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Changelog
Review release-sensitive changes to Optimly Connect, analytics, goals, and MCP.
New features, improvements, and fixes from Optimly.
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2026-08-10
Registered brand approvers can now approve or reject grouped agent requests from the Needs approval queue
- Type: New
- Product: Optimly Actions
- Availability: Available now
- Action required: No
Approved BrandVault updates can now publish complete structured content and return the refreshed canonical llms.txt URL
- Type: New
- Product: BrandVault
- Availability: Available now
- Action required: No
Customers can now use a guided Magic Moment experience for their free analysis
- Type: New
- Product: Magic Moment
- Availability: Available now
- Action required: No
Connected agents can now retrieve structured, plan-aware evidence about business profiles, AI representation, website outcomes, and recommended actions
- Type: New
- Product: Optimly Connect
- Availability: Available now
- Action required: No
Authorized agents can now save recommendations and drafts, record feedback, and update checklist progress, with supported work visible to customers in Optimly Actions
- Type: New
- Product: Optimly Actions
- Availability: Available now
- Action required: No
Visitors can now explore a sample report before signing up
- Type: New
- Product: Optimly
- Availability: Available now
- Action required: No
Ask Optimly now provides richer cited answers with clearer evidence states and updated guidance
- Type: Improved
- Product: Ask Optimly
- Availability: Available now
- Action required: No
Conversation starters now send immediately and display a clear thinking state while the response streams
- Type: Improved
- Product: Ask Optimly
- Availability: Available now
- Action required: No
The MCP setup page now offers a clearer agent connection flow, copyable content prompts, and an updated tool reference organized by outcome and plan
- Type: Improved
- Product: MCP
- Availability: Available now
- Action required: No
Website publishing actions completed through pull requests can now verify the intended live page instead of showing Verification unavailable
- Type: Fixed
- Product: Optimly Actions
- Availability: Available now
- Action required: No
BrandVault publishing actions now accept documented section formats and partial disambiguation updates while providing clearer field-specific validation errors
- Type: Fixed
- Product: BrandVault
- Availability: Available now
- Action required: No
Ask Optimly now generates and streams responses reliably, lets failed sessions retry, and saves eligible suggestions to Actions
- Type: Fixed
- Product: Ask Optimly
- Availability: Available now
- Action required: No
Onboarding now carries business details forward and prevents completed brands from being asked to repeat setup
- Type: Fixed
- Product: Optimly Onboarding
- Availability: Available now
- Action required: No
Optimly Connect now asks you to choose the correct brand and organization when multiple matches are found and displays the selection during setup
- Type: Fixed
- Product: Optimly Connect
- Availability: Available with the latest Optimly Connect Chrome extension
- Action required: No
Brand edits now remain consistent across public profiles and directory listings
- Type: Fixed
- Product: Business Profiles
- Availability: Available now
- Action required: No
Branded Reports now use the canonical website to distinguish between organizations with the same name
- Type: Fixed
- Product: Branded Reports
- Availability: Available now
- Action required: Regenerate existing reports to apply the corrected brand identity.
Reports can now include the available GPT-5.6 model variants in evaluations
- Type: Fixed
- Product: Reports
- Availability: After the next model synchronization
- Action required: No