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Updated 2026-06-10 Changelog eCommerce Insights team

Every notable change since v9 with the date and the highlight. Versions ship roughly weekly. The latest product version is v19; the most recent entry is the 2026-06-10 site refresh. Older versions remain documented for context on when a feature shipped.

Versions ship roughly weekly. The latest product version is v19. Site releases that do not change product behaviour are listed alongside, dated. Highlights below.

Site 2026-06-10

v5 site refresh — new Catalog Ledger design, expanded guides, improved tools UX.

  • Marketing and docs site rebuilt on the v5 "Catalog Ledger" design: bone paper, ledger-green accent, Newsreader / Spline Sans type.
  • Guides library expanded, including the Agentic Commerce Protocol and Universal Commerce Protocol guides.
  • Free tools get clearer progress states, richer free results, and links from every result row to the guide that fixes it.
  • No product behaviour changes in this entry; the latest product version remains v19.
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. rendering-service retry tuning. Internal bug fixes.

  • Workspace-level theme polish: paper-grey palette refined for higher contrast on score badges.
  • the rendering service 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 transactional email, plus Slack and webhook delivery, wired into Alerts.deliver().
  • Cron heartbeat endpoint (workspace-specific URL on the Schedule page) 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.
v14 2026-05-20

Listing rewrite restored. Rendering-service fallback. Schema parser fixes. Alerts redesign.

  • Listing comprehensive rewrite restored. Amazon now gets capsule diffs plus bullets diff plus Enricher output stacked.
  • the page fetcher no longer caches blocked content. the schema parser handles array-wrapped JSON-LD plus unescaped control chars (the array-wrapped JSON-LD fix).
  • fetchText() falls back to the rendering service 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 redesigned: 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 (the rendering service with render_js).
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 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, plus site releases. Releases roughly weekly. 2026-06-10 site refresh: v5 marketing and docs site with the new Catalog Ledger design, expanded guides, and improved free-tool UX (no product behaviour changes). 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, rendering-service retry tuning. v16 (May 20 2026): AI Agent Lens with 12 bot verdicts, email/Slack/webhook alert delivery, internal cron heartbeat. v15 (May 20 2026): Sentiment Analysis with themes voice-of-customer tone-gap, Competitive Position out of Beta. v14 (May 20 2026): Listing comprehensive rewrite restored, the schema parser handles array-wrapped JSON-LD and unescaped control chars (array-wrapped JSON-LD fix), rendering-service fallback on 403/CF, Alerts redesign. v13 (May 20 2026): Analyze Page full audit detail, Crawler Access preflight card, Force JavaScript Rendering toggle. 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 pillars, Persona reviews. 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.