• CatLight will now detect PRs that are assigned to security groups (in addition to teams)
• Cancelled builds will be ignored in the dashboard
• ADO connection flow now provides better troubleshooting information

This enhancement provides users with detailed insights into why specific items, such as builds, pull requests, or work items, appear or remain hidden on their dashboard panels. By inspecting each item, users can easily see which rules were triggered and understand precisely how items are evaluated and filtered. Whether you're troubleshooting unexpected panel content or refining your dashboard rules, this feature empowers you with greater transparency, improved debugging capabilities, and an enhanced user experience.

• Fix for high memory and CPU usage for GitLab connections. Previously the app could show OutOtMemory errors and have high CPU usage after having a GitLab connection for about an hour
• Fix for missing accelerated notifications when different users connect to Azure DevOps server with different project capitalization, e.g. HTTP://dev.azure.com/test and HTTP://dev.azure.com/TEST

This release also includes a number of small quality-of-life improvements:

• Information about PR creator on the dashboard.
• Feature to duplicate the dashboard and all of its settings.
• Improved startup troubleshooting.
• Grouping of GitLab and GitHub pipelines in monitoring settings
• Improved GitHub performance for large users

See what's new in the CatLight V3.

As a result, you'll get notifications 10x faster, and the app will generate 30x less load on your server. This can be especially useful for users with a large number of projects and builds.

Learn more about how to configure accelerated CatLight notifications for AzureDevOps / TFS

Download the latest version from https://catlight.io/downloads 

You can also include issues from Jira into your CatLight Action Center, and combine them with PRs, and build issues into a single prioritized list of work.

CatLight will only show filters that you have created or that have explicitly public permissions. If you don't see any items in Catlight Jira settings, try making a new filter in Jira.

This feature is available in CatLight v3.0.26+ https://catlight.io/downloads 

We also improved toast notifications. We fixed a long-standing issue on Windows OS, and now the app dashboard will be opened when you click on the notification. New notifications will also have a "web" button that will take you directly to the alerted build, release or pull request.

New features are available in CatLight v3.0.21+ https://catlight.io/downloads 

• Get reminders about pending GitHub PRs and notify others that you are reviewing a PR with one click.
• See the progress and ETA for your GitHub Actions workflows and jobs. Notify your team that you are investigating a broken GitHub Action job.
• Get a prioritized list of your issues, alongside other action items for your project. See desktop notifications about the new GitHub issues.

Available in CatLight 3.0.19+ . Download it from https://catlight.io/downloads 

These features are available in v3.0.17+ https://catlight.io/downloads 

You can now let your teammates know that you are reviewing a PR, or actively working on a specific task:

Your teammates will get a toast notification. They can also see that you are working on a PR or a task on their watch list.

This feature is available in CatLight 3.0.14+, you can download it from https://catlight.io/downloads 

• Problems with using PAT token for authentication.
• Problems with multiple Azure DevOps accounts.
• The app shows only pull requests assigned to the team, and not the pull requests assigned to current user.

They were caused by the same underlying issues of identifying the current Azure DevOps user, which should now be resolved.

We also corrected the list of necessary permissions that users need to use PAT tokens.

Download link: https://catlight.io/downloads 

Those changes are also present in V3 Beta.

Download it from https://catlight.io/downloads 

New dashboard with action center

The new dashboard is split into two groups - the action list and the watch list.

The action list shows alerts and action items that are sorted by priority, so you can handle them from top to bottom. It includes broken build and release pipelines, incoming pull requests, and work items. You can define your own priority rules in settings. The action list will not show any items that are in a good state and don't need your attention.

Use a watch list to keep track of things that you care about, but which are not actionable at the moment. By default, it includes builds that you recently started and pull requests that you have created. You can customize it to include things like tasks that you created for other people.

You can add multiple watch and action lists to the dashboard, to group things by project, team, or other criteria.

After configuring the dashboard, you can share it with your team. Any changes to shared dashboard settings will be propagated to other team members automatically.

CatLight v3 can work with multiple dashboards. You can use them for additional grouping by teams, projects, roles, and activities. For example, you can create a dashboard for the on-call person, and a separate one for other engineers.

Upgrading from V2 and downgrading

CatLight will automatically convert V2 dashboards to V3, trying to preserve the layout. But, we suggest you create a new dashboard and share it with the team to take advantage of new action- and watch lists.

If you have trouble upgrading or downgrading the app, you can reset the settings and re-configure it from scratch.

Other changes from V2

Additional changes:

• Improved initial app configuration wizard that will suggest users to join the team and use shared dashboards.
• Redesigned monitoring settings UI. You can now add monitorable item from any server to any panel on the dashboard (previously, items were grouped by server connection).

Currently unavailable features that will be implemented later:

• Team status

Removed features:

• Global focus mode. It will be replaced by an ability to focus on specific action items.
• Settings export and import. It is replaced by dashboard sharing.

Feedback

We are looking forward to your feedback! Let us know how the new version works for you, and how can it be improved. You can add bug reports/idea suggestion to our support portal , or just share thoughts with us!

It also introduces support for branched builds in GitLab.

Get the latest version from https://catlight.io/downloads