdpParser handles array-wrapped JSON-LD and unescaped control chars (RobotShop fix), ScrapingBee fallback on 403/CF, Beta hub, Action Inbox polish, Alerts redesign. v13 (May 20 2026): Analyze Page full audit detail, Crawler Access preflight card, Force JavaScript Rendering toggle, FUNCTION_AUDIT.md. v12 (May 20 2026): Analyze Page report fix, Brand Voice in Settings, Monitor Neutral vs Persona-segmented modes with cost preview, Scheduler + frequency fields + cron docs, Action Inbox home. v11 (May 19 2026): nav restructure Visibility/Optimize, unified channel-aware Listing, Analyze a Page, Image Enhancer 4 named pillars, Persona reviews wired to Image Enhancer. v10 (May 19 2026): single channel-resolved score nav, score/rufus URL auto-redirect, retailer banner/recommendation filter, Products column channel-aware. v9 (May 14 2026): Settings page with Catalog Import/Prompt Library/Personas/Alert Rules cards, Personas v2 CSV upload + LLM clustering, Rufus/COSMO 15-relation breakdown, labels renamed PDP Score / Prompt Runs / PDP Enrich / Rufus Score.